Games, Sketches, and Thoughts

Finally, a new design for my Blog. Thanks to my wife and she made it in just 2 days!

Actually since April 2009, I’ve been planning to change my blog design. The theme dilectio was used just for temporary. Unfortunately, I was always get distracted and never start it

Last Friday, while she was doing some maintenance of her blog, she offered me help to design my blog themes. I gave her some directions which basically the style and color schemes  from my portfolio page.

Then on Sunday morning … tada!

For celebration, we went out that afternoon and had a nice crepes with Italian ice cream

I’m lucky that my wife is a gamer. We spend time a lot of time sitting in front of TV playing PS3 game together. Maybe that’s why my DS is collecting dust

Lately, we’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed 2 together. We played and finished the first series and really enjoy it. The second Assassin’s Creed (AC) has Italian Renaissance as the settings which makes us love it even more!

AC2 only supports 1 player so we take turns, just like how we played AC1 or Prince of Persia. There is no rule how we divide our turn. Basically, we both play every game mode: assassin missions, exploration, or race. Then I notice how different me and my wife play the game.

My wife prefer dueling or fighting the guards directly while I prefer assassinating my target silently. She has no problem facing several guards at a time and got the No-Hitter trophy/achievement easily. On the other hand, I’m not that good in direct duel. Maybe that’s because I am more impatient in fighting and loves to bash the button aggresively.

But when it comes to kill the target without being noticed or escaping the guards, my wife usually pass the controller to me

It’s a good thing that in AC2 you can play the game anyway you like.

So what have I done on the last 3 weeks at home? Cooking, sketching, and of course, finishing my game prototype. It’s done but I need to adjust a lot of things to make it more fun. Another new thing is I learn Away3D.

After doing all tutorials (compiling, putting models on screen, rotating them, …), I really like Away3D. Flash 3D is not as I thought Maybe that because I’m already familiar with 3D programming.

Since I’ve done a lot of 3D modelings using Metaseq, I want Away3D to load Metaseq files (MQO). Away3D Lite supports MQO but not the Away3D. So I tried to use Blender to convert the model to obj or Colada, but somehow didn’t work. Almost everything I export from Blender didn’t work (as usual)

Then I found a very nice code at sleepydesign (thanks katopz ) but the code cannot compile on the new Away3D (version 2.4.0/3.4.0 Flash Player 10). It seems that there are some classes that already gone. So I modify the code a little bit and …. tada!

It’s Hiro from my demo game Tokusatsu Agent. Click the image to play the Flash file. Make sure you have Flash Player 10 installed

The code is still not finish. It only able to load embedded model, not from external file/url.  The model above uses 3 texture files and I am still working on the MaterialLibrary part so later I can change the materials after loading the model. Once finish, I will put it on the net