Programming Projects
September 30, 2021
Last updated September 30th, 2021
DragonRuby Game Toolkit games
These are really simple little games I made using DragonRuby Game Toolkit and my friends faces. I really liked that it was the simplest of thing to publish to itch.io with DragonRuby. It made iterating a game really fast and rewarding as you could easily share your progress with your friends. I ended up making two games, boux and fatdandy. The sound is messed up on the html versions and the games don't work on mobile but it is what it is.
jeanarjean.com store
December 2020 - Now In december 2020, it had been 3 years since I started photography and I had always been interested by entrepreneurship so I decided to open my first store. A place where I could sell prints of my photos. I created a store section in my website, which includes 10 items, 3 options for print size, a cart section which lets the shopper combine prints in one order and is fully integrated with Stripe. CSS and React was done by hand, no help from external UI libraries. I use Gelato to manage orders and have the prints printed and shipped.
</> GatsbyJS, Stripe, HTML, CSS
SDL2 Mech Game
June 2019 - June 2020
A game I made to familiarize myself with C++, game development and entity component systems. I used minimal tools to make the game including Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 (SDL2), a cross-platform library to access low-level APIs of the platform the game runs on, Box2D as the 2D physics engine, entt as the Entity Component System, CMake as the build tool and Conan as the package manager.
The game was originally just a version tracked tutorial of Lazy Foo' famous SDL/Game programming tutorial, I then started experimenting with the tutorial, changing the sprite to the face of DOOM, adding gravity to the sprite which applied downward speed to the sprite every game tick. I then transformed the tutorial into an object-oriented project since this is what we still learned at my school in 2019 (GET WITH THE TIME ÉTS, COME ON).
One thing led to another, I then needed a matrix library with led me to Eigen. The docs for Eigen told me the best way to get Eigen running in my project was to use Conan, the C++ package manager, so I added Conan to my project, messed with my CMake configuration to plug Conan packages into it and we were ready to go again.
At this point in time, I was very interested in Entity Component Systems(ECS), to me object oriented programming made no sense at all when it came to game development, I didn't understand why the objects themselves should be responsible for rendering themselves and operating their physics, there had to be external system responsible for it. After trying very very unsuccesfully to create my own ECS, I found out about entt, and boy it was great. I migrated my use of SDL to Conan too which wasn't too easy since I ran into some DEBUG_LEVEL_ITERATORS issue which at the time I had no idea what it meant.
THEN, I wanted physics, real complicated physics, so I started creating my own physics system, until I realized that was its own side project and it would be longer than making a game, I decided to use Box2d, which integrated eh poorly with entt but it was all good, it still worked and it was a much better option than creating my own.
I then created a way for sprites to be played in my game, I created a little function to read aseprite export format which allowed me to play games, I then added music and sound effect to the game. I then realized, if I wanted my game to have levels, I should be able to make games using an external tool and import it into my game, so I created another function to read tilemaps from an exported format (I don't remember which one I was using).
And at this point I kind of had a game. I had set a goal for myself to have a working level and ship it. I reached my goal, and sent the binary to my friends, it was barely a game but I had put so much effort into it, I was pretty proud of the mess I had created. And I still sucked at C++ and CMake.
is it 4pm yet
March 2020
A simple clock for 8 to 4 workers. Not much to say really, try it!
</> Vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS
Brainy Dump
February 2019
Brainy Dump was a note taking app that allowed the user to easily keep a journal on different topics. A note could be assigned to more than one topic and every topic was readable chronologically in its own page. It worked pretty much the same way as the tags on this website. Development was abandoned because I discovered Notion that I now use to build a personal knowledge base and started using my own note taking system that is simply a git repository with markdown files.
</> Elixir, VueJS, Phoenix, Postgres, Auth0, Digital Ocean
Desert Toy Train Animation
February 2019
An animation of a train rolling on tracks made using ThreeJS. I made it while I was following a computer graphics class in University and I was curious to see what in-browser rendering could do. I was pleased to learn ThreeJS was very easy to use and quick to learn.
jeanarjean.com
May 2018 - Now
I've been maintaining this website for a few years and it's been through a few iterations. At first it was a website with a Node.js server hosting links to my photos. I made it to learn frontend development and javascript since at the time I was a total newbie in these areas. It then transitioned to a kind of portfolio/personal website with a blog section. I migrated the website to Gatsby.js when I kept hearing about Jekyll static websites and I was looking for a static website generator with which I could use React since I wanted to learn React. I also used the project as an opportunity to learn CSS, so I did all of the CSS by end, no frameworks, which I now very much regret since I wish I could just use a UI library to have nice looking components quickly.
Simple Scoreboard
April 2018
A really simple scoreboard for 2 teams, I was pretty disappointed when the first google result for a simple score board wasn't an actual simple score board so I decided to create one quickly. Made using boring technology, AKA plain old vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS so I shouldn't have to maintain it actively.
</> Vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS
Credits
this project page is inspired by this website, I thought it was clever to have my project section as a blog post instead of being a modern web design page with cards and such. It's a lot easier to maintain this way. https://legacy.t3.gg/projects