BOTDan.com

A collection of projects by me (Dan Wells).

Ranging from game-related content, such as Garry's Mod addons and arcade games to web development and websocket rubbish.

Hello

I make random stuff, usually related to web or game development.

Below is a list of some of thie things I've worked on. This list isn't exhaustive.

This Year

Music Streaming Service Combiner
Web application to combine Spotify and YouTube. Allows for creating playlists containing music from both providers. Front-end built in React, with the back-end running through NodeJS.
TypeScript React NodeJS

2021

Arcade 3D Minigolf
Working on creating a 3D system within an API only capable of drawing 2D quadrilaterals. Currently have models rendering. Working on z-sorting and physics system for the ball.
JavaScript

BOTDan.com
Recode and redesign of BOTDan.com, using Vue with TypeScript for the front-end and Node + Express for the back-end. Hosted through DigitalOcean and routed through CloudFlare.
Vue 2 TypeScript NodeJS

2020

OwenBot - Text-to-speech bot for Discord

A bot made for a friend while their microphone wasn't working. Automatically joins the user's channel when sending a message to broadcast to all. Used Google's TTS API.
JavaScript

Document Outline Editor

University coursework. A website allowing people to create and quickly edit document outlines. Supported Google logins. Written in regular JavaScript for the front-end (no frameworks allowed), with the back-end using Express.
JavaScript HTML CSS NodeJS

2019

Personal Portfolio Website

University coursework. A website to demonstrate our ability to utilise up-to-date HTML5 tags, valid CSS and consider accessibility.
JavaScript HTML CSS

Squash in Python

A singleplayer game written as part of a Uni challenge to make squash in Python using the limited graphics.py and without using classes.
Python

2018

Boolean Interpreter & Circuit Builder
A Python tool for creating and simplifying boolean expressions. Expanded to have a UI to ease the process of converting circuits to boolean expressions.
Python

Arcade 2D Minigolf
Built a UI system to create a level editor for a 2D minigolf arcade game I was working. Initially written in lua, then moved to JavaScript when support was added. lua version had custom physics engine.
lua JavaScript

2017

2015

Garry's Mod JukeBox
Music streaming addon for the game Garry's Mod. Uses YouTube to stream and sync songs across the entire server. Still actively supported.
lua

The Beginning of Time