Glass Menagerie Studios

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Greetings and welcome to our corner of the blogophere!

This blog is dedicated to Glass Menagerie Studios for what we do, why, and how. Above, you’ll find a navigation bar, to the right you’ll find a table of contents, and further down is the actual blog.

“This looks a lot more like a web site, than a blog…” you say?

Well, it does because it is. The blog section of this site is none the less important. I’ll make blog posts whenever I add, update, or change something as sort of a play-by-play development of the site and as a way to keep everything in order as life, and our projects, move forward. Keep that in mind as you surf, and please feel free to leave comments, we appreciate the feed back!

2008: 10/20
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The Tangled Web

(From Domain Name Appraisal Scam)

This is a list of every name, e-mail address, web site, and company name (most are bogus) that I found to have some manner of affiliation with the domain name appraisal scam. This list is grouped by company with those with no company affiliation listed at the top. Inside the parentheses next to the affiliation I’ve given the web address listed for that company (many of them have none, but some do, so watch those listings). Finally, inside the group is a list of names affiliated with it and the e-mail addresses attached to them (if I found one). Enjoy.

2010: 01/29
POSTED BY: vagabond
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Shame on who?

Hey, maybe you’ve seen this floating around the inter-tubes, probably on Facebook:

Shame on you America: the only country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, and mentally ill without treatment – yet we have a benefit for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations. Why arent we helping our own first ???????? Most people won’t have the guts to copy and repost this.

I sure saw it, and it kinda made me wanna punch my computer…

2010: 01/25
POSTED BY: vagabond
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Domain Name Appraisal Scam

I recently received an email from a company interested in buying a domain that I own, offering 50% to 65% of the current appraisal value. I suppose that’s good, I don’t really know though — I don’t buy or sell domains, myself. On the other hand, even 65% of $0 seems kind of low since I don’t currently use any domains. I -USED- to, like four years ago, but that domain is expired and long gone.

So that was the first tip-off that this was a scam, and after doing a bit of research I found that this entire situation is nothing but one big scam aimed at anyone who owns a domain and is even slightly interested in knowing it’s value; so if that even remotely describes you, listen up!

2009: 09/11
POSTED BY: vagabond
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Projects – Games – Digger

Digger

Dig some holes, find some stuff, conquer the world!*
*(Results may vary…)

Digger.swf

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Projects – Games – Die Roller


Simulates 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20-sided dice in quantities up to 99 with special features for ease of use.

Projects – Web Sites – RaceItHard.com

A Flash-Based Racing Strategy Browser Game

Note: This link is broken.

Flash Tutorials – Graphics – Heart

Figure 1-7

How to make a simple, quick heart graphic in Macromedia Flash.

View the tutorial here…

2009: 08/27
POSTED BY: vagabond
CATEGORY: Flash
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Flash Tutorials – AS2 – Health Bars: Solid Bar Type

Progress Image

Health bars and pre-loaders work essentially the same way (continue to the end of the tutorial to learn how to apply this to a pre-loader bar), and they come in many varieties. The simplest health bar I can think of merely subtracts damage from the width or height of a solid bar. This type of health bar (what I call the solid bar type) is simple, easy, and (let’s face it) bland; but nevertheless, it’s a good place to start learning how to make them. To create the solid bar type, all you’ll need a movie clip containing a relatively bar-shaped graphic element, something to generate your damage, and a function to apply that damage by reducing the bar’s width or height.

Read this tutorial here…

2009: 08/06
POSTED BY: vagabond
CATEGORY: Flash
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Blowing the dust off

Wow, been a while since I posted on here. Been buried in work since I started with my most recent client. 1 1/2 sites later and I’m finally able to take a breath. I’ve never actually built a full site before, but after the work I’ve done on http://raceithard.com/ and http://driversbigtop.com I’ve learned quite a lot and feel much more confident in my web development skills.

Anyway, now that I’m back I’ve been thinking of uploading tutorials on how to do some of the things I’ve learned recently. Mostly because it took me for-freaking-ever to figure it out on my own. Why? Because there were NO FREAKING TUTORIALS on how to do them.

So be on the look out; and get your mind out of the gutter.

2009: 08/05
POSTED BY: vagabond
CATEGORY: Games
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Getting Closer… in fact I’m half way there

I know I haven’t posted in a while, but that’s because all the work I’ve been doing has been, for the most part, a whole lot of little things. I’ve gone back over a lot of my code for the racing game, working harder, making things work better, somethings work faster… overall working stronger… and now I’ll have Daft Punk in my head for a week -_-

Anyway, I’ve rebuilt the database tables for the game and changed my control scripts to reflect that. I’m gonna work over the weekend to get a few more things done and hope that after next week I can finally link to this thing and announce it as open for play! Will the day ever arrive? God I hope so ><

I’m not a web developer per se. I know MySQL but I’m no guru. Nor am I the best at web security. Last week I logged onto the server and found some hacker ass-hat had broken in and deleted all of our files. This was a great annoyance, but luckily I keep back ups of my work… and just in case I’ll be backing up my back ups onto hard copy…

Cause I counted my code again (yes, I’m -that- nerdy, and yes, size DOES matter) and today I’m at 5,073 lines of code!

2009: 05/09
POSTED BY: vagabond
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