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Fly! Fly my pretties!
Been spending a few hours a weekend for the last few weeks writing a clone of the old Amiga Biplanes game.
So far, I have the following features:
Planes can fly.
Planes can crash.
Sound
AI will avoid objects, other player and bullets.
AI will fire.
Work I still need to do:
Joystick controls
Start screen
Clouds
Scoring
Winner screen.
Downsides at the moment - it ( Read more... ) -
The games I want to play and the games I want to run.
"I seem to buy rpg books for the games I want to play rather than the games I want to run" - The lament of
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Work is a 4 letter word
If things carry on the way they are I think I'll be the only person left at this job. The place is getting quieter.
There's been a general level of discontent with the job, mainly because of the way management works. We lost a bunch of people at the end of last year on a specific project, when management had issues with the way things are being ( Read more... ) -
Hot Tubs on cold winter evenings!
Saving money, we decided to skip the annual overseas weekend and just spend a weekend in a cosy log cabin in North Yorkshire ( Read more... ) -
Capitalism vs.Socialism. A classroom counter-experiment
I saw someone repost this tired parable a while ago. General gist is a professor offers to replace the grading scheme with a "socialist" grading scheme, where all grades are averaged. Because according to right wing philosophy, everybody is awful, everybody else freeloads on the hard workers and eventually nobody bothers.
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Why do I do Do-It-Yourself to myself?
The threshold strip for the kitchen broke. Decided to buy a new one. How hard could it be to fit ( Read more... ) -
Shut Up, Wesley!
I picked up Seasons 1 and 2 of Star Trek TNG at a charity shop, and my god are these early episodes painful. I'm at the end of season 1 and it's starting to pick up a bit ( Read more... ) -
All aboard the Dong boat!
Another excursion. This time we went turtle spotting.I
Cue the TMNT references
The boat has a glass bottom which let is look down. This is set inside a large round nose, which gave the boat a Dong shape.
We set off, and not far from shore joined something of a bumper car ride as we looked for turtles. Soon saw one swim under the boat. A few others ( Read more... ) -
Birthday the 43rd!
Drunken blogging is best blogging!
So, Flickums bought cruise tickets!
We got up early in the morning, good on a bus, and then a boat. The boat zipped around the island and eventually reached our destination. The very pirate sounding "shipwreck cove". So called because it's a cove, and there's a shipwreck there. Apparently a ship that was smuggling ( Read more... )