1 post tagged “game maker”

I play volleyball on Thursday nights at our local health club in Mount Airy. I have been playing since I was in high school and whenever I play I feel like I am 18 again! At least for the night and not for the days following. We had some great games last night. Lots of Volleys and lots of spiking on both sides. Good news is that we came out on top and we are in second place heading into the play-offs next week. So, after a night of great exercise I am getting a nice early start to the day and have lots to get done!

This is pretty cool. Dan Danopia has developed a WeatherBug DLL for the Game Maker Community. Game Maker provides an easy way to create games without ever writing a line of code. It is all drag and drop. I have not had a chance to use it yet. Maybe I can get my son to try it out? It was programmed using the WeatherBug API. Give it a try!

Last week I went to a Microsoft Research Tech Fair in Washington DC at the Reagan building and they were introducing something similar called Boku that runs on the XBOX 360. I got a demo of how it works and saw how you can basically create a character or set of objects and program these characters and objects to interact with each other. For example, one object they created was an Apple that sitting on the ground and a second object that looked like a Pac Man ghost was quickly programmed to look for Apples, move towards Apples and when the two object touched each other, the Pac Man ghost would eat the Apple. Again, I would love to try this out on my kids.

Speaking of Apple...I will be attending WWDC June 11 to 15th and look forward to trying out some of their new technologies and catching up with some people there.