Game Design + Programming

This page contains screenshots and descriptions of games and game demos, a few playable demos of game mechanics, a zip of a few sample programs, and several screenshots and descriptions of computer science and design related work. There are also a few hyperlinks to YouTube videos showing programs in action.

Force Blast (C# + Unity 3D Demo)

this is just a game mechanics and camera demo
the user controls the player using WASD (forward/back and sideways strafe) + mouselook + left mouse button
the demo starts with a randomized sphere of I-beam girders falling on the player
you can force blast all the I-beams and towers made from them

the camera movement is on a rubber band relative to the player's position and direction, and the camera has collision detection and zooms in closer to the player when the player looks up... to avoid the camera going through the ground
over on the left, there is a statically positioned force blast that you can push I-beams into... just for fun

You can run my Force Blast Demo in your web browser!!!

click here to play Force Blast ONLINE! (it takes a few seconds for Unity to install)

the game starts with a huge randomized sphere of girders falls from the sky... lots of stuff to force blast

the force blast is very powerful, and when used in quick succession it's super fun to demolish the towers and girders

the force blast discs blasting a path through a dense field of girders

the camera moves closer to the player so it doesn't go through the ground

... also, it's fun to hit the first tower so it falls over creating a chain reaction that knocks over all 4

it's also fun to hit I-beams into the towers at a distance

you can double jump up to the top of a tower

Boids Flocking (C# + Unity 3D Demo)

randomly placed boids flock according to the Boids Flocking algorithm
the user's boid is controllable but also automatically flocks
the camera is on a rubber band above and behind the user's boid... this allows the viewer to actively or passively experience what it's like to be a flocking boid
the user can chose to control their boid using WASD + mouselook and fly out of one flock and maybe join another... but if they choose to leave, they have to control the boid and fight the instinct to go back into the flock
randomization in boid speed and directions allows the boids to look like they're fish swimming... and sometimes boids breaks from their current flock
boids that are near try to form flocks by pointing towards the center of their mass but they also align themselves towards the average direction of the rest of the near boids
boids also turn to stay in world limits
lighting and boid colours allow the viewer to easily differentiate between different flocks of boids based on their orientations

the demo starts with the player's boid far away

boids are instantiated and given random positions and directions
the player's boid swims forward and eventually joins a flock
the sphere at the center is a placeholder for the world origin so it's easy to know where the center of the world is

You can run my Boids Flocking Demo in your web browser!!!

click here to play Boids Flocking ONLINE! (it takes a few seconds for Unity to install)

Boids Flocking demo video

randomly placed boids start to form flocks at the start

... the large waterdrop in the center of the world is just for reference

because of randomization built into the flocking behaviour, sometimes the boids form large or small flocks

Hover Tank (Unity 3D Gameplay Demo)

this is a demo showing different game mechanics
winning condition is to shoot, touch, or have the smoke hit the target cube that's waaaay up high
tank shoots, hovers, turret is separately rotatable from the tank's body, hold Q+E together to auto center turret back to centered
game controls are shown at the bottom left of the game screen
if you fall off the world, reset with R, or buttons at top left can be used to reset tank, reload the world, toggle the camera, and quit
there are lots of targets to shoot for fun: bouncy rubik's cubes, plus blocks, and brick walls (made of individual bricks that act like bricks in terms of how they move and fall)
bullets have trails
lights can be turned on/off so the laser sight is more visible
you can use the laser scope to pinpoint where you want to shoot, so you can hit single blocks out of a brick wall
view can be changed between various camera modes (far follower on a rubber band, near follower, static, and other modes)
firing and hovering sounds, background music

Steps to download and run the program:

1. Click the red download button above to download the zip file containing the game to a Windows PC

2. Unzip the file (eg. onto your desktop)

3. Navigate into the newly unzipped folder containing the Hover Tank.exe executable file

4. Double-click Hover Tank.exe

5. At the splash screen, pick a resolution and click the Play! button

hovering, shooting, bouncy cubes, and other targets

bullet trails, collapsed brick walls

lights off, red laser scope is used to aim

Game physics (C# in Unity 3D)

Here are screenshots from a few interactive game physics demos that were produced in a gaming physics course I taught. Instead of just doing physics math which was the norm for the course before I taught it, I took the course into Unity programming and we did the applied math there - creating different physics demos that showed off various physics principles including force, collision & relection, wave dynamics, light refraction, and momentum.

I started the course by giving the students starting code with the player and navigation controls already done (the wizard with glowing particle effects). Although we were working in Unity (and Unity can do collision physics), we disabled it, so I could show the students how to do *all* the physics math ourselves (forces, momentum, dot products, cross products, and so on).

I believe the outcome was far better than just doing math on paper since the students applied their knowledge, and they have demos to send to potential employers.

Physics Machine

To accomplish this assignment, first I helped students create various physics elements such as acceleration zones, gravity toggle zones, bouncy walls (using either perfect reflection, super-elastic, or inellastic collisions), vortecies, funnels, river type behaviour (with different force zones), and conveyor belts. I also showed them how to add visualizations to show direction and speed to the motion elements (the bouncy balls) so it's obvious to the viewer at a distance (eg. variable length trails with colour based on speed or frequency).

A flow of randomized balls get spawned, and because of their randomization, they will follow one of 4 different paths... through various physics elements. There is a controllable camera ('player') so you can zoom around and view the various parts of the machine as it's running... for example, to verify super-elastic collisions rather than acceleration zone functionality, and so on. Not only can the player move around the world, but there are also controls that spawn more balls, toggle the view locked to pointing at the the origin (where the balls are spawning) as the player flies around the world, toggle view from the player to one of the balls, toggle inverted mouse control, and reload the demo.

Note that the focus of this demo was on functionality, and the ability to test + verify it... not on graphics.

Correy Fisher's Physics Machine

... and in action... the black trails show the speed and direction of the bouncy balls as they move through the machine

Dimitri Pauwels' Power Plant Problem Physics Machine

From this distance, it's hard to see the bouncy balls in this running demo as they spawn from the nuclear reactor, float up into the clouds, fall down and hit the mountain side and into the river, flow through the river through the rapids, are gathered by the vortex of the whirlpool, make their way up into the nuclear reactor, float up into the clouds again to continue the cycle again.

Fluid Physics

An interactive surface that responds when you guide the mouse cursor over it. You can create ripples that will continue to oscilate for a while based on the viscosity of the fluid. The user can change the viscosity.

Light Reflection and Refraction

An interactive demo showing how photons of various frequencies (coloured accordingly... red, orange, yellow, etc.) can be reflected and refracted by prisms. The prisms can be moved around and rotated such that the light can be reflected and refracted over and over.

Games I have helped guide (C# in Unity 3D)

... from initial design to gameplay and programming to final product.

Here are screenshots from a small fraction of the games I have helped with... ideation, design, programming.

Bound - platformer where you shoot and make your own platforms, different platform powers, can angle shot and make the shot turn into a platform at any time during it's flight

Zero's Revenge - 2D platformer hack and slash, flaming sword, flowing headband, lighting, shoot out the lights with throwing stars, attack in the dark for a quick kill, avoid falling boulders near the mountain

Frequency - fps shooter, avoid zombies with smart AI that follows and avoids obstacles, gather radio parts and get to the radio tower to call for help

AI visualization of each zombie's view

Dynamic Evolution - blocky one-eyed character can grow by collecting segments which it loses when it takes damage, collect jump and flight power blocks to evolve and gain access to different parts of the level, huge level

boxing evolutionflight evolution

spike pits and jump pads

jump / bounce evolution

TAFL - Viking strategy board game

Wave Party - first person shooter + whacking stick + flashlight

flashlight is your only friend

enemies attack

big boss

Narcoleptic Rainbow Experience - fps, kill spiders that

Harold Helicopter - rotor spins, realistic helicopter flight, fly through the gates, put out the fire with a bucket of water that hangs on a rope from the helicopter

The Last Tower - journey out to gather energy and materials to build up the defense of your tower, many different weapons to build onto your tower, tower wall can be built 4 segments high, minimap, can play game with PS3 gamepad controller, ship flight is smooth

Voidstar - first person puzzle game with minigames (eg. drive a maze, put code chunks together, swim to get a key)

Swarm - first person action, kill bugs with different sticks/pipes with different powers, bugs attack your campsite, then you break through to sail a ship, then battle frost giants!... huge level

Downtown Ninja - avoid line of sight by the all-seeing beholderbots, climb ladders, get to the end of the level without being detected

Enemy Skies - arcade flight shooter, enemy AI that follows you, aims, shoots, enemy towers shoot at you

MindMelt - roll the ball, collect buckyballs, powers - ice kills fire demon, fire kills ice demon

Mugi vs AAA - maze strategy, force field gates prevent backtracking, laser turrets, several levels

Space Man - 3d platformer, low gravity, checkpoints, power-ups

Hive Mind - bee simulator, gather nectar before the year ends and the bear attacks your hive

Humpback Counterinsurgency - flying whale is on a rampage, breath fire, bubble bombs, realistic whale swimming controls and animations

RaceGame - 3D platformer and racer, jump between worlds, use a gravity gun to adjust platforms to get from planet to planet, jump around to get to the different races that you can compete in, 2 players on gamepads, huge level

planets platforming

track design

2 player racing

Punchy - first person punch kicker, collisions on hands and feet

enemies swarm from the towers

kick sends enemy flying

GunTote - FPS

boss battle (boss = huge creature)

Fish Domination - fish swimming physics, gather powerups, avoid sharks

Transporter - 3d terrain, enemies swarm when you're in range

Spookhouse - enemies move around on waypoints, you are a ghost demon who can hide in certain objects and jump out to scare the enemies to death

Imperial Armour - tank sim

Museum Theif - strategy puzzle

Falling Maze - randomized maze is different each time you play, different maze units have different challenges (eg. zero gravity), minimap

A Few Other Downloadable Demo Programs

Here are a few demo programs that highlight some of my programming talents. Below are several screenshots from some of my programs and 3D models.

Steps to run the demo programs:

1. Download the zip file (containing all programs) to a Windows PC

2. Unzip the file (eg. onto your desktop)

3. Navigate into the newly unzipped folder containing the executable files (.exe files) and screenshots (.jpg files)

4. Double-click the program (.exe file) that you wish to run.

Demo 1. Random Tree Generator (randTreeGen.exe)

animated 3D growing random tree
tree wedges get thinner as the tree grows up
user can drag the left mouse button to rotate the growing tree
spacebar restarts a new growing tree

Demo 2. Random Terrain Generator (randTerrainGen.exe)

animated and interactive evolving 3D terrain
the land is coloured relative to the height of the land
the user can smooth, enhance, raise/lower, rotate the view around the X and Y axes, and re-randomize the terrain

Demo 3. Unfolding Earth (unfoldingDymaxionEarth.exe)

a texture map of the earth is mapped onto an icosahedron that orbits around and eventually unfolds itself (and then refolds)
the view is controllable by dragging the left mouse, wheel zooms in/out, and right click resets the view's angle
demonstrates mouse event handling, texture mapping, C++ object oriented programming, and the use of recursion to create and animate the folding and unfolding of the Earth.

Demo 4. Shuttle model (model_lambdaShuttle.exe)

the model comes together, and the wings fold open/closed
the view is controllable by dragging the left mouse, wheel zooms in/out, and right click resets the view's angle
demonstrates mouse event handling, texture mapping, C++ object oriented programming, animation and various complicated OpenGL transformations.

Demo 5. Helicopter flight (heli_flight_motion.exe)

demonstrates semi-realistic flight motion of a helicopter using animation and various OpenGL transformations
mouse left-drag can be used to follow the helicopter, wheel zooms in/out.

Demo 6. Rotating Rubix Cube (rubixCube.exe)

demonstrates mouse and keyboard event handling (HCI), texture mapping, C++ object oriented programming, various complicated OpenGL transformations resulting in interesting movements of the cube, cubies, and faces of all cubies.

Demo 7. Galaxy Control (galaxyControl.exe)

demonstrates digital signal processing (eg. downsampling) and mouse event handling for rotation and translation
using triangles, it draws downsampled versions of various source images
each triangle represents the colour and the luminance at a particular pixel from the original source bitmap image
to give the product depth, the luminance values are used for the z-positions of each triangle
notice that the triangles rotate to give the image the feeling that it is more interactive (~alive)
the user can change the image, rotation amount and orientation, change to drawing squares, and other features.

Program Screenshots + demo videos

Scrabble Blast

C++ brew and Java 2D puzzle game

Scrabble Blast is like a mix of Boggle and classic Scrabble. You make words by selecting tiles while trying to hit the score multipliers. There are four challenging ways to play including blast, puzzle, action, and classic modes.

published through EA games (Electronic Arts) and Atari games via Magellan Interactive
developed for various cell phones (different size screens and different hardware requirements eg. memory)
I was the lead programmer

Gymmy (Give-me)

C++ and OpenGL 3D game

Gymmy is a single or networked multiplayer 3D game where you can run/jump around in a textured world and collect bouncing prizes that bestow upon you different powers such as increased/decreased speed and increased/decreased jumping ability. There are strategies to winning (especially in multiplayer mode) where you want to be able to jump, but not too high because it wastes time. You want speed, but not too much because it becomes difficult to control. You want as many prizes as possible, but if you get all the black springs (decreased bouncing prizes) then you can't jump up to the levels to get the rest of the prizes.

as a multiplayer networked game, up to 4 players can play at once
when the game starts, players run into the world and take a spot on the platforms in anticipation of the falling prizes
after about 10 seconds, the prizes have all landed and they continue bouncing
as the prizes bounce, you and your opponents race to collect as many as you can before they're all gone
jumping at the right time is essential for success, and if you land on top of an opponent, you cause them to lose all their prizes and they explode outward to be collected again by other players
the rockets give you higher jump, black coils reduce your jump height, lightning bolts speed you up, but bananas slow you down
because of the prize powers, there's a strategy to collect certain powers first, but you don't want too many rockets or you'll be up in the air for a long time each time you jump

Screenshots

first-person view of the game platforms and bouncing prizes

third-person views of a super high jump

My responsibilities in the production of this game

I was team lead for the game and my responsibilities in the design and implementation included:

game concept
game design
game cycle architecture
class hierarchy architecture
openGL object manipulation, drawing code, and all player and model animations
game mechanics, play control (HCI): mouse and keyboard (mouse look, side-stepping, speeds, etc.) and hotkeys
physics and collision detection
all 3D player models and prizes
different powers from different prizes
animated heads up display for multiplayer mode
world loading and bitmap texturing
avoidance behaviour of last prize (Artificial Intelligence)

Random Tree Generator

C++ and OpenGL
the 3D tree rotates as leaf/segments grow randomly
the density and the size of each leaf/segment is controlled by time and a growth factor
I find it interesting that the trees sometimes look like things (eg. the top 3 look like the silhouettes of dancers to me, bottom #3 looks like a rose, and bottom #4 looks like a tornado)

Random Terrain Generator

C++ and OpenGL
animated and interactive evolving 3D terrain
the land is coloured relative to the height of the land
the user can smooth, enhance, raise/lower, rotate the view around the X and Y axes, and re-randomize the terrain

an initial random terrain is constructed, and then smoothed

it is lowered to bring out more colour, then enhanced (increased contrast between the lows and highs)

so, you might start with something like...

... and eventually it may become...

Unfolding Dymaxion Map of the Earth

C++ and OpenGL animated model of an icosahedral Earth.

Rubix Cube

C++ and OpenGL
puzzle game & screensaver
can be played and rotated manually or randomized automatically
press A to learn about the different modes and how to control the puzzle.

Helicopter Flight Demo

C++ and OpenGL animated model that flies around with realistic movements.

Star Wars 3D ship models

C++ and OpenGL animated models
parts come together while ships rotate and music plays, wings fold, flames pulse.

. . .

Texture mapping helper application

C++ and MFC
loads a JPG texture image by drag and drop
user can choose what type of surface to make (eg. triangle strip, triangle fan, open cylinder, closed cylinder, dome)
user clicks on points in the texture to define the 2D texture and the shape of a 3D OpenGL shape
produces commented and formatted OpenGL texture map code that's ready for pasting into a program.

Galaxy Control & Downsampleator

C++ and MFC, digital signal processing
using triangles, it draws downsampled versions of various source images
each triangle represents the colour and the luminance at a particular pixel from the original source bitmap image
to give the product depth, the luminance values are used for the z-positions of each triangle
notice that the triangles rotate to give the image the feeling that it is more interactive (~alive)
the user can change the image, rotation amount and orientation, change to drawing squares, and other features
Galaxy Control allows for rotation, translation, and zooming using the mouse

Galaxy Control demo video

Downsampleator demo video

a few screenshots

Ascii Art

C++ and MFC, digital signal processing
samples a raster image and then displays it as text characters.

Kinetic Text

displays lines of a poem in an aesthetically pleasing way
alters the foreground and background colours, changes the motion patterns, and changes drawing styles.
C++ and MFC

A few screenshots

"... in the whole history of man..." Music Interpretation Video

image processing at the data/pixel level from frame to frame in synchronization with the music
full video (all frames) can be pre-processed (smooth animation) or run real-time (a little choppy, and requires downsampling)
this music interpretation video is about a lot of things including the big picture, continuity, the beauty of nature and diversity, life, science, wonderment, and taking consciousness for granted
coded in C++ and MFC.

Some images from the video...

Armatron

C++ and OpenGL demo
shows relations between parts when transformations are compounded
transparent 3D parts.

bMorph image morphing program

C++, digital signal processing
morph or blend between loaded images
independent research to develop a new morphing algorithm (weighted triangulation)
move the nodes in the control meshes to adjust how the morphing is done from source to target image
change number of interpolated frames in the resulting movie
save output to file
there are many more options.

load images, change warp mesh by moving nodes, and morph from source to target

morph source image only

blending from source to target (no morphing)

Morphing lion to tiger

Morphing mountain scenes

Mountain Scenes Morph demo video

74 Falling Leaves

randomly generated leaves fall, flutter, and rotate as they transparently fade and fall away from view.
C++ and OpenGL
This was used by a musician online (Youtube) as a background.

screenshot

Pilpher - Dijkstra/A* Pathfinding Artificial Intelligence Demo

C++ and OpenGL demonstration application
includes Artificial Intelligence, pathfinding, machine learning, 3D, HCI
you and the guard navigate over the randomly generated OpenGL terrain
you are trying to get the treasure (glowing orb), and the guard (red) is trying to catch you
he protects the treasure using Dijkstras pathfinding algorithm to find the optimal route to you
if you switch the guard to learning mode, as you play, he learns how to catch you faster
the guard may also change mode to go from offensively hunting you to defensively guarding your path to the treasure.
the player view is changeable (eg. angle, height, tilt of the world)

lower view of the mountainous terrain

SoundPlot Sound Editor

C++ Win32
open, edit, and record sound files
shows the real-time Fourier analysis
there are volume, frequency, add a robotic echo, reverse the sound, cut/copy/paste sections of sound data
has an equalizer (with many functions) that can be used to alter the sound data itself (instead of just changing the sound during playback)
the sound data and Fourier analysis has several different visualization styles
multi-document interface
sound data is visualized in the top window, the frequency analysis visualization is located at the top right (in the black box), and the optional equalizer control is located at the bottom.

Screenshots showing the equilizer(using a multiple document interface), Fourier view (blue bars on the right), and a few of the many different visualization options

"trace" time and "histogram" frequency visualizations

"steps" time and "fading" frequency visualizations

"blocks" time and "histogram" frequency visualizations

Robocup (simulated soccer division)

C++ Artificial Intelligence
multi-criteria decision making, multi-agent optimized movement and ball passing AI, player knowledge visualization, networking, statistics gathering and computation
when a player has the ball, the red line indicates that player's direction, the green lines describe the player's viewing angle, the black Xs indicate that player's mental map of the position of the opposing players (where he thinks they are), and the white Xs indicate the player's mental map of his teammates' positions.

Robocup (Sony Aibo robotic soccer division)

C++
robot dogs are programmed to play soccer
involves artificial intelligence, robotics/locomotion, and motion tracking.

Tetris

Visual Basic game
mouse controlled, game piece stats graphed, next piece, different challenging play modes, optional special challenging game pieces, game events can be set to different associated sound effects, and other options.

Sudoku

Java game
user can change the difficulty of random games generated, can set game cells as solved or tentative, resizable game grid.

Rope physics demo

Java: drawing, timers for animation, GUI controls
user can draw/create a rope by dragging mouse around
various physics are optionally applied to the rope (e.g. gravity, elasticity, viscosity, collision detection)
objects for the rope to collide with can be individually enabled/disabled
several other options.

ImageCap - multi-image capture program

Java real-time motion detection and object tracking application using a standard web-cam
independent research to develop luminance-based motion detection and object tracking algorithms
clusters of changing brightness values are used to detect motion in each image captured in real-time
toggle automatic image saving from motion capture
manually capture and save an image to a specified file name
optionally save a time stamp into the image files
change motion sensitivity threshold
change time delay between sample images
low light motion detection (works as a security camera)
automatically adjusts motion sensitivity when ambient brightness is low
lightsaber object tracking mode (makes appropriate lightsaber whooshing noises based on the speed of detected movement).

Lightsaber object tracking mode

magenta dot indicates the lightsaber object’s middle and is used to track the speed of the slashing motion to determine when and what type of slashing sound to play

Night vision mode, sensitivity testing

Object tracking based on relative position heuristics

Hi-Q

C++ game & solver.
can solve the puzzle using tree search or random local search to a desired number of remaining pegs
once a solution is found, the moves are saved to text file - which can be automatically openned upon completion

HC Team Generator

C++/MFC game character roster builder
the program randomly creates a team roster from randomly chosen super-heroes (from a game called HeroClix)
the user sets requirements for the team and the characters to choose from
the program has several criteria that can be changed to suit the type and size of team you want to build
you can set skill level, mindset, team points cost, source of characters list
the random team generated (character names, skill levels, point costs, and affiliations) is shown in the white list box on the right, and the number of characters and the total points cost is shown in the lower grey box.
the user can also change whether or not they want to have their new team saved to a text file and automatically opened when the new team is named and saved to file.

Two screenshots showing two teams generated with a desired total points cost of 300.

Basketball Scheduling Constrainterator

C++ basketball scheduler
NP-hard (very very difficult) automated problem solver
my solution uses heuristics to generate game schedules for a varying number of teams with various hard and soft requirements (ie. things that are necessary to have and things that would be nice to have)
performs extremely well at solving a very challenging scheduling problem
for instance, reproducibly, my solution could solve for 15 teams in under 1 second, 17 teams in under 4 seconds, and 19 teams in about 35 seconds, but the problem was so complex that it could never solve for 21 teams
the best result from anyone else in the class was solving for 9 teams in 9 HOURS!

GraphPlot

C++ graphics math demo
perform various transformations on various shapes
mouse events control the transformations (clicks, drags, wheel to zoom)
demonstrates C++ with MFC for windows programming (mouse, keyboard, and menu event handling)
got 100% in the class.

Bergman's Contact Mastery

I built this program to store and quickly access my contact information. I have been using the program almost every day for more than 10 years.

There are multiple User Experience (UX) design considerations and features:

efficiently uses space for each section and item

sections are colour coded for usability

contacts are searchable

by name automatically when the program opens
by keyword and type of contact (eg. friend or family, etc.) if this option is selected

simple and intuitive navigation
- contacts list is automatically scrollable using mouse wheel + scrollbar + arrow up/down
- current contact is highlit and slightly larger for legibility
- can select multiple specific contacts for printing
- tells the number of contacts and what position you are in the list (eg. 364 / 386)
- shortcut keys exist for main functionality (eg. new contact = Ctrl-N)
- new contacts are auto-sorted alphabetically

phone numbers are automatically parsed and formatted
- if the number "5557772222" is entered, when the user scrolls or exits, the number is reformatted into the more legible "(555) 777-2222"
- auto-formatting extracts the numbers and then reformats automatically so any text and punctuation can be pasted in with the number
  - for example, if the user pastes in "the number is: 6 /56 -4 3.5- 3 5,34.", the result after auto-reformatting is "(656) 435-3534"

special dates can be set as alerts a certain number of days in advance (eg. birthday, anniversary)
- the special date alerts text scrolls quickly then slowly for each special date
  - the slow scrolling allows the user to read the current alert before the next one scrolls on
  - the multiple date alerts are numbered and they cycle
  - you can click in the area to pause the scrolling animation

remembers your position in the contacts list the next time you open the program
auto-saves a new dated copy of the contacts database each time you close
- can open an old copy of a database
- database files are small and simple
- can close the program without saving
- has a read-only function if you do not wish to change the contacts information
- the read-only function automatically turns on if you accidentally open 2 copies of the program (and the program tells you that you have another copy open as a reminder that your changes will not be saved)

program is portable, small, and needs no installation (will run off a usb drive)
at the bottom, there are 3 tabs which allow you to access short and long-term to-do lists, and an egg timer with several features (count up/down, different alarm sounds, visual feedback via a popup message box with customizable message)
user can view an "About" dialog with helpful hints

date format in the title bar can be changed

Built using Visual Basic in 2003.

Possible improvements:

more email and web page textboxes, and wider
more "other numbers" text box sections

Multiview Web Explorer

BCNET competition entry (2007)
Designed to show how web users a few years from now, who have large screens and huge bandwidth requirements, might browse the web.