Hey guys,
Sorry for the long time no post! I promised an abstraction tutorial. It isn’t coming, still can’t find examples. The articles I write just spin around my mind a bit, evolve in there and then come out with some reviews. And besides half of my review crew is currently unavailable (Maurice is on a vacation), they aren’t spinning in my mind.
“But Nick,”, I hear you say, “what ARE you doing, programming-wise?”
Glad you asked! However, it’s very, very little. I’m busy with Pixlings. I realized that this is a much bigger project than I anticipated. There are so many parts doing different things that need to work flawlessly together. In contrast, all of my programs until now had one objective and were no longer then a few hundred lines perhaps. I wrote tons of those, but bigger projects are really a lot harder. Therefore, I’m now focusing on game-development in general, development on Pixlings has seized until I am a better game programmer. Can’t tell a couch potato to run the marathon eh.
Besides programming there are many, many parties. This weekend wrecked me, slept very little and when I did it was at unfortunate times. I leave it up you to figure that one out for yourself.
Posted by Nick on July 13th, 2009 @ 12:19 am | Tags: Game Development, Pixlings, too little sleep, understatement
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You might remember that the Aia project was nominated for participation at this year’s Science Congress of the University of Leiden. Well, at June 12th 2009, the congress finally took place. My team and five other teams each gave a ten-minute presentation about their “research”. These presentations were actually part of a competition in which the best, or rather the most favored, presentation was rewarded a price of €400,-. Unfortunately my team didn’t win. Quite possible because the Aia didn’t work completely during the presentation. Still, €200,- is very nice and luckily we still have the pictures.
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Posted by Michael on June 14th, 2009 @ 3:53 pm | Tags: Aia, Presentation
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x: “Point of view: argument”
y: “Opposite point of view: counterargument”
x: <refutes counterargument>
y: “Well I’m sticking to my point of view anyway”
If you are y, please pay some attention to the logic-section of your brain. Either you can’t make up arguments for your point of view (which is bad, because, if you don’t know why you’re doing something, you are likely to be messed around with) or you’re just stupidorn. That’s stupid and stubborn. In any case, you are annoying, please think it over and fix that logic-section.
Thanks in advance,
Posted by Nick on May 20th, 2009 @ 8:16 pm | Tags: minor rant
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