091 Labs

Hello folks,

Join us for our next LAN Night at 091 Labs on Friday the 17th of February from 6pm till late!

We’ll have a fully-stocked tuck shop and our MAME arcade cabinet will be set up for anyone needing a break from the main attraction.

Entry is €10 (all money goes to 091Labs). Members of 091Labs go free.
Information

Booking: Places can be reserved via Eventbrite @ http://091lan-feb-17th.eventbrite.com.

Location: 091 Labs, 1st Floor, Tyrone House, 47 Eyre Square, Galway.
Date & Time: Friday 17th February @ 18:00
Ending: Early(ish) Saturday 18th February
Capacity: 20
Price: €10 (all monies going to support 091Labs)
Games being played:
We’ll have a Minecraft server running during the night – suggestions for custom maps are welcome.
Battlefield 3
Heroes of Newerth
Company of Heroes
Call of Duty 4/MW2/MW3
Team Fortress 2
Monday Night Combat
No More Room In Hell (mod, requires a Source engine game, ie: Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike: Source)
And more!

This is by no means a complete list, we’re open to suggestions. If you can get enough people enthusiastic about playing it on the night, we’ll give it a go.

Bring: Yourself, a laptop or computer with at least a 256mb nVidia/ATI GPU. Headphones are a must.

See you there!

This post comes to you a little belatedly, but tonight from 9pm we will be hosting a showing of David Lynch’s epic 1984 adaption of Frank Herbert’s equally epic science-fiction novel, Dune.

In the far-flung universe of Dune, two ancient Houses are locked in a bitter struggle for control of the most precious of commodities, the drug Melange. Melange, known as the Spice, is a narcotic that extends life indefinitely, boosts vitality, and in high doses unlocks shocking mental powers:

The Bene Gesserit, a quasi-religious order of women who ostensibly strive for the betterment of Mankind, use the Spice to unlock the body’s ancestral genetic memories and superior reasoning faculties.

The Spacing Guild, clannish mariners of the ultimate sea, forcibly feed their Navigators massive amounts of Spice until the hypersaturation of Space in their body cruelly mutates the Navigator; the Spice twists their form until they cannot live outside of a life support tank, like nothing so much a fish in a glass bowl. However, these same mutations grant the Navigator near-immortality and the power to crest Time itself, to see into the future and safely guide their Heighliners to port through all perils.

Balancing the power and influence of the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild are the Imperium of Man, ruled by an all-powerful Emperor, and the multitude of Houses that comprise the Landsraad Council.

As Dune opens, the venerable House Atreides, a House Major of the Landsraad led by the compassionate Duke Leto, are preparing to move from their ancestral home of Caladan in order to take control of Arrakis, the blasted desert world that is the only known source in the Universe of the Spice.

But House Atreides will not go to Arrakis unopposed…

He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe.

“Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” is one of 3 free online courses Stanford University is offering this fall, taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.

The Galway study group will have an organisational meeting Monday 3 October from 10-11 PM in 091Labs, 47 Eyre Square, 1st Floor (just above Kennedy’s Pub). We’ll talk about why we’re taking the class, what our backgrounds are, and share tips on study materials we’ve found so far. We’re following the advanced (homework) track.

Regular meetings start the following Monday, 9-11 PM, through the end of the course (18 December). The study group is free and open to everyone.

Hi all,

Last Wednesday we did the first of four sessions for the Game Development Workshop at 091 Labs.

It went very well, covering Unity basics (objects, components, input) and Game State Management.

If you missed the first Session but would still like to take part it’s not too late to do so. All project files will be provided on the night and I’ll answer any questions you may have.

Session two is this Wednesday, at 6pm. We’ll be covering the following topics:

• Adding (dumb) enemies to the game.
• Colliders and detecting collisions.
• Creating a damage system (doing and taking damage).
• Controlling particles (and explosions).
• Adding a scoring system.
• Adding a win/lose condition and associated game states.

Below is a screenshot from the upcoming session build showing the player ship destroying a frigate.
The resulting explosion is pushing the other frigates away.

Details

• Runs on the 28th Sept, 5th Oct & 12th Oct.
• From 6pm to 10pm.
• At 091 Labs.
• The workshop costs €20.
• No need to book or pre-pay.

What You’ll Need

• A laptop with Unity installed.
• Experience of a programming language.