WEE News (Posts about game)

Holidays, et al

Admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:21:35 GMT

PayPal's cart functionality is broken & GMail is noticeably lagging. (GMail also has an insane number of background activity for a single tab. I guess that's why people use clients.) Plus roads were hella congested (& this place is already famous for the World's Worst Driversᵀᴹ) so I guess it's officially the holidays.

I got my router's webUI working through https with a valid domain qualified certificate though, which is pretty cool. Still working on ansibling the network, but there's over a decade of technical involved in that, so it'll be a progressive thing.

I'm working on setting up a new system to demo projects, but dunno how long that'll take. Also planning a session of Honey Heist with friends. Life is certainly getting busy enough these days.

WEEGames Updated

Admin — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:28:43 GMT

Following up with the success of my pushing this news page to nikola+s3, I have completed the initial push of the WEEGames page. Gone are the days of empty WordPress pages forever waiting to be populated with content for the third time!

I've also re-organized a little bit. Still collecting what software I have available for publication though.

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Games.WEE Slightly Prettier!

Admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:00:55 GMT

The GAMES page has been redesigned for ease of use and somewhat better display. It uses divs and an IFrame to embed individual project pages. I've also made sure to update it with my latest projects and links to documentations for new versions where available. Please let me know if you have any comments or requests.

Now Hosting the Solar System

Admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:16:45 GMT

As part of a CodeCademy project, I've built a simple rendition of our solar system's major planets. http://games.wiseeyesent.com/games/space/ I've incorporated relative velocity for all orbits based off of the Earth using a set time frame of 10s == 1 Earth Year. The inner planets and outer planets have sizes relative to each other, but not amongst the two groups. The Sun and planet distances are not to scale at all. I've tried to optimize the page as much as possible, although no CDN has been incorporated. Additionally, it's a large volume of animation, so it may run sluggish on some computers. Performance is better if you zoom out to about 50% scale.

New Project: WEESnake 2

Admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:51:49 GMT

I've started documentation for a sequel to WEESnake. This title will include online multi-player with a focus upon cross-platform support. Initial design will target Android devices and a web app. A new page has been created to help relay progress on this project. More information available here... Additionally, I have finally gotten the default "Hello, World" app provided with the Google Android Studio IDE to compile and run on my Evo 4G LTE. Prior development experiments relied upon the Virtual Machine, making testing far too cumbersome for efficient development. Current utilization of the ADB driver for debugging purposes will permit WEESnake2 development to proceed unhindered.

Miscellaneous Updates, Nov 2014

Admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:53:39 GMT

Today, I will be performing general website updates and design work on my WEESnake 2.0 project. Additional work may also be performed upon the new WEEChing web app. Primary updates involve theme changes to this news page and updating the WiseEyesEnt website to use design pages instead of generic placeholders for my personal projects. In this way, I hope to integrate transparency with my audience by permitting my visitors to see my progress and course of action rather than a "coming soon" message. Please feel free to contact me at any time regarding recommendations or requests. -Admin/Dev UPDATES COMPLETED: - Integrated Favicon on News.WEE.com - Updated News.WEE.com color scheme and header images - Updated Test.WEE.com/Games - Updated Test.WEE.com/Games/WEESnake

"The Pit" Walkthrough

Admin — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:11:51 GMT

NOTE: This is a cross post from my Tumblr. It was originally uploaded on January 26th, 2012. This level was originally conceived as an underground pit/abandoned mine that has been converted to an arena for blood sport, Unreal Tournament style. I really enjoyed designing the level, particularly the lighting work with the sky light and the use of solid meshes for adding personality as well as providing cover.

This past week, I have successfully created my first original map for Unreal Tournament 3 using the UDK Beta (2009-11 version) as part of a school assignment. Here is a brief walkthrough with extensive screen shots of the level.

This is what the player sees upon initial spawn. I’ve hidden the spawn point behind a large piece of machinery to provide some cover for the player so that he or she isn’t instantly fragged the moment they enter the world.

This is a view of the first room from the end of the machinery covering the initial spawn point. You can’t really see it in this screen shot, but there is a rocket launcher directly ahead of the player, just to the right of the crosshairs (next to the big tanks the player is staring at).

This is the shield belt hidden behind the rubble directly in front of the player spawn point. It is just to the right of the player in the previous screen shot. The shield belt provides 100 points of armor that completely covers the player, unlike the localized armor provided by the chest plate & shin guards.

The afore mentioned rocket launcher in the middle of the player’s spawn room. If you look behind the wall just ahead of the player, you find a nice surprise.

A super health pack behind the bunker wall in the corner of the player spawn room! Pick it up & try looking behind the barrels along the wall.

Here we find the shock rifle with quite a bit of ammo. Not as powerful as the rocket launcher, but more out of the way with ammo readily available, in case someone else has already grabbed the rocket launcher.

After picking up the shock rifle, we turn back to the center of the main room to find the rocket launcher ammo at the top of the stairs. Instead of heading downstairs, we’ll continue to the back of the room.

At the back of the first room we find the hall, which we passed earlier when grabbing the rocket launcher & super health.

Which leads us to the statue room.

Look around and you’ll find two packs of extra rocket ammo.

As well as some creepy statues.

Tunnel exit through the arch in the statue room which leads us too…

The bunker room, named for the offset walls which provide some extra cover for those in the tunnel as well as mixing up the pacing in this room a little more.

And concealing a couple pieces of armor, the chest plate & shin guards.

Leaving the bunker room takes us to the stair room.

Where you can find an extra health pack if you keep your eyes open. The stairs lead us back up to the first room, making the map a closed circuit.

Quick peak of the skylight in the first room, providing all the orange light throughout the level.

Overhead views of the rooms in order of walkthrough traversal:

First Room

Statue Room

Bunker Room

Stair Room

WEEMonster AI Engine

Admin — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:45:18 GMT

New project release! WEEMonster v1.0 This project is an AI engine built using a very simple, 3 state Finite State Machine. The monster is capable of being in the "Hide", "Attack" & "Flee" states while the player simply exists or not & attacks as long as he does exist. Future versions may incorporate multiple players attacking a lone monster at once, multiple player classes or the ability to modify the monster statistics & abilities. Don't hold you're breath on that though. This was just a simple project for practicing FSM for implementing AI engines so I'm more focused on finishing the text I'm reading through instead of refining this project.

Senior Project & Graduation

Admin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:57:02 GMT

Finally, after 6 years spent at 2 different schools, I have completed my Bachelor's of Science degree! My last class with DeVry for the Game & Simulation Programming program (a little redundant, no?) ended on February 28th. As a result, I now bring you the next game in my library, Escape from Area 52! This project was intended to be a Beta release so it's still very buggy, particularly the sound effects, graphics and some NPC collision detection. NEXT UP! I'll be working on a standalone page for this title complete with documentation & any possible future developments (highly unlikely, but I could get bored). Project Zed is still in the works and now that I've finished school, I'll have more time to kick out something extra awesome, or at least playable.

Planning Opens for Project Zed

Admin — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:38:30 GMT

School is nearing it's end, preliminary documentation has already been drawn up, a plan is in place an there are parties interested in participating in the Zed Project. The time has come to open planning to the public. I've set up a new forum (thanks to the folks at bbPress) you can find linked on the Games page or directly here. Registration is open & free, but discussion will be moderated by myself. Any & all input or participation is greatly appreciated! I'll be posting the preliminary docs when I have the time. All of them will be reviewed and revised to ensure accuracy, completeness and readability.