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I’m sure this is something that you’ve been wanting to read about. It’s hard to begin with something like this, honestly. I guess I’ll start by saying that I’m no longer with Team Aurora, and haven’t been since May 2014. It’s crazy to think that 9 of us, for the majority of Team Aurora’s most active […]
A blob game is something like Loco Roco or Gish where there are characters and objects in the game that can compress and squeeze and roll around. Using the physics system I have been working on this semester I wanted to replicate that and create a game with the following in mind: Must contain a […]
Hey everyone, I just started porting over Crate Crash to libgdx to get it working on Android and through this process I’ve learned a few things. The coordinate system in LibGDX is in the bottom left, instead of the top left. This means that most things will be flipped if you port them over for […]
Believe it or not, we never implemented an in-game way of showing which team won when the game is over. This has created some confusion at the QA labs because when the game finishes, nothing happens. You can imagine that people get confused when it appears there are no more enemies left, but they can […]
I just got my hands on a Leap Motion hand tracking device, and it’s pretty neat. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s a small sensor device that can track hand and finger movement. It’s very small, sizing up at 3 inches wide, 1.2 inches in depth, and 0.5 inches tall […]
Hi everyone, I started reworking the lobby system for VacuuLab. This sounds like a simple task, but as it turns out it’s really not. I wanted to create a lobby system that has a similar menu flow as many other games, where from the menu you can choose to Join a game, or Host a game. […]
Hi Everyone, This week has been interesting! I’ve been working hard to get a gooey metaball effect for the bullets that come from the gun to make it look like an awesome goo effect. After many hours of work and research I have implemented the effect into the game. I won’t go into much detail […]
Hey everyone, Recently I’ve been working on simulating our solar system and it has been a difficult endeavor. There are a few big problems that I faced in this project: Float Point Imprecision Conversion from actual (metric) values to something smaller Let’s evaluate each of these items. Floating Point Imprecision A float is a 32-bit […]
Hey everyone, I finished the new lobby system for the game, it works as you would expect any game lobby to work. The typical start a game, pick a side, and ready up situation. When a player hosts a game, they choose their team and can technically join a game alone, but usually a user […]
Hey, After much deliberation this week, Dan and I have come to the conclusion that it is not worth continuing work on the authoritative server. We originally wanted to use the Authoritative server as a method for control, anti-cheating, and data capture features. We also believed that it would send significantly less data than the […]