Well I haven’t updated in a while so I might as well chuck up my latest completed project.
I finally finished my “Interactive Skateboard Controller” for Digital Media. It’s a skateboard deck mounted on a base which when stepped on, will control a character on a screen to skate left and right in order to collect rings on a level. Here’s a quick youtube showing it in action.
Classes finished on Friday but I’ve got to hang around until Thursday to get all my assignments handed in. Still have about 65 pages left to do in my workbook which I have as much chance as finishing as Bush being elected for a third term.
I’m not going to spill to many secrets about what I’m up to, but here is a quick glimpse at the beginnings of the engine for my new game. Hopefully, I can put it on the net but size might be an issue since it will probably be quite video intensive.
10 till I release my next project.
Crap that’s almost no time at all. Better get working. Linkage.
I didn’t think it was possible (heck of COURSE it was possible I just didn’t understand how) to get processing to send variables into flash but it is. For my next project for Digital Media we have to create a physical button that controls interactions on the screen. The majority of us are using wiring boards to take info from switches and make processing do some fancy things.
I’m chasing something a little different however. I’m using processing to catch the states of the buttons (on, off or true, false) and sending them to flash through a local socket server in order to control movement on the screen. I have a working script at the moment which takes info from three buttons hooked up to a wiring board and transmits their states (true, false) to flash which displays them as text fields on the stage.
If you want to use my script for sending you own information into flash then download the source here.
Wow, first time I’ve actually invested money into this website. I could say that this domain was bought using the $15 or so dollars I earned over 3 years from Google adsense but I haven’t seen any of that money yet so that’s probably a lie.
Another step along the road to this becoming a fully fledged portfolio website.
I’ve got some new content coming soon, when I’m not swamped by all these hand-ins (2 in the next 2 days, sleep is a missed gift) some which are just projects uploaded here, some which are for the silly fun making sake of it.
In other news, Randomosity scored me my first A+ in Digital Media Design today. The looks I got from my classmates when I audibly whooped was priceless to say the least.
So change your bookmarks to http://burning-water.com/blog/ (www.burning-water.com is coming soon, hopefully) and keep an eye on me in the future.
For this project, we were required to make an interactive game or toy for developers which demonstrated use of colour and patterns. I kind went overboard a bit with this one as I tried to cram in a ton of fancy things that probably weren’t needed but made it look damn cool anyway.
So without further ado, I present to you Randomosity!
Urgh. Look at the time. Two-thirty in the morning and I take it into my head to set up my third blog in total.
Why do I need three blogs? (actually, now that I think about I have Bebo as well so that makes four. Crap.) Well it could be because two of the other ones floating around have approximately one post on them each. That is unacceptable. And pretty embarrassing.
This is going to be the project weblog of Burning Water so people can keep updated with what projects I’m working on are currently active and anything else I decide to post that is design related. Final projects will be announced here first then updated on my new portfolio site (which is also “in progress”).
I’ll also keep my personal blog running on here as well for all of you wonderful people who want to watch every second of my fascinating and riveting life (Sheesh, please tell me you’re not that desperate) with all the wacky hijinks, shenanigans and general tomfoolery that I get up to every day during my quest to become a designer.
You may or may not be disappointed. Inversely. With rabbits.
