Actionscript Project Natal

Some days ago a friend of mine sent me this link about Project Natal, from Microsoft. I never had heard about it until that moment, so we started to discuss about it. He was trying to convince me that it wasn’t rocket science and that it could be developed to work with a regular webcam, instead of the special camera that Microsoft uses.

He did convince me. Actually, he convinced me so well that I started to develop my own Project Natal like library in Actionscript, with good results so far.

I would like to go on with it, and if someone has interest to join me on it I would love it. It would be nice for it to have a designer able to create some nice graphics to the games, or a programmer that already has Actionscript games where we could add the camera controller to it. Any other kind of partnership are welcome too, if you have an idea just mail me and we can discuss it.

Here’s a movie about the results so far:




Check here some playable games:
http://breakout.hvilela.com/
http://watchout.hvilela.com/
http://aquarium.hvilela.com/

Enjoy it! :)

Wallpaperer

Do you like to create mosaic pictures to post at your pages? Well, I don’t… but my wife does. She was always complaining about how boring was the process to update a bunch of files and about how limited are the services capable to do this.

To solve her problem I created a simple app where you can drag and drop images to it, and it try to organize the images the best way it can. I added two filters too (grayscale and sepia).

She’s happy with that, so I decided to share it. Here it how it works:



You can download it from here (suggestions are welcome), but to run it you need Java 6 installed.