Tag: transforms

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Scrambler

Overall a fairly simple exercise.  Using this as practice with matrices, rotations, and translations, I challenged myself to get multiple rotating things to revolve around other rotating things.  As the first few parts came together I was reminded of a…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Transforms

Transforms were some of the most confusing things to get working for me. For this assignment, using the transforms, we were supposed to make a program that was like an amusement park in some sort of way. I wanted to…

Games from Nothing: Black and White Exercise #3 — Transforms

For my third Black and White game I opted to create a Ferris wheel type structure. As we had just learned transforms I simply modified the existing code to arrange the box like structures in a radial pattern around a…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Card Coaster

The original idea behind the cart coaster was to have four blocks moving after each other on a set track. and then on a click they would make a loop. however I ran into a few problems. I could get…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Clock

For this lab assignment I used the transforms lab and made some adjustments in order to make it a fun ride. There is one draggable object and the other four squares are turning respect to each other clockwise. The goal…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Amusement Park

For this exercise I chose to make a rotation-based ‘ride’ that spins, but also modulates the shape of the ride itself. I envisioned something that started with one shape and morphed to another shape while spinning. I wanted to create…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Orbitshift

For this assignment (Amusement toy), I modified the solar system code to make it more fun to play with. The player controls the light blue circle, and based on their positioning, the center white circle increases or decreases its radius,…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Spinner

For my amusement park ride I thought that the best thing to do with matrices was spinning. The push and pop matrix format worked really well for rotations, so I came up with this. The black squares on the outside…