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And So It Begins
An Image I generated on a site I stumbled upon. Me being all lovely and stuff. Hey all, my name is Colin Considine. I’m a Games Student and, starting as of now, I am gonna bring my thoughts and views...
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The Project Category
Final Year Project (FYP) I will use this category to blog about my FYP with such things as the stages of implementation, problems and highlights of my endeavour. Filed under: FYP - Final Year Project...
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Unity Game Project
The Unity Game Engine Logo. So it’s official, I am going to be using the Unity Game Engine in my FYP (Final Year Project). My supervisor for this project is Conor Ryan who was a previous lecturer of...
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Ludology Vs. Narratology
The Question with many answers. The question, “Why do people play games?“, has been thrown around quite a bit but doesn’t really have a definitive answer. This is most likely due to every person being...
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My Ideal Job
My ideal job would definitely have to be as a Game Designer in either my own company or that of an already established video game company such as Activision or Bethesda Softworks. To be more specific,...
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I Kill Zombies – PSP Mini
I Kill Zombies (USA) PSP Mini During my third year of study at the University of Limerick, I was extended an invitation to do an internship with a local game studio called Open Emotion Studios for the...
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XNA Project – Copter Attack
In the first semester of my second year of study, I underwent a group project for my Games Modelling Design module which involved creating a game through the use of XNA. Copter Attack The goal of...
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The Languages and Cultures of Digital War Games
Americas Army 3This week in Writing Games Analysis, our discussion was about the languages & cultures of digital war games. Firstly, the class gave their own thoughts and suggestions as to the...
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FYP Update 2 – Random Maze Generation
The Unity Game Engine Logo. Sound recognition is very complex. I found my interest and concentration drifting so I took some time out, or rather went off on a tangent, to create a Randomly Generating...
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The Art of Videogames
The Art Of Video GamesThis week in my Written Games Analysis module we conversed over the Art in computer games. First, we discussed the classes personal definitions of art. Following this, we compared...
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FYP Update 3 – Plugin
The Unity Game Engine Logo.So on my quest to develop a plugin for Unity which would enable me to use sound recognition, I have found out that the basic Unity Game Engine does not allow plugin support....
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FYP Update 3 [Part 2] – License
The Unity Game Engine Logo.License came today! So I’m back in business. Hopefully I can make some significant progress on the sound recognition plugin this week. I have several other projects dead...
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FYP Update 4 – Sound Recognition 1
The Unity Game Engine Logo. I have a working sound recognition application. As I only got the license for the Unity3d Pro edition a few days ago, I had been working on different ways to get around...
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FYP Update 5 – UDP Data 1
The Unity Game Engine Logo. Right, so I need a way to send data from the application running the sound recognition to the Unity3d game itself. So I’m going to use a UDP data connection like that which...
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FYP Update 6 – Sound Recognition 2 / UDP Data 2
The Unity Game Engine Logo. So the UDP data transferring program has now been integrated into the sound recognition program. How the resulting product works is as follows: The program now continuously...
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FYP Video Links
The following are some links to the YouTube videos which were mentioned in the Final Report for my Final Year Project(FYP). These videos demonstrate the different technologies involved within the game...
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