That may sound like a TV show on one of those obscure digital channels, but no, the one and only third year IMP Rob Hawkes gave us a little glimpse into how his mind works in terms of the HTML5 Canvas element.

HTML5 Canvas Hack Night with Rob Hawkes

Next on the "Oh, blimey, how does that work?" is the point scoring system currently going on within Gravitum. By the time you're reading this, it may have changed entirely, but this is how it's currently implemented. I dare say there's a more recent one than this if it has changed, so if there isn't, it hasn't. Excellent.

Gravitum - Scoring Points

If you haven't already noticed, there's now a working version of Gravitum out in the ether. It's evolved from what was codenamed The Sun Game (back when it well, involved a sun…) into an atom-based game where you collect the good electrons and avoid the bad ones.

Gravitum (Previously The Sun Game) - Generating Orbits

Yes, you guessed it, it's work time again. This time the BA IMP gods that be have set us a lovely Flash task to fulfil. The brief? "Just make something in Flash". Oh, okay.

Flash Game - Idea and Design

There's this event in Bournemouth called Meetdraw (I may have mentioned it before) where you get to meet a lot of lovely media and design people over a few beers. Well during the last one we had a rather lovely gentleman pitching the idea of Heart and Sole to us.

Heart and Sole - How happy is the Internet?

So I, more recently than Spaced, had another crit session but this time about my PHP work. This time 1000words was under the microscope.

How to improve 1000words

A while ago, back when I handed in Spaced for the critical evaluation (the bit at the end of the two weeks intense learning to get feedback for our actual hand-in date) I got a fair chunk of feedback from people playing it and people watching people play it.

How to improve Spaced

With an ever impending need to find a placement for the upcoming summer in interactive design, I needed to make myself stand out a little bit. I got thinking and ended up taking that a little too literally and made myself stand out.

Cutting out a photo in Photoshop CS4

During the making of Spaced one thing was constantly worrying me – how on Earth (pun intended) am I supposed to make a spaceship in this program without learning some complex 3D modelling program? I was looking all over for free premade ones I could use but I settled on just joining a few things together as one to make something that looks vaguely like a spaceship.

How to build a (pretty ropey) rocket ship in Unity 3D

So it was my friend Steve's birthday yesterday, so naturally I should have gotten him a present. Although, if you ever know me as a person, you'll rarely get an actual present and usually either a card, some stupid little thing you'll never use, or some one-off hand made thing of awesome. This present was the awesome variety. And a chance to practice some PHP. Awesome.

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