#bctsingularity

After a lot of trouble shooting I finally got to test out my first AR unity project.  I took a picture and set up a mark on my countdown oneCard.  Then setting it up to test a 3D model I have made in blender.  Just a bit of experimentation, but it’s a lot of fun!

I found this series called “ Abstract - the are of Design “ on Netflix and thought I add some notes to my blog about it. This series is only 8 episodes and each episode is about a well known designer and their life story. 

The series starts with Christoph Niemann who is an illustrator, graphic designer, author and also app designer. He is famous for his New Yourker magazine cover designs. The biography/documentary looks in to his life from a design point of view and I can promise you that there’s much more than meets the eye. 

In this biography, Christoph talks about practice, doing more work each and every day. Also he talks about taking a walk outside in the open air, going to the museum to refresh his mind and body for new ideas and inspiration which is exactly we should do in order to produce great work. Near to end of this episode Christoph mentioned a book called “ The Invention of Slowness “ where the author see the world on a slow perception. 

Imagine if we can actually train our self to see the world on a slow perception, just imagine the things we could see and discover, the inspiration, the beauty of this super fast moving world. 

According to the multiple forums I’ve been looking through, the character  Wheatley from the Valve developed game Portal 2 is the best NPC made. In fact, Valve has done very well with their NPC creation as a lot of the NPCs from Portal and Half-life 2 also appear to be in high regard. Above I have inserted a clip of some the NPC Wheatly’s best moments in the game. 

So why is Wheatly arguably the best NPC in game so far? Looking at the video, in my opinion, the most important thing would be the humour, the second being how the face of the robot reacts in accordance to it speaking. The face almost looks human-like in its emotions and reactions but still regains its robot stipulations. A humorous NPC is something that players don’t usually expect in games, therefore, it surpasses their expectations. 

Another NPC in the portal series is Space Core, an annoying robot that talks continuously about space. Although the robot is annoying it definitely has humour and character and I think that's what makes it a good NPC. Here you can find a SoundCloud audio mix of Space Cores voice samples. 

Here is a Demo of my finished book and it’s contents!  It works much better through my PC compared to the tablet I’m borrowing.