Introduction

Hi, I'm Sam Stone and this is my website, created mostly as a showcase for my growing portfolio of programming projects. My CV can be read here and my portfolio is here.

There are a few things on this site, including files for the game I'm writing. I hope to release this game, and others in the future, under the name "Blood From A Stone Software". Other future projects include a fast rocket-powered racing game and an action game in which you use your power to alter physical forces to control projectiles. The final idea I have at the moment is to create a program to generate pictures out of superimposed, rotated text, using a genetic algorithm. This may or may not work as I intend, if not then at least I will have learned something and it should make for a good effect anyway.

When 'Retaliation' is finished it, or at least a part of it, will go here available for download, along with a comprehensive manual detailing the level creation process (most of the game resources are modifiable content). The project is approx 60% complete; i.e. the coding is 99% finished, the object design is 70% finished, the background graphics design is 75% finished and the level designs are about 60% complete! Screen shots are on the main game page. There will be about 40 levels eventually. The incomplete version is available from the games page.

You can contact me, should you so wish, by emailing me. I use google's email service, and my user name is shaolinspin. If you can't put together my full email address from that then I probably don't want you emailing me! ;)