Author Archives: Frank

LittleJS 🚂 The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!

Posted on 09.27.21 by Frank

All aboard! LittleJS is lightweight 2D JavaScript game engine with a WebGL rendering system. The goal of this project is to be small, simple, and easy to use for a variety of applications from size coding game jams to commercial … Continue reading →

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Space Huggers: A run and gun roguelike for JS13K

Posted on 09.17.21 by Frank

🚀 Play Space Huggers in your browser! The souce code is also available on GitHub!

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Batafuraiko – Winner of JS1024 2021

Posted on 08.05.21 by Frank

It’s official, “Batafuraiko” is the winner of JS1024! This is one of my favorite game jams because the main restriction is the program must be under 1 kilobyte. I had a blast with my entry and learned a few things … Continue reading →

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Bad Shapes – Music Video Website

Posted on 07.07.21 by Frank

Live Demo on itch.io I made an interactive website for the band Bad Shapes! This virtual art installation features the self titled album by Bad Shapes and generative visual art set in a realistic 3D scene.

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Cityscape Sunset – Tiny Code Video Lesson

Posted on 12.03.20 by Frank
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Dissecting A Dweet #9: City Sunset

Posted on 10.19.20 by Frank

Hello, tiny coders, I’m back with another dwitter dissection! Today we will explore the JavaScript code that produces this beautiful procedurally generated cityscape. for(z=k=2e3;k–;x.fillRect(i*9+S(z*t)*z|0,j*9+t*420,t?9:z,9))i=k%9,j=k/9|0,x.fillStyle=R(q=t?i*j%2*400*S(k*k*t):k/3+C(k*k)*39,q-99,t?q-k:99) Continue reading on for a full explanation of how it was made!

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NoteCraft Submitted to JS13k

Posted on 09.14.20 by Frank

Play The Official JS13k Entry NoteCraft on GitHub Features Export to ZzFXM and OS13k Share compressed links Several example songs Instruments are customizable Undo and Redo Cut, copy, and paste Turing complete! Results 20th place overall out of 227 entries … Continue reading →

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OS13k Submitted to JS13k

Posted on 09.12.20 by Frank

Play The Official JS13k Entry OS13k on GitHub Features 3 Games! JS13k Trophy System ZzFXM Music Player ZzFX Sounds Piano & Visualizer Custom User Programs & Dweets More apps and bonus features Results 32 place overall out of 227 entries … Continue reading →

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1Keys – How to Make a Piano in only 1kb of JavaScript

Posted on 07.31.20 by Frank

The legendary JavaScript competition JS1k was thought to have ended, but it has risen from it’s ashes in the form of JS1024! This competition for making tiny JavaScript programs has been going on for 10 years and will now be … Continue reading →

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Major ZzFX Update

Posted on 04.30.20 by Frank

New ZzFX Features 19 parameters (over twice as many) 7 Presets for easier sound effect creation Improved web browser compatibility Streamlined user interface and workflow Cleaner and simpler code The fully minified version is under 1 kilobyte. So much more! … Continue reading →

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