Friday, December 12, 2008

Still here

Well, I actually forgot about this blog until noticing it linked on my facebook page. I suppose that as long as it is here I should write something from time to time. Anyway, I went with the community college and think that it was the best decision. This semester has been fun at the new school, started off pretty rough and spent a lot of time just barely being prepared for a class before walking into it, but I feel like I am starting to get a grip on things here. Got to advise a couple of students for the Spring semester which was nice.
The Be-anz thing is definitely on a perpetual hold. Raylene would like me to get back to wrok on it sometime, but I am also trying to get a game development club started here at the school and time is something of a previous comodity at the moment. I am fairly certain that if I do return to the project I am going to scrap the whole custom engine idea and return to the original concept of building from the Torque game engine framework. Not sure what kind of modifications I would need to make on the C++ side of the engine, but the primary point is that I would achieve the platform independence that I want without building the engine entirely from scratch. Building the engine would be nice, but others tend not to get so exiciting about succesfully having an agent walk across the screen.
Lets see other things...hmm there aren't any except for snowboarding. We have season passes at App this season and it has been very nice. I've been able to go 3 times so far and am hoping to be able to go again this weekend, the weather has not been very supportive lately.