Raymond Ward

Chatcity

A web based messenger platform build with the PHP Laravel framework for handling backend calls and a vanilla Javascript frontend. Nearly all calls are loaded in dynamically and do not require a page refresh. This gives the application a light feel like other well known messenging platforms. The application is quite feature rich despite being early in development. There's a visual indication when the friend you're chatting with is online and when he/she has read the messages you've sent. You can favorite certain people so they always show up on top of your friends list and there is a handy notification system.

There are some things I'm still working on. The app is currently a polling based system. This means that the client asks the server if there are new messages to show. This is fine for smaller scale applications but will be an issue regarding to server load in the future. I'm looking to implement Laravel's broadcast serviceprovider. This means that the server can notify the client when a new message is ready to be shown.

It's not perfect but I'm more than happy to show it to you!

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Pokemon project

This is a bit of a passion project for me. Ever since I was little I wanted to make my own pokemon game. In late 2020 I decided it would be the perfect excuse to get some practise with a game engine.

Because I've never worked with a game engine before I decided to go with one of the more popular ones. So I could find some help on the community forums if I managed to get stuck on something. The choice was between Unreal and Unity. Ultimately I went with Unity because I felt like Unity was more capable for a 2D tile based game and the UI is more user friendly.

The root of this project is entirely based around object oriented programming. Every pokemon has a base which contains the type of pokemon, the sprites to display, it's stats, etc. The class above is for storing the current health, level, status of the pokemon. Moves also work in the same way.

Overal I think this project is great fun. Even though I really underestimated the amount of work needed to create even a basic prototype. Especially considering that all of the art work was ready before I even started. If I peaked your interrest, I would love to tell you more about it!

Javascript - Fractal tree

I recently saw a video on the The Coding Train channel on youtube. In the video the creator went over how he created a fractal tree on an Apple II in the Basic programming language. That video was so inspiring to me that I had to give it a go! In Javascript though, as I do prefer modern programming languages. After a bit of headscratching i managed to make it work. Then I decided that it was more fun to make it interactive. So I gave the user some input fields, just so they can play around with it too! Have a go!

0, 100 and 10 is a great starting point ;)

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