pftq Creations Index

Made this originally as a stem for collab, but ended up making a whole song while waiting on Waterflame to do a pass on it. He may still get to it, but I thought this was also nice enough to stand on its own as a separate track. Influences are mainly 2 artists I used to listen to on Newgrounds - XsToRmEr1 (Flames of the Sky) and Zero-Bass (the Trigger name is a homage to his naming scheme - Lighti... »

Music | August 12, 2023 - August 27, 2023 | Last Updated March 3, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Spiritual sequel to Lunar Fractals! More piano and techno with a dash of synthwave / retrowave! I came up with the piano & initial synth melody while we were working on the Progenitor OST, and Waterflame ran with the rest! Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | March 28, 2023 - June 2, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Piano and techno music by me and Waterflame in the style of classic Newgrounds from 2000s! Tribute to all the artists we used to download this kind of music from - RageVI, XsToRmEr1, DJRunaway, Nighthawk22, Dimrain47, and many others! Waterflame mainly did the electronic/drums while I mainly did the piano and... koto. Yeah, we couldn't help adding koto again! In fact, we also made an entire alte... »

Music | March 3, 2023 - February 23, 2023 | Last Updated March 3, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Short orchestral/acoustic track by Waterflame and pftq while experimenting to get closer to a cinematic sound. First half mainly by Waterflame and second half mainly by pftq. It ended up sounding a bit like music you'd hear at a fair or amusement park with some celtic/irish vibes. Special thanks to Denny for tips and feedback along the way! Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundC... »

Music | January 30, 2023 - February 1, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

This script renames files to date created with optional time shifting for timezones and out-of-sync devices. The last bit is what's most useful about this script, as often I have to sync photos across cameras or deal with devices that briefly stopped keeping time. The script is short and sweet. The source code is included for anyone that might need to tweak it for their use. »

Tools, Script | January 8, 2023
CSharp

One last track by Waterflame and me before going into the new year! A homage to the original Wizards in Winter video complete with an animation of the Christmas lights! Sadly Santa didn't make it into 2023. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | November 22, 2022 - December 31, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Koto-heavy remix of Goa Codex! This was made over a couple days after accidentally having two tabs open and hearing both Goa Codex and Koto Mangetsu playing at once, which sounded actually pretty cool. Very niche even for goa-trance listeners, so huge warning upfront - this is strictly what appeals to me (tons of plucky sharp sounds, million things going on at once). Enjoy! Also available on ... »

Music | December 26, 2022 - December 30, 2022
FL Studio, East West, East Asia, FabFilter

Orchestration of the piano improvisations based on the original Anuwera song. »

Music | October 24, 2018 - November 6, 2022 | Last Updated November 6, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Japanese flute and koto music inspired by the haunting hichiriki/sho in Silent Hill f's trailer! pftq actually has a real hichiriki he plays, so we weren't going to let that one go! We ended up pulling elements from all the collab tracks we've been making this year - Koto Breaker, Anime Medley, Guitar Chronicle, etc. There's koto, guitar, koto, and more koto! This one taking a much more relax... »

Music | October 26, 2022 - November 1, 2022
FL Studio, East West, East Asia, FabFilter

Once upon a Darkerly Thunder... A Halloween spin-off of Glorious Thunderzone - Waterflame's Glorious Morning and Thunderzone melodies vs pftq's Darkerly Stormy. Another monthly collab between Waterflame and pftq. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | September 25, 2022 - September 30, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Chaotic, over-the-top plucky guitar battle with tons of strumming, scratches/scrapes, and lots of ear candy! This one is mainly Waterflame doing the drums and pftq playing the guitar as if it were a koto, although there are obvious moments where styles converge. In some ways a spiritual successor to the Koto Breaker song (or a warmup to Koto Breaker 2). Some inspiration from Osamuraisan for his V... »

Music | August 21, 2022 - August 27, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Another short challenge track done in a few hours to submit. The theme for this one was something sad and melancholic but also at the same powerful and dynamic. Some inspiration from SleepingAtLast for the way the main melody just layers over time. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | August 3, 2022 - August 5, 2022
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, FabFilter

After Anime Expo, we wanted to see if we could emulate stereotypical anime / jpop style music for fun. The first 20 seconds was started by Waterflame with some piano and strings, but he didn't have time to keep working before his travels, so pftq ended up doing the rest + the overall arranging/mixing. Unfortunately, July was a heavy travel month, so the track didn't get as much time as we wanted... »

Music | July 3, 2022 - July 31, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Cinematic-sounding orchestral action music that could go with some heroic battle happening against an apocalyptic setting. Composed quickly for a challenge to make a "strong and euphoric" sounding track, but I think I missed the euphoric part. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | July 19, 2022 - July 23, 2022
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, FabFilter

Third song in the series of guitar and strings inspired by Bosa's music from Newgrounds (whatever genre that is). The name comes from trying to emulate one of the songs categorized under bluegrass but ending up sounding nothing like other songs we looked up in bluegrass, so we called it green instead. Originally the first two songs were meant to be stems for collabs, but they ended up getting fin... »

Music | May 21, 2022 - June 6, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Some even greener grass on the other side. This is made from the same palette as Green Grass - another song with similar style and feel but this one being a bit calmer and quieter. As before, it takes a lot of Bosa's style from the early Newgrounds days plus a bit flare of my own. No idea what the genre is (I thought it was bluegrass but haven't found any music like this when searching lol), so... »

Music | May 16, 2022 - May 28, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Grass is always greener on the other side. This is sort of a homage to Bosa's older stuff at Newgrounds, which had this kind of feel. I listened to a lot of his music when I was younger and wanted to see if I can make something in similar style. Not sure what the genre is (some of his tracks were bluegrass, but none of the other tracks in the category sound like this). Also available on Bandca... »

Music | April 25, 2022 - May 3, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Collab with Waterflame. Fun track made in 24 hours. Last few tracks had a lot of influence from goa / psy-trance, so we leaned into that and tried to actually make a full 8-min trance track this time. Trance tends to be long and repetitive (and Waterflame initially bawked at making an 8-min track that just repeats), so this track basically has all the stuff we like to listen to in trance minus the... »

Music, Animation, Movie, Art | April 13, 2022 - April 14, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, After Effects

Piano and strings bit that were leftovers to the more uplifting Sparkle piece from my earlier years. It's a complete opposite of the more blissful feel of the original released song, and it was hard to figure how to finish, as a result. Original song here: Sparkle , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | May 8, 2011 - February 14, 2022 | Last Updated July 18, 2021
FL Studio, East West, Edirol Orchestral, Steinberg Grand 2
Downloaded 5 times

Variation of Primordial Complex with a bit more beach and palm trees. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | February 1, 2022 - February 5, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio

Collab with Waterflame. Short percussion-driven piece inspired by Dune and... Crash Bandicoot. It actually didn't start off with that as the intent, but we wanted to do a jungle-themed track and had just been debating which version of the Crash boulder music sounded better. The Dune part just snuck in there after playing with the percussion and low/deep choirs. As a bonus, it loops like level mus... »

Music | February 1, 2022 - February 4, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio

Collab between me and Waterflame from 2020. This track was a nightmare to get finished and is basically the most Frankenstein collab ever - everything from project tempos being off by fractions of BPM to random source files being panned off-center - but it was definitely worth it, and we feel like we pulled out all the stops in making this feel like an epic koto music battle - like something ou... »

Music, Animation, Movie | December 13, 2020 - January 1, 2022 | Last Updated October 25, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

This is a peaceful winter-themed track co-composed by Waterflame and pftq. Ironically the song was named without any awareness to what day the winter solstice actually was, so it was just pure coincidence. There was a bit of a tug-of-war between the song going in Waterflame's happier direction and pftq's more haunting direction, and it eventually became something of a Nightmare Before Christmas ... »

Music, Artwork, Animation, Movie | December 17, 2021 - December 20, 2021 | Last Updated December 21, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

This tool is useful if you are trying to keep a live stream going for multiple days. The script runs every 10 sec and starts OBS with automatic live streaming if OBS is not already on (do not launch it manually before running this). Every 11 hours and 59 minutes, it'll also shut down and restart OBS to fit under the archive limit on YouTube (and it's easier to have stream videos separated at l... »

Script, Tool | December 6, 2021
CSharp, OBS
Downloaded 7 times

Short, mellow piano improvisation from the Halloween weekend. For some reason I really like the ringing in the A# note, so I just ended up spamming that here lol Originally wanted to add more ambience after the strings, but couldn't quite make it work. Also on Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | October 17, 2021 - November 8, 2021
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Kawai ES8, FabFilter
Downloaded 4 times

A full poker game in C# for human practice against bots or training machine learning algorithms, such as with QLearner. ... »

Web, Script, Tool | October 3, 2021 - October 16, 2021
AI, Q-Learning, Machine Learning, CSharp, Poker
Downloaded 57 times

Slow, melancholic piano improvisation I played some time about a year ago. It doesn't really go anywhere, but the melody comes back every now and then for me. The original melody and piece in Cloudless Dreams is much more uplifting, but in some ways, it feels like that only ever remained a dream while reality took this route instead. The original Cloudless motifs, which if you like can be furt... »

Music | March 29, 2020 - July 3, 2021
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Maximus, Kawai ES8
Downloaded 3 times

Short melodic loop with a clock-like ticking. Created this yesterday for part of a longer piece, but thought the segment was interesting enough to listen to on its own. As usual, there's a koto in there. Also on Newgrounds, SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | June 14, 2021 - June 17, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Duo piano improvisation with Azuria Sky some years back that we both forgot about. Starts with some motifs from my Cloudless melodies before branching into something different. Everything is played live on the spot with no sheet music, and it was the first time we ever played together. A video breaking out the notes by player is on YouTube, but the software stopped separating the notes about half-... »

Music | December 25, 2016 - May 15, 2021
Piano, FL Studio, Kawai ES8

Short fast-paced koto loop made this morning. Might expand to something more later. Since I keep sneaking kotos into my other songs, I went ahead and just made a solo one (all koto except the brief flute). This is the kind of stuff I like to listen to when it comes to kotos/Japanese music, with a ton of strumming and noise, and a lot of it comes from listening to East Wind / Uttara Kuru growing... »

Music | December 13, 2020
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter
Downloaded 7 times

This is a quick application for copying all rows from one SQL table to one with the same columns in MySQL. There are additional options to loop (it will use insert or update on duplicates) or wipe the table clean each time for a full bulk re-insert. Calling it with any arguments in commandline will have it run with last saved paramaters. »

Script, Tool | August 6, 2020
CSharp
Downloaded 7 times

Physics-based VR with full freedom of flight. VR that feels and controls like a real jetpack. A real-time multiplayer VR arena. »

Game, VR | April 8, 2018 - July 1, 2020
Unreal Engine, HTC Vive, Samsung Odyssey, Oculus Rift

Shortened version of the original VR Jetpack Game theme. »

Music | March 25, 2020 - June 30, 2020
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Short piano variation on the VR Jetpack Game theme for the second trailer. »

Music | June 20, 2020
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Main menu theme for the VR Jetpack Game. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube »

Music | June 19, 2020
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Another iteration of Anuwera, bringing back some of the motifs/melodies from the actual original piece. Keep trying to put all these iterations in a single orchestral piece, but each time I start another draft, it goes in a different direction. For those curious, here's the draft of the orchestra piece in progress: https://www.pftq.com/anuwera2/ - it's been stuck for a long time, as I can't ... »

Music, Piano | March 15, 2020
FL Studio, FabFilter, Kawai ES8, East West
Downloaded 8 times

More piano improvisation off the melodies of Anuwera. Sounds a bit like an epilogue, if this were a series of chapters or stories. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | December 10, 2019 - December 29, 2019
FL Studio, FabFilter, Kawai ES8, East West
Downloaded 13 times

Spent the past month making both the trailer footage and music for my VR Jetpack Game. The score is not the actual music in the game itself, but it plays on the main melody and has been stuck in my head for most of the year. Been a while since I finished any music, so it's a nice feeling. (and yes, there's a koto) , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | July 21, 2019 - July 29, 2019
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Google Sheet for LedgerX Bitcoin options price data and analytics. »

Script, Tools | June 12, 2019
Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, LedgerX

This could either be an animation or short film. The imagery of someone walking upsidedown against the night sky is what stuck in my mind. »

Art, Graphics | February 5, 2019
Adobe Photoshop

I've always kept two pianos around in the hopes of playing improvisation 1v1 against someone one day... I guess this will have to do for now. , SoundCloud, YouTube »

Music, Piano | November 28, 2018 - December 3, 2018
FL Studio, Kawai ES8, East West

Running the notes from the extended Anuwera through some tropical island sounding instruments just for fun. , SoundCloud, YouTube »

Music | October 24, 2018 - November 6, 2018
FL Studio, Maximus, East West
Downloaded 10 times

Pieced together draft compilation of the piano improvisations I've been playing on the main Anuwera melody throughout the year. Might try to orchestrate this into something more later. Here's a half-serious tropical island version though: Island of Anuwera , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | October 24, 2018 - October 29, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Edirol
Downloaded 11 times

Redesign of the Autodidactic I website with some help from Waterflame and Denny Schneidemesser. »

Art, Script, Web | September 6, 2018 - September 23, 2018
HTML, CSS, Javascript, Adobe Photoshop

This is a quick application for copying all rows from one SQL table to another of the same columns. It is particularly useful for copying between SQL tables on different servers, as then it is not as simple as just running a single SQL query. Note that this assumes there are no existing rows of the same primary key already in the destination table. As with my other scripts, this was created... »

Script, Tool | September 16, 2018
CSharp
Downloaded 17 times

Random bit of chaos while improvising off my last Anuwera piece. Liked it more than I thought I would and just kept it. Reflects my state of mind and why I can't get any serious music done lately lol Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | September 4, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Yamaha P155
Downloaded 10 times

Short bit of improvisation from a couple days ago. Has a bit of cliche pirate feel to it as well as some borrowed melodies from my other songs (mainly Anuwera). Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube »

Music, Piano | August 23, 2018 - August 26, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Yamaha P155
Downloaded 11 times

NYC skyline during a sunset after a sunny lightning storm. »

Photography | May 15, 2018

NYC skyline during a sunset after a sunny lightning storm. »

Photography | May 15, 2018

Short piano improvisation inspired by the lightning storm going on outside while it's still sunny. Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube »

Music, Piano | May 15, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, East West, Kawai ES8

Short piano solo improvisation derived from the base melody in my earlier Anuwera piece. Played in parts and cleaned up in FL Studio. Can't escape the feeling that I've heard the melody before elsewhere, so if anyone's heard it before, let me know. It might also just be stereotypical fantasy/medieval motifs. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | April 9, 2018 - April 11, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Kawai ES8
Downloaded 17 times

Flying and taking to the skies one last time. A final revisit to one of the first songs I ever made. Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | March 30, 2014 - March 4, 2018 | Last Updated December 13, 2016
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus, AriaMastering
Downloaded 56 times

Google Sheet I put together for monitoring and screening cryptocurrencies on volume, marketcap, and social media. »

Script, Tools | January 11, 2018
Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Path between cliff walls on Mt. Nokogiriyama in Japan. »

Photography | October 31, 2017

Godrays shining through trees on Mt. Nokogiriyama in Japan. »

Photography | October 31, 2017

Autumn colors at Mt Mitake near Tokyo. »

Photography | October 26, 2017

View of Kyoto rooftops against the sky in Fushima-ku area. »

Photography | October 14, 2017

View of Kyoto rooftops from Arashiyama. »

Photography | October 14, 2017

Boats in Arashiyama area of Kyoto. »

Photography | October 14, 2017

Train station in the suburban Eifukucho neighborhood of Tokyo. »

Photography | September 30, 2017

Pier in Alesund, Norway. »

Photography | May 13, 2017

View of Alesund, Norway just after sundown from the top of Aksla. »

Photography | May 13, 2017

Sunset in Alesund, Norway from the top of Aksla. »

Photography | May 13, 2017

Base of Corona Heights during spring in San Francisco. »

Photography | March 17, 2017

View from the peak of Corona Heights during spring in San Francisco. »

Photography | March 17, 2017

Random piano tidbits that didn't make it into the Cloudless Dreams piece. Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | November 23, 2016 - December 26, 2016 | Last Updated December 27, 2016
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Maximus, Kawai ES8
Downloaded 14 times

Short holiday jingle for the winter. Originally improvised it about 5 years ago but forgot about it in a folder. , SoundCloud, YouTube »

Music | December 13, 2016 | Last Updated October 23, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Presentation created in After Effects to illustrate the Company with No Customers or Employees concept behind the Autodidactic Islands. »

Presentation | December 9, 2016
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

A fully operational proof-of-concept site showcasing most of Ripple/XRP's functionality as a decentralized exchange. »

Script, Website, Tool | September 4, 2016 - September 21, 2016
Ripple, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Exchange

This is music for a small side-scroller indie space game that was under development by a colleague. The game is light-hearted and somewhat retro, so the music will sound cheesy and a little MIDI-ish at times. I went pretty loose with my composing here and just went with whatever flowed to me rather than try to think too hard. Probably the most fun and relaxed I've had composing in a while. A ... »

Music | September 8, 2014 - August 23, 2016
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter
Downloaded 27 times

This is probably my most thematically interesting and coincidentally longest piano piece so far. It may actually be more of a series of songs like chapters in a story, but I leave them together since it was originally played on the spot in one session. I'm also finally becoming more comfortable improvising both hands at once and switching fluidly between keys without really thinking about it. ... »

Music, Artwork | May 10, 2016 - June 12, 2016
Piano, FL Studio, Yamaha P155
Downloaded 32 times

After about an hour of trying to work on another song, I sort of just lost it and played this instead. Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | May 21, 2016
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 14 times

This is a simple presentation deck I put together for Tech Trader, a fully autonomous trading system that has been trading with no human intervention for over 3 years. The presentation is kept at a high level and discusses the technology and thought process behind the system. It also touches on my short thought piece Creating Sentient Artificial Intelligence, which contrasts the more "human"... »

Presentation | March 20, 2016 - March 23, 2016
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

Accidentally played this randomly at first (literally had my eyes closed and didn't know what key I was in). I actually forgot it for a few days before sitting down to record it. The song's pretty simple to play and somewhat repetitive, but I like it. It has a nostalgic and dream-like feel to it, like you're always on a journey of sorts but never quite finding the place you belong, a longi... »

Music, Artwork | February 5, 2016 - February 7, 2016
Piano, FL Studio, Kawai ES8
Downloaded 27 times

Bronze 3D printed macaron that I designed and printed. »

Artwork, 3D Print | November 25, 2015 - November 26, 2015
Autodesk Fusion 360

Morning at Nishiokasuigen Pond. »

Photography | November 15, 2015

Autumn leaves in Nishioka Park. »

Photography | November 15, 2015

The Interactive Brokers plugin for Tech Trader adds the functionality to pull both live and historical price/volume data from Interactive Brokers on all time frequencies (daily, intraday, weekly, monthly) as well as automate trades. The functionalities are mutually exclusive and can be enabled together or without the other. Pulling data and executing trades from Interactive Brokers requires ... »

Script, Tool, Plugin | October 31, 2015
Stock Trading, Tech Trader, Tech Trader Plugin
Downloaded 33 times

Print of the Autodidactic I logo in 3D. This is both my first time doing 3D modeling and doing 3D printing. This specific print is in bronze with patina to blacken it, though there are plenty in other metals and plastic. Yes, it spins. Available in Shapeways here but only in plastic (only we get the metal ones ).... »

Artwork, 3D Print | September 25, 2015 - October 29, 2015
Autodesk Fusion 360

The TaskKeepAlive script runs every 10 sec and checks that all exe files in the current folder, as well as any nested folders, are still running. If not, it'll kill any hanging processes for those exe files and restart them. Arguments can be passed to the TaskKeepAlive script to pass directly to the processes it restarts. It is smart enough to wait a couple passes on a task to see if the task ... »

Script, Tool | October 25, 2015
CSharp
Downloaded 2 times

Extension of the logo for Autodidactic I and its theme of Fate and Irony... Just a taste of what's to come... »

Art, Logo | September 3, 2015
Adobe Photoshop CC

A fully self-sustaining company with no customers, products, or employees. An Island, off-the-grid company, dependent on nothing and beholden to no one. Built to do anything by people who do everything. »

Company | August 20, 2015
Autonomous Company

Business card and logo designed for my newest project Autodidactic I. The beginning of many things to come... »

Art | July 28, 2015 - July 29, 2015
Adobe Photoshop CS5

The only thing I'll miss from my years living in San Francisco. »

Photography | July 1, 2015

Short improvisation inspired by Azuria Sky's Stellaria song. Been a while since I played or recorded anything, so I'm a little rusty here. , SoundCloud, YouTube »

Music | June 24, 2015
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 19 times

This tool will convert your Ripple transaction history exported as CSV into a cleaned up CSV usable by bitcoin.tax to do your taxes with. Transactions will by default use USD as the base currency if available and XRP as the target currency (you buy or sell XRP using some other currency). »

Script, Tool, Web | January 26, 2015 - January 27, 2015
Ripple, XRP, Tax, PHP, Javascript
Downloaded 30 times

Some more brainstorming, this time experimenting with more tension and build up. Wanted to make this longer but couldn't think of how to extend it without messing up the flow of the piece. , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | October 13, 2014 - October 25, 2014
FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 13 times

Short piece I put together while brainstorming for an adventure theme of sorts. Themes of exploring, traveling to new worlds far from home. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music, Artwork | October 11, 2014 - October 13, 2014
FL Studio, East West, Maximus, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 47 times

Looking for my place in the world but instead only traveling farther and farther from everything I know. Piano improvisation. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | October 6, 2014
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 13 times

Another light-hearted song for the Leap Motion game I'm helping develop called Polterghost. This is for the regular stages in the game that just involve exploring and learning how to interact with the environment. More repetitive than I would have liked, but I wasn't able to figure something out that wouldn't be too distracting as a shift; any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. Also avai... »

Music | September 11, 2014 - September 28, 2014
FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 19 times

The last of a series of improvisations from earlier this spring (this particular one in May). At the time I played this, I felt like a lot of things building up were coming to a close so that, in a sense, I could finally move on to other things (or try to at least). Somewhat of a bittersweet ending theme or transition from one chapter to the next. Also available at Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, You... »

Music | May 4, 2014 - September 4, 2014
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 12 times

A light-hearted song for a Leap Motion game I'm helping develop. The silliness of the song is meant to match the atmosphere and nature of the game. Hopefully it doesn't scare you too much. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | June 11, 2014 - August 28, 2014
FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 15 times

Short improvisational piece I came up with in anticipation of my flight back in March. It's a simple melody, but it got stuck in my head. Cleaned up a few notes and aligned things to tempo, but otherwise left it largely how I played it at the time. , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | March 25, 2014 - August 17, 2014
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 12 times

A view of the tranquil waters of Lake McDonald at the west end of Glacier Park. »

Photography | July 23, 2014

This is a quick application for loading all rows in a CSV (with header columns) into an existing SQL table. This was created in C# for a few tasks I needed to get done, but perhaps others out there might also find it useful. »

Script, Tool | February 14, 2013 - May 28, 2014
CSharp
Downloaded 25 times

The Ripple plugin for Tech Trader adds the functionality to pull both live and historical price/volume data on XRP/USD from Ripple on all time frequencies (daily, intraday, weekly, monthly). Other pairs can be accessed in a similar pair1/pair2 symbol request. The plugin will also later add the option to execute automated or manual trades on your Ripple account to match signals generated from T... »

Script, Tool, Plugin | May 11, 2014 - May 20, 2014
Ripple, XRP, Tech Trader, Tech Trader Plugin, Trading
Downloaded 123 times

Longing to revisit the past, a most cherished memory, except that it never existed. An older song I started back in January but never progressed on; figured I should at least wrap up what I had left of it. , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | January 24, 2014 - January 29, 2014
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus
Downloaded 36 times

Animated version of the business card I designed for a group I started in high school. As before, all graphics and videos are from short films I also made. Also nice to have the music be my own for once too. First time doing heavy After Effects work in a while, but it feels good to be back. »

Movie | January 24, 2014 - January 25, 2014
Adobe After Effects CC

New Year's Eve fireworks over the San Francisco Bay Bridge and Ferry Building. The view is from the rooftop of my apartment in the Embarcadero, which for whatever reason is usually empty even on a night like this. I especially liked this shot despite the fireworks not fully bursting yet because of how much it looked like a star or sun. »

Photography | January 1, 2014

New Year's Eve fireworks over the San Francisco Bay Bridge and Ferry Building. The view is from the rooftop of my apartment in the Embarcadero, which for whatever reason is usually empty even on a night like this. I liked this shot despite the lack of flare from the fireworks streams because of how clear and web-like the trails are. »

Photography | January 1, 2014

Piano improvisation inspired by Mad World. This is a much older recording I forgot about from some 10 years ago. It's piano improvisation from me just messing around after figuring out how to play Mad World by ear, with obvious inspiration from that song (not to the point of copying it though for copyright reasons), and veers off in its own direction with some Halloween vibes to it. Also avai... »

Music | November 17, 2013 | Last Updated October 21, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Experimenting with eastern instruments more. Some inspiration from Uttara-Kuru's East Wind album (ie Tsugaru) for the koto and some inspiration in the opening flute melody from Sega's games. The rest is improvisation. It was much more peaceful in my head though; I don't know why it ended up sounding sad and dark. I blame Halloween coming up at the time I was composing this. Originally ... »

Music, Art | October 20, 2013 - October 27, 2013
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 63 times

Wanderstruck meets Darker Stormy. A Halloween twist on the simple happy melody from the former song by mashing it against the darker themes of the latter. Not one of my more original projects, but just something quick and fun to do for the holiday while my inspiration well is dry. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | October 5, 2013 - October 16, 2013
FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 61 times

A short improvisational piece I played earlier today after walking home. Inspiration I guess is from the dreaded silence of spending every evening after working on my projects sitting at home, resting, just to get back to work the next morning and repeat. Very basic melody - I don't know if it already exists. The ending is a variation of one of my own piano drafts that never got completed thoug... »

Music | September 17, 2013
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 18 times

This is a second draft of a remix/cover I'm working on. The original song was called "The Amazing Water" from the game "Nights into Dreams." It was one of the first songs I learned to play by ear, way back before I knew how to record or compose anything. The changes I made in the new draft here include more improvisation and personalization of the song on my part when playing it, rather t... »

Music | July 6, 2013 - September 15, 2013
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 25 times

No matter how far I travel, I can never seem to reach the stars. »

Art | July 27, 2013 - July 28, 2013
Adobe Photoshop CS5

QLearner provides a generalized framework for using machine learning algorithms to solve to any problem defined by a QState. The Plugins Template download includes a template to build your own QStates and several examples to learn from. For more advanced users, new QAlgos can also be created to leverage the framework provided by QLearner. Documentation and API are provided for developing yo... »

Web, Script, Tool | July 22, 2013 | Last Updated July 18, 2015
AI, Q-Learning, Machine Learning, CSharp
Downloaded 448 times

Playing around with more keys/scales that I haven't tried before; there are some cliche elements I admit, was just playing whatever came to mind. Most of it improvised in one go as usual before cleaning up and polishing; I can not seem to just sit down and arrange something these days, regardless before or after I played it. Inspiration for the song this time mainly from being frustrated with n... »

Music | May 21, 2013 - June 28, 2013
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Maximus
Downloaded 22 times

Something I created quickly for a small project. Just experimenting... Melodies are simple and cliche - just going for power and suspense here. , SoundCloud, YouTube »

Music | June 2, 2013 - June 4, 2013
FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 23 times

Just a short, simple, admittedly repetitive tune that's been stuck in my head this past week. Makes me think of traveling or exploring the world a lot, as well as the anticipation and hopes that come with it. The first half gives you the sense of the initial dream and disappointment that comes with reality; the second half is the light at the end of the tunnel. Lots of frustration for me per... »

Music, Art | May 11, 2013 - May 12, 2013
FL Studio, East West, Maximus, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 31 times

Last improvisational piece I played in March, some light cleaning up of pauses but otherwise unedited. More experimentation with chords different from what I usually play. Just a really down month for me personally so this last improvisation is on the slower side. , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | March 12, 2013 - May 5, 2013
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 18 times

Another improvisational piece I played in March, no edits besides cleaning up some pauses or misplayed keys here and there. Some inspiration in the opening from Blake Robinson's Christmas songs before going into melodies from my own songs. At the time I just figured out how to switch between keys while playing and couldn't help randomly transitioning between Christmas and Halloween moods. Als... »

Music | March 4, 2013 - May 5, 2013
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 18 times

Some improvisational playing I did back in March, no major edits besides cleaning up some pauses or misplayed keys here and there. Just playing around in a new Halloween-sounding key I figured out. Opened with a rehash of one of my first songs Bad Lucker before introducing a lot of other old melodies as well. Just a lot of frustration for me lately and mostly playing to clear my mind. Also avai... »

Music | March 4, 2013 - May 4, 2013
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 13 times

A flock of parrots live in San Francisco in the park across the street from me near the Ferry Building. Every spring, they come down to the shorter trees for the flowers blooming. »

Photography | April 5, 2013

Attempting a cover of a song by a similar name (and probably less grammatically incorrect - "Soft Museum (Cheering Version)" from Nights into Dreams). This is my first time attempting a serious remix that's not just piano. I've been really empty on ideas lately, so hopefully this gets me moving a bit again. Plus I like the song and have always wondered how they do some of the melodies, so it'... »

Music | January 5, 2013 - March 25, 2013
FL Studio, East West, Edirol Orchestral, Maximus
Downloaded 36 times

A flock of parrots live in San Francisco in the park across the street from me near the Ferry Building. Every spring, they come down to the shorter trees for the flowers blooming. »

Photography | March 22, 2013

One extremely foggy morning in San Francisco that looked more like a city engulfed in clouds. »

Photography | March 13, 2013

One extremely foggy morning in San Francisco that looked more like a city engulfed in clouds. This shot is more inclusive of the high-rise buildings in the city that are peaking above the fog as well. »

Photography | March 13, 2013

Trying to capture the feel and sight of snow constantly coming down into one's view while traveling down a road in the Sierra mountains. »

Photography | March 3, 2013

Short presentation I put together for a class today about tools that happened to be educational, which for me was learning coding/filmmaking from Age of Mythology. Much of the presentation slide style is from my earlier high school work Regression of Oranges (which was also much better done) but it's nice to be animating again, probably the first time in several years now. Also nice to revisit ... »

Presentation | October 10, 2012
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

The TDAmeritrade plugin for Tech Trader adds the functionality to pull both live and historical price/volume data from TDAmeritrade on all time frequencies (daily, intraday, weekly, monthly). The plugin also adds the option to execute automated trades on your TDAmeritrade account to match signals generated from Tech Trader. The functionalities are mutually exclusive and can be enabled together... »

Script, Tool, Plugin | August 20, 2012 | Last Updated March 30, 2013
Stock Trading, Tech Trader, Tech Trader Plugin
Downloaded 259 times

This is just a light piano cover of Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) by Angelo Badalamenti. The original is a string arrangement and also a bit longer. Of course, this one is nowhere near as nice as the original, but I haven't heard it in piano before and got around to playing it. Someone who actually plays piano can probably arrange this much better though as ... »

Music | August 13, 2012
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 27 times

Just a short improvisational piece I put together this afternoon. Seems to be another one of those so-bored-I-got-inspired pieces, and the moodiness of it probably shows. That doesn't really make for good inspiration but it's better than none I suppose. It's short I admit, but I didn't want to force a longer melody either. Thought I might as well share in case someone finds it useful for s... »

Music | July 29, 2012
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 21 times

I've been wanting to remake this song for a long time... or at least the climax of it. The Edirol VST I used in the original Darker Stormy just wasn't strong enough for the climax to me. However, it took me a long time to find higher quality samples (mostly East West) that would match the overall sound I wanted to keep from the original. The new song here essentially starts with a remix of... »

Music, Artwork | June 4, 2012 - July 11, 2012
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 65 times

This is a quick application for merging all CSVs in a folder to one file. It features a simple user interface and a few extra options, such as choosing the header row and what rows from all files to extract. Additional features include: - ability to extract a particular cell from each CSV and add it as a new column. - settings will be remembered the next time you run the application. ... »

Script, Tool | July 10, 2012
CSharp
Downloaded 46 times

Tech Trader is a fully autonomous system trading thousands of stocks simultaneously with no human intervention. It is unique from conventional algorithmic systems in that it takes a "human" approach to markets. It is not quant. It is not stat-arb. It is not high frequency. It is a program that looks at stocks the same way a person would but with the cold discipline and infinite attention sp... »

Web, Script, Tool | June 27, 2012 - July 5, 2012 | Last Updated October 17, 2015
Stocks, Trading, Tech Trader, AI
Downloaded 9928 times

Not one of my better pieces but it's been sitting in my work folder for 2 years and I couldn't think of anything to build off it. I still like it but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and there's that feel that something's missing. This is one of the quirkier songs in a while. Had it in my head for a while since Thanksgiving 2011 but didn't really have time to work on it till around Ch... »

Music | November 22, 2011 - June 23, 2012
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West
Downloaded 12 times

Short melody I've had stuck in my head for a long time. Put it down in notes back in September 2011 but never really got around to orchestrating it much. Only recently figured out how to play it with chords on the piano but not sure how to bring it out more (it's just the main melody with few supporting themes). The intro is also pretty boring - not sure how to improve the sound or melody the... »

Music, Art | April 14, 2012 - April 20, 2012
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 38 times

Seems like I'm getting some inspiration back. Thought of this one while sitting bored and hungry during discussion section a couple weeks back. Forgot the song for a while before I could come up with a draft of it. It seems like a mix of "Trickling Winds" and "Raindrops". However, this deviates a lot from the style of my older songs; most obvious is the more heavy use of choirs and percussi... »

Music, Artwork | March 6, 2012 - March 19, 2012
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 65 times

More improvisation in the new key I figured out how to play. Just emptying my thoughts here so there are probably quite a few tempo issues or off-notes. Was considering cleaning up the notes a bit but I decided I rather like the way it's laid out already. Lots of frustration when playing from discontent in my own life and things seeming to go nowhere. Lately I've only been able to work on mu... »

Music | March 2, 2012
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 20 times

Just playing around with a new major/minor key I'm becoming familiar with and managed to improv my way into playing this song. It's not mine and is a cover of a song that already exists under a similar name. Thought it was nice enough to keep even though there are obvious playing "typos" (is that the word?) here and there. »

Music | February 6, 2012 - March 1, 2012
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 17 times

Just some piano improvisation - new key I found I was able to play while just messing around. I think this is the same key as "Blue Calm" but obviously I never tried much variation in that song. Lots of old motifs from previous songs mixed in as well, namely the Cloudless series - we'll see where this goes. Just laying down ideas for now. , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | February 1, 2012 - February 10, 2012
Piano, FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 19 times

This is a very simple mod package to allow stock charts to be embedded in your posts via BBC. Once installed, the following codes will return charts from the following sites: 6-month Daily Chart by profitspi.com [schart]TICKER[/schart] 10-day Intraday Chart by marketwatch.com [ischart]TICKER[/ischart] Interactive Flash-based chart (slower loading, one per topic) by wikinvest.com [wschart]TIC... »

Tool, Script, Mod | August 15, 2010 - January 2, 2012
PHP, mySQL, SMF Forums
Downloaded 41 times

Oddly enough it wasn't raining when I first got this song stuck in my head. I seem to get the most ideas when exams and projects are coming my way; unfortunately I had to postpone this song quite a bit as a result of being much busier lately. I've been working on this since October but in actuality probably only put about a few days' work into it. I had more in mind for this one but decided ... »

Music | October 13, 2011 - December 23, 2011
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West
Downloaded 26 times

Based on one of my older songs "Cloudless" and effectively orchestrating the piano solo spin-offs from it "Cloudful" and "Cloudfully". Lots of changes and variations on the main melody after playing it improvisationally a lot over the last couple years. I wouldn't really call this from a remake - if you listen to the original, you'll realize it's far from the original but still close en... »

Music | July 7, 2011 - September 2, 2011
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 381 times

A business card design for a small card-playing club I founded. The intent is for the business card to look just like the back of a regular playing card. It is designed to be printed with rounded corners. »

Art | August 14, 2011
Adobe Photoshop CS5

Postcard design for a small card-playing group I founded. Had a lot of fun with brushes and vector curves. »

Art | August 14, 2011
Adobe Photoshop CS5

Simpler flyer design for a card-playing organization. Logo was the most interesting part to make, as I wanted to make it look fancy without making the design overwhelming. »

Art | August 14, 2011
Adobe Photoshop CS5

So I keep coming back to my older song Cloudless... The key is just really easy for me to improvise on the spot with I guess. I've managed to build on the melody a lot more than the last variation I made on it (Cloudful). This is just a quick recording of me playing it on the spot so I don't forget later, meaning it's very much just a draft. I'm hoping to make it an orchestral track like the... »

Music | July 7, 2011 - July 28, 2011
Piano, FL Studio, Steinberg Grand 2
Downloaded 28 times

Experimenting with drums for the first time. I had the main melody down okay but had trouble thinking up a background melody support it (strings, etc). Originally I had more ideas for this but got busy and haven't messed with it for months now. Someone might find it useful as a buildup theme or something - I don't know. Song can actually form a perfect loop if you cut off the last note - it ... »

Music | June 27, 2011 - July 16, 2011
FL Studio, East West
Downloaded 21 times

Another song I started way back more than a year ago. It's modestly upbeat; some say it's similar to Cloudless but I think this one's a little more casual and simplistic in melody. The beginning is quite close to how I wanted it to sound; it's also the first time I've messed with effects a bit so that was fun. The rest of the song more or less was thought out in chunks. Unfortunately I c... »

Music | May 8, 2011 - June 22, 2011
FL Studio, East West, Edirol Orchestral, Steinberg Grand 2
Downloaded 68 times

Another one of the songs I stopped working on a long time ago but picked up again recently, this one from January 2011. I woke up with the beginning of the song in my head and eventually played out the rest once I got comfortable with the key signature of the song. There was supposed to be a violin playing by itself somewhere in the song, but I've forgotten where I wanted it. I guess I'm leaving... »

Music | May 29, 2011 - June 7, 2011
Piano, FL Studio, Steinberg Grand 2
Downloaded 20 times

Fun image I pieced together with a landscape shot in Alaska and an extracted person from greenscreen. Editing done in After Effects. »

Art, Photo | February 19, 2011
Adobe After Effects CS5

This mod is designed to replace the Post Reply pages in SMF 1.1.x with a rich-text editor by CKEditor. It assumes you have uploaded the CKEditor as a ckeditor folder to your SMF Forums' root directory (yoursite.com/SMF/ckeditor). CKEditor can be downloaded from ckeditor.com/ The mod makes additional changes to the SMF Forum source and template files so that the editor is embedded and... »

Web, Script, Mod, Tool | December 18, 2010 - January 24, 2011
PHP, SMF Forums
Downloaded 864 times

The program runs as a customization of Mini DB, but neither are not publicly available yet (I've only set this up with a few websites I help with). The user system is currently integrated wtih SMF Forums so that the login is shared but it can also operate independently, albeit with less security of course as Mini DB is not meant to support a user system on its own (excluding the admin). ... »

Web, Script, Tool | January 12, 2011 | Last Updated June 21, 2011
PHP, MySQL, Stock Trading, SMF Forums

Just piano and no editing or other instruments - improvisation that started off similar to one of my older songs Cloudless but gradually just became a mix of whatever I could play in the same key. There are a lot of random transitions and misplayed keys, but eh - just something I made quickly. And yes, I know the left hand never changes. I've never taken piano lessons, so I can't really ... »

Music | December 25, 2010 - December 27, 2010
Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 63 times

This is a fairly straight forward script that allows you to keep track of which members have read their email announcements or not. The script logs each announcement sent out to members and sets up a hidden image in each email so that opening the email sends a ping to the website. This is useful for those wondering if your email announcements ever get through or you are just being ignored. ... »

Tool, Script, Mod | December 2, 2010 | Last Updated August 5, 2015
PHP, mySQL, SMF Forums
Downloaded 66 times

Business card I put together for a small filmmaking club I used to run. Too bad I made this a few years too late but it's fun seeing what you can do with old source material. »

Art | November 5, 2010
Adobe Photoshop CS5

The back of business card for a small filmmaking group I used to run. The scene is from actual film we shot. »

Art | November 5, 2010
Adobe Photoshop CS5

A lighter variation of the business card for my filmmaking group. Probably best matches the winter holidays. »

Art | November 5, 2010
Adobe Photoshop CS5

This is a Halloween song I actually started in October 2009 but never came back to (it was only a minute long then). It's probably the most procrastination-afflicted song I've worked on so far, due to weeks and months where there was virtually no progress. At least I managed at least finish in time for this year's Halloween though. The song itself is probably one of my more complex ones. ... »

Music | June 7, 2010 - October 30, 2010
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 55 times

This is a simple but useful script template for adding customized titles to a large number of video clips in Adobe After Effects. In some of the work I do, I've had to create titles for several hundred videos. Rather than type each title in After Effects, the expressions/code in this template allow you to just drag the video into the timeline and have the title automatically change to the ... »

Script, Tool | October 23, 2010
After Effects CS5
Downloaded 127 times

A brightly decorated dock along the San Francisco Pier. At first, I just took this casually and didn't realize how nicely it captured the lights until looking back on my shots later. »

Photography | October 16, 2010

View of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the city, and a blue moon from a ship in the waters. »

Photography | October 16, 2010

This modification sets up your board to basically behave as a list serve or mailing list. The best example to think of is "Google Groups", in that the discussion board still exists while any emails sent to the site are automatically posted or added as replies to existing topics. The SMF Mailing List mod works best together with the SMF Notify Group mod, which allows you to subscribe mul... »

Tool, Script, Mod | June 9, 2010 | Last Updated August 7, 2020
PHP, mySQL, SMF Forums
Downloaded 349 times

As the title suggests, think of rain when you hear this song. Think of rain in all its forms (drizzling, shower, storm, hail...) and then think of the sun when it begins to emerge. The initial idea was for the piano to represent rain and the flute as either life in general or the sun (just something counter to the chaos), but it's really up to interpretation. I just happened to think of this s... »

Music | February 26, 2010 - April 11, 2010
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 127 times

    A powerful little script that can be used to easily add pages and entries to multiple MySQL databases. In some respects, this is similar to existing tools like phpmyAdmin but on a much lighter scale more suitable for public viewing, etc. However, it also allows you to add custom PHP code to various parts of the table, allowing you to create gaming ladders, sign-up systems, stock trading... »

Script, Web, Tool | January 14, 2010 | Last Updated August 22, 2011
PHP, mySQL, Javascript

This is a modification of a modification originally by Tyrsson and kripz for SMF Forums (of the same name, "Event Registration Mod"). This modification is based on version .17 BETA of his mod and makes several improvements. It was originally designed to work with SMF Forums 1.1.x, but now has been ported to SMF thanks to floomp! Original Description by Tyrsson and kripz - Creatin... »

Tool, Script, Mod | December 28, 2009 | Last Updated September 6, 2015
PHP, mySQL, SMF Forums
Downloaded 605 times

This is a short script I wrote so I can turn on notification of a topic or board for an entire membergroup. The script works by letting you first select membergroups and then the members within those groups that you want to enable (or disable) notification for. You can also subscribe groups themselves for boards that tend to have varying members move across groups, and the mod will show t... »

Tool, Script, Mod | December 5, 2009 | Last Updated July 8, 2012
PHP, mySQL, SMF Forums
Downloaded 423 times

First time spending any real effort in orchestrating a song. There's a lot more variation than in my usual songs (a complete opposite to the lackluster "Blue Calm" song I made a few weeks earlier), and I actually bothered to play it at a constant tempo/beat this time... I should probably should start doing that for all my songs from now on anyways. Sadly, it's not a Halloween/horror song.... »

Music | September 25, 2009 - October 9, 2009
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 76 times

I had this tune stuck in my head while walking back from class a few days back. The visual I somewhat saw as I was making this was mostly rain and then the ocean. It seemed calm and the water looked blue, so that's where the name came from. It's bad, I know. I originally spent about 2 hours playing this out just to put out ideas before I forget them. Afterwards, I kind of did forget... a... »

Music | September 12, 2009 - September 13, 2009
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 14 times

Thought the windows looked rather neat reflecting the red sky. The location is nowhere special, just an average, half-deserted suburb in Sacramento, CA. »

Photography | July 11, 2009

Trailer/Buildup intro I made for a club in high school, consisting of all the movies we did, each of them directed/shot/edited by me as well with the exception of the 2-sec stop-motion at 0:11. A breakdown of some of the shots follows after the trailer. Sadly, most of my video experience peaked at the end of high school with the Moviemakers Club I co-founded, and I haven't had much time or re... »

Movie, Animation | May 14, 2009
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3

An average hardworking man comes home one night to find in his house a dead body. This was created before Flash died, so it requires installing Ruffle now to emulate Flash: https://ruffle.rs/ The final product of almost two months' work with my club, filmed on 3 separate days and edited in 5 (with no sleep). 36 min. movie with more than 2 hours of outtakes. Serious and funny at the same... »

Movie | February 19, 2009 - April 12, 2009
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 98 times

Documentary my club and I put together to bring awareness to the high school dropout issue in the U.S. Compiled over two weeks and submitted to various competitions and organizations through our school. »

Movie | January 6, 2009 - January 14, 2009
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Downloaded 24 times

Video my club and I made for Christmas 2008. Filmed over a course of 3 days and edited by me in one. May not top our Halloween Little Kook in a Cabin, but it's definitely one of our favorite scripts. Music is not from me this time, but from royalty-free sources and a few artists I've received permission. This was created before Flash died, so it requires installing Ruffle now to emul... »

Movie | December 5, 2008 - December 17, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 230 times

This was created two years after my last powerpoint. I used After Effects instead and wrote a Flash script called FlashShow to play the videos as a presentation slideshow. Lots of fun with camera effects and explosions. Obviously the music and images (with the exception of the hand holding the orange) are not mine; the charts and data are but are meaningless. Just enjoy. Those that ... »

Presentation, Movie | November 30, 2008 - December 4, 2008
Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, FlashShow

Something I put together in a couple hours. Was going to let it sit so I get more ideas, but they never came. Sadly never looked back on this song so I just decided to wrap it up. However, it does form a perfect loop. »

Music | November 24, 2008
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 14 times

Video I made in a club for Halloween 2008. Filmed in one day and edited in seven nights. First DVD we've made that's entirely copyright-free, everything produced by our own or from royalty-free sources. Songs from main menu and opening 3 min. I think you'll recognize from me. All video-editing and animation also from me, done in a single week before Halloween (time crunch!). Thi... »

Movie | October 15, 2008 - November 7, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 196 times

An orchestral version of Bad Lucker (Piano) - hopefully other instruments should add more dimension to the song. Everything is played by keyboard in separate layers. The piano I am satisfied with, but I'm not really sure how the other instruments are fitting in. First time trying anything really serious and to this scale - suggestions welcome! Used in my club's Halloween Little Kook in a ... »

Music | September 12, 2008 - October 3, 2008
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 25 times

Initially something I made up randomly back in April 2008. Trying to clean up the song a bit. No editing - Played live on keyboard (as if everything else isn't? Some people don't think so) Planning to add orchestra background to it later. Some people told me they prefer just the piano though. Using the final product for a video I'm working on for Halloween. ^_^ »

Music | September 12, 2008 - September 28, 2008
Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 14 times

Continuation of "Another Day". Hit a bit of a creative stump; can't figure out how to transition between parts of the song and the ending - so it may seem a bit abrupt at times. Most of the tunes were played through on keyboard in one run - I think I may have messed up a few times here and there. I probably will remake this song if I ever get the chance. Also available at Newgrounds.com... »

Music | August 28, 2008 - September 8, 2008
Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 19 times

Incomplete song. Not sure how else to continue it so I'm leaving it as is for now... maybe it works as it is. Also available at Newgrounds.com »

Music | August 21, 2008 - August 22, 2008
Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 12 times

Yay! Finally played something half-decent. Actually I played this by accident.. and just went along with it. But I like it - sounds nice. Also available at Newgrounds.com »

Music | August 18, 2008
Piano, FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 17 times

Entry to a contest at psoriasis-cure-now.org for the humor track. Entry on Youtube. Took 4 whole days to make it... Had to hand-draw everything, make the music, make the voices - first time animating and also first time making everything. Am pretty proud of it. Nope, that's not my real voice, but it IS me speaking. Just lots of filters added over. Music I made in FL Studio - pre... »

Movie, Art, Animation | July 29, 2008 - August 2, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 266 times

Gameshow Maker can be seen as an extension of the original Jeopardy Maker (which you should check out if you want something more basic and preconfigured). The idea is to allow you to create your own questions/answers gameshow, such as Jeopardy or Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, with little to no work on your end. Categories, rows, columns, bonuses... Everything is done by the program.... »

Web, Script, Tool | July 13, 2008 | Last Updated May 10, 2015
Adobe Flash CS4, ActionScript 3, Jeopardy, Powerpoint
Downloaded 14130 times

More than anything, this is a tool designed for my personal use. I only release for the sheer possibility someone might also find it useful. FlashShow is designed to create a slideshow out of Flash video files. In a way, it is similar to Powerpoint - for function. Think of it as being able to create videos and use them as a Powerpoint slideshow. Better yet, it is being able to use a video ... »

Web, Script, Tool | June 15, 2008 | Last Updated May 10, 2015
Adobe Flash CS4, ActionScript 3
Downloaded 205 times

Poster created for promotion of a Movie Week event at school... Poster was done in one night, so not my best but it's pretty nice. Full size prints out to be about 44x34 (inches) »

Art, Graphics | May 13, 2008
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 230 times

Entry for the SPARC contest. Personal favorite; clean, funny, and serious at same time! SPARC Contest called for a 30 second clip that promoted the pursuit of an education for a better future. Special thanks to Milkman_Dan for permission to use his song. »

Movie | April 8, 2008 - April 17, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3
Downloaded 42 times

Jeopardy Maker is a free, fully-featured program to make your own Jeopardy games, complete with animations and music. Just enter the questions and answers. No Powerpoint or Jeopardy Template needed. Categories, rows, columns, daily doubles... are all generated automatically. The program supports any number of rows and columns (the max. being until your computer explodes) as well as many... »

Web, Script, Tool | April 5, 2008 | Last Updated May 10, 2015
Adobe Flash CS3, ActionScript 3, Jeopardy, Powerpoint
Downloaded 127367 times

Originally made back in March for a MESA web competition - but that got disqualified because they didn't want the whole site done in Flash or something. Then later used the video for Moviemakers Club instead. Everything created from scratch - music, graphics... Only thing borrowed is the video footage from a club I'm part of. »

Movie, Animation | January 3, 2008 - March 27, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 118 times

Quick flight test I put together with some friends. Everything is done with green screen and still photos. First time experimenting with 3D camera effect. Song is by Deniz Akbulut. »

Movie | January 27, 2008
Adobe After Effects CS3
Downloaded 18 times

Poster created for my school's Christmas video showcase. Pictures provided by the school. Graphics and effects created solely by me in Photoshop. »

Art, Graphics | December 9, 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 66 times

Creating a Coat of Arms for class... got a bit carried away. Yes, that's a duck. The original is 4400x3300px (22"x17") but I don't think you guys need to see that. The serpentheads I took most time in and are obviously my favorite part of this image. »

Art, Graphics | November 19, 2007
Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 87 times

Poster created for my school's entry into the Insomnia Film Festival 2007. »

Art, Graphics | October 18, 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 67 times

Banner created for school club. Graphic effects are all done me. Fullsize banner prints out to 36"x24". »

Art, Graphics | September 17, 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 93 times

This is my first time modding the Coppermine software. There may be better ways to achieve the same effect. Please let me know if you have suggestions on improving this! This mod will do the following: - Basic Protection: Overlay a blank image over all pictures (prevent right-click copying) - Hiding Links: Pass all picture addresses through an image-generating file: --* Requires... »

Tool, Script, Mod | August 3, 2007 | Last Updated January 12, 2008
PHP, mySQL, Coppermine
Downloaded 362 times

Game I made for a summer camp class. Seems rather basic compared to what I've done in the past with Fort Wars, etc, but it's my first time taking any computer science class so it's only intro. Guess everyone has to start from the beginning at some point. Also available on the official Scratch site if the embed here isn't working: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2784323/ Directions... »

Game, Script | June 23, 2007 - June 28, 2007
Scratch

This is a DVD compilation of the last powerpoint presentation I made before delving into video + flash and never looking back. This presentation was designed to act as the background to a skit, similar to show or play at the amusement park with lighting effects. The sounds, music, and images obviously are not mine but are used for educational purposes (school project) only. The links to the act... »

Presentation, Movie | June 4, 2007 - June 12, 2007
Powerpoint

Promotional poster created for my school's video entries into the MTV Movie Spoof Contest. We had two videos. »

Art, Graphics | May 23, 2007
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8
Downloaded 215 times

My Art teacher requested I enter Legischool's photo competition. They accepted photo montages and I was recommended to make one (all photos have to be mine of course). Received honorable mention. Photo showcased in 19th Annual Envisioning California Convention. »

Contest, Art, Graphics | April 11, 2007 - May 1, 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Downloaded 425 times

Photoshop cartoon replica of a photo I took. This I created as part of an artclass assignment. The image began from nothing but a blank canvas - all of it was drawn by mouse. Hopefully it captures the surreal essence of the original. Compare with Original Photo »

Art, Graphics | March 23, 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Downloaded 273 times

A teacher set up requests for cover designs for the school's mixtape CD. Several entries, including mine, were weighed - mine was used for the final product. »

Contest, Art, Graphics | March 13, 2007
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8
Downloaded 69 times

One of four requested to create a design for the WASC booklet. I worked on the cover as shown here. Center image is my own photowork combined with a cougar image given from the school. »

Art, Graphics | February 7, 2007 - February 20, 2007
Adobe Illustrator CS2, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8
Downloaded 233 times

Advanced Triggers Set One for AOM, One for AOE3 Version 1.01 February 7 2007 Works on both Expansion and Non-Expansion (See Readme for details) Also downloadable at AOM Heaven and AOE3 Heaven Discussion threads: AOM Heaven / AOE3 Heaven INTRODUCTION      Many of the effects/conditions you find here have long been said "impossible" or require just far too much lab... »

Game, Script, Add-On | February 5, 2007 - February 7, 2007
Age of Mythology: The Titans, Age of Empires III, Age of Empires III: The Warchief, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Downloaded 1523 times

Extremely customizable visitor counter and tracker using PHP5 and mySQL. I used it on my own site for many months before considering a release version. Note this is not compatible with later versions than PHP5 due to them not preserving legacy code. Download pq Visitor Counter and Tracker Also listed on HotScripts.com Live Demonstrations: View Active Demo/Example of Stats View Acti... »

Script, Web, Tool | February 3, 2007 | Last Updated August 6, 2015
PHP, mySQL
Downloaded 3077 times

     This map is designed for Age of Empires 3 "The Warchiefs" v1.01. Castle Blood is a long requested map by a number of players in the Age of Empires III community. Castle Blood is a common map originally found in Age of Empires II. However, due to obvious differences in the two games, there are a number of changes between this Castle Blood and the old ones, especially as it is unclear... »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | December 27, 2006 - January 13, 2007
Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs
Downloaded 1394 times

     Very versatile txtfile-based Visitor Counter. Original Counter (Easy Counter 1.02) by Wingnut @ www.wingnut.net.ms      Heavy modifications done with Wingnut's permission by pftq @ www.pftq.com As with the original counter (partly quoting Wingnut here) : Installation Copy the counter.php, counts.txt, active.txt, and ips.txt onto your webspace. Make the .txt files accessible ... »

Web, Script, Tool | January 10, 2007
PHP
Downloaded 260 times

     Ladder created for the Age of Empires III custom map, Castle Blood. Automatically updated every 3 minutes. Original script by Elpea and various others; modified and converted for XML feeds by pftq. »

Ladder, Script | January 3, 2007
PHP, mySQL

     Template for starting the editor with the entire map in water. Requested at aoe3.heavengames.com »

Template | January 1, 2007
Age of Empires III, Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs
Downloaded 335 times

     Ladder created for the popular Age of Empires III custom map, Fort Wars. Automatically updated every 3 minutes. Original script by Elpea and various others; modified and converted for XML feeds by pftq. »

Ladder, Script | December 25, 2006
PHP, mySQL

Used my previous older logo of just the letters 'pftq' and layered it onto a new background/foreground. The disc and swirls I created in Illustrator. The warp I created in Paintshop Pro. »

Art, Graphics | November 12, 2006
Adobe Illustrator CS2, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8
Downloaded 320 times

      A simple race map for Age of Empires III. Attack your opponents to slow them down. Fight nature units for XP, which allows you to become better units. Each kill speeds you up. Do whatever it takes to reach the Mighty Llama first! »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | November 4, 2006
Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs
Downloaded 526 times

This is the predecessor to the Mini Database Builder, which can easily be installed over existing databases (even those created with Easy Page Creator). As a result, Easy Page Creator is no longer supported, and continuing users are recommended to upgrade.      A powerful little script that can be used to easily add pages and entries to multiple databases. It automatically indexes entr... »

Script, Web, Tool | September 17, 2006 | Last Updated December 31, 2008
PHP, mySQL

Various math applications I create over time that may help with homework etc. It certainly helped with mine. »

Web, Script, Tool | September 11, 2006 | Last Updated July 2, 2010
PHP

     A simple easy to use file-uploading program. Primarily, it was created for my own personal use, but I've written just about every feature into it that all other uploading services have. It allows you to specify whether files uploaded show up to everyone or just the owner of the file (logged in). File types possible are virtually endless as I can decide to add more whenever I want. P... »

Script, Web | September 9, 2006
PHP

A surreal view from above the clouds on the peak of Haleakala. »

Photography | July 22, 2006

Sun rays peaking behind a single cloud during a summer day in New York. This shot has stuck with me enough that I use it frequently in the art/covers of my songs. »

Photography | July 11, 2006

     Official ingame maps with the addition of an invisible wall in the middle and no attacking for a set period of time, in order to replicate a No-Rush style of play. After a set timer, the wall is removed and attacking is allowed. Map are perfectly identical to the originals otherwise. Joint project by pftq and Furby_killer. »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | June 26, 2006 - June 28, 2006
Age of Empires III
Downloaded 20589 times

     Normal game maps set up as a 1v1 between the first and second player, with the rest of the players in "Observer Mode," where they can watch the game but not chat to either of the players that are fighting. They can however chat among themselves. Maps are perfectly identical to how the original map would be in 1v1. Special thanks to realn for helping out and persuading me to complete ... »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | June 17, 2006
Age of Empires III
Downloaded 1681 times

A fog and mist-filled trail up to Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. »

Photography | April 9, 2006

     Each player is in control of a ridiculously powerful cannon. Kill fodder/units that are spawned in the middle to gain HP and have the owner of the fodder lose HP. Don't let your own units die or you will lose HP. »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | April 7, 2006
Age of Empires III
Downloaded 1128 times

     The single most played user-made random map script in Age of Empires 3, reaching over 18000 downloads on just AOE3 Heaven alone - not counting ESO (Game Server) distribution and downloads from other fansites. »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | December 19, 2005 - January 28, 2006 | Last Updated January 25, 2021
Age of Empires III
Downloaded 6499 times

One of the longest projects I worked on for Age of Mythology before I realized the scope I was going for was just unfeasible. The amount of time spent redoing maps as I got better at designing was also an obstacle. The best product out of this is probably the intro cinematic. Norse Hersir named Tifflrol has his village invaded by a witch, Circe, and her army of monsterous creatures. He an... »

Game, Campaign, Map, Movie | July 21, 2004 - October 9, 2005
Age of Mythology: The Titans
Downloaded 1596 times

Shot I took during a roadtrip through Utah and Nevada of the clouds parting after a light rain shower. »

Photography | July 22, 2005

War of Mini-Empires is an extremely customizable multiplayer map by default played in Conquest Mode. Basically, two players may take as long as both need to build up their empires on opposite ends of the map. A supernatural invisible bearier seperates the two from fighting or doing damage to each other. Even Godpowers or flying units may not pass. When both are ready, they both kill their Sha... »

Game, Map, Multiplayer | March 21, 2005
Age of Mythology: The Titans

One of my earlier successes in designing for the Age of Mythology/Empires games. Oddly enough, I didn't spend much more than a week or two on it, but I definitely had a lot of fun with it. The original project page can be found at AOM Heavengames.com. Mythic Cops is a wacky story of two cops (Jacobble Stone and Carshoo Lase) attempting to catch a dark and powerful sorceror for s... »

Game, Movie | February 7, 2005 - February 21, 2005
Age of Mythology: The Titans
Downloaded 3811 times

One of the many projects I was working on before my leave from Age of Mythology. Sadly this was perhaps my only serious attempt at a cinematic, which was never finished. I never did have a title, so currently, it is simply "Great City's Fall". »

Game, Movie | January 15, 2005 - February 21, 2005
Age of Mythology: The Titans
Downloaded 318 times

One of the less-noticed games I moved into as I was transitioning from playing Zoo Tycoon to playing Real-time Strategy (RTS) games. The editor wasn't nearly as friendly as the ones I would later find in Age of Mythology, but they drew my interest well enough. While it wasn't necessarily a very balanced strategy game, it was my first and also exposed me to my first time making maps/scenar... »

Game, Map, Multiplayer | May 26, 2004 - July 18, 2004
Impossible Creatures
Downloaded 1436 times

One of the last projects I worked on for Zoo Tycoon. It was one of the more unique ones I've made, finding that I was able to set entry and exit points away from the building so guests appeared to "teleport". I noticed this from Pixigger's Hotel Chain buildings, where the entry/exit points were a square or two away from where the building actually was. Unfortunately, this also p... »

Game, Add-On | January 19, 2004 - January 28, 2004
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 251 times

One of my final projects before leaving Zoo Tycoon. As usual, continuing with animating otherwise inanimate objects - allowing people keep lamps and other items as living pets. This time, with much more experience at hand, the items are actually complete (they have all animations, interact with other animals, including my own user-creatd ones, etc). Initially labeled the release as pa... »

Game, Add-On | January 4, 2004 - January 18, 2004
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 541 times

A ride/building (they're the same in Zoo Tycoon at a technical level) requested by one of the forumers at Zoo Admin. Put together the file with some help from Casey. At this point, I was gradually beginning to get the hang of creating buildings and editing the files without A.P.E. - using just Notepad. From the Readme: Thanks for downloading the Merry-Go-Round. Programming done by Flame... »

Game, Add-On | January 10, 2004 - January 14, 2004
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 313 times

A 2-month project started by flamethrower and KillerPenguin222 in creating a Christmas-themed pack of about 156 animals, objects, and buildings. Originally, it was released over two smaller packs at Zoo Admin (for those who wanted to use the items before Christmas arrived) and later updated with a patch (or really just a replacement file). From the Readme: 2003 CHRISTMAS EXPANSION Sta... »

Game, Add-On | October 26, 2003 - December 23, 2003
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 1168 times

Zoo Admin set up a new downloads section while I was active called "Designer Resources". We would add textures and other useful material so other designers could utilize these items for their projects. Most of what I submitted were available in the game, but could not be extracted very easily. What I personally found most useful was the gridlines I set up - especially when matching objec... »

Game, Add-On, Resource | November 6, 2003 - November 26, 2003
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 76 times

A one-month project creating a Halloween-themed pack of about 25 animals, objects, and buildings - originally released only for Zoo Admin. This is arguably the first real attempt at making anything substantial, and obviously it's the first real project that took than just a few days to complete. From the Readme: 2003 HALLOWEEN Expansion Started By Flamethrower 03 HExp Scnry file1 I... »

Game, Add-On | September 30, 2003 - October 26, 2003
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 697 times

After creating Fire as animal, it was only obvious to create Water as animal. But just a puddle of water wouldn't be interesting. Water spout animations were available in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 and since I didn't know what the proper names for these were, I went ahead and called them Water Tornadoes. From the Readme: Thanks for downloading Flamethrower's Water (water-sucking; the ones... »

Game, Add-On | August 16, 2003
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 325 times

Fire as an animal that can be caged, tranquilized, eaten, etc. My very first game-modification ever released online (at Zoo Admin). Graphics aren't even mine, but snapshots taken from Roller Coaster Tycoon. Animal was designed and pieced together in the Zoo Tycoon editor called A.P.E. Initially, this even had problems with animations loading correctly; it would revert to a cat when... »

Game, Add-On | July 27, 2003 - July 29, 2003
Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania
Downloaded 334 times