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Summer of Code: Week Two

Shouldn’t you be done by now? — Harold K. Bullard

A new requirement for the Summer of Code is to give weekly progress reports detailing what we’ve accomplished in the past week as well as what we intend to conjure up in the next one. I figure to give the old blog some love, I’d post my progress reports here. (more…)

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Summer of Code: A Week and a Half In

I hope your software is of higher quality than your analogies. — Bill Bowerman

Work on the Cutscene Editor has been progressing steadily. The GUI is starting to come together and actually resemble a cutscene editor (whatever the heck that looks like; I conveniently have no point of comparison). (more…)

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Coding a Cutscene

I would have pitched a Hello Kitty GUI skin. Way more useful than a friggin’ cutscene editor. — Olof Öhman

Today I was accepted into Unity’s Summer of Code. In their wise words, it’s “a program through which we offer indie & student developers the chance to get paid for doing something cool in Unity.” (more…)

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Dynamically Loading XML in Flex

XML? Ha! I once wrote some XML! Hilarious! — Juan José Pérez Hernández

This winter I built a basic video player for a website using Adobe Flex. Beside the viewer was a list of thumbnail images, one for each video. When clicked on these would load the appropriate video and display relevant information below the viewer. This information, as well as the paths to the videos and thumbnail images, was stored in an external XML file. The player worked well, perhaps even excellent, until some of the information in the XML file was changed. (more…)

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