Jesper Juul has just posted a new (experimental) game, along with a questionaire. He is researching for some new games. So, if you’d like to help him, head over here to his weblog, play a game and answer a few questions.
You can also head straight to the test page.
Hello and thank you for waiting.
I have been rather busy lately (and been on vacation for a few weeks) so updating my weblog didn’t go as planned. Sorry for that…
As I have told, I have been working on the website for ‘The Selfish Gene‘. It has worked out very well and I am very pleased with the result - as is Lola, who commisioned the project. All the lamps you can see on the website are dynamically generated, based on the genes Lola enters in the database. We did have a few headaches concerning the mathematics though.
Unfortunately, I still cannot tell you much about the project I was enrolled in last time. However, we’ve had a few very promising meetings and it is most likely that two of our three concepts will be implemented in the real world outside our school. I’ll keep you posted.
Although I was planning to write a simple CMS on my own, I put that crazy idea out of my mind. I wanted to do something nice and smooth in Flash but I simply lack the time (ah, I even skipped dinner twice this week because I was working to hard to notice!). Since it’s becoming a pain to update the HTML each time, I knew I had to come up with something. Since many bloggers out there use Wordpress, I figured there must be a reason for that and thus I downloaded and installed it. I wished I did this from the beginning… it’s really a breeze to work with.
I’ve just converted all my old post to Wordpress, but some links have vanished in this copy/paste-galore. I will soon check them all. Now, let’s make that dinner, or it’s going to be the 3rth time this week I skip that…
Lately, things are a bit hectic and will continue to be so for a while. Our recent project had its deadline and I am fortunate to be able to tell you that we made it. For a school project, this is quite an accomplishment because, often, teams have one or two ’slackers’, making the whole project block. Even though we’ve had our troubles (on which I will not eleborate) we have finished all our three installation prototypes. This week will be spend on straightening out a few crinkles, which wouldn’t be a problem but since we still have time… Friday we’ve our final presentation, so keep your fingers crossed!
Also I’ve met a beginning artist who’se working on her final assessment in school. She’s on a very cool project. In short, she’s designed a series of lamps. Each lamp is described by a set of ‘genes’. Clients who want to order a lamp are to pick their two favorite lamps of the latest generation and the genes of those lamp will the determine the shape of their lamp. The next two weeks, I will be working on her website. Man, it’s gonna be cool, I tell you that.
As if that isn’t enough, the next two weeks I’ll also be following an ‘Advanced Flash’ course in school. Although I doubt I will learn much, there’s a prize of €750 for the best production so I’m doing my very best to win ;).
Last, but not least, I’ve been toying with the socket-class in Flash CS3. It’s really a breeze to work with, were it not for the Flash Security Model. In less than one hour I whipped together a simple chatroom, including a local server (not in Flash). It’s not really worth showing, but it’s been a good exercise.
Well… back to housecleaning now - but first a lunch!
Remeber my post about getting a highter resolution image out of the webcam in the Flash9 Alpha? In CS3, it can even get you 640×480 pixels. Since my webcam is limited to 640×480 pixels, I haven’t been able to try for higher resolutions, yet, so I don’t know about those. Hopefully I can come up with a nice idea to demo this (I bet you don’t want another fish-eye, would you?). Well, actually I’ve got plenty of ideas, but time’s always short between school, work and social life.