Here’s an interesting interview with Will Wright. Game Designer of Sim City, The Sims, and Spore. He talks about how games may evolve in the future, and how social networks could overlap to make game interaction more personal to the player.
Here’s the game I’ve been working on for the past term, with Thien and David in my DAC 300 course. Please try it out and let me know what you think of it in the comments.
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A few of my friends have been working on this awesome iPhone game in their DAC 304 class. It’s called Drag Racer: Perfect Run. You can see a preview video of the game above, and look for a Lite version coming soon to the iTunes App Store, with a full version in development. David will add some more details about the development process and evolution of the game as well as updates on his blog as they move towards an official release!!
Packed3D takes 2D Flash games and automatically converts them into 3D. The system works by taking in 2D vector game assets, analyzing them, and generating 3D models based on a ‘guesstimation’ of how a 3D version of the object might look like.
Please see Packed3D for details.
Today I presented with Doug, at the Velocity Project Exhibition. Yes, I do presentations for fun.
The presentation was on the project called ColorTheNet, which we’ve worked on throughout the term.
Cograts to http://unsynced.com, saymore, and http://giftah.com for winning prizes.
Presenting in front of an audience isn’t easy. I’ve always been shy, but in the past few years I’ve been able to overcome it for the most part. There are days when I go back into a shy state. There is this common misconseption that shy people should be feared, they seem like they’re always planning something.
But what is being shy really? Being shy is caring. Caring about the way you look, the way you stand, the way you act, the things you say. But though you care, you care in the least selfish way imagineable. You care because of the people around you. Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t mean that people who are confident, don’t care. It’s just that they do so within a bigger picture. While a shy person does so in a fragmented way. Takes tiny steps with each action. Strategically plans every move, every conversation, to not offend, not insult. For a shy person being confident, takes practice, but with time, I belive that shyness can be overcome.
Here’s the greatest demo I’ve ever seen, and I watch lots of presentation videos:
Lightstage technology allows you to cross the uncanny valley, by using high speed cameras to capture the way different light conditions affect the skin, and generating a normal map, a texture map, and the mesh itself.
Lightstage has already been used in a few movies such as Spiderman 3, and the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It truely revolutionizes the traditional way of generating meshes.
For anyone interested, Electronic Arts is coming to UW tomorrow (Feb. 12th).
I went to it last term, but don’t think I’ll be able to make it out this term.
It’s 7-8:30pm in DC 1302. Pizza + Prizes!!
http://devkiwi.com/download/Waterloo_poster.pdf
Here’s the second part of the tutorial. It covers how to import images from a program like Photoshop into Multimedia Fusion.
I just finished up my first video tutorial ever. I always wanted to make one. I think it turned out ok. The tutorial goes through using Graphics within Multimedia Fusion, but in the second part I start using Photoshop and explain how to then import images into Multimedia Fusion.
Let me know what you think in the comments, and some constructive criticism is always welcome.
Hey, just to promote the club I’m leading this term. The UWWD club is held 4:30-6:00pm on Thursdays in DP 329 (Flex Lab). It’s my first leading the UW Web-Designers club and I thought I’d make some slight changes to the way the club is run. Instead of getting straight into web-design as before I tought I’d design a tutorial series for web-design.
So here are our 30min Tutorial Sessions for the weeks to come. They’re going to be held at the beginning of the meeting. After that we’ll continue to work on Websites requested by clubs.
Intro to Web-design Series
Photoshop CS: Jan. 05th, 2009
HTML and CSS: Jan. 12th, 2009
PHP + MySQL: Jan. 26th, 2009
Additional Tutorials
Creating a Wordpress Theme: March 05th, 2009
Hello Flash Actionscript: March 12th, 2009
20min Pong in Flash: March 19th, 2009
So I hope to see you at the meetings.
