Simon has created a great new game in Processing: The Hero Game! It is somewhat like the good old Mario, except that Simon has no idea what Mario is and came up with the concept himself. The game is based upon Circle-Rectangle Intersection, something that he was studying for the past several days. It was impressive to see how quickly he wrote the program for the game, I think it took him something like an hour, while waiting for dinner. The game has a hero (Simon), represented by the yellow circle, obstacles (from below and above) and money that the hero collects to get points. The game stops once the hero hits an obstacle. Simon is planning to add extra random obstacles and maybe also create a winning score threshold (around 50 or 65, he says). His own highest score so far has been 35.
Below are the making-of videos, step by step:
Update: Simon added trees!
Geeks out of the box 
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