[Golist] * Go Demo Contest – win an iPod Shuffle! *

[Martin Wood-Mitrovski]

Moses Gunesch wrote:
> Hey, was just thinking: HydroTween would be a really cool system to use 
> to build a funky fresh demo!
> 
> Anybody excited about this contest yet? Planning anything big??
> 
> (I will take your silence to mean, crawl under a rock and expire, Moses.)

hehe.

i like the idea, although the prize doesnt interest me, i've got an ipod thats 
been sitting in the drawer next to me for months, my only plan for it is to 
install linux on it and PureData (a sound processing application).

i'll try and put together a video of my Go based system controlling some Max/MSP 
audio processing stuff. That might show that Go is useful for all sorts of 
time-based systems, of which tweening engines are one part.

for example im actually using Go to control the flow of data out of the socket, 
the idea being that because its easy to use different pulse intervals the actual 
simulation can run at a different rate to the UI updates, so while the UI might 
update at 30 fps the actual control data can be sent at twice the speed so the 
audio changes smoothly.

its quite common in games for different subsystems to use their own update rates 
(display, physics, ai, audio) and I think the Go engine really makes that quite 
simple. :)