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My First Game Jam Creation

My First Game Jam Creation: Aweo Island https://chrisleewoo.itch.io/aweo-island Check it out!

Some Perler Work

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I was asked to show off some of my perler pixel artwork, so here it is!

One Month of Flute: Progress So Far

After playing and practicing an hour a day for one month, I decided now would be a good time to give some initial thoughts and suggestions for anybody else considering taking up the instrument. First of all, I need to address the importance of posture.After playing for an hour a day for just the first two days, I got a really bad pain in my left shoulder, back, and side of my neck. I did not immediately connect the pain with my flute playing but eventually realized how holding up the flute used muscles I was not engaging regularly.The pain was from the expansion of muscles that pressed on a nerve. I experimented with some sitting posture with my flute and found that there is a huge difference if I use correct posture, more specifically putting my legs towards the right instead of straight in front of me. Although the flute is not really heavy, holding it up for long periods of time may cause some pain. I thought this was important enough to share in case anybody decided to practice 4 h...

FlutePunk: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boehm

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When I was a teenager, I bought a 5 hole ocarina from Songbird Ocarina . I was a big fan of Ocarina of Time, of course, and I had a budding interest in playing music. I did not have the opportunity to participate in school band, because my tiny school did not have a music program after the band director quit. I wanted to play the flute but was a bit intimidated by the key system in concert flutes, plus there was the issue of who would teach me, how would I afford it, and the classical band scene seemed too pretentious anyway, right? So instead of begging my parents to invest hundreds of dollars they did not have available, I bought the $20 ocarina with a range of one octave (12 notes were more than enough to challenge me). My original ocarina. It was repaired with sugru after a nasty fall. I had a lot of fun with that ocarina. I played Zelda songs, obviously, as well as Christmas songs, anime theme songs, and popular melodies to anyone who wanted to hear them. After a few month...
Here is a sketch for an arduino program I made that allows mouse control with a joystick and rotary encoder (for the scroll wheel). The arduino mousecontrol operates on how many pixels it moves, so the mouse moves a lot slower on my big screen mac than it does on my dinky laptop.

Synth design project links

  http://sig.sapp.org/doc/examples/soundfile/printbits/printbits.cpp   http://math.ucr.edu/~res/math153/history14f.pdf   http://physics.info/music/   https://hubpages.com/education/Science-and-Music   https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/pasp.html       Sent from Mail for Windows 10  

Check out this game!

Here's a space based RTS game that uses vector graphics and some interesting choices. It's made by a friend of mine and will launch on kickstarter soon. http://www.indiedb.com/games/xo