LUUG 10 - The one without a great tag line.

[UPDATE] : Unfortunately the planned talk by Will on the advanced character animation system won't be going ahead as planned. It is a decision that comes from the top of Unity HQ, who have decided that it is not the correct time to be showing a feature that is still being worked on. You can still see the preview video over at the Unity bog, but for now, it'll have to do.

Unity - Advanced Character Animation (http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/03/10/gdc-2012-unity-3-5-and-advanced-character-animation-preview/)

Well helloooooooo LUUG-ites!
Our next meetup event is going to take place at London South Bank University, on THURSDAY 29th March at the usual time of 7pm.

The popularity of the open-mic sessions is also growing, so we're looking forward to seeing lots more content. If there is something you'd like 5-10 minutes to show, then feel free to come along and just get up on stage, we accomodate anyone.

Tom Betts

Procedural / Generative / Modular - Grow Yourself a Game

When programmer art sucks and real artists do everything with ten million polys, how can a lone coder get anything done! In this talk Tom will show how a procedural & generative methods can help drive content production and game design in engines like Unity. Tom will show a number of his own projects and prototypes where modular and generative design have helped overcome the problems of content production. He will also probably go hideously off topic and end up talking about Dark Souls, Honey and Deleuze.

Tom Betts, aka Nullpointer, is an artist, academic, coder and gamer. He’s been a lecturer, designer, published musician, professional artist, warlock…. but right about now he is working on his Phd about the sublime in digital games and he’s also head coder at Big Robot where he has worked on a game for Channel4, his own puzzler Avseq and future releases, hunted/lodestone . Hes exhibited digital artworks and performed at international venues such as Sonar, ZKM, Lovebytes, FACT and has done professional design/coding for Tate, the V&A and the Southbank Centre. He likes code, shambling music, drinking coffee, watching films where nothing much happens and is trying to grow a beard.