matt hackmann - web developer - artist - nerd

Back in August of 1992, Nintendo released unto the world the little gem known as Mario Paint. Bundled with it's own mouse Mario Paint was the equivalent of Adobe Creative Suite for the Super Nintendo. You could draw pictures, do animations, and it even came with a nifty little mouse based game called Gnat Attack. However, Mario Paint's legacy lies not in it's visual abilities (though it inspired a certain internet cartoon). No, Mario Paint is all about its music creating abilities and the amount of high quality Mario Paint remixes on YouTube is absolutely astounding. Narrowing it down to three videos was a challenge not only because of the sheer volume of videos out there, but there are two guys who have the lions share and I wanted to give everybody a chance. Oh, and Mario Paint Composer doesn't count. But, enough rambling, enjoy!

Some time ago, video game news site Joystiq began a weekly series of posts highlighting video game music as performed by the YouTube community. For some reason unbeknownst to me they no longer do this. So in the spirit of all things game and music related, I bring you Game Music Friday. Every week I will select a theme or game and show three videos from YouTube pertaining to said topic. The only stipulation being that the music must be performed or arranged by the community. That means AMVs are out. If you have any suggestions for videos or a topic, please leave a comment below and I'll be sure to check it out.

Without further ado, I bring to you the first Game Music Friday, the topic of choice being Dr. Mario. Enjoy!

Having been sitting through web dev classes lately it's hard not to get the itch to start screwing around with stuff. However, instead of doing a complete redesign I've decided to just improve the functionality. First off, you'll notice that the main content stuff is much wider now. Very tasty. Even tastier than that, though, is how the side bars are now organized. Using the awesomeness of jQuery I am able to conveniently place everything in one column without sacrificing functionality or cluttering stuff up. Well, there it is.

You've seen Metal Gear Awesome 2, and other wonderful things Newgrounds. But, now, egoraptor has a new adversary! Lo and behold the glory that is MY FLASH!

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.dxprog.com/files/burning_cat.swf" width="480" height="360">

<param name="movie" value="http://www.dxprog.com/files/burning_cat.swf" />

</object>

For the heck of it, go check it out on Newgrounds as well.

Run-time: 15s

Client: Maria Crook

An intro piece for a web show. All assets and animation were created by me in After Effects and Illustrator.