Mar 24 2009

Rebecca Wilson (from Blizzard) talks with GCAL game students

Rebecca Wilson, a  graduate from our undergraduate game course, today visited to give her personal view on the industry – and how to become part of it.

June, lecturer at GCAL, introduces Rebecca

June, lecturer at GCAL, introduces Rebecca

Rebecca tells her audience about the joys of working in the game industry

Rebecca tells her audience about the joys of working in the game industry

Students watch on as Rebecca describes the inner workings of the game industry

Students watch on as Rebecca describes the inner workings of the game industry


Mar 18 2009

Unity found – and then LOST

My first level in Unity

My first level in Unity

So. Today I was reviewing a new book that will be coming out soon. It is a manual on how to develop for Unity3D, a cool middleware solution for videogame makers. We are planning to introduce it at GCAL next year, so I killed quite a number of birds by going through the tutorials.

Working through my first chapter, I learned how to make terrain. I felt like a God, raising and lowering land mass, dropping trees and grass, building giant volvanoes. I loved it. What i more, you can play my first level, which was inspired by TV show LOST, by clicking here: MY UNITY LEVEL

yes, unity can run in a web browser, iPhone, Mac or PC… and even Wii if you have the dev tools :)


Mar 3 2009

Musicians benefit from games

Just buying Chinese for dinner and see this in today’s Evening News


Mar 3 2009

From iPhone

Okay. So nearly done migrating blog from tumblr. I am now able to update this blog via my iPhone, which is a huge plus.
I am still struggling to add the rich multimedia I am used to, but sure that I will work it out.
Here is a pic from iPhone:


Mar 1 2009

Travel updated

turkey14

Yay, travel section has now been updated to the end of 2008. Enjoy the pics.


Feb 28 2009

JonSykes v0.1

Okay, so I have populated my homepage with initial content. There is still much more to come, but at least every page has something to look at. Expect updates soon.


Feb 26 2009

In Flux

STATUS: just chilling

While we are a little busy here adding all the content, feel free to head over to my Playful Twitterings at:

jonykes.tumblr.com


Feb 26 2009

New fresh website

Yay… how many years has it taken? But finally we are nearly there. The new home page for my personal and academic life. Now I can make easy changes, and still maintain a clean aesthetic.

Why did it take me so long? I love it.