This was day 1 for the Alternator Brisbane Dev team. The amazing thing is nothing exploded.

So myself and 3 other people are looking after the Brisbane side of the Alternator Game project for the ABC. The project is going to run for about 6 months. I’m going to endeavour to document the whole thing and drop out updates. I want to make the whole stressful and insane process a little more stressful and insane by being as open as possible.

And so the video above. This is our first clean, build, break, fix, network, install day. And the funk music makes it sound a lot more awesome. We’ve moved into K Tower in the Valley with Defiant Development. A brand new studio started by Morgan Jaffit.

More info to come, as we wind down from all the red cordial of yesterday.

Music by Kutiman “The Mother Of All Funk Cords”
You can buy his stuff here And you should because he’s awesome.

I finally had a weekend off so I put together this face tracking PONG demo using openCV. It’s just like the original PONG. But. With. Your. Face. There should be a nice HD version at Vimeo. I try to explain what’s happening in the video so watch it to hear what’s going on. Strangely enough keeping composed while trying to smack cubes with your face is a little tricky.

March was insane. I got back home and the next day was the first class of the year. And I haven’t stopped. Every project I was working on came to a grinding halt. Which was a little annoying. But there is great stuff coming down the line that I’m looking forward to getting out there. GFSGames has their first lot of 3rd years and they are awesome.

But next week is the mid term break so it’s scramble to get ahead time. No rest for the wicked or the convenor.

MattD

In which I test the uploading of a Unity Scene. How hard can it be?

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Please view the full post to see the Unity content.

Getting this working took 4 hours. Not the scene. Just the posting to the web part. I’m not getting that time back.

But for all who come after, know this. thequietvoid is hosted through godaddy.com and at current they do not support the .unity3d file type as a known file. So after following the instructions from the Unity site. Installing the WP_UnityObject plugin. Making the changes to the functions.php that would allow .unity3d file uploads. Still nothing worked. The advice I found was to change the web.config file so that .unity3d is an allowed mim type on the server.

But web.config in the root has been hijacked by wordpress, so everytime I changed the xml the site stopped working. Sigh.

So how does it work at the moment you may ask ? Well, and don’t try this at home kids. I renamed the .unity3d file to .jpg. Made the change to src tag in WP_UnityObject and viola, the HACK IS ALIVE.

But it’s not right and I’m sure it’s going to break things if the scene try’s to access the browser. So now I have to go through the process of getting this fixed.

Bugger.

UPDATE: later that night

Ok, now it works. I had a nap. Thought on it. Fixed it. The trick is I just had to add a unique web.config file into the wordpress upload folder allowing the webserver to serve out the file. There now it works correctly. Before I forget this is the secret ingredient. Adding this to a file called web.config in the wordpress upload directory fixes the last of the problems.

48hr Game Challenge from Monkey Something

I’ve just had the best weekend I’ve had all year. I got 5 hours sleep. I ate nothing but crap (apart from Kieran’s pies). I lost it in front of some students, and we made a damn cute game.

This is Thunderheads Garden. You play a happy raincloud in the garden of the mad giant Thunderhead. You spend your days growing sunflowers and watching the happy bunnies multiply. But when Thunderhead gets angry he flips the world to hate and you have to use the flowers as a gasoline trail to wipe out the evil bunnies.

So it’s like a family game. And it’s for 3 players.

I’ll get a web version uploaded after another nap.