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Friday December 26 (12/26/2008)
9:26 PM
  • Messed around with the colors of the website.
  • GIMP is fun! And now I know what an abstract potato actually looks like!

Friday December 26 (12/26/2008)
10:57 AM
  • Messed around with the layout of the website.
Thursday December 25 (12/25/2008)
6:07 AM
  • Yawn. Little sibling pounding on the door and screaming about presents. Merry Christmas!
Wednesday December 24 (12/24/2008)
3:10 PM
  • Changed the stylesheet a bit to make reading the site easier on the eyes.
Tuesday December 23 (12/23/2008)
10:01 AM
  • Yay! We're online!!! An on a Tuesday :).
Thursday December 18 (12/18/2008)
7:10 PM
  • The Better Net Mapper and the Better Find and Replacer programs have been updated, again.
  • Get Zeroes as been added to the Programs section, along with its source because mac users will have to compile it themselves (sorry :( !). It won't accept decimal values, but it will accept fractions. It works perfectly most of the time; if it doesn't please email me.
  • Sorry this isn't online yet. I don't even know why I bother writing this, I might as well be writing in a personal journal. Oh well, someday, hopefully soon, it'll be public.
Thursday November 6 (11/6/2008)
5:03 PM
  • The Better Net Mapper and the Better Find and Replacer programs have been updated.
  • I have several plans for different videogames, but I haven't had time to make them reality yet. I'm currently working on a program to make sprites for my future programs, and this should be complete soon. I am already planning on creating the following games: A platformer, a traffic simulation, and a typical 1-player game with a story. I have a few other more abstract ideas floating around in my head that I won't reveal yet ;).
  • Base Converter as been added to the Programs section, along with its source because mac users will have to compile it themselves. It's been suggested that I make it work with decimal bases; I'll get around to it eventually.
Thursday November 6 (11/6/2008)
5:03 PM
  • I made a comic last night. The art style was heavily influenced by xkcd. I saved it in a PowerPoint presentation, so you'll need to have Microsoft Office (or Open Office) installed to see it.
Sunday October 26 (10/26/2008)
10:47 AM
  • Website redesigned, organized, cleaned, trimmed, the works. You won't see this for a while since I'm trying to see if I can find a hosting service that I can upload files and multiple folders to. Google Pages doesn't do folders, and so far Google Sites doesn't upload :(. It's very disappointing, I expected better from Google.
Saturday October 25 (10/25/2008)
3:43 PM Friday August 1 (8/1/2008)
12:50 AM Saturday July 5 (7/5/2008)
2:04 PM
  • The Wordplay has been updated: it now has a brand-new riddle.
Thursday May 15 (5/15/2008)
11:58 PM Tuesday May 13 (5/13/2008)
5:14 PM Sunday May 4 (5/4/2008)
1:08 PM
  • PotatoScreen has been released to the Movies and Games section. It allows you to key out solid colors from jpgs jpegs, gifs, and pngs. This is mostly useful for creating your own backgroundless images, because programs like MS Paint are sorely lacking it. Just make a regular image with a black or white background or any other color, save the image, then fire up this program and key out the color! You can also key out colors from online images.
Saturday April 26 (4/26/2008)
1:08 PM
  • Image Mapper released to the Movies and Games section for other developers. The offline version works better, because the online version gets blocked quite frequently by silly people who don't want their images taken.
Saturday April 19 (4/19/2008)
11:07 AM Friday April 11 (4/11/2008)
8:26 PM Thursday April 10 (4/10/2008)
2:20 PM Thursday March 27 (3/27/2008)
11:14 PM Sunday March 9 (3/9/2008)
11:52 PM
  • Pixellus II released to the Movies and Games section! The gameplay is similar to the original pixellus game in the microorganism package, but with better graphics and audio. Feedback is welcome! And now I'm going to see if I can get to sleep before Monday. Blek.
Thursday March 6 (3/6/2008)
10:34 PM
  • Just to keep you posted, I'm working on several new smaller games, and tuning up some old ones. I plan to add sound and images to microbe and pixellus, as well as possibly remaking the spaceship game. A have a couple brandnew games in mind as well. Please don't hesitate to visit my forum or email me at my email address if you have any suggestions. I can't do 3D programs yet, but I'm currently reading a book about it. Whatever your suggestion is, there's a fair chance I'll use it if it's reasonable.
Thursday March 6 (3/6/2008)
6:56 PM
  • Image Resizer added to the Movies and Games section. It's not really a movie or game; it is a small program that can resize multiple images to the same size simultaniously. I made it for stopanimation and and things like that.
Sunday February 24 (2/24/2008)
11:11 PM Thursday February 21 (2/21/2008)
11:20 PM Thursday February 21 (2/21/2008)
4:24 PM
  • Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Brick Breaker added to the Movies and Games section. It's based on the classic brickbreaking games, but with a twist: you're the ball. Use the arrow keys or wasd to move left/right. Shift freezes the horizontal motion of the ball. P is pause. There are a few cheats too. Online version hopefully coming soon.
Friday February 8 (2/8/2008)
6:19 PM Monday February 4 (2/4/2008)
10:14 PM Monday February 4 (2/4/2008)
8:05 PM
  • The Sheep Game for macintosh.
  • Abstract Potato has had 100 visitors!!!
Friday February 1 (2/1/2008)
9:15 PM
  • The Sheep Game has been updated. The download size should be decreased. The first time you run it, it may take a while to start up. Windows users use the autorun to start up the program. The mac version is pending.
Tuesday January 29 (1/29/2008)
7:21 PM
  • The Sheep Game has been updated. It should run faster now. Regretably, the macintosh version is not yet available. A couple bugs with the editor have been fixed in this release.
  • The Word Play page has been released to the More Stuff section. It contains puns, riddles, peoms, and the like.
Friday January 18 (1/18/2008)
5:38 PM Friday January 4 (1/4/2008)
12:10 PM
  • The Sheep Game has finally been released to the Movies and Games section. The only level so far is the tutorial level, but once you beat that you can make your own levels. If you make a good level, I would be happy to host it. Email me at my email address .
Thursday January 3 (1/3/2008)
12:10 PM
  • The sheep game is coming along screenshot. I'll release it soon.
Sunday December 30 (12/30/2007)
5:45 PM
  • Flying Shapes released to the Movies and Games section. Type in random jibberish in the top box and click "execute text", and it will draw shapes depending on what you typed. If you type a character that the engine does not know, it will substitute it with a random one. Thus it gives you semirandom results. You can also "execute" a file, and it will interpret its contents into an array of shapes. You can also change the frame rate, or how long the program waits before displaying the next line of information.
Sunday December 30 (12/30/2007)
1:04 PM
  • The 2D game named SheepHerder is almost finished The tutorial level is done and I'm just waiting for a few more graphics. If you're interested in developing other levels, contact me at my email address .
Monday December 10 (12/10/2007)
10:07 PM
  • I'm building a new 2D game program. Suggestions welcome.
Sunday December 2 (12/2/2007)
12:11 PM Saturday December 1 (12/1/2007)
4:32 PM
  • Random Translator released to Movies and Games section. I made it for a contest with a friend it converts anything you type to a garbagelanguage. It has a built invocabulary of 856 words, and gains more everytime you add something new. New words are deleted when program is exited or vocabulary is rerandomized.
Saturday November 17 (11/17/2007)
9:36 AM
  • MazeMaker 2.4 released to Movies and Games section. Makes it easier to place start and finish points click where you want them on the maze render window. It also runs on Macintosh, as well as Windows. I might not update for a while now I need to catch up on some sleep.
Friday November 16 (11/16/2007)
11:44 PM
  • Home button painstakingly added to every page. Well, okay, the program that did it for me was painstakingly made, hence the late hour. I hope thou art pleaseth.
Friday November 16 (11/16/2007)
12:21 AM
  • As you may have noticed, Syleand has been converted to Abstract Potato. This is because "abstract potato" is both easier to remember and I found a cheaper domain service than what I originally had. Yes, I know I forgot to put a "home" link in the navigation bar. I'm working on it.
Sunday September 23 (9/23/2007)
5:19 PM
  • Movies and Games section changed a bit. Now Syleand's movies/games appear in a table, complete with autoinstallers, so you don't have to worry about unzipping them to certain files and all that. I think that they might not work on a Macintosh.
Sunday September 2 (9/2/2007)
11:03 PM Sunday August 26 (8/26/2007)
11:06 AM Wednesday August 22 (8/22/2007)
11:46 PM
  • MazeMaker 2.2. The main difference is that you can now print things directly.
Tuesday August 21 (8/21/2007)
11:46 PM
  • MazeMaker 2.1 is here! It includes 4 new features: a new editingviewwindow grid, an gridview option for the final view window does not show up on export, and an option that lets you fill up the final view screen with walls which you can then 'burrow' a path through with the gridviewwindow. Here's a screenshot.
Monday August 20 (8/20/2007)
5:17 PM Wednesday June 20 (6/20/2007)
10:39 AM Friday June 15 (6/15/2007)
2:30 PM Sunday June 10 (6/10/2007)
1:46 PM Saturday June 9 (6/9/2007)
4:14 PM Sunday June 3 (6/3/2007)
5:38 PM
  • Animator Game.zip(16kb) added to the Movies and Games section. It's a tool used to create simple animations and drawings, and it stores them in text (.txt) files. It also has some of the elements of a simple game in it.
Sunday May 20 (5/20/2007)
1:07 PM Sunday March 11 (3/11/2007)
7:00 PM
  • Version 7 of the SpaceShip Game released to the Movies and Games section. It's essentially an efficiency patch. Download it, it really makes it more efficient. Lags a lot less.
Sunday March 11 (3/11/2007)
7:00 PM
  • Version 6 of the SpaceShip Game released to the Movies and Games section. The biggest difference is that there are more cheats in 1-player version. (To use cheats, first push the ~ button under the ESC button, and then push various numbers to toggle the various cheats.) The cheats are now included in the README file.
Sunday March 11 (3/11/2007)
7:00 PM
  • Version 5 of the SpaceShip Game released to the Movies and Games section. The biggest difference is that there are more cheats in 1-player version. (To use cheats, first push the ~ button under the ESC button, and then push various numbers to toggle the various cheats.)
Saturday March 10 (3/10/2007)
7:00 PM
  • Version 4 of the SpaceShip Game released to the Movies and Games section. A lot more stuff than version 3 -- new background and everything.
Saturday March 10 (3/10/2007)
10:55 AM
  • New game added to Movies and Games section: SpaceShip Game Version 3. I made this one myself. Yes, I did make a one and two, but I made this one so soon afterwards that you probably didn't see them before they were replaced with version 3.
Thursday January 4 (1/04/2007)
8:28 PM
  • My new web hosting service, freewebs, has decided to post a message saying "this form is inoperational" on many of my web pages. Just ignore this notice, it's just my hosting service being annoyingly demonic. Most of the forms actually do work, with the exception of a few of the tests under the spoof section. They work just fine on my home computer. Why do all the hosting services I get stop working?! It is really starting to get annoying. Oh, well.
Tuesday November 21 (11/21/2006)
10:22 PM
  • Entire website crashed (AGAIN!) and I had to re-upload it AGAIN! Let me know if anything needs to be fixed.
Friday July 28 (7/28/2006)
8:15 AM
  • Finished reformatting entire website.
Monday July 24 (7/24/2006)
5:33 PM
  • In the process of reformatting entire website.
Sunday July 23 (7/23/2006)
11:02 AM
  • New evidence added to Barbies are Demons.
Sunday July 9 (7/9/2006)
9:34 AM
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