Jabavu (a.k.a Jaba) Adams

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To maximize your enjoyment of this web-page, you may wish to consider it "delightfully retro," rather than "freaking ugly".

iLightning!

Here's my first iPhone game! Tap, or shake your iPhone or iPod touch to unleash visual and sonic fury, accompanied by the cry of "Lightning Bolt!"

Office Smash!

I put together a team for the 3rd Toronto Indie Game Jam. Here's what we made:

Play It!

My Blog

Links

• Meta Skills: What to do to do
• You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming
• Technology and Courage [pdf], by Ivan Sutherland
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, by Peter Norvig
• What You'll Wish You'd Known, by Paul Graham (especially useful for high-school students!)
• Software / Projects / Business
• Slides and Audio from Y Combinator's Startup School.
• Eric Sink's Weblog (Nice guide to marketing for geeks, among other things)
• Joel on Software
• Portland Pattern Repository (The original wiki; thoughtful commentary on methods, language features, and design)
• Games
• International Game Developers Association (Toronto Chapter)
• Toronto Indie Game Jam
• MIT Linear Algebra Video Lectures (excellent!)
• Differences between OpenGL, DirectX, and ODE matrix order and memory layout.
• NeHe OpenGL Tutorials
• Comparing floating point numbers paper.
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• IProf: Portable in-game profiler with real-time display.
• Python
• Python, a productivity-enhancing scripting and glue language.
• PyOpenGL: OpenGL for Python.
• PyGame: play audio, handle game input, and draw 2d graphics in Python (plays nice with OpenGL.)
• SWIG (Simple Wrapper and Interface Generator) Wrap C/C++ modules for use with Python (or Ruby, or .NET, or ...)
• Physics
• Free video lectures of Richard Feynman, explaining Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED).
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (uses Scheme/Lisp; teaches Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations)
• Chris Hecker's Bibliography for Rigid-Body Dynamics