The Quail's Nest

A totally REAL and true cake. Now, I'm not natively good at creating games. I only know marginal Unity and I've never dabbled in anything outside that. But videogames are what got me INTO coding and programming so I wanna keep that spirit alive. I haven't really created many games outside of Python and PyGame. I tried learning Unity a while back and that didn't really go anywhere. But I plan to reignite that candle and look into this in my 'free' time. SECOND PERSON NARRATIVE GAMES: I saw a  Youtube video . Nick points out how there's a big gap in the market for second-player narrative videogames. He also mentions how 'Driver: San Francisco' is a game from his childhood that dabbled into the design possibilities of having such a game structure.  Now I don't normally play a whole lotta racing games (except for Forza Horizon, I still love you), but I LOVE games with gimmicks, so this one checks that box for me. This game allows you to switch bodies...

This is a quail's nest. A very rabid quail. This blog serves to document my projects and my slow descent into insanity. If you're into that kinda stuff, you could follow, but honestly, why would you want to? 

This is a tangential post. So I know I said in my last post how I was probably going to relaunch the E.D.D.I.E. project under Raspberry Pi instead of Arduino, and well.....I did. So let's run this down, old-school-style: Hardware: 1) Raspberry Pi Zero WH ( I specifically selected this so I could have the glasses not be bulky with an oversized board mounted on it.) 2) There's no other hardware.....except for one SPECIAL thing, but I'll introduce that later. Software: 1) Nothing special, just the standard Raspbian image download thingy. (I'm super duper professional, trust me, you guys.) Also, if this post sounds kinda unpolished, its because I'm typing this late at night and I really don't feel like staying up longer. I don't know why I'm doing this, no one is forcing me to do this, but I'm doing it anyway.  Well, I guess I can just edit stuff later if I want to. So now, we get into the meat of this post.  You know how the Raspberry Pi requires a disp...

This is a different type of Django. The hardest part of writing these blog posts is deciding the picture to go along with them. You know what's the fun part? Creating labels. I discovered Blogger allows you to categorize posts using labels and I've been using them vehemently ever since. I'm a sucker for alliteration, and using it on creating labels is by far the best thing Blogger offers. It was probably a bad idea to create this blog using Blogger. Now don't get me wrong, I love the innate simplicity of Blogger, and this thing isn't supposed to be professional anyway, but Blogger is so old that people don't realize that blogs can be followed to get updates on new posts. Even I didn't know that until like a month ago.  But I guess the purpose of this blog isn't to attract followers, it's to give me a platform to document developments on my ever-expanding list of incomplete projects. What new thing do I have now? Well, I got interested in web developm...

ooooh, its corona! Ahh, yes. It's been approximately a week since my last project launch, so it means I have something else to start now while all my other projects are pending completion. I swear I'm not this spontaneous and erratic irl; it's just that quarantine has been blessing me with ideas so plentifully that I'm afraid this waterfall will come to an abrupt end. Better make the most of it and jot all these ideas down! So, this time the idea is specifically related to COVID-19. I entered a competition called the Corona Code Zone which was part of the Amity Youth Festival Forum that Amity University was holding for High school students a few weeks back. As the name suggests, the Corona Code Zone required us to create a program that takes in user input data like body temperature, age, and medical history to ascertain their likelihood to contract COVID-19. Admittedly, the competition was a lot less polished and refined than what the participants were lead to believe. ...

Sneak peek! I finally named it. And it's glorious. Well, I kinda retraced my steps. I know I said I was going to make a quiz thing, but that felt lame, so I made a full-blown game instead. Granted, it's a VERY rudimentary concept, but hey, a game's a game. The game retains almost all my previous ideas. The user scrolls through a couple of emails and decides whether they're scams or not. If it's a scam, they trash it, or they let it pass and scroll over. At the end of the list of emails, the player is informed of the time they took, the number of times they were scammed, and the number of genuine emails they deleted. I created the game using pygame and had my friend create the emails for the game.  As for the networking capabilities idea, I'm still not there yet. I'll probably try to do something with that in the future. And NOW, for the bad news. My initial plan was to export the game as an executable file so that it's completely portable. I might've...

The only picture I could find remotely related to this post. I know, I'm amazing at naming stuff. Anyway, as if focusing two-ongoing projects wasn't enough, I've decided to launch a third one. This basically started off as an idea for an activity for my Computer Science class, but like all my ideas, it was too ambitious to fit that small mold and hence I decided to make it its own thing. We were told to do some kinda project based on cyber-security, and I got the idea of developing a game that tests your ability to gauge scams and online phishing techniques ( I need to brush up on those topics) and actively avoid them. The game would involve judging whether emails were harmful based on certain ques and traits and deleting them correspondingly (this was one of the first ideas that occurred to me). A number of players would all compete against each other for the fastest time taken to complete the game. They would be awarded points for every right action. An algorithm would be...

The Snake game is one of the oldest and most popular mobile games that first appeared on a Nokia phone or something. So I set out to recreate that game in Python just for the joke. I used Spyder. Modules needed: i) Pygame                              ii) Everything else is built-in. Because I'm bad at initiating stuff, this program was also based on ( read as 'copied from') a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/CD4qAhfFuLo The basic code is the same, I've only made cosmetic changes. Snake Because this project was basically copy-pasted, I felt a bit guilty ( just a little bit). So I decided to try to add a rudimentary self-playing algorithm. Basically, I tried to remove the 'game' part of The Snake Game and make it computer automated using a path-finding algorithm. After hours and hours of searching, I settled on the A* path-finding algorithm to do the work. But I ran into more prob...

This is an attempt to recreate the EDITH glasses from Spider-Man Far From Home in a believable manner. And with the budgetary restraints of a broke high schooler (with generous parents). Anyway, the main idea here is to implement facial recognition into effect and use display modules to display results in the eye lenses. This may not look polished, but its the closest we'll get with our current restraints. This project is highly derivative of JLaser's video which can be found here. I wouldn't say it was inspired, I would call it direct copying: https://youtu.be/Sj9ZQ20cgLA For this project I'm using a couple of components that are listed below: 1) Display module: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15173 2) Arduino board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15123 Now that hardware is out of the way, let's talk software: 1) Python (I'm using Spyder IDE) 2) Arduino 1.8.5 (This version works best with required packages and modules) Modules...