| Coming Up - Fireside Chat | March 25, 2009 |
Remember, the annual Fireside Chat is coming up this coming Monday night! Here's the info:
Monday, March 30th at 7:00pm
Millstone Lounge
(In between 4th floor of Bryan Hall and McMillen Lab)
We'll be getting Italian food from Olive Garden, and we need YOU to come eat it! In addition, CSE department chair Dr. Catalin Roman will be giving a short talk, and then the evening will become an informal, open forum for students and faculty to talk about whatever's on their mind. You don't want to miss this great opportunity!
| Game Programming Opportunity | March 15, 2009 |
The special projects division at iClips.net is currently seeking a
programmer for a 12-15/week 3D game development project. The position
is part or full time and you will work with a small team of animators,
level designers and character artists to implement the functionality
and basic gameplay for an exploration/action/adventure-style game.
In this project your responsibilities will be to:
-Create/Refine first person character controllers for use on land and in water.
-Create simple, flexible AI & Pathfinding for a variety of creatures
from scratch or using the Path/Behave plug-in.
-Create animation controllers for creature NPCs.
-Create a basic but expandable achievement system that allows for
quests, "discoverable" map areas, and time based achievements.
-Create a basic health system.
-Create shader "zones" (areas where different shaders are triggered).
-Work with designers in setting up the GUI.
We will be using the Unity game engine for this project. Code used to
create gameplay can be written in JavaScript, C#, or Boo which is then
compiled to native code(see
http://unity3d.com/unity/features/scripting for info). Shaders are
written in ShaderLab language. The Unity team has created dozens of
example projects with various code examples that can be utilized, if
desired, to speed research and development time. You can find all of
the documentation, example projects, and more on the Unity website
(www.unity3d.com).
For more information please email acm@wustl.edu for the contact info.