X-Fi 2: Dharma

Yep, seems like I’m really fascinated with programming my new MP3-Player, the Creative Zen X-Fi 2. Strange thing is that I don’t have any ideas for a game on this little gadget, apart from classics like Snake and Tetris. So I’m just spending my time with developing my GUI framework further which should come in handy if I really want to start scripting a real game. I really like developing frameworks, creating whole classes and defining APIs, so other people can hook into and use them.

The framework now consists of several different widgets, slowly growing in size: boxes, images, texts, sliders/progress bars, textboxes – and now even a virtual keyboard with several layouts! I just wish I could actually use the framework for something bigger … Nevertheless, you can grab the code from my GitHub Dharma repo.

Apart from the whole X-Fi 2 stuff, I want to actually update my website. It now merely consists of this blog without all the ‘About me’ and ‘Projects’-sections. Problem is that while Chyrp is an awesome little content management system, it does not have a lot of plugins by default, e.g. for a portfolio-page. Seems like I need to create one on my own, but then I need to figure out its API before I can start. Did I mention that I prefer to write my own frameworks instead of using predefined ones?