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Made some progress over the weekend on a game concept I've been working on off-and-on for the past year. Finally ended up with something almost screenshot worthy (^_^;)

The camera controls are fun just to mess around with; being able to rotate and "peel" down the chunk of blocks is simply a joy. The A & D keys rotate the chunk, while W & S navigate you along the Z-axis, peeling back layers on the way. Zooming is handled by the mouse scroll wheel.

Behind the scenes, a lot of effort was put into the greedy meshing of the cubes and caching results for performance. Even when peeling layers, Unity stays above 150 FPS and generally hovers around 200 FPS (when not recording video, of course).

Working on some flocking behavior for a game idea I had the other day. I'm having fun just playing around in the test scene (^_^)

So, I just finished up captions for Polyfy; I should be submitting an update sometime in the next week!

Which reminds me, I don't think I actually announced that the app was available yet. You can download it on iTunes right now!

There is a bug on iPhone 4S and prior (exit button is off the screen), so if you have one, please hold off until the next update. But iPhone5+ is good to go!

A dancing BMO animated GIF to celebrate the submission of Polyfy (formerly Super Polygonal Selfie) to the App Store; taken with the app, of course. Hopefully it gets approved! (fingers crossed)

First animated GIF exported from Super Polygonal Selfie, uploaded from the tumblr app on my iPhone.

A sample set of pictures from Super Polygonal Selfie, showing off some of the functionality.

A live demo of Super Polygonal Selfie. I think I'm going to go for an App Store submission next week.

Sample pictures from my new project, codename "Super Polygonal Selfie".

It is built with openFrameworks, and uses openCV for contour detection. The contours are then downsampled and drawn as polygons with the average color of all pixels inside the shape, on top of a Canny edge detection-derived image.

BITSMASH Studios

I just finished up the logo for my new company, BITSMASH Studios, last week. It is written in Processing, and runs in the browser using Processing.js.

The logo is mashup of a cellular automata simulation, in which colored cells are born or die based on their neighbors, and a simple elastic collision "explosion" that shoots out a ray of cells from the center of the cluster.

The bit seeker enemy in Ate Bit, which seeks out bits for its personal consumption. It prefers to eat loose bits, but will come after you as long as you're not looking.

A demonstration of a new visual effect I wrote for my upcoming game AteBit, which I am dubbing the "Oscillating Bitmap". The behavior reads in a text file and generates a group of GameObjects in the pattern specified by the file. These objects are then oscillated along a vector for some visual fanfare.

Attraction

A little video demoing Tug, Mutiny's game participating in the Not On Steam Sale.

POP!

A little gif demonstrating what happens when you stuff an enemy full of bits in our game AteBit.