Randomness and a New Game

Posted by Castypher on March 6, 2011, 8:58 p.m.

I always like to have content for my blogs, so since I don't have images or videos or music, I feel very awkward. But people do text blogs now and then, and so shall I.

How many of you suckers are taking Discrete Math? What do you think? The class I have is hard as shit but at the same time quite easy. If the professor feels you're grasping the concepts, he'll give you 100%. But the exams are terrible, and overall, he's not that great of a professor.

I've also been playing a little Minecraft, especially while bored at work. When I go spelunking, find diamonds, and lose my way, then suddenly die to a creeper knocking me into an endless expanse of lava, I ragequit and start a new world immediately. Anyone else do the same?

Speaking of Minecraft, the sandbox element actually inspires me to work on CFL again, for those who remember the acronym. You know, it's a flexible life sim based on Creatures. It's already very powerful at the moment, and I have very interesting environments and AI actions already laid out. So maybe I'll pick it back up again.

Anyway, the thing that's had my focus for the past while is a little shoot-em-up I've been working on. I'm just laying out the character mechanics, along with some bosses, in addition to the many bullet patterns I had before. I've also got some tracks I'm pretty happy with. I'll show them off next blog, as soon as I find a place to host them so 64Digits' audio player works with them.

I know it looks like shit. The graphical bit hasn't seen much attention. But it's performing well and the only thing I have to do now is get a proper story, which I only have half of at the moment. And obviously the HUD is a straight-up knockoff. It started as a template but I'm modifying it a bit once I get the mechanics in place.

Oh. I've also been watching a couple animes with my brother and his girlfriend.

- Clannad (rewatching in English dub, most clever plot I've ever seen in any show/movie, Japanese or not)

- Azumanga Daioh (girly but hilarious, and the spawn of many memes)

- Soul Eater (surprisingly good show, decent plot, good characters)

So that's really all I've been up to lately. I lead a boring life. Maybe one time I'll come back on to 64Digits' Minecraft server and play around. But the rules and addons you have are confusing to no end, so it might wait for a bit.

Don't let Ronnica beat me in hits!

/wave

Comments

Eva unit-01 13 years, 8 months ago

Ronnica already wins everything. I mean…she's a woman.

Quietus 13 years, 8 months ago

i still haven't been able to get minecraft to work, it won't recognize my graphics card on my fast computer and when i finally get it running on the tower.. it crashes before i can get to a start screen or whatever. :(

Misconstruct 13 years, 8 months ago

Try updating the drivers for your graphics card, hel.

Ronnica 13 years, 8 months ago

THAT BETTER BE USERTAG

Eva unit-01 13 years, 8 months ago

It's not. Lol.

Josea 13 years, 8 months ago

Quote:
How many of you suckers are taking Discrete Math?
At uni I took three discrete math courses, they covered set theory, algebra, combinatorics, recurrences, finite differences and finite calculus. My experience was similar, it was hard as hell, but in the end it turned out that studying a little and grasping the concepts was enough to get off with a good grade.

Castypher 13 years, 8 months ago

Send me a PM when ready, hel.

And if I had to take any more courses done like this, I'd probably take a break first. Hopefully this class has everything, which I think it does. I mean so far we've covered sets, combinations/permutations, probability, relations, and other things. But those few are the only ones that were interesting enough for me to remember.