Dancing With Hackers

Categories Computer Science, Game Engine, Gamedev, Hacking, Security
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It wasn’t long after when I reached my teen years, that my mind decided to overly develop my conscience. Slowly the shadow of guilt of breaking into people’s hardwork was keeping me awake (see pre18 work). I’m sure the game development documentaries shown on such epic and still running channels such as GameOne played a huge part in building empathy with my brethren in other continents (a sample; excuse the french 😉)
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UI At Every Size

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I sometimes yearn for the Doom days where hardware was more constrained and more importantly consistent!!! Today it is baseline, to develop on various screen sizes… how dare you complain!
So let’s talk about UI (User interface) and how it  scales with different screen sizes….
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When In Gyroscope Accelerate

Categories Blog, Gamedev

I’ve spent the better part of the day trying various solutions to best implement the gyroscope control scheme in RunawayJRider…

I’ve had a few experiences with various gyroscopes throughout the years but steering….. hmmmm that’s a tricky one. At least not from the onset… actually let me rephrase… my first instinct was the eventual solution. Getting the forces applied on the device and using them to increment/decrement an angle value… but that seemed too easy.

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Controls Schemes & Smash/Pass Obstacles!

Categories Blog, Gamedev
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More Control Schemes Options

We finally enabled multiple control schemes!

Of the three most requested control schemes by our players are:

  • Arrows (casual mode),
  • Gamepad(hardcore mode)
  • Gyroscope(casual mode)
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Increased Levels and Gameplay Experimentation

Categories Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Computer Science, Game Engine, Gamedev
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Increased Playground

RunawayJRider is ever evolving and this iteration we’re taking it to a more expansive territory. First thing in order is to increase the play area, namely width of the lanes. The task was supposed to be manual in nature, but as a good lazy programmer, I decided to tag the elements furthest from the center as “boundary” which are dynamically distanced through a variable. This has the benefit of dynamically controlling the play area. We use a dictionary type variable on objects so we can scale as per requirements without too much over engineering.

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Back To Blogging and C# Mono Runtime Engine Integration

Categories Blog, Game Engine, Graphics Programming

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I’m going to get back to daily blogging (cross my fingers here… hard!)

RunawayJRider Gameplay Adds

The game has taken a huge improvement boost after hiring some art consultants and other “product polishers” 🙂

That being said, there’s much more work to be done in terms of improving gameplay! More game mechanics and making sure they’re balanced in order to keep the dopamine flow at an optimum level 😉

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VertoPellis (“Shape Shifting”) Technology… Inception!

Categories Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Machine Learning

We’ve all seen this scene yet some crazy ones among us have wondered about possible implementations of such technology. At the time, there were no concepts of machine learning or in my case, understanding of basic neuron operations and how those lead to patterns which in turn could possibly model voice and visual (re)creation.

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VertoPellis (“Shape Shifting”) Presentation

Categories Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science

In preparation of subsequent blogs about my research in machine learning.

An overview of the project.

vertō (“‘turn’”) + pellis ( “hide”) is Latin for Shapeshifter / Werewolf.

As its name denotes, it is a system that can mimic a sentient being starting with its voice and then visual features. It learns and assimilates from all types of relevant content. This can be but is not limited to phonic and visional content.

The grand vision is that it can be fed images, videos, and audio files of a subject and it would learn to mimic said subject through voice, visual etc.

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