29 January 2014 Production Diary

It's a painful and tiring day today. Today I need to confirm whether continue to explore web socket, which one of our lecturer think that it's a very back end software which is impossible to be learnt in few weeks time, or switch to Adobe Flash which is the software I am more familiar with...

These few days, my researches about HTML5 and web socket never stop:

http://www.html5gamedevelopment.com/html5-game-tutorials

http://blog.kaazing.com/2012/01/26/the-simplest-way-to-use-your-smartphone-as-a-game-controller-a-websocket-race-car-demo/

http://developer.kaazing.com/how-to-use-websocket-to-add-a-mobile-joystick/

http://demo.kaazing.com/frogger/scripts/frogger.js

http://demo.kaazing.com/frogger/scripts/joystick2.js

It's disappointed to say, but I do not have the confident to learn web socket. In the end, I decided to do the game in Adobe Flash, with simple mouse click interaction. 

For the projection mapping, with the software introduce by my lecturer last semester which is Resolume, I manage to find some information about what it can do:

http://resolume.com/software/index.php?qc

http://resolume.com/manual/en/r4/output

http://paulbourke.net/texture_colour/edgeblend/

http://www.blendy.in/

Fortunately, I manage to do simple projection mapping on 3D background with Resolume today before we end our class. The result was quite impressive, and this give me encouragement to continue the project.

References:

Bart Van Der Ploeg, E. D. K. 2012. Resolume VJ Software - Resolume 4 Avenue & Arena Features. [online] Available at: http://resolume.com/software/index.php?qc [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].

Blendy. 2012. Blendy. [online] Available at: http://www.blendy.in/ [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].

Html5gamedevelopment.com. 2013. HTML5 Game Dev Tutorials. [online] Available at: http://www.html5gamedevelopment.com/html5-game-tutorials [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].

Kaazing Developer Network. n.d. How to use WebSocket to add a mobile joystick. [online] Available at: http://developer.kaazing.com/how-to-use-websocket-to-add-a-mobile-joystick/ [Accessed: 27 Jan 2014].

Moskovits, P. 2012. The Simplest Way to Use Your Smartphone as a Game Controller: A WebSocket Race Car Demo. [online] Available at: http://blog.kaazing.com/2012/01/26/the-simplest-way-to-use-your-smartphone-as-a-game-controller-a-websocket-race-car-demo/ [Accessed: 27 Jan 2014].

Paulbourke.net. 2011. Edge blending using commodity projectors. [online] Available at: http://paulbourke.net/texture_colour/edgeblend/ [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].

Resolume.com. 2013. Output Setup - Resolume 4 Avenue & Arena Manual. [online] Available at: http://resolume.com/manual/en/r4/output [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].

YouTube. 2012. Projection Mapping Tutorial - Resolume Arena 4. [online] Available at: http://youtu.be/SauJLNhnWNQ [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].

YouTube. 2013. Blendy VJ Tutorial 2: Resoume Arena. [online] Available at: http://youtu.be/xNu72ZyhdUU [Accessed: 29 Jan 2014].