Mrs.Bairdy

Finished off Earth Defence Force for the Xbox 360 over the weekend, which involved shooting missiles & guns at lots of giant bugs from outer space. Quite possibly the most fun I’ve had on the 360 this year, I found it really hard not to sit & smile as I played it – it’s a cheesy Godzilla inspired 3rd person shooter with a very knowing dub & presentation. Whoever translated it from Japanese really knows their audience.

EDF has lousy production values. Slowdown to single digital frame rates is not uncommon. Models are low poly & poorly animated. And none of the matters because of the joy of blowing up wave after wave of giant bugs & destroying every building in the large maps.

In a lot of ways, it’s like Crackdown – take an existing genre & focus on the core elements that are fun rather than attempting to throw in everything & the kitchen sink.

I like.

More processing sketches – this time a dynamic strange attractor, with a rudimentary GUI to control it.

Atrociously simple bouncing particles, done using the Traer physics engine for processing.org.

New host, new blog software, old posts Reposting links to my processing ’sketches’ so they’re available via this new blog. Here’s my simple strangeAttractor:

Another day, another webhost, another blogging setup!