Water
Mike Whitfield and I are getting deeper into ogre, so expect more updates. He is actually laying a lot of groundwork for the game we are trying to make.
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Bob in Game Development
sam Harris at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Below is a 7 part keynote at the festival, given by a person that i have found insightful and thought felt while still posing the question… Why do you believe in god? I invite you to watch them all, as i have and enjoy the aura around this man.
Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Bob in Inspiration, Random
Lessons from Garry's Mod
Lessons from Garry’s Mod -
Garry’s Mod is a fascinating study in guerilla programming. It’s an incredibly successful mod for the game Half-Life 2 that essentially converts it into a giant sandbox powered by Lua.
[Coding Horror]
I thought you guys would like to read this, its pretty light, but it highlights Garry’s mod, and what set it apart.
Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Bob in Game Review
I miss my English classes =(
It has come to my attention over the last 7 months that I really miss my English classes. I have read nearly 20 books over the last 7 months (for those of you who cannot do the whole math thing that’s nearly three a month) and have another week left in July in which I may be able to finish the 21st. On top of the assigned reading I have even gone back into my writing and found that I really do love to write and document and explain.
Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Bob in Inspiration, Random
the last week’s updates
I have taken the liberty of keeping up with the PHPBB3 Updates, and I have yet to find any aspect of the PHPBB application that is sub par. I am extremely happy with the energy that has been put into it and hope to never be forced to use anything other than PHPBB for website bulletin boards. There have also been quite a few updates to documentation, including more of my poetry being added to the book that is posted herein, and a bunch of new tutorials and documents being added to the wiki. Despite the lack of response from users, gneu is still continuing towards its goals, and will most definitely be continuing this satisfactory feeling that I have been having as of late. Thanks to Mike Whitfield for contributing his tutorials to the HL2 category, and to Enrique for finally directing me towards something that I was comfortable writing a document about. I have also taken some time to update the front page of the wiki and begun the work in fleshing out the game design documentation, in the forums as well as the wiki.
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Bob in Gneu Website, Inspiration
sicko - It is time
More reason has been handed to me, tonight, to reinforce my belief that I am a Californian, and not an American. For those of you who have yet to see it, check out Michael Moore’s newest flick, Sicko, at a theatre/torrent site near you. It is really a heavy story that needs to be heard by as many people as possible. I may post political items on this blog, and I’ve been receiving a lot of heat about it as of late, but I would be really disappointed if that fact would push you towards not seeing this movie. I will most definitely post something with more detail tomorrow when I get my thoughts together, but for now… Get this movie ASAP and get yourself in gear.
I want free health care =(
Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Bob in Global Crises
9/11 Truth: MIT Engineer Jeff King Says WTC Demolished
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Bob in Global Crises
Creationism, as only the Simpsons can put things, the first time through
“What took you so long?” - Margey Poo
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Bob in Global Crises, Inspiration
Clocks! W007!
I would like to welcome you all to the inaugural meeting of demos.gneu.org! This day is the first of many that will allow you all to contribute to my site in a manner that keeps you nerds from having to put your necks out and actually be noticed. Email me suggestions about what you would like to see demos of and I will do it, simple as that. If the requests become too numerous ill start a queue and put them up for a vote. As with everything GNEU, I plan to write tutorials for all of the things I pull together.
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Bob in Application Development, Web Development
Manufacturation and why HL2 is done.
this morning I had a meeting with Mike Whitfield, Terry Moenkhaus and I met up, originally intending to meet up with the Iron Grip folks and solidify some of our issues and what not. Well that fell through. They signed someone else and so the topic fell on relief of being able to pull together an idea of our own. We talked for quite some time about what we want to do and unfortunately HL2 is not looking like it should be our focus. Most of the issues with building an HL2 mod are rather simple and hard to ignore, but one overwhelming issue is that there isn’t much that hasn’t been done. I likened it to South Park’s episode about how the Simpsons have already done everything, and they both agreed. We can rehash other game ideas but barring some new idea coming out it just doesn’t peak any of our interests.
Posted on July 7th, 2007 by Bob in Game Development, Gneu Website, Random