Blog for Gregory Walek at GarageGames.com

Tic-Tac-Toe anyone?

Gregory Walek — 2007-09-20T20:44:53+00:00

okay, This week's lab is about the gui system.

One of the ways, I'm trying to teach is to show them resources to use but leave gaps between them. I'm hoping to foster a sense that there are resources and solutions for them to find on their own. Its tough medicine, but if I don't get this down early in the semester, I'll be hand feeding them, and they really won't understand how to use the engine beyond what I teach in class.

In our last class, we went over Part 1 of Michael Perry's New Torque Documentation Tutorial.
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=12721
The result of this, is of course a red pixel paint program.
(This is what it's supposed to do at this point because we haven't setup any GUI elements yet)

After class I told them to read chapter 12 in GPGT.

Today's lab starts with the Gui tutorial written by "Gonzo T. Clown"
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=6482
They key to this tutorial that I'm trying to show is the ability of the GUI to call functions, including those written into the GUI file.
(yea yea... Function\Method, Armor\Armour, same thing)

A combination of that tutorial, and some looking around, particularly in the fps.starter main.cs and mainmenu.gui should provide everything that the students need to make Tic-Tac-Toe. I've had to go back over the trail a few times to more breadcrumbs.

And that's what they're going to hand in to me. tic-tac-toe
btw, if you playing against [WOPR]Joshua in Defcon... that's me.

NHTI Game Jam -- LIVE!

Gregory Walek — 2007-09-15T13:22:16+00:00

We are broadcasting LIVE!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhti-game-jam

I have a chat room for the peanut gallery,
however the IRC port is blocked on campus,
So we can't talk back to you.

I am online through message programs though.
MSN : BadManGrash@hotmail.com
AIM : BadManGrash

Schedule:

DEVELOPMENT (all times, EST)
Saturday: 9am to 11pm
Sunday: 9am to 7pm

PRESENTATIONS
Sunday 7:30 pm

I'll be posting more info in the Game in a Day forums (gameinaday.net).

So I survived my first week of classes...

Gregory Walek — 2007-09-12T21:35:21+00:00

Hi Everyone! (First blog post...)
I'm Greg Walek...
Several people know me just as "Grash"

So I survived my first week of classes...
Only to schedule the rest of this week with events for my students.

I am a professor at New Hampshire Technical Institute
I'm teaching the second year courses for Animation and Graphic Game Programming

These are (this term)
AG 225 - 3d Game Applications Development
AG 290 - Project Specifcation and Portfolio class

In 225, we're using TGE for all of our work and projects. We'll have final projects from the end of this semester to show off. Right now we're digging through the core Torque classes.

This Friday, the AGGP students are running a "Teen Night" for the campus Planetarium.
We'll be bringing 360's to play some games on the dome.
Some video of the dry run of Halo2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWUja6_w9o

Saturday is the start of the NHTI Game Jam... We're taking part in the Game In A Day event, We'll be finishing at 7pm this Sunday. I'm gonna try to get a ustream up so you can see the ongoing silliness and the final results (that's ustream.tv)

Anyways, 225 is evolving on a daily basis as I find what the students need to know or can retain from week to week... So any words of wisdom, suggestions from other educations on tackling Torque would be great right now...

-Grash