1..2..3.. Launch

So it is official. The first game created by Gosuman Games is live and vital. It is a game made for Netposten and is a simple stock guessing web-based game. I am actually quite pleased with how the game turned out, and of course getting to get payed to write a game. That, in itself, is a first for me. So while it is not an idea of my own, it is there and live. Check it out, if you read danish that is, otherwise you are USC for now. They have great prizes as well, there is a chance to win an iPod... Not bad for a game that only runs for a week at a time!

Of course it brings the nag of not completing my first independant production to mind... But my calendar for may looks like it might give some opportunities.

My project at ITU is nearing completion. We had a great meeting with our tutor today, she confirmed that we were on the right track. There is still some writing to do, and a lot of restructuring, but I think we are in good time. We originally had to hand it in next friday - but guess what. Steve Ballmer is coming to visit ITU, so we get a few days extra time to hand it in. Guess the security surrounding the handing in of projects is too much to handle when combined with Steve-O. :)

Lastly, i read newest The Escapist mag today. Mostly by accident, I had stumbled on it before where it didn't pique my interest. But this time I found myself suddenly reading the whole issue. And enjoying it too. So, maybe I'll become a regular reader.

OMG its that time already

Wow... Time has been flying by. Last post Feb 22. Hmm... I have been doing a lot of stuff. Working mostly. The game I have made for Netposten is about to launch, I have been doing some work on an ASP.NET/Sitecore thins for AlphaSolutions and some random stuff... And then I have my project on ITU that is nearing completion. It is to be handed in next friday - so I just have to overcome my writers block. But when it is done I will start feeling good about things again. This is just one of those times when a lot of different things have to be wrapped op - preferably all at the same time.

C# Edge

Just discovered that my good friend Troels has a Blog too called C# Edge. He is doing some amazing AJAX stuff with his OutPost module. Today I just saw that he got listed in Daniel Ziess' great AJAX comparison chart.

I, frankly, have to learn that stuff very soon. I am doing a game for a comapny called Netposten right now, pure ASP.NET, and it could surely use some snazzy AJAX features.

Third party product testing

Seems like it wasn't just a bad brainwave I had when I posted about testing 3rd party libraries. James Greening did a post on this as well. Saves me the trouble of elaborating. ;-)

Exam. Done!

So it is finally over. I had my exam yesterday morning. It went well. My grade was 10 (on a special danish scale to 13). And I am satisfied with that. Now I can practice relaxing. Some.

I am picking up my laptop that has been broken since monday. I had actually managed to break the motherboard (and the screen), how I did that I dont know. But they replaced both. Price: 3900 kr. Ouch. I could buy a new desktop for that money. Happily I aint paying. But I know now to be very careful. It is the first time in my 5 years of using a laptop only that I have broken one down. It is usually "only" the harddisk that breaks down. Which is actually worse!

This weekend we are going to our house in the country. I will be coding on a job that is up for first test monday, and Kat will be watching the royal baptism. All by the roaring fireplace. Can't get much better than that I assure you. It has been snowing heavily in denmark during the week, so it will be fantastic up there. Watch out for pics next week.

The joys of studying

I am currently studying for dear life for my Advanced OO Programming exam in two days. I had forgotten how much energy it takes learning concentrated, especially when you have to learn stuff that you are not going to use much after the exam. Admitted, there are great stuff in there like Design Patterns, Refactoring and so on that I will use, but also other things that are not pressing in my current line of work.

I just want to get it over with now. I feel ready enough. So bring it on.

Yesterday my laptop broke down. Really. I think it is related to the power supply, cause the thing is positively dead. Hopefully I will get it back by friday. Fortunately the hard drive was intact. That was my first concern. So I have my data. Especially my notes for the exam! But I feel so naked without my laptop...

The last thing. Congrats to my girlfriend. Today it is her 28th birthday. Hooray!

Good fun

The best WTF moments of 2005. I especally loved this comment:

A Whole Bunch of People Game Themselves to Death

The weird thing here isn't that people are dying while playing videogames. It's that we've already become so jaded about it that it's stopped being newsworthy when it happens. A WoW player starving to death is like the sun coming up in the morning. You can't throw a rock in Korea without hitting a cybercafe full of dead WoW players.