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Here are my notes from š¦ RustConf 2023 š¦. With no ado:
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Talks
All RustConf talks were 30 minutes, with no live Q&A. Instead, a channel on the Discord server was opened for each talk where the speaker and curious attendees would go to ask and answer questions. ā¦
Rust. A ray tracer. The dream of WebAssembly. One dangerous idea that could ruin everything.
This was the scene at the end of my last post, which covered creating a ray tracer in Rust using Peter Shirleyās outstanding Ray Tracing in One Weekend. In the wrap-up to that post, Iā¦
Two classes stand out as my favorites from computer science at NCSU: x86 assembly, taught by Dana Lasher, and computer graphics, taught by Stuart Heinrich. In the graphics course, we wrote a rasterizer and a ray tracer (which I never finished š ).
In the 16 years since, Iāve beeā¦
The East Coast Game Conference was a lot of fun! Jared and I gave a 6-hour hands-on workshop where led the audience through building a game with entirely open-source gamedev tools.
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Abstract
Join us for a workshop on game jams and open-source game development tools.
Open-sourcā¦
Open Jam is an open-source themed game jam run by Jared and myself, with a lot of help from opensource.com. Check it out at openjam.io.
Open Jam 2018
Open Jam 2017
Play now!
Three years ago, surrounded by monitors in a dark, blue-hued room, a particular screen caught my eye. My girlfriendās (now wifeās) eye was caught by the same screen, and we crossed the room to investigate.
We were visiting the Indie Game Revolution exhibit at EMP iā¦
Humanity, listen up. This is the Universe. I am sick of you sticking your nose where it doesnāt belong. Thatās why thereās a huge asteroid heading straight for your pitiful Earth, courtesy of yours truly. I see youāve built a flimsy Barrier and a stockpile of Missiles, but it wonāt help. Enjoy the end times! Bye-bye. Talk soon.
I have someone Iād like you to meet. SimPixel, meet everyone. Everyone,
SimPixel.
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SimPixel, introduce yourself
SimPixel is a WebGL visualizer for LED displays, very much like the ones Adam
and Dan build over at Maniacal Labs.
#mlabs {
height: 50vh !important;
}
@media scā¦
Fireflies is a WebGL demo in which a friendly flock of fireflies forms shapes
for your entertainment. Here are some live demo links, and a video.
Watch the original
Watch the geekSPARK edition
Thanks to Loren Schmidt for agreeing to let me use the awesome
pixel-perā¦
Play now!
Tracer is a 3D connect-the-dots game that Jared and I created for
Ludum Dare 37.
Play now!
We were very happy with the ratings Tracer received. In the Innovation
category, we placed 5th out of 1,489 games.
A more detailed blog post is available at the Scripta Games ā¦
Just a few short days months ago, Kimotion was on
display at SPARKcon. SPARKcon is a large art festival in Raleigh, and we
occupy a small slice of it called geekSPARK.
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Kimotion Levels Up
Last yearās tech had a rudimentary and finicky hand tracking system. It
was workable, but ā¦
Zorbio is a free multiplayer eat-em-up game that you can play in your browser!
Zorbio is brought to you by my good friend Jared Sprague and I, via our small game development company, Scripta, Inc. Follow Zorbio development on the Scripta blog, or on Facebook.
Play now!
They say good developers are lazy. A tedious process is no match for a
lazy developer. Below is an experiment in laziness. Itās a proof of concept
for using Web Components without having to manually import each one.
Iām not sure exactly what to call it. It grazes the definitions ā¦
Kimotion is a simple framework for creating interactive art exhibits in 2D or
3D and supports both Kinect and Leap Motion for viewer input.
This tutorial will focus on the Leap, so to proceed with the tutorial youāll
need to set up your Leap.
Once the leap service is running, youā¦
āFinally,ā I thought, āan excuse to play with WebGL at work!ā
This year, I had the good fortune of contributing to a keynote presentation at
Red Hat Summit. During the keynote, an audience of 5,000 played a
mobile web game created by our team. The game was backed by several
microā¦
Square Off is a 1v1 airhockey-style game that Jared and I
built in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare 35 game jam. And beacuse itās
web-based, you canā¦
Play now!
.sqoff-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr));
grid-gap: 10px;
}
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Kimotion is a framework for building reactive art displays.
Creating an interactive art exhibit with Kimotion is easy. Draw your ideas in
either 2D or 3D. Kimotion will provide information about
the scene, which you can use to influence your display.
Learn more at kimotion.xyz, oā¦
A year ago, I had the joy of working on Digital Motion, an interactive
art exhibit for Raleighās annual art festival, SPARKcon.
The month leading up to SPARKcon 2014 was a mad dash of perfecting the graphics
and physics equations of my DiMo: Particles display. After a
wonderful wā¦
Check out Ping! I created it for my teamās booth at Red Hat Summit
2015 (Red Hatās huge annual conference), to promote Access
Labs. Itās a 1-4 player pong clone with special powers.
Itās Web-based, so you can play it right this minute. Our booth had a
quartet of USB gamepads, buā¦
There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation,
naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Phil Karlton, but I can't find a name for the original source...
Contriving names for things is so commonplaā¦
Imagine a solitary blue dot.
Unless you let your imagination run away with itself, this is going to be a
pretty boring dot. Now, imagine a second, larger dot (you can pick the color).
Red, nice choice! The scene is now slightly more interesting, since now youāve
got two dots toā¦
A player walks up Fayetteville St in Raleigh, North Carolina.
SPARKcon has begun, and dozens of artists are strewn along the
street, hard at work creating elaborate chalk art on the asphalt. A light rain
is falling, and some artists are holding umbrellas over their work, some havā¦
