Vic Emond – monkey business journal

Space Invaders Vibe

Welp. I did it. I threw in the towel and (mostly) vibe-coded an entire game. I have mixed feelings about “vibe coding” and I won’t […]

Thanks to Claude.ai, I finally wrapped up both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. They share a bunch of code, so they come as a package and […]

I finally completed (I think) a total overhaul on the Frogger code. Among a hundred other fixes, I added an info screen and cheats(!). The […]

Recently added gamepad support to the DKJ game. Had to experiment for another project at work, so I thought I’d play around with it here. […]

You may be wondering WTF the Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Asteroids and Congo Bongo are doing in there. As you […]

At some point, I’ll make all of the games playable on mobile. The trick is coming up with a playable interface for some of these […]

Have you ever been playing, and having a good run, and then – whammo – the game freezes up? This is likely due to a […]

Working on leaderboard(s) for all of the current and upcoming games…I was originally storing the (5) high scores in a text file on the server. […]

I loved this movie as a kid. This is just an homage to that movie and those cool light cycle scenes. I’m tinkering around with […]

Donkey Kong Junior is still sort of a work in progress. There are a few remaining to-do items on the list, but it feels “mostly […]