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Hey everyone! I recently received my Playdate after a few years of waiting and I decided to start learning how to program games for the little device! Don't worry if you don't have one yourself, though, because you can still play my game using the free Playdate Simulator application that Panic has made publicly available in order to play it on your computer. It loses a bit of the charm over actually playing it on a physical device (especially because the original games are already available to play in their original Flash forms on the computer), but the option is still available to you if you want it! ...(view more)

Hello folks! I have a new game available for you to play called EIH. For the first time there is both a mac option AND a windows option as well. Finally, those of you who only have a macbook can still be included! If you'd just like to check out the new game you can do so here, but if you want to read about the long road that brought me to this point of being able to release this game - that story continues below. ...(view more)

Hello folks! I have a new game available for you to play called EIH. For the first time there is both a mac option AND a windows option as well. Finally, those of you who only have a macbook can still be included! If you'd just like to check out the new game you can do so here, but if you want to read about the long road that brought me to this point of being able to release this game - that story continues below. ...(view more)

Hello everyone! I've created another setup randomizer for a board game. This time the board game is Dokmus, and this time I have returned to the wild world of Android App development in order to release it! It functions much like my other randomizer apps for Android do, in that it randomizes the setup for the board game and has a few additional settings - like optional support for the Return of Erefel expansion - to go along with it. ...(view more)

Wario Land 4: Parallel World is the first full-fledged Wario Land 4 hack, coming in twenty years after the game's release. That's quite a time to wait for more content! But the wait was well worth it. Wario Land 4 is one of my favorite games of all time, and this hack immediately had me grinning ear to ear once I started it up. ...(view more)

Hello again everyone. This time I am bringing you something old, rather than something new. It's 2020, and it is currently month six of a global pandemic that has more or less caused me to spend all that time locked up indoors. That's a lot of time to oneself, and it's only natural I would start reflecting on the years that brought us here at some point. In fact, I ended up digging through some old files and stumbled across a lot of things I thought were lost forever - including a ton of old posts and updates to this very website. ...(view more)

Hello again! This is just a quick update to say that I have updated the Tiny Towns randomizer. The randomizer now has support for the first expansion, Fortune, and the first promo cards released for it so far. I plan to update it again soon once I get my hands on the second expansion, Villagers, which should be releasing soon. ...(view more)

Hello everyone. Dominion is one of my absolute favorite games of all time, and it has been for many, many years. So many years that I have personally gone through a number of different storage solutions and other accessories for it! Today I am going to talk about my solution for storing all of these expansions for Dominion, how I got there, and the other accessories we use to play. I will be giving my recommendations along the way for various storage solutions, set-up methods, sleeves, etc. that I have tried over the last eight years or so of playing this game. Whether you are a Dominion veteran, or a new player looking for information, I hope you find this guide helpful. ...(view more)

Hey everybody! I've been spending a lot of time playing a neat little board game called Tiny Towns. If it looks up your alley, I would definitely recommend it. Something I like to do from time to time is write little apps to randomize the setup for the board games I am a fan of. I started doing that back in college as a great way to learn new programming skills, while still working to solve a small problem in an area that is of interest to me. ...(view more)

Welcome to the new version of my website! I hope you like the new look. While the last version had been updated here and there over the past few years, the last major overhaul was performed when I was in my senior year of high school. For those counting, that was seven (!) years ago. As such, a new coat of paint (that was more responsive and looked nicer on devices of all sizes) was desperately needed. ...(view more)

Hello everyone! It's been awhile since I last updated, so I have decided to fix that mistake by sprucing the place up a little. I have cleaned up the visual presentation a bit and updated the About and Games sections. ...(view more)

Hello again everyone! I have been teaching myself Ruby lately, and I've updated the games section to include the small text-adventure game I made using the Ruby language. You can compete with friends to see who can get the highest score. Or just compete with yourself, if you have no friends. ...(view more)

As you may know, I completed a game for Ludum Dare 33 a few months ago. Well, now you can download that game from my Games section on the left! Check it out for yourself. I also took this opportunity to do some general maintenance around the website, including changing several of the other pages to make sure they contained only the most up-to-date information about me and what I have created. Feel free to check them out as well if you are interested. ...(view more)

Hey! I did something for once. Score! ...(view more)

Hello again my loyal subset of friends, family, and that one internet stranger. Today I have a small update that will mean nothing to the most of you. I have spent a lot of time sharpening my Java skills in the past few months, and I took it upon myself to code a sufficient randomizer for Kingdom Builder, as none of the other ones I found were up to my standards of randomization. In doing so I learned a lot about Java swing applications and embedding applets in an html page. It was quite fun, really! I mean, aside from all the hours of frustration and head banging that always accompanies working with code when you don't know what you're doing and are trying to teach yourself. ...(view more)

Hello everyone! It's been awhile since I sat down and did some much needed maintenance on the website. If my records are correct, the last time was May 15th of 2012... Yikes! As you might expect, almost every page needed at least a little updating. ...(view more)

UPDATE: Latest Version: Version 1.3.4. If you do not have this version, your version likely has bugs. Get the latest version for the best play experience! ...(view more)

The last update was on January 5th, and it was about New Year's Eve. Holy cow! And to think I came so close to making it an entire year without updating. So I must have something pretty important to say if I'm willing to ruin such a good no-updates streak, right? ...(view more)

Hey everybody! I know there hasn't been any new content in a little while due to me having to focus a lot of my free time into my schoolwork during my first semester at college, but things are looking up! All that hard work payed off in that I now know a new programming language - C and C++! (And in the good grades I got too, I guess. But that's less exciting to me.) ...(view more)

I told you guys I was changing the site layout and working on things, and you didn't believe me. You brushed me off, you were like "Oh, Tylor always says he's going to work on the website, and then he never actually does what he says he's going to." Well, not this year baby. New Year's Resolution Ahoy! ...(view more)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everybody! I finally got around to giving the site a much needed cleaning up. As you can see, the old Chat and Forum links up top have been removed from the site. Why? The Forums and the Chat site located there officially kicked the buckt on November 19, 2011, due to inactivity. Don't belive me? Check out this link to where the forums used to exist. If this news fills you with any amount of remorse, know that each and every one of you are fully to blame for this occurence, as even one post from any of you would have kept the thing alive for another month or so. ...(view more)

I'm going to go ahead and skip right past the "Gee, school sure has been keeping my busy lately, I'm going to pretend that I will try to update more frequentlty now though!" introductory paragraph that is always mandatory when I've come back from not updating for a moth (see: september), so you can just go ahead and fill that in using your imagination right here. ...(view more)

School, that is. I would make a post wrapping-up the summer and how the "I will post three times a week with regularly scheduled updates" thing went, but I kinda already did that and you guys know how that went - seeing as it's been more than a month since my last post. And now, with my senior year upon us, This website will most likely lie dormant until I've some new thing to share with the world. Feel free to check back once in awhile in case I sneak-update with something, but I'm not going to kid myself into thinking I'll still be updating with content regularly with the full-plate I have in terms of school and extracurricular activities this year. I'm actualy considering removing the forums/chat altogether, as they seem to serve no purpose now. But we'll see I suppose. ...(view more)

Well, it's finally done. Mighty Dive Bomber, the faithful NES styled puzzle platformer is finally finished and available for download here. (Note: I'm on vacation right now and my internet connection is flimsy. On top of that, the programs I usually use to update my website with things like this are flipping out. So, with the game being a somewhat larger file, I am temporarily going to host it's download out-of-site, on MediaFire. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and I will change it once I get this figured out. But at least this way, you can still download it.) Do it! Download it now! In my totally unbiased opinion I have to say this is by far the best game I've ever made - far better and more complete than anything I've made before it. I'm extremely proud of it. So please, for my sake, download it and play it! I'll update with more about it later and I'll update the game page then too. For now, just download it and play this wonderful new gem I've concocted for you good people of the Internet. ...(view more)

Gotta get back to working on the new game. Next time I update, which probably won't be tomorrow, it will be with this polished little guy. It's a retro NES styled puzzle platformer, and it's going really well in my opinion. I can't wait to unvail it! But for now, back to work. See you guys when it's finished! ...(view more)

Happy July everyone! Yes, I know I missed last Friday's update and this one is late, but I have a good reason this time! I was at Cedar Point on Vacation with my family all weekened. It's true! You can ask them if you don't believe me! ...(view more)

First off, I want to apologize for updating yesterday instead of Monday. For whatever reason I got it in my silly little head that yesterday was the day I was supposed to update and not Monday. Stopping to think about it for even one second reveals the obvious - that that is wrong - but I did not do so until after the update yesterday, so I apologize. If you missed the last one because you didn't check yesterday because you didn't think there would be one yesterday because there wasn't supposed to be one yesterday, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this post and clikc the little Previous button so as to see what you missed. ...(view more)

So Mafia. I thought I'd put down some of my thoughts on it now that it was finished, as well as let you people who haven't seen how the game yet experience it in story form for yoursleves. If you're interetsed in playing again, now is teh time to go on the forms and sign up! It's simple and easy, and it was a lot of fun; I think most everybody enjoyed it. There will only be a few things I want to try different next time. ...(view more)

This is what I have been doing lately. I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm very close. I mean, I have played through the N64 version two or three times before, but this new version is just something else. I'm going to take a little bit of time here to try and capture and explain just what that something else is. ...(view more)

Yeah, I know, I didn'y update on Friday. I hsould have put up some kind of disclaimer, but I've been rather busy in real-life lately, and I chose to take some time off of trying to update everyday to focus on things like Mafia and Forever December instead. I do have some ideas for future updates I want to get to (Ocarina of Time, one of my favorite games ever, was recently re-released for the 3DS and you can bet your butt I'll be doing a review chock full of babbling fanboy praise in the near future), but until things settle back down in real life (weddings, weddings everywhere! What is it about June and weddings!?), I'm going to take a break from the weekly updates. ...(view more)

Mafia is starting today! Hooray! I've been trying to get this game going since early May, as is shown by how old the thread itself is. Follow the fun here, if you aren't involved yourself. And if you aren't - shame on you! You obviously follow along with my stuff enough to be reading this update today, so you might as well have signed up! You're missing out on what I think is going to be a very, very fun game. And hopefully if everyone likes it enough there will be a sequel, and you will have a second chance at being involved in the game firsthand. If you aren't, you'll have to settle for the short snippets of detail found in the thread, along with any stories from the other players, and those won't be nearly as fun as the actual thing. ...(view more)

Ah! There are so many new games! Not the least of which is my new game, which if you haven't played by now, you really should! I really want to get some feedback on what people think of it before moving on, in case there are some good ideas I hadn't thought of yet. Please! Play it and come to the forums and talk about it! For my sake! ...(view more)

Whelp, it's finally here. I've probably put more work into this game than any other game I've ever made so far, and a lot of that was because of the great feedback I got from the early alpha testers the first time around (remember what I said about feeding off of fans and positive encouragement?) I will certainly keep working on it, and there is a lot more I want to add, but I really really want to hear what you guys think of it first. Let me know if you have any ideas or find any bugs or anything! Please! Thank you! ...(view more)

Oh goodness guys! It's a new Tylor game! Some of you played a much earlier version of this a long time ago (it's been in development for a long time), but I assure you this has been much improved since you played it last. It even has a way to save your progress! Shock of shocks! Unfortunately, I'm still putting the finishing touches on it, so all you get for now is this teaser art I made. But rest assured that you will get a chance to play it on this Friday's update! It will still be a beta version, something that I will be improving and changing based on "consumer" feedback, but it will be available to the general public on Friday. I hope you enjoy it! ...(view more)

In honor of the release of the firmware update for the Nintendo 3DS today (the one everybody with a 3DS has been waiting for since March; the one Nintendo reffered to as a "late-May update"), I decided to post some of the fun stuff I've done with the 3DS's camera mode and it's Augmented Reality Cards. Despite the somewhat lack of content, this stuff is pretty cool if I don't say so myself. If you're a proud 3DS owner, you can download these pictures to put on your 3DS and view them in 3D yourself, unlike the rest of these shmucks who will have to settle for the 2D images. Poor them ...(view more)

I know that one of my (many) weaknesses is my inability to spell words correctly. If you know me at all, you know that I'm a terrible speller, even at this ripe age of seventeen. As I continue to update this website regularly, this flaw is sure to show itself repeatedly, and spelling errors will be abundant throughout the archive. I want to take this time to give you a pre-emptory apology for this sure-fire happening. However, while I take responsiblity for this failure, I must insist that some words in the english language are spelled in a ridiculous fashion. I have reason to suspect that they are spelled this way solely to make me angry sometimes. Here's a list of five words that I've been notoriously bad with in the past and my suggestions on how any normal human being would have spelled them when they were first introduced to the english language. ...(view more)

Yum yum yum! I hope you enjoy this little meal; it honestly tastes pretty good. You can ask Carter if you don't believe me. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. ...(view more)

And so it begins. For this first update I thought it would be fitting to talk about a tendency I’ve noticed about my own behavior. Perhaps I’m stupid and this is not a new discovery about human nature, or perhaps its something that’s just a problem for me, but in any case, I felt like sharing it now would be rather fitting. ...(view more)

I know what you're all saying. Seriously? More computer problems? I don't believe it. Well, it's true - the thing was on its last leg, and while I got two more weeks out of it after restoring it to working condition last time, it's completely dead now. So while I hunt for a new computer and get things resettled, please bare with me - after that, I think I might upload a beta version of a new game I was working on before my computer started acting up. In the meantime, I was finally able to upload all of the wonderful music from Findlay High School's lovely rendition of Godspell, which can be found at the YouTube channel below. ...(view more)

All that stuff I said about updating more? It wasn't entirely false. It's just that my family and I have been on vacation. Well, wait, that's not exactly right... the rest of my family went to Florida while I stayed home and watched the house. But I went on vacation too, hence the lack of updates this past week. Where you might ask? Why, to the wonderful, wonderful world of Minecraft. (Normally I wouldn't say anything about this either, but since this is such a long update with so many pictures, you might wanna make sure you read all of the mouseover text to, to get the full effect. It's what a true fan would do!) ...(view more)

First thing's first -if you know me, then you know that I just recently had a battle of wits with my computing device. The thing was so near death from overheating problems and virus problems, after a recent onslought of failures, that I almost gave up on it and began the hunt for a new laptop. But give up I did not, and after a draining week of spending all my free time attacking this thing I finally (fingers-crossed) got it back on its feet. However, I did have to wipe it of everything and return it to factoy settings. Its a good thing I backed up my files beforehand! Hey, you. Yes, you, the reader. Have you backed up your files recently? If not, I would take the time to do so now. You'll thank me later. ...(view more)

Do your eyes decieve you? Or is the title of this post advertising a classic NES style platformer based on everybody's favorite American Classic/Sophmore Honors Literature Book The Great Gatsby ?Yes, my friends, and the best news is that's availabe to play for free, online, right now. Simply head over to Great Gatsby Game and start playing. Unfortunately it is a very condenced version; it only took me about half an hour to play through all four levels. But it achieves the basic idea - creating a game in the style of a classinc NES platformer based on Gatsby - in an awesome, awesome way. So seriously, check it out! Even if you don't normally like video games, you're sure to get a chuckle from the idea. :P ...(view more)

I'm only about one thousand years late to the party but due to repeated confusions with impersantors making fake facebook profiles of myself, I thought it was best to just make a real one, in order to stop the impersonators - even if I don't use it much. So if you want updates on The Tylor Zone on facebook, follow me here! I'll add a facebook button to this site somewhere soon when I have the time, too. I added a button up top; you can't miss it. Happy face-booking. I'm still figuring out how everything works, so if I don't reply to you that's why... ...(view more)

New video is up. Sorry it took so long - I explain why in the video. For the rest of this week, just look for new videos on my youtube channel here, as I won't be updating this website for each one. But the plan of attack is to put up another video tomorrow (Thursday), and then go for every other day after that. Keep on checking back! ...(view more)

This is just a teaser. The real ones will be as awesome as last time and less filled with awkward silence, I swear it. I've had three separate people ask/encourage me to make these vacation videos again while I'm in Florida, and my mom was only one of them! With that kind of demand, you just know I'll be supplying. I can't promise them everyday like last time (that took a LOT of work and a LOT of time away from my vacation), but there will be more. Keep your eyes peeled, and tell your friends! Well, the ones who would care, anyway. ...(view more)

Well what do we have here? The grand re-opening of TylorLilley.com - The Tylor Zone 2010 2.0. Isn't it great? What's that you say? It looks almost exactly the same? Well, on the outside, sure, but on the inside.... man! What a difference! ...Yeah, so, okay, I know you don't care. But there are a couple of new things that might interest you for a few seconds before you get bored and leave again. Honest! For one, the clickable buttons up there are a little different. So if you were one of the people who spent a few hours clicking on them when The Tylor Zone 2010 first premiered, you'll probably be able to get some more enjoyment out of that now. And this time, they're made by me! Graphics and all! Oh, and a lot of the other page lay-outs are different (read: better). Honestly the biggest difference is just the fact that the entire things has been remade in html code, so the fact that it looks similar on the outside actually verifies that I succeded in what I set out to do. What this means for you however, is that I'l lwill probably update more, since updating will be much faster now that I completely understand how every nook and cranny of my site's code works - y'know, what with me being the one he typed each character of it and all. But for now, not much has changed. This is one of those do-a-lot-of-work-in-the-short-run, save-yourself-from-a-lot-of-work-in-the-long-run type deals. Oh well. Enjoy! ...(view more)

Well, hey guys. Its about time I didn't something new for your pleasure again, dontcha think? Well, What started as an idea for a simple music video concerning one of my favorite songs - one might even say it was my theme song - quickly developed into, well, this ten minute long video monstrosity... ...(view more)

And here it is - the prize. I intend to make this a regular feature of my website and let it grow and expand over time. The TheTylaward Awards WallTM is a place for me to recognize people who have made important or notable accomplishments here at TylorLilley.com. While the Halloween Puzzle is the only plaque on the wall right now, it will soon expand, as I've already got a few ideas on other things for which to offer a Tylaward. If your interested in trying to win one (or more), just stay tuned and keep posting on the forms, and eventually the next chance will be revealed. I hope the winners aren't too disappointed with their prize, but man - that thing was a jerk to code. Oh well, I think it was worth it. Thanks for participating! And I would still like to hear from the other seven of you who haven't filled out the poll yet. Its quick and simple! I promise! Even if you didn't participate in the last one, I'd still like to hear your ideas on this. Thanks! ...(view more)

I just want to say thank you to everyone who participated. I hope you had fun! I certainly learned a lot in the making and executing of this; I really want to do another one in the future. I will most certainly do one again next Halloween, if I do one sooner than that, well... we'll have to see. The jury's still out on that one. But I learned a lot about how I could make it better and more fun for everybody involved. It would help me alot if the nine of you who played took a moment to fill out this quick poll about the subject, but, none of you care about that; onto the results! ...(view more)

Just a small update to clear the page of all that chemistry stuff. If you ever want to study them again, I've added my Quizzlet account to the other accounts on the About Tylor page found by clicking the button above. I will continue to upload more flash cards as I see fit for other things that pop up during the year. If you would use them, and want me to make flashcards of something, let me know and I'll add those too. Now, for the real meat of this update: ...(view more)

Well, one or two people made use of it, so I figured I'd shell out the extra twenty minutes or so it would take to make a negative ion version for those interested in studying this way. A few tips that apply to both of these little games: ...(view more)

Hi there. Are you one of the shambling thousands studying up on their positive ions for the first Chemistry test on Monday? What's that? You didn't even know there was a test? Well, there is! And now you to can join the shambling couple or a few I guess that are studying up The TheTylor way! TM Our Great and Humble webmaster has through the wonderful powers of web magic (and about a half an hour of his life) brought about a fun, game-like way to study your ions! Get the highest of scores! Brag when your friends suck! Study and maybe learn a little! ...(view more)