Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Simulated Reality

For the last 7 weeks I've been in a group called Locker15 to develop a training simulation. On the first day of class Professor Maynes picked myself and Anthony to be the two team captains for the project. After that we picked out teams, picked our names and then went to work figuring out what our simulation would be about. We chose to do ours in a GTA/Crazy Taxi fashion where you'd have a top down view and would need to pick up patients and take them to a hospital. We got a chance to use Game Maker, and even though it's super limited we managed to pull off some really neat things and even though I was skeptical from the beginning our simulation turned out pretty damn cool. I'm not sure how much it would actually teach somebody, but it was fun and it looked nice. After we had our presentations today we still had a couple hours in class so we did some four player Wii Sports and the Prof even got down on it. Overall this class has been a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to next semester.

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