Staying up with the latest in gaming

Published March 19, 2012 | By Sam

Today i will be listing links that are useful in keeping up with the latest on Gaming.
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Game Engines

Published March 14, 2012 | By Sam

Some interesting things I come across when researching

When i started this year in doing my Interactive Digital Media diploma focusing on game development i started on doing some research on what programs i could use to develop games.

So far in a previous post i have talked about UDK and linked some tutorials and so here are two others that interested me.

Unity

Unity is similar to UDK. it is similar because it is also freeware and you can do almost the same as what you can do in UDK. tho you see unity more in web based games and mobile games. Another thing i have noticed with Unity is that it doesn’t have the game graphic power as UDK. you also have to pay if you want certain features which is also a negative with programs. here is when you can learn more and download Unity http://unity3d.com/

Source SDK

Source SDK is a software development kit that you make mods and levels for the Source engine. This comes for free when you buy a Source game like Half life or Left 4 Dead. This program i want to investigate more and play around with because some of my favorite games are Source games and i want to to make my own content. The way to get Source SDK is to get Steam which is here http://store.steampowered.com/ (and they also sometimes have awesome deals on games)

That’s all from me for now

Cheers

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My learning Goals

Published March 14, 2012 | By Sam

My learning goals for my specialist project

For my specialist project i will be creating a game in UDK. My goals are to efficiently learn to use UDK to the point where i don’t need to Google for every thing i do. so far i have made good progress on this and will be posting some examples in the near future. I also want to look at story boarding and how the story impacts a game. obviously thought many years of playing games i know what makes a good game but i would like to look into it deeper and see some examples and techniques used in creating a story for a video game. Lastly i would like to learn about the psychology of navigating though a game. like for example how the developer puts in little things to lead the player in the direction that they want, like Left 4 Dead use light to lead the player and it works very well.

eventually at the end of this i want to find myself being a proficient level designer and end up with a showcase or something similar so then i can get a job in the game industry, a guy can work towards a dream right?

Anyway that’s all from me

Cheers

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found this very interesting

Published March 14, 2012 | By Sam

so i was doing some work at home (yes i know WTF)

anyway i Googled feat of design and this is what came up

Yay its mee and Steve, i was not expecting it and made my day

that’s all from me

Cheers

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UDK Development

Published March 13, 2012 | By Sam

UDK Development

For this year i will be working with the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). here is where you can download it: http://udk.com/download

UDK is an engine to create video games. It is used with computer games, console, mobile and Mac OS. The program is freeware, meaning that you can create your games for free. When you start making certain amount of money then you have to pay for the program.
Personally i think that this is the best option for a freeware game engine. so for this post i thought, how do you start with UDK? personally i found it a little difficult to get a stating grasp on how things work. luckily there are some tutorials that are on the UDK website that where helpful to beginners.

the following videos i found are some of the best available on getting started with UDK.

All these videos was majorly helpful, they described the process in detail and showed you how to do it. Credit to Raven67854, he has many more videos that are amazing and helpful.

One thing i have noticed when working with UDK between home and school is that the program itself doesn’t like working between different versions. it is slightly aggravating since i like to work on my projects at home and school.

i will be showing some of my development with my experimenting with UDK and my projects. i will also post my progrss on my various projects thought the year

anyway thats me for now

cheers

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A New Year

Published February 16, 2012 | By Sam

well my diploma year in my interactive digital media studies has started. i will try and keep this blog updated with useful links and tutorials

cheers

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Using CSS3 to rotate your div’s in dreamweaver

Published October 24, 2011 | By Sam

Today i will be showing you how to rotate your div in Dreamweaver using css3.
Yes i know that it is possible to do this without using css3, by using images but i felt like experimenting and i found this more easier to do it this way.
please note that this does not support IE 6,7,8 (if you are using these then shame on you).

So first off i have made a normal HTML page in Dreamweaver with a css style sheet attached to it. After i had done this i proceeded to make two div’s beside each other as shown below

then after that i continued on and went into my css script and inserted the following code into my right div

-ms-transform: rotate(30deg); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(30deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
-o-transform: rotate(30deg); /* Opera */
-moz-transform: rotate(10deg); /* Firefox */

here is an example:

and its done, you can edit the angle of the div easily in the css script of by changing the number of the radius. this supports Opera, Safari, Firefox,Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9.

here is an example of css3 rotating in action

yes this isn’t the most beautiful thing you have seen but it is for demo purposes only and with a little playing around you could come up with come interesting designs using css.

have fun =)

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peppers bush adventures

Published July 25, 2011 | By Sam

in this task we had to change the theme to of an existing theme tha the client had. it was very fristraiting in trying to figure out what went where and what it said but here is the original and that end result.