DevLog

On Sunday of last week, I had a pretty neat idea. I was looking around the internet, and ran into some sort of gaming glove. I thought “Hey! That’s pretty cool.” I had something different in mind, and found that this glove didn’t have the capabilities I’d hope for. I was thinking of something like a wiimote but in the form of a glove.

I remembered seeing Johnny Lee’s videos of his wiimote hacks. He set up his wiimote to receive input from external infrared lights, and to track it while doing several neat things like head-tracking or a multi-touch projector white-board. This was all very impressive, considering he was using very cheap supplies to accomplish these things. He also made a finger-tracker using an infrared light array (grid of lights), and some reflectors taped onto his fingers. I eventually came to the idea of using an IR light with the webcam. I understood that cameras have a tendency of picking up infrared lights, unlike our human eyes. I grabbed a TV remote, wrote a quick script, and it worked greatly!

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I’ve been working on a game for a little under a month (ever since November 21st). It started out as an idea several months earlier, in which I proceeded to work on in mSL.  I got a  wireframe isometric engine made and running fairly nice (roughly 40 fps, which was godly for such a slow language). I had some problems with mSL, however. Resources played too large of a factor, and involved having to use every little hack I could come up with to speed it up. I was literally optimizing it to the very byte. That would’ve been fine for a simple game, but I had bigger plans for my game.

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