Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’

No Life

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

The ShipThe blog is dead. Long live the blog.

Anyway, I’ve recently moved into what I can only describe as the larval stage (I do not use the word lightly!). While I am not new to programming, I do not consider myself yet past the larval stage. Probably because this has never been allowed to run it’s course. I hope I might be able to do so now.

I’ve recently [re]started work on several fun gaming projects. I really like making programs and making games is one way that I can tell stories, which is something I want to do. So I intend to make games.

I can only hope that I will one day leave coocoon and rejoin the world of man.

I have a Dream!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

I dream of a Lan Party where everyone has a laptop with a wireless connection.
I dream of only having power cables to worry about. (I would not complain without those either)
I dream of being able to arrange an event like that with 10 or so people, and we can all indulge in countless destructive battles of StarCraft. (or some Battlefield… hehe)

Wouldn’t it be cool? 10 people, 10 Powerbooks, No Cables. Bliss.

The wonder that is the Game Center

Saturday, June 19th, 2004

Recently my friends John-John and Markus made me into a believer. I went with them to a game center called m@trix, and had a blast playing Battlefield Vietnam. Shit, aside from the fact that the game rocks, the whole visit was very pleasant in the sense that we could enjoy playing it together without having to haul our computers to a big abandoned cinema and spend the weekend with sweaty geeks ;).

Back in the days when I actually had a really powerful PC computer on which I could run all these funky games, I shunned those places and the people who went there as being inefficient and money wasters.
Now I am not so sure. The whole visit was pretty cheap, you sign up to be a member for 100kr and you get 3 hours free. If you are referred by a guy, he gets an extra hour. So Markus got an extra hour on my behalf…hehe. Normally you get four hours for 100kr. The more you pay the better, eventually you can pay 1000kr for 100 hours.
In any case, we had a blast and played goddamn Vietnam for 2 hours, after which we went to eat in a nice place. (and in the evening, crazy festivities ensued…)
The fact of the matter is, I took my cousin Vlad there last night too, and got an extra hour since he signed up. So we sat there playing Vietnam again for 2 hours (at which point my time ran out and my neck told me to fuck off). So we went home satisfied, after shooting lots of american soldiers and hearing vietnamese guys scream weird stuff which after playing for a few hours you will start to understand perfectly hehe.

I am surely going again, although alone is not an option.
Despite all that, I still miss having a gaming rig, and wanna get one again eventually. Doesn’t feel very geeky to code a cool computer game and not even have a real rig.

Below is a picture of the guys, and my desk of today.

johnjohn and bowieMy Messy Desk

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Thursday, December 18th, 2003

Final Fantasy Tactics Screenshot
I know this blog at this point probably just has 5 or 6 readers at most. And I speak to you 5 or 6 when I say that you guys should not lose hope. I intend to post at least 3 times a week or more, so don’t stop coming!

On to my “review” of FFTA.
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