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Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools
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Thee Forsaken One replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

Ah yeah I remember now. > < I've been working a little with python recently. It's quite a nice language. Looking at Lua as well.

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Ross Forshaw replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

Unity3D supports 3 languages: JavaScript, C#, Boo( python derivative ). Which compiles down to native code. Using the Mono( Open Source .NET ) also makes it cross-platform.

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Thee Forsaken One replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

I meant to add (Since editing isn't working for me) that as far as I'm aware Unity doesn't support native code although I could be wrong. It is good for iPhone apps though, although you could argue whether they're actually making any reasonable de...

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Thee Forsaken One replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

It's more its lack of flexibility. Also it only uses scripting rather than actual native code. Web games wise I really think it has amazing potential and is far superior to Flash although sadly I don't see it overtaking simply because of the lack ...

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Daniel Livingstone replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

And MMOs ;-) http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25378

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John Sutherland replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

I'd be nit-picky with the use of the word 'real'. In games, as in many fields, there is a 'was', and 'is' and a 'will be'. For example, with MS and Apple going tablet the future may be hand-held, open source, cloud and high-bandwidth streaming. Me...

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John Sutherland replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

Yes, Derek. I can do a great line in my all-time favourite language, Algol: // the main program (this is a comment) BEGIN FILE F (KIND=REMOTE); EBCDIC ARRAY E [0:11]; REPLACE E BY "HELLO WORLD!"; WHILE TRUE DO BEGIN WRITE (F, *, E); END; END.

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Thee Forsaken One replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Epic releases free stand-alone U3 engine and tools'

I did some research on Unity3D for a job interview. It's nothing like a real game engine. It's more for web and phone games.

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Fungal Fantasy (Flash)

Just a little project to see how easy it was going to be to redo the 'game' (I use the term loosely) I created in Scratch in Flash.

I dont possess a lot (any?) artistic skill so the graphics are fairly terrible, theres still a few bugs in the logic, some animation syncing problems, no sound currently (may get around to adding some eventually) and you can't win but 'twas fun.

If I can find some free time I'll finish it I seem to have less time now than I did when I was in uni :s… Continue

Posted on June 27, 2009 at 11:30am — 9 Comments

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At 3:40pm on June 18, 2009, John Sutherland said…: http://wosgamers.wikispaces.com/digifutures for payment.

At 6:03pm on June 9, 2009, John Sutherland said…: Ta. I reckon it will be 6 hours at £8.17 per hour demonstrator rate. Don't expect paid on the day! It takes a few weeks to sort these things out. I'll send out a form to complete asap. Have a look at some of the E3 coverage to get an idea what Atevo is bringing along, or just talk to him directly. I'll chair the panel if Derek isn't keen, and we'll just caht about what E3 said. And, help sproggies use Scratch ...

At 1:18pm on June 5, 2009, John Sutherland said…: Yeh. We can't do everything as some things - e.g. Maya - aren't easily replaced. But we could use Eclipse IDE for Java, Python for Google Apps, etc. I reckon this year's big project is to move as much as poss to Open Source/Freeware to give us a lot more freedom. Next year I'd like to crack the 'what is the best machine' problem.

The Uni has a policy of getting rid of labs, which I agree with, but we need to change them to better learning & working areas. I reckon we need a working group of lab planners of staff and students: wanna join (in principle)?

At 8:54am on June 4, 2009, John Sutherland said…: ignroe spelling errors in last post!

At 8:53am on June 4, 2009, John Sutherland said…: Yeh. it might grow into something different. We have gathered in quite a bit of stuff which, at least, is eye-wear that the labs might benefit from (I do need to get these posters fixed.) The uni has a policy, apparently, that labs should be revisted. I agree that they would be better as learning spaces rather than a gathering-in of obsolete junk PCs (which is what they have become) that are hard to finance, upgrade, etc.

We're off-subject now, but what if I suggested every student bought a laptop and a 3G dingle. I reckon that would cost effectively £10 per month. We don't ask people to buy books or anything else ( I remember sending £100 on books for a 2nd year subject at uni and having to buy lab coats and animal torturing equipment at cost too.)

The idea is, say, get a deal with Apple for MacBooks (or Toshiba) at, say, £500. This would last years 1-2. Plus '3' 3G dongle at £100per annum for 16Gb. Sell off the MacBook at end of year 2 (still worth a pretty penny) and buy a new one for years 3-4.

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At 8:01am on June 4, 2009, John Sutherland said…: Scott,

Been busy marking. I note that things aren't moving very quickly with the SVGA. I had a chat with people at the Media School who are planning a video archive of stuff that might get lost and suggested we might combine. We should get together later this month and chat.

At 10:44pm on May 7, 2009, John Sutherland said…: Whose the angry librarian again ... ? Finally caught up on 2 weeks of email. Been organising video conferencing and teaching facilities for next (!) year (do it now or lose it!) Then realised I'd forgotten to email her ...

At 9:23pm on May 3, 2009, John Sutherland said…: http://woslearners.wikispaces.com/

At 2:21pm on April 2, 2009, John Sutherland said…: check out and please comment on http://wosgamers.ning.com/forum/topics/cgd-computer-systems, ta. John S.