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October 24, 2006
MtvU Game0RZ Showcase
During the summer, a group of us from school (3 people, James-artist, Greg-producer and me-programmer) submitted a game for an MTV online showcase called MtvU GameORZ Showcase.
| Out of the 9 games selected for this showcase, 3 of them were from FIEA and includes my game, Bugaholic. At FIEA, we only spent 5 weeks in Flash as a brief experience in 2D development. I actually didn't care for actionscript and flash much since working with 3D engines in C... spoiled I guess :) |  |
In Bugaholic, you are a spider trying to quickly spin a web to catch enough bugs before the sun goes down. That’s basically it. Unfortunately, the game is not my favorite version as we had to ‘modify’ it to be under 3 minutes of gameplay. Just like Tetris, the original game allows you to go through many days (levels) and as long as you can meet the daily requirement of bugs. For MTV, the game is only 1 day.
Check out the MtvU Game0RZ Showcase here.
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October 13, 2006
All About Animations
Hardcore semester!
Since this is my last semester in-class (final semester is internship then graduate in May), it has been super intense.
Two classes are filling up my days like you wouldn't believe. In my programming class, we are making a game for the 3D engine we wrote from scratch last semester. This game is for the Xbox. I decided to specialize in 3D animation so the first part of this semester was rendering. Then we move into Physics and simulation. Really cool stuff, I can’t believe how much I have learned in the short 10 months I’ve been here.
My other class is the Opera Slinger project that I have mentioned before. I was designated ‘Lead Programmer’ and also took the animation tasks for the game. I have been working mostly on the game manager (state machine) along with the event system but have had a good deal of time to play with the hierarchical animations and blending that the engine supports. Our core mechanics are pretty well hammered out so we’re working mostly on ‘bells and whistles’ as well as polish. Which is a very good thing since we have a Game Developer’s Conference deadline in November. Needless to say, we have already started an early crunch. It’s definitely showing our work and is shaping up nicely.
We start interviewing for our in-industry internships next month. I’ll keep posting updates on that as well. I’m really hoping that the results of the Hacker’s Delight contest helps me out. : )
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