In final project, we have just passed what they call “Proof of Concept” which is a presentation in front of the class, all the instructors, and a few students from the game design masters program. In a nutshell, we present an incredibly rough mock-up of our game, explain some the gameplay elements and technology that’s already at work there, and how where we are now (after one week of coding, and everything else at this point design work) will put us in a position to complete the game over the next three months.

It wasn’t the best presentation for me personally. I hadn’t slept in over 24 hours, and I might have temporarily forgotten where exactly I was, but overall we got where we needed to be.

The running total of caffeine produce by myself – I’ve decided to keep track:
13 Cans of Monster, 1 Red Bull, 2 RockStar, 2 Jolt. Consumed this month. Granted this is only “energy drinks”. Phew.

Team Recursive, hard at work.

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I’ve been straightening up the website to more accurately reflect its purpose as a sort of online resume. You can now see videos of my previous programming projects (except pong) and the ‘about’ page has been update, including links to both my resume and my LinkedIn profile.

Now with my new blackberry in hand, I’m poised to take the world by storm, err, Blackberry Storm… sorry, that was funnier in my head.

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As sort of a counterpoint to Sailing the seven seas of Nintendo DS piracy, I’d like to write about my pesonal experiences about the subject.  I’m what you might call a ‘budget gamer’, I avoid paying full price for my games whenever possible.  There was a point in time when I could burn though all of my disposable income on things like games, but not so these days; now I haunt pre-owned games, and look forwared to the weekend deals through steam and similar to satisfy my gaming addiction.

I’ve mention my M3 card for my Nintendo DS before.  While I do use it to play homebrew software, such as Colors! and a fantastic NES and Genesis emulator, I make no attempts to sugar-coat the fact that I originally bought the thing to pirate games.  The story doesn’t end therem however, the ability to try any DS game out of the whole library has led to me buying games I wouldn’t normally buy, such as:

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Hello again, I hope you all had a good holiday season and, like me, are ready to get back to work.  I’m writing this to share with you what is possibly the coolest gift I have ever received:  A one-of-a-kind T-shirt.

She made all of the stencils herself, even the lettering. Go ahead, marvel at how awesome it is, it is completely one-of-a-kind and I have the only one, neener neener. Hope your holidays was as good as mine.

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