{"id":69,"date":"2025-03-06T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-03-06T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:11:59","slug":"why-i-chose-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/2025\/03\/06\/why-i-chose-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Chose LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Rewind to the end of last year (2024). I began taking the senior software engineering project and had the opportunity to choose from the myriad of different projects to work on. How was I to choose? When I noticed the Language Immersion Virtual Environment (LIVE), I thought, &#8220;Wow, this sounds pretty exciting. I wonder what it would be like working in a group on a Video Game like this&#8221;. That was all I really needed to justify signing up for it. I had previous experience working with Unity as a hobby and was excited to see how it would play out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How have things panned out?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I would argue that the project is going well! Here are some screenshots of the current game.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70\" style=\"width:452px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image.png 756w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" style=\"width:462px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-2.png 558w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-2-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73\" style=\"width:468px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-3.png 674w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-3-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" style=\"width:472px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-5.png 742w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8092\/files\/2025\/03\/image-5-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As you can see, the world is really coming together! Earlier on in the project, I took the mantle of foundational code development, creating some of the core systems the game would rely on. But as we reach the end of the project, I have quite enjoyed simply working on environment design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently working on interior scenes that the player will be able to navigate and interact with for this upcoming version update. So, to summarize, things are going well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewind to the end of last year (2024). I began taking the senior software engineering project and had the opportunity to choose from the myriad of different projects to work on. How was I to choose? When I noticed the Language Immersion Virtual Environment (LIVE), I thought, &#8220;Wow, this sounds pretty exciting. I wonder what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/2025\/03\/06\/why-i-chose-live\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I Chose LIVE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/44656164496e7465726e6574\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}