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Got my Asus Eee PC the other day.  Must say, I’m in love with it.  It’s small, light, fast, and it runs Eeebuntu. It’s pretty awesome.

Yea, it’s pretty cool.

Uni is going well.  Learning java and stuffs.  Pretty simple classes, but, it’s fun.

Saw Curious Case of Benjamin Button the other week.  Pretty good movie, I like how much it made me think about what life would be like if I was growing younger instead of older.  I got choked up on the part where he had to leave his family.  It was pretty sad.

Did some coding on my Eee.  I’m getting tired of typing std::cout every time I want to print something, so, I moved what I was working on to a 2d rendering window.  I think this is actually going to become my 2d engine more than what the other set of code I was working on is.  This is a simple world with a dynamic size, and a camera object to look at it.  I also wrote a base static tile and a base moveable tile object, that I’m going to derive everything off of.  For drawing, I just have a 64×64 sprite, but, it should start taking shape the next few days.  I have all the source code on my Eee, since I think I’m going to try the beta of Windows 7 on my desktop.  I have heard nothing but good, and I have the iso burned to a disc…I just need to install it now.

Yea, thats about it.  I have a ton of classwork to do, but I think I’m going to go eat first.

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Smashball playtest yesterday.  It’s a great game, with Spider-man like swinging and trying to score.   Theres quite a few bugs, and its still in alpha, but its hella fun.  l’avair sucks, but thats because hes a scoring machine, but I shut him down.

Also, went to OSU and got my books yesterday.   I got 2 out of four, since one of them wasn’t in yet, and I’m still waitlisted for the second.  The book for Computer Science sucks.  It’s a how to write Python book, and, well Python sucks.  It’s slow, it has no power (unless you give it power), and the Garbage Collector sucks.   And, it’s section on C was horribly wrong.  Oh Well

I’m going shopping again today to pick up the rest of the little things I need for school.

4 days left.

EDIT: I have officially named the engine I’m working on.  It is the Kloptrop Engine.  Wewt.

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Well, haven’t done much since I reinstalled wordpress on mah website.  Meh, not much happened.

But thats all about to change!

6 Days from now I’m gonna move into my dorm at OSU (Go Beavs!).  Thats gonna be fun.

Also, I have started working on a Game Engine…Right now, the memory management part is done, and I’m going to start building the kernal with some task managing and profiling.  Thats gonna be fun.  I haven’t decided weather or not to do a 3D or a 2D engine.  Right now, I can go either way, and I think I’m gonna leave it like that.  Perhaps set up a 2D scenegraph component, and then a 3D world component.  If you want to make a 2D game, then just load the 2D portion.  If you want to make a 3D game, load the 3D part and use the 2D part for the GUI. If I do 3D though, I’m going to go with DirectX, mostly because OpenGL makes me mad, because they didn’t do what the promised.

Also, Empires is chugging along.  I also was invited to the Alpha test of Smashball.  Thats alot of fun.  Basicly, the goal is to grab the ball, and score it in the other team’s goal.  Of course, players are much much faster than normal, and can grapplehook and swing around.  Its pretty fast paced, and alot of fun. Much Thanks to Krenzo (Whom I love and care deeply for ) for inviting me.

Oh, and I’m thinking about using Kordo as my nickname in some games/wobsites.  Cause the name Kordo is cool.

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