I find myself loitering by the Game Developing section in the book stores. But I don’t think I have the time or the patience to do game dev work (nor the skills?). Though I envision less of a game and more of just a fully code-able 3d environment.
I was in a mud once that allowed you to define objects and code them in the game. That was pretty cool. I toyed with bots and such.. and someone actually brought the server down when they fired off one of my replicating bots. But anywho… I like the idea of a full on 3d version… looking like WoW or what ever modern MMOG you can think of, but with the ability to click on something and then crack it open… have a nice floating 3d window come up and you can modify the code and define the object.
I have dreams about this often… where I’m walking by an object and I just peal it open and modify it’s code. I was zoning out on my 2 hour commute the other day and I was staring at a trencher backhoe hanging off the back of this truck… I suddenly thought about opening it up and adjusting the variables to try and squeeze a little more power out of it.
Weird… I know…
But I think I like the idea of an online place created by users. I know they have places sort of like it… but… I dunno.. I’m thinking of something different. C# of course. =)
But think of all the slacker teens out there (my cousin) who’d suddenly found they’d learned C# and development practice in general, in an attempt to blow their friend away online.
Hrmmm
Well, I was going to say that my possible project would be a simple card game (I’ve got some rules that I’ve never seen turned into a computer version)… but I went off on a rant.
OpenGL Solitaire anyone? Of course I mean Tao
An engine for my dynamic world idea?
Well, I’ve got my tunnel… via tunnelbroker… and I’m having mixed results. On my Grond (the main linux box) I can’t seem to ping anything.. I can resolve ipv6 addresses, but it flakes.
I think installing Freenet6/tspc may have freaked it out a bit. I tried removing it (apt-get remove freenet6 tspc) but I notice the deamon still tries to start… so I wacked the conf file.
I think what i need is a good reboot.
I can monitor traffic from tunnelbroker’s site and I saw that towards the end of my 4am hack session last night I was getting in and out traffic and they succesfully pinged me (they ping the ipv6 network to determine wether or not the tunnel is in use else they drop it).
I think it was working on my XP laptop (looks surprised) as I could ping6 and traceroute6 back to it.
Oh well talk about quick immersion.
I still haven’t had a chance to check the improved range with the new firmware. And I haven’t used it long enough to see if it drops the wireless connectin like Brandon, and several folks on line (google it), have mentioned. But linksys makes indirect mention of setting “Beacon Interval” to 50 and “Fragmentation Threshold” to 2034. So if something does crop up.. I’ll try that first.
Well, hacked on the new router and got it ready to handle IPv6 routing. Put it in place. I’m going to keep an eye out for the wireless drop that Brandon mentioned to me. Said he’d have to go and reset the router every once and a while when it’d puke on him. I upgraded the firmware so this may have taken care of it… if it wasn’t user error in the first place. =)
The upgrade allowed me to boost the wireless signal as well. I’ll have to see if I get better reception at the other end of the house now.
I’m still waiting for confirmation and the new IPv6 tunnel to be established. Then I should be set. *nods* We’ll see what happens.
Now I can get back to ReadyReply. Cool.. one project almost done.
Looks like I’m going to try and update what I’ve got rather than do an entire rewrite. I think I can ‘refactor’ it all into shape fairly cleanly. We’ll see.
Now if I can just get Aiden to keep his fingers off the laptop long enough for me to get some code written. He flipped the laptop off the coffee table today. *cringe* It survived though.
This is the recommended chip
Xenium S.P. ICE
Time to start saving I guess.
Another project…. modding the XBox. We’ve gotten hooked on Lost. Good show.. but we’d missed the early episodes. So I started downloading them and we’d watch them on the computer.. and then through the laptop and on the TV.
I can’t begin to express how wonderful watching dowloaded tv is. No commercials! It’s like Adblock for your television. At least for the show we’re downloading.
So now, if we’re going to keep doing this… I think we should just mod the XBox and use it as a media center. It’s sitting right there, it has net connectivity, it’s wired to the TV… why not?
Now I’ve just got to research and price the best mod chip.
So I got a new wireless router from a friend. I’m looking to emulate the same things my friend did in this post. Let’s see if I get around to it.
More later.
A large chunk of ReadyReply is not neccessarily “wrong”… but it’d work a lot smoother and be more robust if I took another approach. *sighs*
Now… do I rewrite it all or try and gut it and replace the insides? It’s like changing the tires on a car while it’s moving. At this point I’m thinking I could just rewrite it from the ground up faster. I know the basic concepts so well and i’ve been hacking on it for so long.
It’d give me a chance to make sure all my unit tests were written as well. I’d still borrow form the current app… UI and such.. but yeah.. time to rewrite.
Bike gal – Shirow Masamune.
I just finished reading the Ghost in The Shell 2 manga. Pretty slick. When ever I read those sort of super high-tech manga or watch the anime I start to get let down by current tech. Oh well. =)
If you’re writing C# code and you’re not using NUnit, you need to get your act together. NUnit is a must.
If you’re doing any coding and you’re not using unit testing, you’re really making a mistake.
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