Beads
Yesterday I was at a dinner, when we arrived we had to choose a beermat for our drinks. All beermats where customized for the guests and you had to figure out which one was yours. For me it was really simple (unfortunately I broke it):
The next day I woke up with an urge to implement a digital bead creator. Actually the idea to this came from my my girlfriend Anna and her friend Matilda who did a cool artsy project a year ago. They had the idea of doing something interactively with digital beads. Check out the I bead you project.
Also I have wanted to try out flash GPU support for some time but never gotten around to do it so I decided to strike two flies in one hit (as we say in Sweden). This was very easy and I only ran into one problem: The GPU support didn’t work at all at first. After an hour of browsing and reading forums I decided to try update my device drivers and viola, there where more triangles than I could count. I looked around a bit for a 3D engine to use and finally went with Away3D 4 beta. It was really easy to use. Here is the result (you can’t save your creations or anything so screenshot it if you want to keep).
Latest change list 17/3/2012
– Added mock up menus, new UI, feedback box
I have a cool idea on some expansions of this, not sure if it’s possible to do yet.. more on that later.
This is what Anna did:
neat
played with this when i was young 😀
I love this game thanks. I made a Creeper!
Very fun to play with, made a neat creeper then tried to make Megaman but ran out of blue beads. D:
Thanks everyone for the kind words. I will fix the “running out of beeds” during the week.
Looking forward to playing more with it! Now I actually want the beads to make that creeper I sent you on Twitter though, hahaha.
Wow… This is pretty awesome. YOU MADE THIS IN A DAY???
Thanks, yes, well in total about 12 hours with some quick breaks for food.
I think switching the perspective controls to rmb instead of lmb would help as I find myself getting stuck switching perspective and not moving beads, and more types of green-turquoise, so i can make better creepers… Sssss!
Yes that is pretty annoying, rmb doesn’t work with flash so I might do some something like space+mouse. Yes, I will create more beads.
Pretty neat, thinking of seeking out the giant jar of beads we have somewhere 😀 (I bet i can just ask my mom, she loves them :P)
Nice! And I like the stuff you’re stuff at mojang too!
I ment the mob things you are doing at mojang, sorry mobile auto correction, and by the way, in NL, we say ‘catch two flies in one hit’ too
Aw… For some reason I can’t play! It says I need to get Flash, but Flash is built into Chrome 🙁
Weird, what flash version do you have? you need fp 11 at least.
Yay for the update! Time to play with pixel art! 😀