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Meeting 13: Arecibo

Talks

1. Quick game with Unreal Blueprints

   by Kyle Roucis

   Kyle's latest 1-day game creation using Unreal Engine's Blueprint Visual Scripting system.

   References

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Engine
   • https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/blueprints-visual-scripting-in-unreal-engine/

2. 3D 2048 game with a twist

   by Meg Truesdale

   Meg realized that plain old 2048 is boring, so the natural solution is to make it 3d and only movable by a ball. Implemented in C# and Unity game engine.

   Artifacts

   • https://github.com/megtruesdale/2048Game

   References

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)

3. Remote shell via Twitter and aNotepad

   by Wayne Kenney

   Wayne was fed up with corporate firewalls blocking port 22 and preventing good old ssh, so he decided to Hack The Planet and send commands via Twitter (a local bot listens for tweets and executes them as commands, forwarding the output to an internet pasting service), but then Twitter closed their API, so ... he wrote his own Twitter clone!

   Artifacts

   • https://github.com/LogicPy/Python/tree/master/TORB

   References

   • https://anotepad.com/
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)

4. Epidemic simulation

   by Siraaj Khandkar

   Siraaj was as excited and bored as anyone else during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine, but also curious and hungry for experimentation, so set-out to write an epidemic simulator (and learn C for good measure). Sadly only the cellular automata version was implemented and agent mobility is in its 3rd year as a rusting TODO item.

   Artifacts

   • https://github.com/xandkar/epidemic-sim

   References

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest-fire_model