Pizza, Software, and the Rubik’s Cube

Google Tech Talk August 26, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Jeff Varasano. “Relating the Mastery of Building Software to the Mastery of Making Pizza” Buckhead resident, world-renowned pizza authority, and former software engineer, Jeff Varasano opened his first pizzeria in Atlanta in March 2009. Over the past few years, Varasanos website, www.varasanos.com, has attracted international attention and a cult following as the most accurate and extensive source of information about gourmet pizza on the web. There are currently over 2000 links to Varasano’s recipe – not bad for a guy who started out making English muffin pizzas in his toaster oven!

This is the first in a series demonstrating how to easily make menus for your Unreal Engine games using any Flash program, thanks to Scaleform technology which is now integrated into the Unreal Development Kit. Over the course of the series I will show you: -How simple it is to get a menu up and running as your game’s front end, even for artists! -Adding a mid game pop-up menu -Use of CLIK widgets, to get instant communication with UnrealScript -What programs you can use to make your GUIs -Flash Crash Course including buttons, movie clips, actionscript & animation -Creating a Map to put your Flash in, including Cinematics & a slick game logo -Workflows & Best Practices -Unusual things you can accomplish with Flash & Scaleform that you couldn’t with UIScenes & more 🙂
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