I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to C# programming in it’s entirety, not just with Kinect development. So when it was announced Beta 2 was available I pounced unknowingly into the undocumented depths of version migration. While the Kinect for Windows team have done a fine job with the update, it’s just not that well documented for average Joes like me.

Migrating from Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 1 to Beta 2

Over the weekend I spent almost every waking hour learning the ins and outs of C# and the soon-to-be beloved Kinect SDK. After following bits of the Quickstart guides mentioned previously I decided to go it alone and see what came out. There’s a couple of things I’m sure I could share with you, here.

Messing Around with the Kinect SDK

As a major part of our rebrand of Spangles in this university project, we need to do a game. Our idea, as you may have seen, was a Sonic-like game with Total Wipeout tendencies.

Basic character selection in Unity 3D

What makes Doritos Crash Course so playable?

If you've played around with 1000words at all recently, you'll notice a neat little trick happens when you post a text message containing a YouTube URL:

Converting URLs into links and YouTube videos

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

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

So after giving it a bit of a think, I've come up with how this site is going to operate. It's part social network, part blogging platform (but mostly just a glorified pinboard).

Tag: Development