Charlie's blog

Super Medusa for android

2011-04-19T13:49:00.000-07:00

I am pleased to announce the launch of my video game super medusa for android.

The game got some new levels, as well as a very cool music thanks to labbed.

The game can be directly downloaded from android market.

You can also check the youtube video of the game I made.

Introducing super medusa

2011-03-25T03:30:00.001-07:00

Super Medusa is a small video game for nokia symbian phones.

It is somehow similar to the old Macintosh video game diamond.

In the game you control a jelly fish that always bounce up and down. By tilting the phone you can make it go left and right.

The goal of the game is to free all your friend trapped into bricks. You can break the bricks that are of the same color as you only, and some special bricks make you change your own color.

I write this game using Qt, it is already available on ovi store and it is totally free.

How to get ride of the perverts?

2011-02-13T05:40:00.000-08:00

Now that my new website chatocracy has opened for one week, we start to see our first visitors.

The problem we have is that many of them seem to simply enjoy taking naked picture of themselves for all of us to see.

Since we use a rating system, if we had enough visitors the perverts should be automatically put at the very end of the list and be invisible to the normal visitors. But for the moment they keep showing up and may scare the other people away.

We think of several strategies we are going to use to hide them without relying on the rating system. The simplest one would be to simply allow the visitors to specify that they are indeed going to take off there clothes on the webcam. We could also try to automatically detect the offending pictures.

Whatever we do, we hope that soon we'll get screenshot of our page looking different that the one I put here!

Chatocracy is opening

2011-02-08T02:31:00.000-08:00

Chatocracy is a website that allows people to have one to one conversations on the webcam. After each conversation you can rate the person you have been talking to ; the better ranking you get, the more people you can talk to.

My brother and me have been working on this website for the last few weeks. It is still beta so if you encounter problems please report it.

url : http://www.chatocracy.com

English translation of a short story

2009-07-06T22:15:00.001-07:00

Here is an english translation of my short story : "The computer scientist priest". The translation is probably pretty loose. Hope you'll like it.

Small online video game

2009-01-25T00:52:00.001-08:00

Check out this very simple video game I did using python and a tool (called pypy) to convert it into javascript

Street performer playing musical saw

2009-01-19T05:20:00.000-08:00

I took this video in danshi, Taiwan, where a taiwanese guy was playing musical saw.

half life gravity gun in 1959 spirou comics

2009-01-11T02:22:00.000-08:00

Spirou & Fantasio 1959 comics "Le prisonnier du bouddha" features a machine that is almost similar to half life gravity gun.

The gravity gun from half life 2 :

And here the strip from spirou and fantasio :

Later on spirou uses the gun to throw barrel at there enemies

Retouched picture

2009-01-09T07:53:00.000-08:00

using the gimp, from a picture of a building in construction in Taipei

Short story written in collaboration (french)

2009-01-09T06:34:00.000-08:00

A long time ago, I wrote a short story with two of my friends.

The idea was than one of us would write a chapter, and then the next one would write the next chapter and so one.

we were totally free to make the story goes in any direction.

We never really finish this project, but the story become so complicated than none of us would really know what was going on anyway.

I guess we'll never know what happens after the two "sponge-shaped alien" came out of there flying saucer during the 1789 French revolution...

Anyway, i publish here all the chapters, it is in french of course. I can't tell exactly who wrote what.

For those who can read french, it is actually quite funny (at least we had a lot of fun writing it.)

I proudly present, an inunderstandable short story in 13 chapters by Patricia, Yannick and Guillaume : "Helvin contre Nerfdacier" :

- chapitre 1
- chapitre 2
- chapitre 3
- chapitre 4
- chapitre 5
- chapitre 6
- chapitre 7
- chapitre 8
- chapitre 9
- chapitre 10
- chapitre 11
- chapitre 12
- chapitre 13

some sketches

2008-10-27T08:15:00.000-07:00

Done on the PC with wacom graphic tablet, all the sketches are from pictures models.

cosmopilous drawing

2007-12-12T04:08:00.000-08:00

guisterax is now hosted on dsource

2007-12-05T00:22:00.001-08:00

My video game guisterax is now beeing hosted on dsource, a web site that host projects that use the great D programing language.

You can check guisterax web page, and from there get the last version of the game.

an other drawing

2007-11-27T06:31:00.000-08:00

fonds de tiroirs

2007-11-22T07:53:00.000-08:00

everything as been done on my computer with The Gimp

new game : guisterax

2007-11-13T07:50:00.000-08:00

The last weeks I have been starting a new video game, called guisterax.
The game is written in the D language,
and I used blender to do the graphics.

It is inspired by the old mac game maelstrom. In the game you control a ship and have to destroy asteroids in a closed space (yes, nothing new there, I know)

You can get the linux version here, and the windows version there.

[Update] The game is now hosted on the dsource webpage, you can get more information and the last version from there

D is really a cool language, and now that a compiler has been included in the ubuntu packages it becomes very easy to install and use it.

Les Cosmopilous

2007-10-25T10:17:00.001-07:00

One of my good friends asked me to draw some stuffs for a children educational web site.
Here are the first drafts of "les Cosmopilous" :

Yes, Rabbits in space suits flying in a carrot space ship...
Hope the project will take off !

Helvin Space Trip ! What is going on ?

2007-10-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

Some people are asking what is going on with my video game... Well, I haven't been working a lot on it recently, but I did continue the story a little bit.

I think I will come out with the first playable version next year (we have to be patient cause I work very slowly) I will also design a real web site for the game engine so that interested people can use it to create there own games (everything is under GPL license).

Here are the pictures of some animals from the zoo (in the game the zoo is in fact a machine that can produce animals from DNA information, one of the puzzles is to mix some of the DNAs to create a specific animal)

Here is a draft for a background. The machines are tele-transporters, if you hack it you can turn it into a replicator, then you will have to duplicate yourself (and later kill one of your self :-) )

More Taipei photos

2007-07-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

OK I uploaded new photos of Taipei.

JingMei night market
Pool party

Taipei videos

2007-06-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

My friend JD came to visit me in Taipei and he took some videos.

Here is the spoiled kid crying at the bowling : youtube link
And here is me performing some dance moves : youtube link

More videos and photos of taipei is coming soon !

Ponus change name, and got a sourceforge hosting

2007-05-17T01:20:00.000-07:00

My video game project (until now known as ponus) finally got a name :
The game engine will be called "pyonus" (because it is done in python), and the game itself name is "helvin space trip".

I also opened a sourceforge account for the project here.

Fridge Horror Pictures

2007-05-16T04:08:00.000-07:00

Here are some disgusting pictures of the things that were staying in the fridge in my new place where I just moved.
I couldn't resist taking some pictures ( if you read that Sandra : sorry ! I know you didn't want me to do that but this is just too funny !! )

Of course everything has been ~~burned~~ cleaned now.

link

Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch

2007-03-24T10:40:00.000-07:00

Hieromymus Bosch is one of my favorite painter.

This drawing is a reference to this painting.

Science fiction comics (in french)

2007-03-24T09:45:00.000-07:00

I made this 4 pages comics a few years ago. It is cool to look back at old stuffs like this because I can see all the things I would do better now.

Et encore une fois, tout est en français !

Nouvelle de science fiction (only in french)

2007-03-09T08:45:00.000-08:00

Voici une petite nouvelle de science fiction que j'avais en fait commencée il y a plusieurs mois. A la base elle faisait partie d'une saga que je n'ai jamais vraiment finie. Je publierais peut être l'integralité un de ces jours.

lien vers le document

photo drawing

2007-02-19T08:06:00.000-08:00

Drawing superposed on a photo of my brother.

Ponus back on the tracks

2007-02-19T07:40:00.000-08:00

I restart to work on my video game.

Here are the last screen shots.

Chinese new year lab party pictures

2007-02-15T01:43:00.000-08:00

So I finally got some pictures of Taipei.
For Chinese new year we have been hiking and hot springing in the mountains near Taipei. Unfortunately we don't have pictures of the hot spring.

Here are the pictures

The game is to find the very few pictures where I appear.

Quantum Physics simulations

2007-02-06T22:08:00.000-08:00

I really should speak about Taiwan where I am now, but I haven't been doing much funny things here so far (I am very short on money...)
I also don't have a camera, which is a rather big issue for someone who want to blog about Taiwan.

Well since I am too poor to go out in all the great clubs of Taipei like I wish I could, I spent time on my second hobby : quantum physic simulations.
Link to the document

Drawing on the computer tutorial

2007-01-07T14:42:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody ! Today I did a new image for ponus and since I haven't been updating the blog for a long time I also did a small tutorial that shows how I do it.
Hope someone will find it interesting.

link

ponus drawings

2006-12-17T03:15:00.000-08:00

I won't be able to work on ponus for some time because I am totally busy preparing my departure to Taiwan. All I can do is posting some art that will be used in the next part of the game.
It is so easy to see that two of the drawings have been done on paper and the other one directly on the computer.

big brother

2006-12-12T17:48:00.000-08:00

High school notebook filled with drawings

2006-12-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

I just found a notebook from high school. It is so funny the way I used to draw everywere to kill time during boring lectures.

see the document

Model drawings

2006-12-11T11:44:00.000-08:00

The sketches were made in Germany.
I added the colors in France.

cats

2006-12-11T05:57:00.000-08:00

inkscape drawing

2006-12-07T11:29:00.000-08:00

This is my first attempt in using the vector graphic editor inkscape.
The drawing should have been a Christmas present for a friend, but I am not really satisfied with the result, so I guess I have to find an other way for not having to pay for a Christmas present...

It is not totally finished but my computer is so slow than doing complex vectorial graphics with it is really painful.

The gimp + Jimmy Pop

2006-11-30T09:30:00.000-08:00

I just spent some time playing with the gimp and a picture of one of my favorite singers, Jimmy Pop, who plays in the group Bloodhound gang.

Here are some clips of the bloodhound gang :
-The bad touch
-Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
-Uhn tiss

new ponus drawings

2006-11-24T16:38:00.000-08:00

I just post two drawings I did today for ponus. Posting my work on the fly helps me to keep doing it. It is some kind of psychological constraint : "Today I have to finish this and that and post it on the blog".

religion committee

2006-11-23T12:34:00.000-08:00

The sims

2006-11-22T17:10:00.000-08:00

Ponus beta

2006-11-22T10:04:00.000-08:00

[Edited : the links point to a new version]

I spoke about the game I am doing. If you want to see what it will look like, you can try the beta version. For the moment you can just hang around, and most of the objects don't interact at all (but you can go out of the room if you are clever)

I am not sure it works well, because I never tried it on other computers, so please report any bug (especially the windows version, because I used some software to turn python scripts into executable and I don't know how good this thing is)

The keys are :
- F1 to switch the langage (French or English)
- F11 to switch in full screen mode (it should work only if your computer accepts 400 * 300 resolution.)
- ESC to quit the game.

For linux :

You need to have python and pygame installed. Then download and extract the sources, go into "game" and open the script "game.py" with python.

For windows :
download the binaries, extract it and run "game.exe"

The everything machine

2006-11-22T06:27:00.000-08:00

I just wrote a small science fiction text that explains how we could create a machine that grants any wish.

It is based on the quantum suicide experiment. In short : We exist in many universes, and only the ones where we are alive are to be considered real.
So if we can program a machine to kill us if we don't get the things we want, then we would be sure to get it, because only the reality branches where our wishes have been granted become real.

Such a machine could be use to win at gambling for example, or to become the ruler of the planet.

And this time, I wrote in English.

link to the pdf

After Death Experience

2006-11-21T09:59:00.000-08:00

Dresden Erasmus life comic strips

2006-11-21T06:33:00.000-08:00

As some of you may know, I come back from Dresden (in Germany), where I spent one year as an Erasmus student.
After the movie "l'auberge espagnole", it is not a secret anymore that being an Erasmus student is all about spending time in parties and trying to get laid.

Here are some strips I did the first semester I was there.
I can't put everything here because some of the stories are too personal. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy it.
And, yes, sorry again, it is all in French.

link to the pdf

Les peluchiens

2006-11-20T17:21:00.000-08:00

Encore de la science fiction

2006-11-20T08:39:00.000-08:00

Voici une seconde nouvelle.
lien vers le pdf

(Note to not French speaking people : I am sorry all my novels are written in French, That's the only language I know enough to use when doing literacy.
Maybe, maybe, in the future I could try to write something in English. But let face it : much of my friends are French and I would actually be amazed if more than 3 people read my work :-( )

Nouvelle de science fiction

2006-11-20T08:16:00.000-08:00

Voici une nouvelle de science fiction écrite l'an passé. Je profite de mon nouveau blog pour la diffuser. La nouvelle s'appelle "dilemme".
Lien vers le pdf

Animals drawings

2006-11-20T05:49:00.000-08:00

These are just small drawings I did as a test of my newly bought graphic tablet. I think it looks just great (I mean, compared with paper drawings).
I always thought I could never work without paper, now I just wonder how I could ever go back to it.

All these picts are from a children Photo book I use to read as a Kid.

Introducing Ponus

2006-11-20T04:52:00.000-08:00

I am working on a video game project, the current name is "Ponus" (it may change in the future.)
The goal is to create something similar to the Monkey Island games. Since I have been unable to find a good open source adventure game engine, I did it myself. Everything is done in Python, using pygame for the graphics render.

The project is far from being finished, the engine itself is not completed yet. Waiting for the actual playable game, here are some screen shots.

Charlie's blog is now open (and we cry of happiness)

2006-11-20T04:25:00.000-08:00

Hey this is the first post of this blog.
I' m not really sure what it will be about. Mostly drawing, computers and sciences I guess.
Anyway, that's a personal blog, so I will just put whatever I want in it.