Up on my list of todos is to begin putting up my old work on my blog. List includes:

• RPG Game Engine made in OpenGL.
• Some old maps I created for CS:S and Half-Life single-player level.
• Very old but cool console text-based adventure game.
• A number of 3D rendering works.
• Video files.
• A number of C++/C# tools I’ve made since.
• Oh and Rm2k games, which aren’t finished but have nice fully functioning custom battle systems.

Well next section of this post is usually stuff I found on the net.

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Streaming and listening to full albums from bands is never easier if you actually check up on http://www.deezer.com/

For the past week I’ve recently been listening to whole band albums through this site. Nice quality songs. You don’t really need to register for the site to start listening to music. Just add the artist/album in the search file and start listening. Signing up is only for creating your own playlist and sharing your playlist to other members. I haven’t registered therefor I am unsure on whether your playlist can be imbedded.

Another I always recommend is Pandora. I’m sure many of you have heard of this awesome site but for those that haven’t, simply enter in some favourite bands/music and with Pandora it will play songs that sound appropriate to the band/song you’ve entered. Pretty neat and interesting use in querying songs of similar sounds.

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Tiinker

Usually early in the morning I spend a couple of hours reading news, blogs etc and it can sometimes eat more than just a couple of hours. Eventually you’ve spent 3+ hours without even having breakfast(LOL) and you eventually figured out that you’ve wasted most of your time reading inappropriate news. This happens regulary.
Then eventually I read up on http://tiinker.com/ and decided to give this new tool a try.
What it does is simply gives you a number of articles appropriate in different news/blog categories such as science, sports, technology etc and you give thumbs up or thumbs down for each short brief article summary. Depending on these ratings it will eventually spew out articles that interest you most. From here on you can continue fine-tuning your articles.
I’ve seen some improvements as I’ve been using it for the past couple of days. Your feed the articles in RSS and put onto your Google home page, which is very handy for me.

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Thank You Notes

If you ever felt the need to thank someone for something and you can’t clearly put right a good “thankyou” note, you can check http://www.thank-you-note-samples.com. It has samples of thank you notes. I dont know when these would come in handy, but its something I thought was pretty interesting.

Ron

In the mean time I’m working on getting a real domain name for my new site as its been an ongoin task of mine to get one.

Other things:

Xplorer² has gone to pro version it’s not available for free of course. If you haven’t heard of the program just read this here. If you are those people that do alot of file manipulation etc then this is absolute program. For me it’s pretty much replaced the use of the original windows explorer. I recommend this alot, even if you don’t do that much file managing etc just download it and mess around with it. The features are cooler obviously. The main site link is here: Xplorer².

WinMerge – another tool I recommend for programmers mostly. Again read as it saves me time explaining it. I’m sure that the user interface and maybe the underlying code is used in Tortoise SVN. I’ve always been looking for something like this for files and now here it is.

So other that updates thats it for now.

Also throughout this year I’ll be maintaining info on the end year engine that our module is currently working us to.
Just to start off firstly the engine itself. The engine at the moment only has one system for rendering. The whole point of the module is ti basically work and program other systems that collate together to make the engine, such as the physics and networking. Now all these don’t need to be programmed from scratch as there are alot of middleware available which can be used towards a nice engine at the end.
First purely focusing on the engine architecture/design and implementing the rendering engine. The rendering system that must be used is OGRE 3D. Will be keeping some up-to-date info on that as I progress through development.

As for the final year project, I’m basing my acedemic project in AI for games (of course). Since I’ve been working with alot of FSMs (Finate State Machines) I’d love a different approach to AI and therefore I’m be researching more into 2 methods: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, and creating a hybrid AI system of the two for Neuro-Fuzzy.

As for the implementation I wish to create a simple group versus group AI interactions using the hybrid system for a typical fantasy/role-playing environment where each of the members in the group will have a different role towards winning a group battle and their actions depends on their class and what they are capable of doing. Just to note that there is alot of MMO game influence that’s affected this and as many of you know, I used to play World Of Worldcraft, and everyone who’s played an MMO must have heard of the game, and also HALO 3. Yes! that game! Has semi-inspired me to see how hording AIs work together to make a fun and impressive AI.

So in theory think of battles of say 5 versus 5, AI vs AI or Players vs AI where there different characters with different class and playing style. This is where I want to focus this hybrid neuro-fuzzy system to implement into individual npcs that interact with one another and help each other to win battles.

So far this is just theory and in my own opinion the scope of this project or the size might be too big in a span of less than a years work for the project. I have still yet to talk for support on my idea and of course the project proposal is due in the week beginning the 8th of this month so I’m cutting time almost to the last minute. Will be posting more info on that.

As for the blog site itself, I will do my very best to get all info up and update it regularly. Also I’ll be putting up all the work I have done in the past. I’ve decided I’ll bother with a proper website domain after I’ve graduated as I dont wanna focus much on making the site, even though I have already created my template and design of the site, I just don’t want any hassle at the momemt.

Cya peops and you just got hit by a block of text.