Grand Theft Auto 4 has to be one of the most anticipated games of all time. Maybe it's thanks to all the criticisms it gets from the mass media (any press is good press, right?), or maybe it's because it lets you do everything you can't do in real life, or maybe it's just that good of a game.
Imagine RIT
This Saturday is RIT's first annual Innovation and Creativity Festival entitled Imagine RIT. There will be more than 400 different events showcasing student projects and more.
Japan Trip
NVIDIA Interview
I've been interviewing lately with a team that does GPU diagnostics at NVIDIA lately, and I'm flying out to California again for a day of technical interviews sometime next month.
Guitar Hero: On Tour
During the summer and fall of 2007 I worked at Activision's Vicarious Visions studio in Albany, NY developing Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS.
This title will have more than 20 songs, it's own peripheral entitled the "Guitar Grip," and also a guitar-pick shaped stylus.
While I was there, I worked on 2D, 3D and UI aspects of the game using C++, XML, and XSL, and I programmed several of the Guitar Duel attacks incorporating microphone, touch screen and guitar peripheral input.
I also as coded most of the menus for the game, and improved the system for importing menus from 3DSMax to in-game.
More information can be found at the game's website, and links to preorder the game before it's (planned) June 22nd release:
www.GuitarHeroOnTour.com
Screenshots:
The "Guitar Grip" Peripheral:
SVG Projects Site
For my client side scripting class, we learned a lot about JavaScript, but my professor was also really into Scalable Vector Graphics.
So for the SVG project we did, I took my Flash Projects Site and converted it to use SVG.
SVG is unfortunately only supported by Opera currently, so if you're using a different browser, you're not going to get the nice animation effects.