labe.me

MindLabyrinth final version

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:34:00 +0100

The final version of MindLabyrinth is available! Huray!

We changed the no-headset gameplay to make it a fast and fun arcade-puzzle game.

We reworked 90% of the levels to make them more challenging and stressful :)

The levels of the demo has been modified too! Don’t forget to test them!

The game is available in English and in french for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux!

For Ubuntu users, the game will soon be available on the Ubuntu store!

The demo is free and the complete version without DRM only cost 3.99€!

The complete version contain both modes: with and without headset.

An android/iPhone/iPod/iPad version may be created in the future depending on troops’ motivation :)

Let’s play!

//And now it’s time to work on my move to Barcelona. Deadline 20 april. “incoming!”//

MindLabyrinth for wookies

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:14:00 +0100

We spent a few days creating a version of MindLabyrinth with an alternative gameplay which doesn’t requires a MindWave(tm) headset.

We are not sure yet about this version’s gameplay. A demonstration containing the first chapter can be downloaded for Mac, Linux and Windows.

org2tumblr tool

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:58:00 +0100

Here’s the tool I made and use to synchronize my blog (and website) from emacs.

Do not hesitate to fork and improve, there’s a lot of features I would like to see implemented :)

https://github.com/labe-me/org2tumblr

Incoming "branding"

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:29:00 +0100

I finally found some hours to create a little logo and a minimal web design for labe.me. Blogs and logos should be updated within a few days. I will improve labe.me incrementally later :)

The logo idea was created using “labe” characters.

Pyramid + spiral + spheres = little alien face.

MindLabyrinth improved video

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:29:00 +0100

I think I did a better video editing. I added some sounds and melodies from the game, a small tutorial sequence, some transitions, etc.

It’s still not “PRO” but that’s much better! :)

Note: François created all the sounds and melodies for the game, hurray!

Red And Blue

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:36:00 +0100

I finally found the time to play with augmented reality and it is really fun.

Nothing special there, only a minimalist game to test the technology. The laptop’s webcam is not practical to film the table but using a phone or pad should be ok.

Hell, I don’t want to buy yet another gadget but it seems I must break the bank one day or another…

MindLabyrinth video

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:08:00 +0100

I still have to improve but it was really fun to create this amateurish video :)

Here’s what MindLabyrinth looks like:

Drawing with data

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:53:00 +0100

Two months ago I heard about http://data.gouv.fr, a governmental website containing data and statistics provided by french authorities.

Playing with a selected set of data and three.js I made this little visual experiment which… well… it’s up to you to decide if it moves you or not :

Dessiner avec des données (requires a recent browser supporting WebGL)

MindLabyrinth coming soon

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:33:00 +0100

Hey!

My first indie game was made in collaboration with a good old mate.

A little game to have fun with a weird mind technology, Haxe, NME, Pixelmator, SketchBook pro, Inkscape and friendship :)

— Mind Labyrinth in Neurosky store —

three.js for haxe

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:39:00 +0100

A few days ago I played a little with three.js, but Javascript is so annoying to work with…

Since I had some free time here and there I created the related externs for haxe.

haxelib install three.js

Nearly all three.js library is covered, feel free to contribute through github!

https://github.com/labe-me/haxe-three.js

Léonce

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:20:00 +0100

A beautifull little project, released the 11th of december 2011 at 09:34 AM :)

Hot one

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:42:00 +0100

This one was the most difficult. The result is full of errors but since the end of the world is imminent… let’s draw to survive!

Madness

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:04:00 +0100

It's the end of the world, again

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:36:00 +0100

An illustration for a game I am currently working on. I will certainly have to clean it up a little before usage. It’s my first new indie illustration, champagne!

Have I said Processing is great?

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:56:00 +0200

There’s something special with Processing and I love testing things with it. But I am not a great fan of Java.

I decided to have some fun and experiment with Scala, Eclipse and the processing libraries. It worked.

But, then I was hit by a question: assuming I create something funny with all this wonderful stuff, how do I ship it to people?

After some really convoluted attempts I found an ugly and half baked solution which still involved hard work for each and every new sketch.

A little bit disapointed, I opened Processing to see how easy it was to ship a sketch as a native application.

Here’s a screenshot of the export panel.

Now, there’s definitely something important to learn from this panel.

I think that Processing works, is minimalist and focuses on helping its user experiment and ship.

Every word is important in the last sentence:

works
minimalist
focus
helpful
user
experiment
ship

That’s a great lesson a lot of people should follow.

Thank you Processing :)

org-mode to tumblr

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:23:00 +0200

I am an org-mode user. I write things and I organize most of my life using org-mode. It made me code with emacs after many years of vim -yes, I know, coder’s stuff is often boring-.

Since this blog was created I made a promise to manage it through emacs using org files. If possible without changing of blogging platform: Tumblr.

I used a few tools and coded some converters and I now have the following structure on my computer:

blog-fr.org     # the French blog content
blog-en.org     # the English blog content
picasa/         # images used by posts
labe.me/        # the static entrance http://labe.me

Plus some files which help diffuse, deploy and synchronize all this stuff, among which a good old Makefile to make things as automatic as possible.

Here are the main tools used by the system:

tumblr-rb: a ruby implementation of the tumblr API with a useful command line interface
googlecl: a command line client to manipulate google services’ data
Markdown.hx: a buggy Markdown to HTML converter written in haxe. After some hacks and filters it helped me convert org content into custom HTML
elbow grease to create the haxe org file parser and the glue code (boooooring)
even more elbow grease to test and debug the whole thing (even mooore booooooooring)

Finally:

everything is published and synchronized from the same local repository
using a simple keystroke in emacs or command line in the terminal
the directory is versionned (git)
I can prepare my posts without an Internet connection and I won’t have to copy/paste the result in some HTML textarea
TODO means draft and is synchronized to Tumblr draft for preview when required
I publish simply by toggling TODO to DONE
I can modify what I draft or publish, no need to connect to the Tumblr dashboard to correct a typo
images are synchronized with picasa transparently and their URL is replaced inside the posts, using another hosting system would be really easy
I can change my blog hosting system pretty easily since everything is on my machine
the system can be improved with more elbow grease -add a local HTML preview, a better integration with Twitter/Google+/Facebook, better typography, automatic replace, two way sync, etc.-
org-mode :)

If some org-mode user is interested I will gladly share the code -which is simple-. My emacs lisp fu is not good enough to code this in lisp without losing a lot of time but some emacs guru might be interested by the idea and give it a try.

In the meantime, I am pretty impressed with the result and the open possibilities!

Mad science continued

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 +0200

It’s less ugly but I still have a lot to do before the initial release.

Hail to the plasmama

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:08:57 +0200

Here comes the great-colors-which-make-your-display-work-for-a-change little update.

Mad science

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:46:14 +0200

Um yeah ok, it is really ugly at the moment :)

Summer decompression

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:51:00 +0200

[Updated experiment available here]

After 8 years within my former company July and August feel like a decompression chamber.

I travel here and there and my beach sessions are only separated by gargantuan meals with friends and family.

Fortunately train, mild evenings and rainy days give me some opportunities to have fun with my computer and to experiment things.

I found this experiment hypnotic enough to deserve a little place in the Internet.

clic to start

I made it with Processing. You might need to install the java plugin to make it work.

The effect inspires me some game ideas but I first have to finish my “secret” project…