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From Unreal to Epic: Unreal Engine

As the cornerstone of Epic Games also the backbone of many of our favorite games, the Unreal Engine is a game engine founded by Tim Sweeney in 1998 alongside the well-known first-person shooter game Unreal. Installed into the computer, the Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability, supporting a wide range of desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms. The original intention...

Microsoft Word: A Restrospective

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The Story of garageband

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wechat

The software I chose was WeChat, which was originally designed by Zhang Yong, which was then named “WeChat” by Ma Huateng and released to the public through Tencent Group.I didn’t find the original patent documents of WeChat on the Internet, but I found some patent documents about some special interaction methods of WeChat, one of which is “QR code anti-counterfeiting and...

Early Video Games

Oregon Trail As one of the most successful games in American history, Oregon Trail is an early educational computer games that was one of the most played computer games at the time. In the background of Oregon Trail, the player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and valley in Oregon. Although the Oregon Trail is an...

Anisha Jain: VP of Design at Cruise

I was a bit hesitant, at first, to choose Anisha Jain for my second biography. After all, virtually nothing is known about her “early life” (i.e., anything pre-college). I can’t provide any details on where she was born, for instance, or where she grew up – not even the dreams she held close during her childhood. Even so, the more I read about Jain, the more invested I became in not only her...

De Nichols in The Art of Protest

A comic about the life of De Nichols, illustrated by Amaris Gil.

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