As a major part of our rebrand of Spangles in this university project, we need to do a game. Our idea, as you may have seen, was a Sonic-like game with Total Wipeout tendencies.

Basic character selection in Unity 3D

What makes Doritos Crash Course so playable?

Nothing really exciting update-wise, just dropping in to say that the blog has had a little nip and tuck here and there, so now it looks a bit more fresh.

New look!

If you've played around with 1000words at all recently, you'll notice a neat little trick happens when you post a text message containing a YouTube URL:

Converting URLs into links and YouTube videos

So Christmas is over. Time to get back to the grind, I guess. There's been an update to Spaced before this one, admittedly, but I'll tell you more about that when there's more substantial an update.

A redesigned 1000words

It's that time again, time to design another project. This, the final one of our first term, is HTML5. Obviously, it's not exactly a ground-breaking technology in terms of coding something awesome but we need to show we can adapt to new standards. What better way to do that than to make something I can showcase my other work on. Win win, no?

Designing a HTML5 Portfolio

That may sound like a TV show on one of those obscure digital channels, but no, the one and only third year IMP Rob Hawkes gave us a little glimpse into how his mind works in terms of the HTML5 Canvas element.

HTML5 Canvas Hack Night with Rob Hawkes

Next on the "Oh, blimey, how does that work?" is the point scoring system currently going on within Gravitum. By the time you're reading this, it may have changed entirely, but this is how it's currently implemented. I dare say there's a more recent one than this if it has changed, so if there isn't, it hasn't. Excellent.

Gravitum - Scoring Points

If you haven't already noticed, there's now a working version of Gravitum out in the ether. It's evolved from what was codenamed The Sun Game (back when it well, involved a sun…) into an atom-based game where you collect the good electrons and avoid the bad ones.

Gravitum (Previously The Sun Game) - Generating Orbits

Yes, you guessed it, it's work time again. This time the BA IMP gods that be have set us a lovely Flash task to fulfil. The brief? "Just make something in Flash". Oh, okay.

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