Application Development and Projects
This page contains a preview of the different applications developed and maintained
by First Century Thinking
NumberDroids : DirectX Game
DOWNLOAD HERE (zip)
**Since this was built as a school project, music and images may be copyrighted.
You may not reproduce or sell this
program. It is to be used for demonstration purposes only.
**This DirectX game only works in Winows7.
Description:
Number Droid’s is an educational math based space shooter DirectX game.
The game starts with the player pressing the START button on the screen. Before
they press start, they will be able to set up the games Math criteria (what kind
of math and number range).
As the game starts, an equation is placed at the top of the screen that will be
unfinished, Ex. “3 + 4 =”. The player’s ship starts in the middle
of the screen with many Number Droids being placed randomly on the screen moving
in random directions. Each of these droids will have a number inside of them. The
player needs to fire and destroy the correct Number Droids that add up to the displayed
equation answer.
There are currently 5 levels in the game. Each level the Number Droids go a little
faster and you lose more health for an incorrect answer. It takes three hits to destroy
a Number Droid. Every 5 correct answers will result in a level up.
Development Story:
While in School I took a course in game programming. Number Droids was my end of
semester project. The project requirements did not require me to do as much as I
did. I went a little overboard with the intention of creating an IPhone/Droid application
out of it (with new music and images of course).
I could also turn this into a Facebook Application.
Technology, Techniques and Software:
C++, Object Oriented Programming, DirectX, Visual Studio, Notepad, Photoshop, Illustrator
(Xara)
MealPlanner : Windows App
DOWNLOAD HERE (zip)
**Tested to run in Windows Vista / Windows7. You may not reproduce or sell this
program. It is to be used for demonstration purposes only.
Description:
Jenny’s Meal Planner is a desktop application that allows members to organize
and plan out meals. Each meal can be rated, part of a recipe and have a picture
associated with it. I used my Calorie Counter food quick search program to search
through a user’s meal library. This meal planner also will produce a grocery
list based on those meals.
Development Story:
This was an end of semester project in my Visual Basics class during College. I
went beyond the scope of the requirements to create an application I could commercialize.
This was also a great learning experience for me into the dream land of Visual Basic.
I am hoping to rebuild this with C# and maybe turn it into a website or some kind of Facebook/Android Application.
Technology, Techniques and Software:
Visual Basic, MSSQL, Object Oriented Programming, ORM Database(NHibernate/ActiveRecord),
Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator (Xara)