I've finally finished the game I was working on. World, meet Ricochet. Ricochet is a tile based game in which you use various kinds of mirrors to guide a photon from the launcher and switch on all the switches. After a lot of segfaults and architecture changes due to my intermediate knowledge of C++, it finally seems to be bugfree. The only thing left to do is add a help, add more levels and make a few small changes, after which it will be released.…

Isn't it absolutely heart wrenching how certain situations come up to essentially prevent you from meeting/talking to certain people at certain important times. I can't say what this is about, but I had to get this frustration out. The stupid network connection had to be down for the 5 minutes which were actually important. I hate it... dammit! …

Though it does seem like that, since I haven't posted about any development in weeks. I've been working on a game in C++/SDL and its taking some time since this is the first time I'm building something with levels and passcodes and stuff. It's not going to be anything extraordinary, but it will take about 2 weeks more. …

This is a abstract piece of art which I've been working on in bits and pieces for a while. It doesn't mean anything, but I first imagined it as wires and silicon chips. Made in Inkscape and Gimp. There is a blue version which was the original, the white is simply by changing the layer type to Value in Gimp. …

Winter has finally arrived in Mumbai. After a cyclonic depression had made the october-november period a wet and sticky one, I finally woke up yesterday to the first real cold day. Of course the temperature is in the 20s, above normal perhaps for temperate zoners, but that's cold here at the equator. And a very good respite too.…

22bits has a new look. I haven't departed much from the original layout, the only difference is the color change. The new theme may be too bright for some, but it sure stands out! I really liked its simplicity and clean appearance. Here's a pic. …

One of my favourite bands. Just love Brianstorm and Fluorescent Adolescent. This was made in a really free flowing style, but it has some problems with the legibility, especiall the c in Arc. …

I've been trying to improve the P for 5 days. Hoping someone can enlighten me... What is a Hoplite? …

The special shell variable $RANDOM gives you random integers. …

This post is part of the Blog Action Day initiative. Since I'm a kid without much writing experience or points to contribute to saving the environment, I've just decided to concentrate on one of my pet peeves. In India, a new subject called Environmental Education was introduced 2 years ago. Unfortunately like all things in Indian education it is a theoretical, boring and booking subject on which we actually have to write an exam!…