I developed some simple green ASCII characters based game. Here you could download it and the source code.

The Allegro library is used in it.


There are three ASCII games in it: ASCII racing, ASCII shoot, ASCII snake. They are simple, but playable.

I choose Allegro library, because it’s simple to use, and there is a default “font” in it.

I setup a 80×60 “text” window as playground.

You could download executable binary file for Mac OS: allegro_game_mac

binary file for Windows: ascii_game_win (It seems there is a problem in Windows, the keyboard responds very slow after the game is lunched, after one or two minutes, the respond is normally.)

Souce code:  allegro_xcode_try_2 The source code could be build by VC6 and XCode, here you could also found a simple “game framework” for ASCII game developed by myself, maybe you could use it to develope some green ASCII games.

Wish you enjoy it.

I ever developed a racing game on it’s one line display in BASIC programming language.

There are three roads, and use “_-T” to represent three position of cars. It looks like this:

The car one the left (may be right, I can not remember) is the player’s car, you can move it up, down in three roads. The cars on right is the competitor’s cars, them will drive from right to left, you must control your car to avoid to crash on to competitor’s cars.

There are six kinds of combinations of competitor’s cars:

I lost the source code of the first original game I’ve ever made, but the memory and feeling is great!

Dr. Wis is gonna destroy the Earth, save the world quickly!
-Creative breakout pinball game.
-Twelve refreshing game levels.
-Original sci-fi story.

FAQ:
Q: How to listen your own music?
A: Play your music first, then launch the game, your music will keep playing in the game.

EpicForce’s Stone Wars Lite is online, enjoy it.

I’m the main programmer.

EnjoyNA Clock is updated, you could shake the iPhone to toggle the eyes.

Download it free on the Apple iTunes App Store!

MMV is a manual music visualizer for iPhone or iPod Touch. There are three visualizers to make your music experience more enjoyable. Shake to change mode, tap to simulate the music beat. Higher screen part for high frequency, lower screen part for low frequency. Enjoy it.

Note: the visual effects do not synchronize with music played by your iPhone or iPod touch, it’s just a “manual” music visualizer.

MMV cost $0.99 to buy.

2008/11/12 MMV is free now.

A beautiful and clear clock with a pair of fun eyes. You could enjoy it by tilt the iPhone or touch the screen.

2008/10/19 update to version 1.1, new features: Shake iPhone to toggle the eyes.

Download it free on the Apple iTunes App Store!

Some users asked how to take screenshot in Kaleidosope, indeed the screenshot function is supported by iPhone / iPod Touch 2.0. Hold the “home” button, then hit the “power/sleep” button. The screen will be saved in Photo Library. Enjoy it.

When you have a party or camping, maybe you what to make a large display temporarily. iPhone could be one solution. Collect some iPhones or iPod Touchs from attendee, and Wifi or 3G network is needed. Setup one iPhone as server, others as client. Setup each client, choose the it’s position in the “TV Wall”. Then send controlling UDP packages from the server, each updates it’s screen. One obviouse weak point is that the “TV Wall” maybe is too expansive.

2. iPhone POV

There are many hardware implementations of POV, such as Arduino POV.

Maybe iPhone could be used to implement one: install a iPhone on a wheel, and make a physical pulse each round for start point signal. Maybe iPhone’s brightness and screen refreshing rate is the key problem.