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My focus for assignment 3 was on my tool as a ‘character’ creator, meaning that it should produce real characters, with their own set of behaviours, traits, and style. I feel that I discussed my tool UGACE, and its usability and uses of design systems pretty heavily in my assignment 2 report so I will just discuss some changes and enhancements.

To expand on the idea of UGACE being used to create real characters, the generated parts and overall character designing elements of the tool will be gr… Continue

U.G.A.C.E.
Universal Game Avatar/Character Editor

So my idea is… Continue

I made a pair of wings in context-free and added some randomness using the gammar randomiser. Its based on the spiral pattern we did in class.

Wanted to be able to change the rotations of each wing aswell, but realised context-free couldnt do calculations (which i needed because one wing is just a transformed version of the other with each having a unique 'rotate' value and randomness would of screwed up the mirror) so i left it as is.

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Firstly, nice! boardpushers.com (see boardpushers review) updated their site and design tool so its a lot more user friendly, ie less laggy, making it almost like realtime (still a little wait for the whole page to reload)

Using context-free i managed to generate a crooked black & white chekerboard pattern for a skateboard deck's graphics. The design also… Continue

The customisation of games encompasses a wide range of areas including: complete game makers, custom games, mods and modding, and character/avatar customisers. My research was involved in a little bit of all these aspects but my main focus will probably be on character customisation and game modding.

When researching mass customisation of games I first looked into making of your own games from scratch, pure customisation. Programs like GameMaker… Continue