A.L.I., the grant funded department at UNT where I work, missed a grant cycle, which basically means we were shutting down. Things a went a little crazy, people freaked, the boss man left,meanwhile I made this with no supervision or direction.

The edugame centers around the idea making an educational card game, but tries to leverage the computer interfaces strengths – an interactive board, and card control. and complex score keeping among others. Each card adds or subtracts points from states and, as states points reach zero or 10, the points recursively trickle down to the neighboring states.

This was months ago, but I remember what a breath of fresh air is was to get to be involved in a  project form inception to creation, something which was part of our standards when the department began, but had become increasingly hard to do as project quantity increased and development cycles decreased. This took two weeks to make, the idea being create it as a two person game sharing a  keyboard, but take it to the edge where we could put an AI in it or make it a network game.

I strongly recommend choosing the “cards sorted by date” option then playing the second card “stamp act”

There’s some solid MVC here, a custom liquid renderer built on top of box2d, along with he sensors update I posted before, and basically a much better foundation than before. It took about a week to complete from concept to creation. When I get the edits, I’m going to optimize those metaballs, and fix the instantiation glitch that’s eating up so much memory.

(As usual, click the image for the demo. I’d suggest clicking “Great Depression and WWII”. The machine turns on when there’s ahead in the jar, and the head gets sucked up a tube if it’s the correct head.)

If you don’t know what a sensor is, or why you’d want one – think of it as a physics object that detects collision but doesn’t actually affect the movement of anything its collides with – like passing through a ghost. No category or mask bits needed here, just a simple “true” or  ”false”.

here’s how to add it to quickbox2d:

OVERVIEW:

you are going to open and add one tiny line of code to 3 files.

Step 1) open com.actionsnippet.QuickObject.as

Step) find the function “defineDefaults” should look something like this:

When you create an object, you pass parameters. these are the default parameters and we need to do as add “, isSensor:false” at the end so it looks like this

1 of 3 completed. Now lets add a couple of tiny bits of code to the “BoxObject.as” and “CircleObject.as” files as well

BoxObject code: “boxDef.isSensor = p.isSensor;” see example below

CircleObject code: “circDef.isSensor = p.isSensor;” see example below

so, now, anytime you want an object to be a sensor, just tell it so on creation.
Examples:

http://thecoho.net/upload/files/resistance/

12-30-2009 ROCK, OKTOKING DEATH 2d contraints

turns out the unity packager isnt getting all of the associated assets – so here’s the whole project. The scene “level1″ is the want you want to tinker with. Each king has a health, and dies with a basic blood splat, but it only shows up on the cardboard cutout, i’m assuming because of the cutout/transparency used on the other kings. Rock is much heavier now, modeled and textured. Also, the kings and rocks are constrained to 2d.

DOWNLOAD WHOLE PROJECT HERE

12-29-2009 oktoking and catapult v1

rollover over the catapult arm (more accurately, the scoop that holds the rock) – it should turn blue. click and hold to pull back the arm. release to launch.
uses a hinge joint and motor controls.

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD scriptedCatapult unity package

Any models you want to instantiate are done at runtime by their name, which means they HAVE to be put in the Resources folder.

castleHolder has a pillage level parser script. simple and magical.

pillageParser_1 DOWNLOAD HERE

level_editor_beta live demo

level_editor_beta FOR DOWNLOAD

To use it, open the presets.txt file and add in any game object you want to instantiate at runtime. Prefab = unity3d prefab name. The size is in meters, just like unity3d. the rest is optional. Run the html. A corresponding button will appear in the top bar – roll over to see it’s name. Click it to drop a piece down. rotation is turned off to make it easier to align things. click the save button to save a backup before you test it – which just turned the rotation back on and run a simulation. it’s pretty easy to follow i think.

I also managed to create my first hacked up proof of concept. CLICK THE IMAGE TO THE RIGHT TO VIEW IT.

The idea is that for each of the 3 main categories I have, I completely different flash environment is being created each with different game-like aspects. The one I’m building now is going to be a kitchen with an appliance for each sub category. you have to drag them on the counter and plug them in to trigger a fun animation and turn them on to show content.

This is mostly for my own record at this point. The hack demo above is messy, but runs at 60fps on my 4 year old computer (ignoring how that shadow box on my site seems to slow things down), so I expect it’ll be fine on most others. I’m tired and cranky, so I’m gonna leave it and come back to it, optimize it, clean it up and pit everything into classes, and of course, release it all for free.

And, of course, the files are here, and are free.

Use the spacebar, alt, shift and Z keys while clicking a dragging to do some photoshop/3d app like translations (as explained in the “H” menu).

Please view the full post to see the Unity content.