DirectMouse data collection tool
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Programmed using VC++
A custom Windows application created for an engineer's r-n-d purposes. Programmed in C++, it used DirectInput to track experimental readings from a USB port in realtime. Custom data collection routines and math functions allow the user to sample from once per second to thousands of times per second. Data is collected in a comma-delimited text file after being processed, ready for import into Excel for statistical analysis. Back...
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Orangeview Online Productions was a freelance client game developer that made many different titles in the 1990's. We are no longer accepting clients and have shut down the business. Thanks for the memories!

Portfolio
Mars Orbital - 3d platform game. Speed through space collecting gllowing powerups. Pull off huge jumps in low gravity while avoiding falling into the planet's atmosphere.
Virtual Trail Ride - 3d horse racing simulator. Freely explore the countryside, find hidden trail markers, ride along the beach, cross old stone bridges and enjoy a relaxing horse ride complete with your choice of four horses and various bridles.
Lost Adventure - a multiplayer role playing game. Explore the jungle, build a camp and try to survive. A massively multiplayer online role playing game with user-generated content, inventory items and quests.
Wildflowers - a puzzle game with online high scores. Similar to Where's Waldo but with fields of wildflowers.
Deadwood - a multiplayer game set in the wild west. Features a shootout level, slots and blackjack. Multiplayer chat, many levels, and lots of historical photos and information about the city of Deadwood.
Tournament Golf - a 3d golf game designed for multiplayer tournaments. Speed and good aim count for points. Amazing 3d performance with an average framerate of over 100 fps.
Find-n-Win - a puzzle game with online high scores. Similar to Where's Waldo with corporate logos.
Jockey - a coin-operated 3d arcade game for kids. A cute kiddie ride where you always win the race.
Kool Community - an online chat world with friend lists, text messages and user-decorated houses. A massively multiplayer 2d world with chat.
Winged Warriors - Animated 3d movie cinematics used for an educational math title featuring cute cartoon characters and hardware accelerated realtime 3d graphics.
Oceana - a deep sea underwater simulation with water caustics, LOD terrain and artificial intelligence.
Salmonrun - an openGL 3d graphics and A.I. simulation featuring schools of fish in a river. The fish would flock together realistically using the BOIDS algorithm.
Globular - a 3d liquid metal animated graphics demo. Features metaballs morphing geometry.
Digital Sturgis - a 3d multiplayer chatroom. Walk around a virtual city street and chat in 3d.
Blackjack - A simple casual blackjack table where you can bet for virtual cash. Your winnings are recorded in an online database. Part of a large virtual world game set in the wild west.
Slot Machine - Online gambling game designed to match a real-world slot machine or one-armed-bandit.
Moonball - a freeware 3d sports shooter. Fight bots in a game that is like football with rocket launchers. Fast action, amazing framerate, and lethal AI.
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DirectMouse - data collection application designed for experimental use by an engineer during development of an embedded device.
Voice Modem Tester - telephony diagnostic applet that tests the capabilities of voicemodems using TAPI.
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TrackAnalyzer - GPS tracking software for adventure racing teams and race organizers to show team locations over time.
GROG - a realtime 3d scientific display of gyroscope telemetry used by an engineer to design an embedded system.
Indus Artifacts - an image analysis and pattern recognition data mining application for a Harvard researcher. The goal was to decipher an ancient language.
Phalanx - load optimization graphics realtime 3d display of shipping containers that optimized loads based on box sizes.
Sports Simulator - a text-based online fantasy league sports simulator with detailed stats simulations. Detailed and feature rich, this was a virtual NCAA college basketball simulator based on a board game.
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Mars Orbital - a futuristic adventure game with a spy theme. Corporate espionage in space. Coming soon.
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Fun Run - a quake2 game mod (circa 1997) featuring bot AI that plays capture the flag.
Light Riders - retro tron light cycles game for MS-DOS. Ride your light cycle in a deadly arena and avoid the enemy lines.
Lotto-net - lotto-649 player's club BBS used by lottery ticket buying clubs to maximize winning on multiple tickets.
Telegery - graphical DOS database for collectors of limited edition trading cards.
RPG dice - Role-playing dice physics simulator used for roleplaying games.