Health Impact Studio

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 5/01/2019

[Chapel Hill, NC – May 1, 2019] – Clinical Tools, Inc. won a $200K Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sci […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 9/15/2019

[Chapel Hill, NC – September 15, 2019] – Clinical Tools, Inc. won a $1.4 M Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health/NIAAA to continue development […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 9/15/2019

[Chapel Hill, NC – September 15, 2019] – Clinical Tools, Inc. won a $1.4 M Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health/NIAAA to continue development […]

Visualizing the Brain in 3D

The brain is more challenging to understand than heart, kidney, skin, and other organs1. Unfortunately, its complex interconnecting structures and interactions have no close […]

Is alcohol use your solution for emotional exhaustion and burnout depersonalization? As medical students know, burnout is common in medical school and some factors such as Medical Student Age, Debt & Marital […]

In part one of this blog series, we discussed the changes we’ve made before Food Fight’s potentially final update. This blog will be a retrospective view of the major tasks and complications that were add […]

The Future of Food Fight
Our next update to Food Fight will be a milestone. We are adding a brand new, custom-modeled food court environment. Additionally, food items have been revamped with new behaviors that […]

Revamping the Food Court
As we are working on getting a new environment incorporated into Food Fight, the graphics team focused on getting a complete version of the new food court level ready to go in Unity. We […]

Creating a Playable Version
We have been able to create and polish a working visual novel version of the BurntOut gameplay that uses 2D sprites as actors.

The Scenario

The ICU Clinic is the first scenario that […]

Finding a Solution
A requested feature early-on in the FoodFight project was to have visual indicators pointing out where enemies and power-ups are located when they spawn. When it came time to implement them, […]

A while ago, we discussed Food Fight’s tutorial and how a few tweaks can create a more compelling and immersive experience. In this blog, we discuss how these tweaks have been implemented and what we discovered a […]

The Food Court
Last week, the graphics team continued remodeling Food Fight. In order to create diverse and distinct levels, we decided to develop each based on differing, but recognizable food/dining facilities. […]

Last week, we talked about how we approached refactoring our Food Fight code from a prototype to a scaleable codebase. This week, we continue that discussion and show how we made the transition to where we are […]

There is a lot of work out there about “design patterns” and how to employ those towards keeping code on large projects organized and maintainable. This series of posts focuses on what we’ve learned programming […]

Graphics play a large role in making a game immersive and engaging. As such, our graphics team has been focusing on how to best render the environments for our different areas in the BurntOut game. One of the team […]

Reasons for Revision
For Food Fight, one of our goals was to create a new engaging environment that will captivate players. The current environment was distracting and confusing to the player, as well as having a […]