Vishnu Desaraju
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| Class | 2008 |
| Website | Good Quotes |
| Contact Information | |
| AIM | vdesaraju |
| MSN | pikachupika at hotmail dot com (yes, it\'s quite old. deal with it) |
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Biography
-Currently in grad school at MIT in the AeroAstro department (don't ask why... only the admissions people know that). Working on robotics and control systems in the Aerospace Controls Lab.
-Majored in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Asian Languages and Cultures, all via the EGL Honors Program (until I dropped it by leaving UM for grad school). Worked in the Multi-Agent Decision and Control Testbed.
-Enjoys playing around with 3ds Max and Photoshop
-Doesn't play many games, ironically.
-Can probably beat you in Pokemon.
-Will possibly do ok against you in Smash Bros.
-Gets lost in 3d games.
-Spins in circles while holding the trigger button in most FPSs.
-Has more theory than practice.
Skills
Paintbrush, 3ds max, Photoshop, Premiere, MATLAB/Simulink, and C/C++ Also have done some Python, QBasic, and Assembly...
Side Projects
A game engine using MATLAB, or as some choose to call it, blasphemy.
Officer Positions
Vishnu has held the following officer positions:
| Publicity Coordinator | 2007 |
| Publicity Coordinator | 2006 |
Projects
Vishnu has been involved with the following projects:
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Switcheroo!
48 Hour Alumni Contest 1 Entry
Switch your elemental cores with the enemies' to destroy them.
If you don't have MCR 7 on your computer, you'll need to download it from here:
MCRInstaller.zip
If you don't have Matlab, you'll need this.
If you do have Matlab, run the command mcrversion. If it's 7, then you should be ok. If not, either check whether you can install MCR 7, or run… -
Flag Wars: Capture the Flags
This is a 3D multiplayer online game. There is no single player mode at present and it might not work over WiFi until I get the packet size down.
Most required installation files are in the 'redist/' subfolder. However, if you have trouble installing drivers for an Xbox 360 controller, the recommended interface for playing the game, please visit Microsoft to obtain the manual driver installer.
It was made using the Zenipex… -
Debugger
Made for 48-Hour Contest #4
48 Hour Version (Source Required for Runtime GPL Compliance)
(Version 2.0 runs Zenilib 0.2.6.1)
The code name was Robots vs The Bugs. This is the essence of the game. Two players control one robot each - specifically one humanoid lawn mower each. The object of each level of the game is to kill all of the bugs on the level by attacking them with your… -
Dreamcatch
This game was created entirely in a two day period as part of the 3rd annual Wolverine Soft 48 Hour Contest.
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Stephen Colbert's Omega Squad Nine: Defending America's Greatest President
Stephen Colbert's Omega Squad 9: Defending America's Greatest President
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Zeni Rocket
You must install all 3 redistributables in the redist/ folder!
If you want to try 2-player, copy ship1.txt to ship2.txt and change the controls.
The main concept behind this game is to allow a user to simply customize a spaceship by placing rockets wherever and to allow a user to simply change controls schemes for these rockets as well. The physics are mostly complete (though a better symplectic integrator might be helpful).…
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Zeni Maze
At present, this is best described as a demonstration of the game engine that I'm currently working on. In the future, this game could potentially allow one to explore a maze that could not, in reality, exist. For example, a maze could allow one to take four tight left turns and end up somewhere different than where one started.
Controls:
WASD for moving forward, backward, left, and right
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Articles
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