Stuff I'm Doing in my Spare Time

Projects I've started

• (Java/Swing) GrodBots: A game inspired by the Apple ][ educational classics Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey. The basic premise is that you build a circuit from simple logic gates to solve a specific puzzle which involves moving a little robot around a playfield.
• (Java/Swing) A program that decomposes sound samples into spectral information (represented as a greyscale image where each column of pixels is the frequency information of a sample) that you can edit as a graphical bitmap and then convert back to a sound sample. I saw a documentary about French research lab IRCAM that had this type of software, but I can't find anything like it for free. I have since taken most of a BMath degree, and I'm sure I can recreate this!
• (C) A Gameboy Advance game in which you race a little ship around a track and compete with your friends for the best lap and overall times. I'm working on this with my friends Dallas and Gordon. I rendered the ship sprite using POVRay and a netpbm shellscript for post-processing.

Projects I haven't yet started

• A usable map editor for the above-mentioned GBA game
• Make some OS X 10.4 Dashboard Widgets
• Learn the Apple OS X API

Stuff I don't do so much anymore, but I'm still interested in

• Playing games on Gameboy Advance during my subway commutes to work (I'm playing through Yoshi's Island at the moment)
• Reading both fiction and non-fiction (also during subway commutes for the most part).
• Learning to play recorders (I have a complete set (SSATB) of the plastic Yamaha ones)
• Game Boy Advance software development (GCC+VisualBoyAdvance)
• Playing games on my Sega Dreamcast