Plan for Samuel Lopez De Victoria

Hey there! I miss posting my plan on here ol GG. I have currently jumped back on to educating myself more on the use of the TGE as well as really admiring the progress made with TGE 1.4!

I really don't want to delve too much into what I have planned on a good project to do as my first TGE thingy, but as soon as I start I'll post pictures and such.

In the mean time, be sure to check out something that happend about 2 to 4 months ago here in Miami. I wrote this a while back for www.cheapassgamer.com. It's really nice what went on. Read on...


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Be sure to check out the gallery's site at www.rocket-projects.com/home.html

I am happy to report this amazing art show has done superbly well! So far many world renowned art collectors and currators have had nothing but postive response.

Here's the basic rundown of the show:

This was the first solo art show for both my sisters Tasha and Monica, who in the art world are known as The TM Sisters. They themed the entirety of the show after lightning and the energy that it holds. It was pretty cool for me (yes, the lowly CAG that I am) to program two games for the show for my sisters... and the awsome part was that the games were the main focus of the show. Pics will do justice here:


Above is none other than yours truely (ie. me) giving the game named Static a quick test right before the show started just to see if the equipment was working fine. You can also see some art mys sisters put together for their show.


Here as a shot of the main focus of the show, Super Bolt, a few minutes before the start of the show opening. The game was projected onto the far wall of the gallery. The game was then controlled by what you see on the floor on the picture (my sisters and I built the heavy thing... bleh!). You have to stand on it and use it to move your character left or right to avoid getting hit by lightning. The music and sound, composed by a local big name band bassist, turned out very well. This game litterally blew most people away, and at times, lines started forming for those waiting to play the game. It turned out better than we had hoped for.


Here's the side view of the area where the Super Bolt game was being played. The clouds were all sewn by my sisters and the lighting bolt was made by them also (I love the holographic look of it).


As time went by at the art show, the whole place started to get very very packed. My dad and I did a quick analysis of how many people showed up and it happened to be around 600 or more people... awsome :)


Here somone is playing the Static game. Alot of people to scared to play the Super Bolt game gave this game alot of time. Someone even got to the highest level in the game, something not even I, the programmer, was able to do.


Near by the Static game were some actual phsical art peices done by my sisters. Really nice looking IMHO. Some of them have already been bought which is real nice.


mmm... cookies (made by my mum!)...
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just a few things to note about the above:

- I did not use Torque for this, but plan to in future art shows (yes, more art games will be in development)

- The Super Bolt game just recently sold for over $7000, so that makes me happy as I get part of that income :)

- My sisters have hit it big already and are part of a show touring across the world, which has already started in Norway. You can check out info on the show here: Uncertain States of America

- If you live in Miami, starting tommorow you can see some of their art at the Art Basel show happening on South Beach starting tommorow. Super Bolt will be there.

Thanks for taking the time to read! I respect alot of people here and hope to get as good as most of you in working with TGE.