Motekye Guakein

Inkman is a side-scroller for Android, first written back in 2020. Set in the future, evade enemies while you run, jump and climb your way through dozens of levels. Highly pixelated graphics give it a distinctly 16-bit feel.

Writing Inkman and releasing it on the Play Store gave me a great deal of experience in dealing with the app development life-cycle. I learned how to release test and production tracks and learned all about Google's expectations for commercial apps. To visit the Play Store listing, click the Google Play link.

A preprocessor for Javascript, written in PHP. Hazel adds a number of preprocessor directives, expressed as special line comments. These let you define exact codespace macros, macros for identifier names, function wrapper macros and block wrapper macros.

The block wrapper macros being the most unique feature of Hazel, you can define new block statements that resemble for or while, which accept parameters in brackets and a closure. See the full documentation in the Github link.

A javascript function which renders syntax highlighting on <code> blocks, provided a grammar for the language. The grammars are small javascript objects—the one for HTML being nominally, only 7 lines of code.

The project provides grammars for: HTML, JavaScript, CSS and PHP. Writing new grammars is very easy, instructions are detailed in the documentation on GitHub.
Try Out the U.S.H.F.

This is a banner animation I created in HTML Canvas. It transitions between different images by using another image as a rule for building the individual frames. The rule image is interpreted by the sum of each pixel's RGB values to determine the frame of animation it represents.

The frames are built in the background, then quickly cascade when the animation is triggered.
Try the Flower of Life

The variable explorer is a small windowed app created as one self-contained javascript file. You can load the explorer on any webpage to view all properties of the window object and its descendants.

This is handy for rooting out undefined local variables spilling out to global scope, or analysing a new framework. Click the link below to try it...
Launch the Variable Explorer

Render semantic HTML from plain text—very different syntax from MarkDown. The inline elements are much more intuitive in my opinion, using syntax closer to what you would see in a chat program: using /slash for italic/, *star for bold*, _underscore for underline_, etc...

Principal also lets you build HTML tables from tabbed data in plain text, with = used to calculate cell values, similar to Excel. Check out the source and the full documentation in the GitHub link below.

This is another Android game I've been working on. Kron is a 2d adventure game set in underground caves. While this one is not available on the Play Store, there is an APK download link below if you'd like to try out the short demo I have made so far.

I learned how to coordinate multiple views into a cohesive layout while making this project. I also created the on-screen controls, which I later adapted for Inkman when I updated it on the Play Store. I learned a lot about managing graphical resources during this project.