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Lab Week 2

July 27th, 2010 · Comments Off on Lab Week 2 · Lab

Note: If you missed last week’s lab you will need to activate your CSE account. Look at the instructions from last week. Ask your tutor about this before you proceed. Your task in this lab will be to create some objects and make them move. You’ll also learn how to import more interesting models than […]

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Lecture videos and notes

July 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Lecture videos and notes · lectures

The videos of lectures are now available on UNSW TV. They should also in time become available on UNSW’s eLearning YouTube channel and on iTunes U but that doesn’t seem to have happened yet. In related news, it doesn’t look like I will have time to write lecture notes on the wiki on top of […]

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Lab Week 1

July 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Lab Week 1 · Lab

We will be starting labs in Week 1 for all classes except the Monday lab which will start in Week 2. There are 3 tasks for this week’s lab: Activate your CSE account. Write your first program! Play with Unity

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Milkshake – new prototype

March 30th, 2010 · Comments Off on Milkshake – new prototype · Amblyopia project, Games for health, Malcolm's Projects

There’s a new prototype of the milkshake game available. Important changes: The straw is transparent The milkshake is strawberry. A bulge appears in the straw at the current point. The last of these changes was particularly chosen to address the common iPhone problem – you can’t see what is going on under your finger. We’ll […]

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Amblyopia project – now on the iPhone

March 30th, 2010 · Comments Off on Amblyopia project – now on the iPhone · Amblyopia project, Games for health, Malcolm's Projects

Using Unity iPhone (and after a lot of fussing around with the Apple Provisioning process) I have managed to get the prototype milkshake game running on the iPhone, as shown above.

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Amblyopia Project – The Milkshake Game

March 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Amblyopia Project – The Milkshake Game · Amblyopia project, Malcolm's Projects

The School of Optometry are interested in exploring the use of computer games for vision training to help treat Amblyopia (lazy eye) in young children. I have taken on the task of implementing some simple eye exercises as interactive games, and I’m using it as an opportunity to learn Unity.

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Games for Rehab

March 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on Games for Rehab · Malcolm's Projects, Stroke rehab

Since I’m getting everyone else to blog about this, I figure I ought to post something about my own project. I will be working with the Royal Rehabilitation Hospital at Ryde to design rehabilitation games for burns and stroke patients. My plan is to use the iisu tracking software from Softkinetic to do limb-movement tracking. […]

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Welcome

March 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on Welcome · Uncategorized

Welcome to the new CSE Games Lab blog. The Games Lab is an initiative of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Opened in Feb 2010, the lab will be a location for innovation in game design and interface techniques. A variety of student projects are already in […]

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