Gaming Zen

The Game Project is Chugging Along (Choo Choo)

nobody@vox.com(OldManLever) — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:53:26 -0300

We had an incredibly productive day today on our team project. By this point, Brandon has become the de facto programming lead, as he has been the only one doing any real coding. Emily and I know enough Flash to make suggestions and provide a reas...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Fallout Journals: Brokeback Mountain Edition

nobody@vox.com(OldManLever) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:31:33 -0300

I've been picking away at Flash over the last few days, experimenting with how to best produce the main character's animations for our team project. I decided to draw a little dude in kung-fu pajamas, since kung-fu pajamas are super easy to draw. ...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Project Management IV: A New Hope

nobody@vox.com(OldManLever) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:47:40 -0300

It's DONE. Our project presentation went very well, and now we're officially done our Project Management course. It feels AMAZING to be done school-school. All that lies ahead is the team project: making the game. Yeah, it's still school, but it ...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Project Management 2: Electric Boogaloo

nobody@vox.com(OldManLever) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:11:01 -0300

This morning's topic was the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). We had to divide our project into phases, which then subdivide into tasks, which are themselves subdivided (subsubdivided?) into subtasks. God, I feel like I'm in the Navy all of the sud...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Project Management

nobody@vox.com(OldManLever) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:51:42 -0300

Today was the beginning of our project management week. It's a week-long class, from 8:30am to 3:30pm every day, divided into two halves. The morning is a period marked off for lectures and practical instruction; the afternoon is given to the team...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

YTMND Watch (I'll Bet You Were Expecting a Different Lead) & the Best Beatles Song EVAR

nobody@vox.com(OldManLever) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:25:56 -0300

YTMNDs of the Week Now that my Internet Love is very much alive and kicking, the flood of YTMNDead sites has ceased and people have begun to just start making stupid sites again. My buddy Aaron has sent me a couple of awesome sites over the last ...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend