The Ultimate Guide to Game Development with vvvv and vvvv.js

What happened in the workshop?
vvvv.js had just received a game engine node library and advanced rendering techniques which are designed to work together with the procedural content generation capabilities of vvvv in order to enable the development of web and mobile games or other interactive applications that benefit from these technologies (VR, web-art etc.).

Who was the target audience of the workshop?
web developers, vvvv addicts and game developers

What did attendees of the workshop learn?

  • introduction to procedural content generation in vvvv
  • vvvv – vvvv.js exchange formats
  • vvvv.js game engine (scene management, collision detection, multi instancing engine, shaders etc)
  • vvvv.js advanced rendering techniques

Detailed Description:
David did introduce the new VVVV.js features which have been developed during his master thesis about procedural games and game development with VVVV and VVVV.js. In detail the following features were be described, all neatly packed in useful example patches:

  • Physically based rendering
  • Loading meshes and scene files
  • Instancing
  • Instancing based character animation and vegetation
  • large scale dynamic terrain rendering
  • 3d physics engine

 

Luna Nane

Visual artist

Berlin

lunanane.com/

Luna Nane is a visual artist and creative developer based in Berlin. Since 2012 she has been working freelance with artists and agencies from around the world. She holds a master’s degree in Interface Culture at the Art-University of Linz. Luna’s works often combine real-time computer graphics, procedural generation, interface development and data-visualization. Ongoing artistic research projects involve visualization of large scale bot actives on social networks and procedural world generation.

Most notably she was working with Refik Anadol Studios on the award winning interactive installations “Archive Dreaming” and “WDHC Dreams”, in which you can explore millions of images and audio-samples in an immersive 3d cloud. Also, Together with Science Communication Lab, she developed exhibition pieces like “Explore The Ocean”, which features a large amount of data-visualizations, layered on a real-time rendering of the earths oceanic and atmospheric topologies. Other inspiring clients have been m-box, Adobe, Ars Electronica, Meso Digital Interiors, 17K, everyoneishappy and Analog Native.

Matthias Zauner

sagishi

Artist, Creative Coder, Designer, Developer, Educator, Media Designer, Researcher, Software Developer, Technologist

Matthias Zauner studied Digital Media at the Fachhochschule Hagenberg. After his internship at Meso Digital Interiors in 2006, vvvv became his weapon of choice and he continued working for Meso on several projects.

As the initiator of the vvvv.js project, he works where web development, real time motion graphics and physical computing interface with each other, and designs and develops distributed media systems.