Deal or No Deal

I hate to be that guy but I need to perform some audience research for my project. See what makes you guys tick.

Take the Kinect user survey!

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

Kinectimals. EA Sports Active 2. Dance Masters. There’s a bunch of games available for Kinect at launch, but nothing that made a massive furore in the gaming market. There’s no stand out Modern Warfare- or Fable-type game out there at the moment and there’s probably a good reason for that rather than just because it’s not had a chance to yet.

Why are there no hard-hitting Kinect games?

That title may make me sound like the most square, nerdy individual you've probably come to expect if you've read this blog more than the once, but hey, I'll give myself a chance to redeem any shortfalls in my social life.

Unity 3D – Moving Platforms

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?

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.

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