After finding out we will be able to get changeable characters in our game, thanks to our programmer. The heavy character got rigged quickly so that animating could start being carried out.

Below is a video showing the controls of the rig with its texture applied.

As you can see his rig is quite similar to the neutral character, with the slight changes being a fat control on his tummy and no face control. Caryn is now busy animating him so expect some animations on here soon.

We have recently jumped a huge step in our game, mainly because our programmer Rachel Cordone sent us some script which allows us to have changeable characters from trigger points. Below is a small video just showing what it allows us to do.

It is currently using the unreal defaults, but we are getting our characters in at this present time with her help. Although as you should be able to see with the run through that each character that the test changes to has their own speed and abilities.

The first character can run very fast and jump, where as the second character cannot jump and is much slower, and then the third character is even slower and cannot jump either.
It is just amazing what she has given us, as without her we may have been in a bit of a sticky situation.

Over a month ago now at University we had the lovely Lawrence Philips come in and give a quick talk on SK Gaming, and the joys of competitive gaming. From this he wanted some writers for a new consoles section that was appearing on the site.

I was very eager to help as I've written for websites before, but none that that receive as many visitors that SK do.

I have of course been quite busy with my final year project, along with Lash La Rue, my dissertation and having to work. But I finally wrote my first article for SK gaming.

Following the announcement of Max Payne 3 being in development by Rockstar Games I felt it to be quite fit to write up a news entry on it, not only being a console game, but while the Max Payne series are a very well known string of PC games.

Being quite sad I took a screenshot of my entry on the website on the front page, I was quite happy with it and only look forward to writing more for SK, I'm constantly trawling the internet for interesting articles to post up.

I shall be doing a few entries on my upcoming graduate show, although not too many to ruin any surprises that we have in store. My year has teamed together and divided work up so that we can try to create a memorable graduate show that will attract hopefully some attention.

I'm have volunteered for being in charge of sending out invitations and food (so I'm getting invitations and stickers printed very soon!), I'm very happy to of taken care of these tasks, my sister Charlotte is also hoping to help me out with food as we both enjoy cooking. As I would prefer that our graduate show has a more homemade feel, as opposed to food straight out of a packet which can be bland in taste.

The show is not until the 29th of May, but we intend to start sending out invites very soon, along with the website which is soon to go live. Until then I won't spoil any surprises to what the graduate show is to entail, other than showing this image that Debbie has drawn for it.

Back in February Nobi Nobi Boy was released on the PSN, and shortly after it's release it was announced that Panic Goods were to be selling t-shirts. They had previously sold Katamari Damacy t-shirts, so I was eager to get myself a Nobi Nobi boy one.

They were shipped a few weeks back and I received it fairly quickly, it's a lovely t-shirt, super soft and has a nice nobi nobi boy printed inside for the tag.

They only bad points i can say about it is that they don't come in ladies tops, only mens, and that the postage was more expensive than the top itself, which is of course one of the bad points of living in the UK.