Here I go. Not much time for words, though. Peer Review will be a metaphor of the publishing process of scientific papers in journals and conferences for the Experimental Gameplay project competition (theme: Rejection). I’ll be using Unity3D, of course, as it will make workload much lighter. You control the white cube, who is doing [...]
Categories: Programming,Videogame
Tagged: Competition, Experimental Gameplay project
Because it’s February and somewhere in there it’s Valentine’s Day, Experimental Gameplay project current competition’s theme is REJECTION. There was enough love everywhere else! EGP competitions have three simple rules: 1. Each game must be made in less than seven days, 2. Each game must be made by exactly one person, 3. Each game must [...]
Categories: Programming,Videogame
Tagged: Competition, Experimental, Gameplay, Videogame
There are times when you need to give your code the ability to choose among many options that have different frequencies or probabilities of being selected. Whether you need to create a random power-up or decide the next enemy encounter, here’s a tool that you will find useful: the Roulette Wheel selection algorithm, or Fitness [...]
Categories: Algorithms,Programming,Tutorial
Tagged: Algorithms, content, fortune, procedural, roulette, selection, Tutorial, Unity3D, wheel
This is probably the first of many posts to come about those videogame scores that have a small place in our hearts, from Alley Cat’s Main Menu (to give it a name) to Portal’s Still Alive or Uncharted’s Nate’s theme. The kind of themes that give you goosebumps every time you hear them (Pitfall II, [...]
Tagged: guitar, Out Run, piano, Splash Wave
Spain is not -so- different. And thus, when they present an alternative to iPad, they call it iFreeTablet. If I ever create an evil machine to conquer the World I’ll call it iWorldDominationDevice. And you know what? Its OS is called… SIeSTA. Not my machine’s, but iFreeTablet’s OS. SIeSTA! Which stands for Sistema Integrado de [...]
Categories: Hardware
Tagged: iFreeTablet, iPad, Open Source
Hugo, 4 years old, playing with Tsuyu in Rain, Sand, Stars.
Medusa wishes you Happy Holidays and an Awesome New Year!