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Make Unique Unity Games (Not another zombie shooter!)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:51 11 Comments

While searching for some sample Unity projects to look at, I came across Muse Games, a really small game company that uses Unity 3D, my new favorite tool, to create 3D games. While I’m hardly a gamer myself, I really enjoyed the unique gameplay though one of their Unity games, Guns of Icarus. This Unity [...]

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Sunday Status: Cyber Warfare and Some Less Interesting Updates

Monday, November 9, 2009 3:44 2 Comments

Global In some earlier posts several months ago I discussed cyber warfare, something that just made big headlines. In tonight’s 60 minutes, some interesting news has arisen. Apparently, Brazil has been attacked multiple times by cyber terrorists, and specialists say that America is a risk. I have a hard time going without power for 3 [...]

This was posted under category: Computer Science, Science News, Sunday Status

Theoretical Thursday: Software- The end, or the beginning?

Friday, November 6, 2009 3:57 2 Comments

A couple years ago I met a college student who was creating an autonomous Unmanned Ariel Vehicle. The little plane would fly over a field and scan the ground using color sensors. Black lines drawn in the field told the plane not to fly past them, grey lines were landing strips, and so on. He [...]

This was posted under category: Computer Science, Miscellaneous, Theoretical Thursday

Monday Status: Sparkfun vs. SPARC and New BW Science Labs Development

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 4:58 No Comments

Yesterday I was rushed to say the least, so I didn’t manage to get out a Sunday Status, however today I do have a Monday Status. Global I order my electronics components from all over, but one place in particular that I could not be without is Sparkfun. Also, having met some of the Sparkfun [...]

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Unity 3D is now free!

Saturday, October 31, 2009 23:02 1 Comment

It really pays to read tech news. Today, I stumbled upon an article that claimed that Unity 3D, the powerful 3D game engine, was free at last. I thought it was too good to be true, so I investigated further. For those of you who don’t know, Unity 3D is a really powerful enviornment that [...]

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