My First Tilt Game--The Pie~Fairy
Tilt gaming has always been a point of interest for most of us. It brings us into action & boost our excitement levels. Not only kids but all age groups find it interesting, as it is such a magnetism technology.
This posting is about my new Tilt assignment which I really enjoyed very much. It is always fun to play such games, but to create one was an experience in itself. I learned many , things about this technology.
Before learning about this amazing & innovative technology, for me , a "Jump" was an action & "Duck" was just a bird to me :). So basically I got to learn a lot of new terms, from "Rotation & Translation Interface Modes". In simple words, these are the actions which define the speeding, rotation,tilting direction specifications, interesting eh'.
In the class, our instructor Dan explained to us Penguin and how it lets us work with mobile devices rotation and translation.
The best thing is we can design our own games & save them on to our IPhone, pods, Ipads & share them with friends. I was very excited to learn how Penguin technology works! My mind was occupied with all kind of innovative ideas like ,what if while holding our devices we jump, would it be possible to make the object jump onto our screens as well? or if it will be possible to rotate the 3D shapes while we are rotate our mobile? What if we tilt our device left & right immediately,where would our object flow & how quickly will that happen? I was eager to experiment & implement this. I was amazed to see various sites, which help us bringing our ideas into reality. I grasped from what these sites could provide, and the amount of information and codes available. All we need is to find a good idea to build on. It is not easy to obtain one, but codes have become available on the net through some open source Flash solutions. I was able to get the class of codes to tilt my object in the game by a mouse, then I got the classes I needed for mobile device from: Dan’s blog. http://penguinsflash.wordpress.com/
I’m really happy on how I have received so much help in bringing my ideas into reality & their implementation , one of them is our Professor Dan Zen. Just because there are a lot of wonderful people who like to share their experience and their knowledge with all people around world, newbies like me having multiple idea, can actually think of getting started to implement them.
This assignment enhanced my appreciation for beauty and impact of the technology. I was able to make my fairy move according to my gesture controls, by using the Penguin Tilt Emulator. That was fun, on how I can create object through hand movements & gestures, just like a magician does wave his wand, or a musician tells his orchestra to play instruments through waving his wand & actions.
I liked the idea; especially I’ll have a chance of doing some design. Which will help me to enhance my design skills and at the same time it will be a good opportunity to apply the gesture code.
