O&P Documentary, Pathbreakers, Wins Best Short
Oysters & Pearls is pleased to announce the documentary, PATHBREAKERS, that premiered during this year’s The African Film Festival (TAFF), was awarded Best Documentary Short.
Teaching Video Game Design in Northern Uganda – A Give and Take
I was invited to teach Video Game Design (VGD) at the Oysters & Pearls-Uganda Tech Camp 2016 along with Professor Carl Twarog from East Carolina University in North Carolina and his 4th year student, Candice Fonville. The three of us made a great team. Sandra had seen a notice on Twitter of my class in Unity in late 2015 at Outbox in Kampala and contacted me. In the first week, we introduced the students to Unity Engine and how to make a basic 3D game with an environment, a 3D character, token collection and score. In the second week, we introduced 2D games, and showed the students the differences and similarities in making 2D, and 3D games. READ MORE...
Beware of Wild Animals
Every hard-working team deserves a break, even if it is short. Two days after a couple of earthquakes rocked us to sleep, off we ventured to Murchison Falls National Park. In four years of touring this same park, one never grows tired of discovering what creatures are about. Some of the standouts included an albino Ugandan Kob, a puff adder who remained in the middle of the road for everyone to get still shots and video footage, a mock charge from a large bull elephant and a Cape Buffalo lying flat on the ground as well some beautiful giraffes and a couple of lions.
The development of oil production is now rather more noticeable – bright fluorescent towers dotting the horizon at night; and by day, several large vehicles transporting equipment disrupt the road traffic.
Sadly, the solitary male lion we saw meandering along the road around sunrise lost his brother to a snare last January. I remember first seeing that pair in July 2011. But, the three-legged male, called Butcher Man is alive and