Unique Arcade Review
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Controller design of the game
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After field trip last week, I have totally changed my mind about my game. Before going to the indie game exhibition,i haven't think about multi player games, however, when I around there, i found all of these arcade games were MULTIPLAYER. In fact, It was so fuuuunnnnnn to play with friends!!
So I decided to make a multi-player games, 3-4 robot(monster)in a room, their goal is in a limiting time, they should eating up all the candies in the room, and shoot others to grab other's candy. There is a Joystick and two buttons for each player control their game. Joystick is for controlling the robot jump in the game, and the blue button is for making the robot stop spinning and begin to walk. The red button is to shot other robot.
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The controller is just for one person so far, not for the arcade part. I'll update later the optimized version.
Project1-Conversation&Computation
This webpage is to test users' happiness point and discover the things they pay more attention on.
I made this project cause I'm so interested in people's emotions and their social relations with their friends on social media. I wonder how people unbosom themselves on social media. Can we observe others‘ emotions according to the content on their social pages? I think the answer is clear. The content people share on their Facebook or Twitter always represent themselves or the one they want to show in front of the public.
Therefore, I decided use these data to show people's emotions and their social personality. What's more, after catching the keywords in their twitter page, I use Alchemy API to Analyze their emotion's Positive&Negative points. I hope this website can cheer people up and encourage them to be happier by comparing their emotion points with their friends.
I use Alchemy API and JQuery and Javascript/HTML/CSS to finish this website.
Here is the website, try it!
Project1-Data Visualization of NYTimes
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[embed]https://vimeo.com/120173545[/embed] I had saw a new before which said biases against women still pervade many places on the Internet. For example ， Wikipedia，which is designed to use the expertise of thousands of editors who write the articles and try to make sure they are accurate and unbiased. However，some editors on it are men and editors has skewed Wikipedia’s coverage towards topics of interest to males.
This makes me thinks a lot, and I'd like to know how female changed their position in the society, which concept affect our society a lot and cause us recur the conception of feminism.
Then I explored the feminism related words' frequency during 1900-2014 on NY times and want to get a glimpse of how much attention the society pay to female.
I connected NYTimes Article Search API, and catches the Keywords in every year's article-- Feminism, Sexual Liberty, Female Politician, and the antonym of Feminism -- Paternalism. Then I make the data visualization in Processing to analyze and show these data information.
Week3-App idea
My Idea is to make a group chat & group to do list App. People in a group can use this app to make an online conference no matter where they are and what's the time it is.
At the same time, they can also easily add key word in specific topic in their chatting
(Easily for search for specific topic in the future.) Also they can add the important dialogue into their notebook(or call it to do list file). What's more, since some people typing is difficult to build their idea, now using this app, they can also draw their idea together. This app will be really helpful in group chatting.
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User scenario:
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Some Idea of game
The game I 'd like to create is a running game, character is a monster named Zoe.
Zoe is a big fan of sugar and candy or other kind of sweet food. He's desire is getting as more candy as he can.
One day he came to a wonderland and everywhere is nothing but tooth...(I know it's a little bit creepy....) His goal is eating all the candy in the world and kill the batteries in the tooth world to protect all tooth......
Basically， Zoe can walk， run，jump，and shoot in candy world. However, Eating different kinds of candy can make his body transfer to different situation with different abilities (some can fly, some can make he invisible， some can make him inviolable, some has poison can make him frozen or walk slowly..)
I want to use vector style for the game, here is some rough draft of character design and scene design. Just want to try if i can make all the game in a cute and simple style. I think the animation part of Zoe is the most difficult part for me. I‘ll use the orange one to make a vector version for him.
The scene of game (haven't think clearly..tooth every where..is it weird?)
My relations to my Phone
Actually, I'm not the guy who is a big fan of high technology and the latest electronic products. I won't be so fascinate about which company publish a new products and what new technology used in it. When facing these high technology things , even more like I'm the one who's being pushed by the trend. I still remember I first had a smart phone was on 2001, when I was on Fourth grade. It was a Nokia cellphone，with a tiny black & white screen and lines of number buttons. The smart phone helped me a lot cause I can send a message to my parents every time when I went out alone. At that time, although the function of the phone was so simple, I felt it was so awesome cause it helped me connected with my family no matter when it is and where I am. That was the first time I felt the real power of the telecommunication.
The rapid advances in science and technology in this years dramatically changed the way we live and communicate. The functions of the smart phone get more and more as well as the quality and the scale of the screen get better and larger. Today's smartphone is not the product which can only take a call or send a message, and it more like a tiny personal computer which has tens and thousands various functions. Listening the music, shopping, chatting, entertainment , video conference...Rapid progress of hardware and software bring us to a new era. User centered design get more and more popular this years--discover user's desire and make the function satisfy their requirement. Therefore, smart phone follows this principle and being more easily to be use. I can't go out without my phone now, google map helps me find my way, monument kills my boring time and dictionary app was my translator.
Technology help us stand higher , see further and listen more clear. I feel my phone just like a multifunctional organ of me, I cannot live without it. I really feel the strong power of smart phone, but I just can't have the same trust on it as I was a kid. The stronger power of it scare me.
Rather than putting all function in one terminal, I still use iPod listen to music and the Kindle watch Ebook. Too much dependence on one thing make me feel less security, and I think this is just the relationship between me and my phone--I hope to find a balance way to live more independently but always make a compromise to its powerful functions.
ICM Final- Taste your drawing
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“What is it”? -
Mapping your drawing to different kinds of drinks, and then make an Alcoholic beverages for you.
In this project , we want to make a cup of alcohol beverage by mixing the proportionate colors drinks according to the paintings in real time so as to offer a new way to appreciate audiences’ painting’s connotation. Different flavors in drinks may present people’s different feeling and may offer people totally different experiences to their own paintings.
Process -
The final project of ICM is a part of our PCOM project, it's the input part of Project 'Taste your drawing'.
We want the use drew on a fabric to give them a natural reaction to enjoy the drawing process. We decided to avoid using screen of some touch pad to input, cause this kind of things may divert users’ attention from drawing. Fabric is an good material to draw on, even a child knows how to draw on it. And when you touch it , the feeling is so good.
I made a sketch for the drawing system at first. There are 6 function for drawing system.
1 When touch fabric (mouse click) , color appear on the fabric, and when user stop touching the fabric, stop drawing.
2 When user chose color, specific color appear on the screen when the user touch the fabric.
3. The color 's saturate and hue subtle changed according to user's speed.
4. The color's brightness and brush size change according to user's force applied on the fabric.
5. A life bar to limited the time user drawing on the fabric.
6. A Data visualization to show how much of each color user used.(haven't finish)
I built the sketch on computer at first, using mouse pressed to representing the event of finger pressing on the screen. I used 3 kind of particle system to simulate the water style and imitate the effect of color dying on the fabrics.
Then, I added a color palette to let user change color by choosing different color. And I added the function of color changed according to the user's speed and force.
Here is a video to show the foundational sketch on computer.
[embed]https://vimeo.com/114524478[/embed]
We decided to use kinect to detect the closest point in order to detect the user's finger.
For the kinect part, I set a range of detecting, when the closet point in the range, color will appear on the fabric. The most difficult part for it is set the kinect’s view exactly with the projector's view, and it cost us a long time to made the color appear exactly where the finger pokes.
Related post
Project Proposal: ICM and PCOM Final proposal
Project documentary:Project documentary:Pcom Final Documentary
More Project Process: Fabrication process
Network Media Final
Inspiration: I used to listen to music when I was working or relax, sometimes I was tired of the same song in my MP3 or iPhones, so I began to listen some music radio station online, in this way I can hear random music, and it will bring more surprise and the feeling of freshness. However , this kind of free style is uneasy to control, although there is some arithmetic to recommend the same style music to audience.
I want to make an app to recommend songs according the audience choice and taste but still have some space of random. The songs recommended to the audience should be unpredictable but still fit audience' aspiration.
Audience can collect the songs they like and put them in their favorite folder， anytime they can go back to listen it again.
What's more , I also want to build a solid physic music box, which collect all the songs which audience like, they can listen it no mater where they are.
Process:
I connect to spotify's API to use their songs, then i build the function when your press singers name, his or her album will appear on the website, then I catch the image of album cover on the screen, as well as put the title of album.
Inspired by UI pattern- natural language form, I hope audience to fill out a sentence and let this sentence to command a song for the audience.
I want the audience to chose the quantity they want to listen and the style they'd like to heard
and here is the webpage
http://104.131.68.226:3000
Class 6 Assignment(Final) - Intro to Fibrication
During this semester, I learned a lot about different materials and method. How to make fabrication part for other project. I made wood box, drawer， acrylic lamp, wood candleholder, wood enclosure, wood shelf and button box for my PCOM final. So this week , I want to make something different which I haven't used it before.
Since Christmas day is coming, I decided to make some bow ties. I like wood soooo much, this time I want to try some different wood so I bought a 1/4 *3*24 and a 1/16*3*24 Walnut board from Blick. Some soft Brass wire from Blick. Necklace and Joint from ToHo Shoji.
1 Design the pattern to the bow tie.
I wanted make wood bow tie in vintage style, so I design patterns in Illustrator to simulate the real wool fabric, also designed dear horn for decoration
2 Used Laser cutter to engrave the pattern at first, then cut it off.
3. Sanding it
Put some water on it and sand it in both sides, to make it more smooth
4 . Used Laser cutter to engrave the pattern on the other side, use this way to make patterns in each side can connect exactly.
5. Made the dear on it
I want to make a 3D deer in front of the bow tie, cause I like deer so much and it's also fit the Christmas atmosphere.
Made the template for it, I used 1/16*3*24 Walnut board to make a tinny dear. Used basswood as experiment.
6. Use super glue to attach all component together.
7. Use soft Brass wire on the dear horn. (I want to make the horn more stronger, and the color of this piece of walnut is pale， add some golden color to make it more attractable, but it does't work really well, since the horn is so fragile and easy to be broken by the wires during the process.)
Here it is
And I also used fabric in the bow ties' center to make it more adorable.