User:Mathnerd314
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[edit] About me
I'm a bored teenager who has a laptop (with Windows SP2, currently), an internet connection (fairly slow, so I wait a long time), and lots of free time. I program Java, z80 assembly (ever heard of a TI calculator?), and some C and C++ (because of its similarity to Java). I am currently trying to learn more of C and C++, and C# so I can work on the level editor. I have a few ideas that will revolutionize (or so I think) level designing...
[edit] Miscellaneous notes on SuperTux
I have a few interesting quirks of SuperTux that I discovered, so I post them here because there is no documentation (both in the source and on the wiki)
- I'm not certain why the devs put in path support for will-o-wisps, but being able to both stay on a path and track seems kind of useless... The only it changes from ordinary tracking is the direction the willowisp comes from...
- Ispy seems kind of odd... Why doesn't he count as a badguy, as opposed to currently being an object? Also, why not let a direction of auto mean down, instead of giving a warning? And why is there a check for a direction of up in Ispy's update method?
- Pneumatic and bicycle platforms both look cool... but I'm not certain I understand how they work. I no doubt need to look at the test levels for them... and currently they have no documentation other than their source code (and my cool page).
[edit] Current Projects
I have a fairly short attention span of a few months, during which I try to make a working (albeit roughish) program that does some cool thing.
Right now, I'm currently trying to write a converter for these mario levels that run under this mario calculator game to get a huge source of levels for SuperTux. I'll post the converter (written in Java) and my pick of the converted levels once I get it done.
I also have some ideas for the level editor that I'm trying to develop into a Java-based level editor, but I'm being bogged down by Lisp... Maybe when the book I reserved on Lisp comes in, I'll make some progress.
[edit] Wiki
I'm fairly active on the wiki, as you can no doubt can tell. I clean up various pages, update them, and fix broken links. However, there's a problem with the wanted pages page: It has a little less than 100 pages, but more than 3/4 of them are linked by the help pages, and completely unrelated to Supertux. Here's a list of non-help namespace pages with broken links, to help an intrepid soul who wants to fix the real ones (such as me):
