Jay McGavren's Journal

Just finished up my presentation for Zyps...

I really can’t pronounce it a huge success; I had a group of about ten people. Not insanely pleased with how everything went, but that may be just my own overly self critical eye on it.

Part of the problem was that I was flustered - I couldn’t get the projector working despite arriving 15 minutes early… 10 minutes in, Lorin Thwaits finally got it going with the help of some UAT staff. (Many thanks to him for rescuing the presentation!)

Got a couple questions, got modest replies, I think it was just too early in the morning for me and for everyone else.

When you want to indulge all your vices but still save gas...

starbucks OR “panda express” near 85032

WhiteCap 5 is absolutely beautiful. I haven’t messed with it (or any visualizer) since, oh, version 2.0. Bought the Gold version of that and G-Force, and then never touched them. I barely have time to listen to music these days, much less trip out to a screensaver while I do it.

Hmmm, speaking of G-Force, that’s next…

…and I need to create an EnvironmentalFactor for Zyps that manages the colors of all GameObjects according to their Location (for rainbows and such).

Why I hate code generators...

From the rSpec 1.1.4 release notes:

Note: we've removed the metaclass method from Object. There were some generated specs that used it, and they will now break. Just replace the metaclass call with (class << self; self; end) and all will be well.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (2005) is now available for download on XBox 360 Live, and I regret not catching it the first time around. (Well, no, I think $60 might have been too much to pay for it, but for $15, it’s freaking awesome.)

Basically, it’s an ultra-fast-paced, Live-enabled four-player God of War. It’s not especially deep; there are invisible walls all over the place, and the strategy doesn’t vary that much by enemy. But with multiple players, it definitely requires teamwork. “Someone cast the repulse spell!” “Save the cheese for me!” Diana, Lenny and I are playing it now, and it’s just challenging enough to get your pulse pumping. Good stuff.

If anyone downloads it and wants to party up, let us know.