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Shurely Shome Mishtake?

I've been talking to too many students recently. Or is it too many staff. Or too many developers. Anyhoo, I've run into an ontological impasse along the lines of: what are we doing here? This isn't, I hope, a mid-life crisis (a bit late that for me!), but an educator stopping to think, to take some time to stand and stare. And ask: is a university the right place to learn games programming? If it isn't, then that's just tough, cos there aint any other option. And if it isn't, then why… Continue

Added by John Sutherland on November 13, 2009 at 9:32pm — 10 Comments

Fellow gamers

First post woo! ^_^! I feel I should share my thoughts a bit more on here and immerse in the lively community. It is also pretty relevant to you guys and gals! What I'm asking is when it comes down to it all, to the very essence and creation. Why do we play games? It amazes me how many people are actually afraid to play games like Silent Hill because they border on the obscene and yet others (myself included) actually enjoy being scared out of their wits time and time again. However on t… Continue

Added by Michael Robertson on October 31, 2009 at 3:02am — 9 Comments

ma feelins 2wards EA n their ideas on the last 2 needs for speed games

undercover n shift the feel for both games r great with shift beatin undercover by far but the thing that pissed me off was the deletion of offline co-op race in the game i feel that EA has lost their marbles as this means no more friendly house parties where we race each other in tornements plz read n leave ur own comments thanks Continue

Added by richard hope on October 23, 2009 at 9:58am — 1 Comment

Intro to Programming Course Notes

Where can u buy a hard copy of the course notes for Intro to Programming? Continue

Added by Brandon Morris on October 17, 2009 at 2:54pm — 5 Comments

Java Applet Problems

I am trying to compile to a JAR the attached files to run in a web browser, i believe i have the HTML code correct, comparing it to others. However i am getting these errors when running it in the webpage: oad: class MazeApplet.class not found. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: MazeApplet.class at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Class… Continue

Added by Jossy Barron on October 12, 2009 at 4:46pm — 12 Comments

Scratch that, it won't work

Scratch has many limitations, but I thought I could find my way around one of the major ones ... After some success with the Arkanoid demo I created in Scratch with only one brick sprite being stamped in multiple places, I thought I'd go for a parallax scrolling starfield using only one sprite object for next week's practical session. I started off by creating a Star sprite with two costumes, one with a single white pixel for drawing the star, and one with a single black pixel for erasing the… Continue

Added by Kalakian on October 10, 2009 at 7:54pm — No Comments

Skillset revalidation visit‏

Have we to go to this even if we have a lecture Continue

Added by Brandon Morris on October 7, 2009 at 5:45pm — 3 Comments

Version Tracking

Can anyone recommend any software, preferably open source , that would allow me to track and maintain software versions of a programme written in Java? preferably one that works on mac :P Jossy Continue

Added by Jossy Barron on October 5, 2009 at 11:14pm — 9 Comments

WIFI Settings

Does anyone know of any sure fire way of connecting to the Uni Wifi as it seems to be hit and miss with some people and totally fails with others. I have heard it mentioned you need specific proxies in place? Anyone have the information in regards to that? cheers Jossy Continue

Added by Jossy Barron on October 1, 2009 at 9:42am — 12 Comments

The Language of the Game

Came across this on the Escapist Magazine. Blame it on the economy, a "quarter-life crisis" or merely being young and restless, but whenever my friends and I convene, we invariably talk about What We Want to Be When We Grow Up. "I'm so jealous you're getting your master's," my girlfriend bemoaned to a friend of mine. "I feel like I haven't done anything since I graduated college." "But you're doing plenty of things with your life," she replied. "Don't worry." The two men sitting at the table… Continue

Added by Jon Robertson on September 29, 2009 at 8:25pm — 1 Comment

Time wasting

So randomly thinking after spending the past 12 hours reading nothing but Star Wars saga series RPG books, The Essential Atlas, Fate of the Jedi: Abyss and randomly reading three years worth of the Webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del. I have come to the realisation, if I put this much damn dedication into developing my own Star Wars text based RPG, I’d have my blood Honours by now! There would be more to this but I’ve been spacing for the last hour so I haven’t a clue what I wanted to say, I just wanted to ty… Continue

Added by Tam on September 28, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Something to think about

This has got nothing to do with computers or games but just hear me out! xD I was so bored today that i was flicking through tv channels on sky today, i ended up on the history channel. There was a program called theuniverse on which i decided to leave on as i couldnt be bothered to change the channel anymore, so i watched it. After it finished...it gave me a look on life that i had never though about. I think about it. How small are we, when compared to the rest of the world. Here is how to t… Continue

Added by Stevo aka Dr Katata Fish on September 26, 2009 at 7:52pm — 8 Comments

Thoughts of a 3rd Year CGD Student

So i came to uni with a single desire to get a simple computing degree and then go do some teaching, as the years have gone that idea has deflated like a balloon left to its own devices. Since being here i have switched course every year, starting in Computing Science, then being attracted by the shiny lights of the CGT course and then finally getting sick of C++ and switching to CGD where the grass it turns out is greener and the Java and Flash roam free. Prior to contrary belief CGD is not CGT… Continue

Added by Jossy Barron on September 26, 2009 at 1:56pm — 2 Comments

pre-termism

Next week is lumbering ever closer and threatens to engulf us as usual. Lectures, courseworks, hardware, software, coke machines, paninis, pizzas, crisps (that's enough food!) etc. and another year of cutting code, creating imagery and dreaming of being the next Miyamoto-san. In one of these infinite numbers of parallel universes there is a UWS where the timetables are entirely correct, registration takes 10 minutes, student card photos are to die for, there is working software on the computers… Continue

Added by John Sutherland on September 26, 2009 at 8:36am — No Comments

Things I should have already done!

If I've been given free webspace I'll use it! I've got a few things I really should finish/start/get on with at the moment. Firstly I should really sell my motorcycle! I need that money but I do hate ebay so much. Secondly and more importantly I should get my gameboy back out and get chiptuning again! Now I'm actualyl going to make games it'd be nice to be able to create some original music for them. Think i'll take it with me on the train tomorrow and annoy all the passengers! Also need to bu… Continue

Added by Kieran Nelson on September 25, 2009 at 11:44pm — 3 Comments

Tweeting Second Year, or, 140 Characters of Coursework Angst

After much recommending last year, I've picked up a Twitter feed, aiming to pester folk into oblivion via the mini-blogs. Should be fun! http://twitter.com/irrevilent Continue

Added by Phil McCauley on September 20, 2009 at 12:02am — 2 Comments

The Danger of Statistics - '7 million people in the UK pirate'

"Ok here is a perfect example of how statistics are abused. The UK government recently announced that 7 million brits are involved with online piracy. They of course went on to argue about how damaging that is to the economy blah blah blah. Where did that figure come from? The task of researching it was given to a team at UCL, who then got the 7 million number from a Forrester Research paper (Which was sponsored by the recording industry). But the 7 million figure isnt actually mentioned in th… Continue

Added by Phil McCauley on September 6, 2009 at 1:00am — 19 Comments

Project A-Port: Performance! Performance! Performance!

Developing for the Android phone is turning into a very enjoyable experience. However being a phone it lacks the performance grunt of your average PC. An Android phones uses the DavlikVM to run applications. It's a very nice Virtual Machine but with one major draw back when it comes to games... It focuses on keeping as small a memory footprint as possible and doesn't mind sacrificing processing time to do it. A lot of the functions created their own temporary objects. Especially code that was… Continue

Added by Ross Forshaw on August 31, 2009 at 2:35pm — 4 Comments

Project A-Port

So the new Android Mobile Operating System from Google has been out for a few months now. Being a big fan of Open Source technology I couldn't resist diving in and taking a look at this. Unlike most Open Source projects where Documentation is sorely lacking. Google have done a great job developing a website that quite literally answers all your problems. It has a mixture of HowTo's & Tutorials that allows you to quickly get up and running with the SDK provided. It also provides an excellent… Continue

Added by Ross Forshaw on August 28, 2009 at 1:38pm — 4 Comments

New Year coming ...

Summer has been a cumin in, and has now past. A new year heading up and birthday No52 at some stage, unless Jesus returns, the earth burns into flames or my late great aunt Betty in Vancouver leaves me her 1981 $1 Microsoft shares ... What's the year gonna be like? We have got 40 new top-spec great graphics cards PCs for E113. As someone said: I don't believe it! We also have a bid in for revamping E106 as a studio space kinda like a cross between QWERTYs and the room upstairs from it. Having… Continue

Added by John Sutherland on August 26, 2009 at 6:53am — 15 Comments

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