Eric Fruchter

Welcome to my personal site! You can navigate to the different sections by clicking on the icons above. If that doesn't suite you, feel free to click them anyway and guide randomly generated flocks of birds!

Everything you see here is still in progress. Works best in Google Chrome!

Code

My Github account is where you can find most of my non-commercial programming work. I store all of my miscellaneous pet projects here, ranging from fun applications like video game toolkits to boring stuff like Gnome Menu Editors. I try to share everything I possibly can, and expect others to do the same. If you want to jump right to the juicy stuff, peruse the media below.

Here's a game I've been working on, called Kresendur. It is a side-scrolling shooter where the levels are going to be constructed to match pieces of music.

I'm also working on a flexible java game toolkit I'm calling ToriTools. For demonstration purposes, I use sprites from RPGMaker sprite sheets.

One of my early game demos was Snakemeleon, a game where you play as a chameleon with a flexible tongue that controls like a game of Snake. The tongue is fun to control with a stylus, and I plan to remake this demo as a browser game very soon.

My first foray into java game programming was with a concept platformer where phsyical objects boolean space out of each other. The now stale development blog can be found here. A poorly optimized demo is still active in one of the more recent blog posts. This is an awesome concept I'd love to revisit.

You can find the working code for everything listed here, as well as for this site, on my Github.

About Me

I was born and raised in South Florida, the land of flamingos and sunshine. I currently go to school in Atlanta, where I study Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Work

Georgia Tech Research Institute (2010- 2011)

Massive scale webapp work in Google Web Toolkit and EXT, with a strong focus on security. Enterprise style coding with tightly moderated code standards. I was also part of a more peculiar project in our labs, where I worked on writing a scripting IDE for controlling a quantum computer simulator. I used ANTLR (an awesome lexer/parser) to control a java application with a special language that my superior and myself designed. A tiny development environment was slowly constructed, with basic auto-completion and error handling with line highlighting. Later, the development environment allowed the user to type in actual Java code to control the simulator, through an API we designed. The Java code is compiled in real-time and run (security wasn't a concern for this particular project). Some of the IDE classes can be found in my public repos.

Georgia Institute of Technology (2009- 2010)

Teaching assistant for the "Intro to Object Oriented Programming" course. Programming can be fun, and I wanted to help people discover that.