Life, Opportunity, and Development

Dustin posted ThetaWars

nobody@vox.com(Matthew Kruskamp) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:42:26 -0600

The XNA game that I mentioned in previous posts was uploaded thanks to Dusda. Although the movie looks fairly choppy, I can assure you that it is not when you actually play it. Simple and elegant... actually, we only had 2 days to work on it so I think we did a pretty good job considering it was our first endeavor with XNA. I'll post again soon with another personal update. Until then, have fun viewing our game :P.

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Theta Wars

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The final final

nobody@vox.com(Matthew Kruskamp) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:06:38 -0600

Recap. Yesterday was a fairly long day. I took my CS360 final that covered: COM+, Remoting, Message Queuing, Web Services, routing, and WSE3 Security policies. did alright on the written part, and got a 100% on the coding portion. Then I did a demo of mine and dusda's XNA assignment to our DirectX professor. That went pretty well also. The cool part, however, was the insane amount of feedback from the students when we let people play it in the student commons. Fortunately, we actually made a game that people replayed and switched off with one another. The remainder of the day was spent with my car. She was running poorly so I cleaned up the engine bay, changed the oil, swapped out some spark plugs, and fixed all the warning lights. Then another long night... this time for packing for the trip to Michigan.

Today was my final final. Mathmatics is not my strong suit although I am very interested in it. I just haven't done enough. So I was happy to get a 100% on the exam and finally end this quarter. What is ahead? 26 hours of driving.

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Theta Wars

nobody@vox.com(Matthew Kruskamp) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:32:34 -0600

Dusda and I have been working on an XNA project to replace our DirectX project. Again, since my updates fail to compare to my experiences, the viewers of this blog have no idea what I am talking about (Except for the house members). XNA is Microsoft's release of a framework to develop Xbox 360 and Windows game applications. Beings that Dusda and I had a directx assignment due, our professor decided that a collaborative effort between Dusda and I in XNA would be appropriate. Unfortunatly for us, we had never used it before since it just released, so we have been pulling all nighters for the duration of the week in order to complete the assignment while still studying enough for the exams. We are almost complete, and the product will be kind of fun. Nothing flashy as we didn't have the time, but I am sure this is not the last time I develop in it. So today, it is presentations for an AJAX, remoting, and COM+ services application that my team wrote, and Dusda and I will be finishing up Theta Wars.

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