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Went through the back half of the 2D Game Kit (teleporting to another scene, and the video walkthrough). The video walkthrough was interesting — about half of it was information that had been covered partially or completely in the written tutorial, another 25% was inferrable, and the rest was basically new. For example respectively: monsters…
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Today we’re getting started on the 2D Game Kit! The last tutorial was entirely a 3D environment, which was good on the theme of working towards VR, but I’m hoping the 2D Game Kit will give a bit more variety of skills and practice with what I already have. Getting quite honestly kind of annoyed…
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Today’s technically day 4, but I got very little done on Friday, and day 3 started by finishing up what I started then. Which was… drumroll… machine learning! Not programming machine learning, but learning how to add a second AI-controlled kart to my karting game, then set up checkpoints for the AI to follow so…
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Still working through the livestream tutorial, as yesterday. I didn’t get a whole lot done today — my Unity files had gotten out of date, so I had to update a lot of packages before I could get started with the build. Only got through about half of what I had planned, but it was…
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Today I worked through the first hour of ‘My First Game Jam’, a recorded livestream tutorial about how to use one of the go-karting beginner projects in Unity. I’ve done a couple of the other beginner projects, which weren’t very informative (they serve more as a getting-to-know-the-interface, rather than showing you where and how to…
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I’ve covered a lot of different ground in the past year. Fall term was privacy of individuals; winter term was privacy under law; and spring term was privacy in software. That’s a bit of an simplification, though: I’ve also covered organizational tools through tech, American politics, ethical data collection and scrubbing, social media culture, preservation…
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The title’s a little misleading, I suppose, but it’s accurate for me — my part in the Persistence Project has come to a close. Hopefully it’ll do as its name suggests, and persist into next year and beyond. Basically, the Persistence Project was an effort to think critically about how digital projects at Carleton are…
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So as we begin to wrap up our term online, we can start looking towards the future. That bright, shining future which right now is as clearly visible as a tarnished penny dropped in a glass of chocolate milk. Basically, now seems like a pretty good time to be looking back on what we’ve been…
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So, in case you haven’t obsessively backread every blog post I’ve ever made here, here’s the main thing you need to know for this post: at the beginning of the year, all of the interns had to set three goals, and three methods on how we were going to achieve those goals. Over the course…
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I’ll admit I’m a bit late in writing this blog post – classes have been going for three and a half weeks, we’re almost at the midterm point, and we’ve been on Zoom the entire time. But better late than never, I suppose. You may or may not have heard about people’s concerns when it…
