Several tribe members are going to be at A-Kon this weekend, myself included. Some of us are going to be speaking at some gaming panels, but I don't have the times yet.
If you're in the Dallas area, drop by and check it out.
(Personally, I'm looking forward to the vendor area...always some nifty stuff there.)
Update 6/8/2006, 9:35pm: We'll be participating in the "Getting Started in the Industry" sessions with Obsidian Entertainment on Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 1pm.
June 7, 2006
June 6, 2006
[SiN] Bugs You'll Never See #1
One of the fun things about being in QA is we get to see a lot of bugs that the general public will never see. Sometimes, it's because we torture test things, like in this screenshot.
This is what happens when you crank the Personal Challenge System up to 11. (Thanks Joel.)
This is what happens when you crank the Personal Challenge System up to 11. (Thanks Joel.)
[Misc] 6-6-06, YAUSB, A-Kon
This is what I woke up to this morning when I checked the front page at MSNBC.COM.
Wow. I don't even know where to start with this one.
YAUSB should be done today (Tom, the "USB" in this instance stands for three words, one of which is an acronym), so the rest of the week can be spent on Arena Mode.
Of course, I'll be out of the office on Friday for A-Kon, but I have faith that my QA team can function without me.
June 5, 2006
[Personal] The Remodel That Never Ends, Reading
The apartment complex that I live in has been undergoing a near continuous remodel over the last year and a half.
Recently, the entire exterior was repainted from adobe-pink to a near khaki-brown. Our doors were repainted from forest green to a shade of brown best described as "the runs."
The wiring in our apartment has been redone three times since we moved in. The first time was because our circuit breaker froze open and caught fire; the second time was to bring our outlets up to code; and the third time was because they screwed up the second time.
Now I'm sitting here because my wife had to open at her work, so she couldn't be here to make sure the workmen didn't steal anything. Fortunately, she's getting off work early so I can actually make it in and be productive today, but still...
At least I have my books to keep me from going insane from boredom. I've been reading through "Programming A Multiplayer FPS In DirectX
" over the last week, because I'm a firm believer that knowing how something could be created helps you test it more effectively. One thing that I've liked about this book is that rather than just toss a lot of code at you and then walking through the code, it walks through the problem space, discusses a solution to the problem, implements the solution, and then adds a unit test to the solution so you can test each individual subsystem in isolation, as well as with part of a unified system test. It's a very organized production. While the order that he addresses the topics may not make a lot of sense initially, the way that he builds on each system makes the order feel natural.
The only downside to the book is that he uses a lot of deprecated functionality in DirectX, but there are plenty of resources online to ease migration from this deprecated functionality.
Recently, the entire exterior was repainted from adobe-pink to a near khaki-brown. Our doors were repainted from forest green to a shade of brown best described as "the runs."
The wiring in our apartment has been redone three times since we moved in. The first time was because our circuit breaker froze open and caught fire; the second time was to bring our outlets up to code; and the third time was because they screwed up the second time.
Now I'm sitting here because my wife had to open at her work, so she couldn't be here to make sure the workmen didn't steal anything. Fortunately, she's getting off work early so I can actually make it in and be productive today, but still...
At least I have my books to keep me from going insane from boredom. I've been reading through "Programming A Multiplayer FPS In DirectX
" over the last week, because I'm a firm believer that knowing how something could be created helps you test it more effectively. One thing that I've liked about this book is that rather than just toss a lot of code at you and then walking through the code, it walks through the problem space, discusses a solution to the problem, implements the solution, and then adds a unit test to the solution so you can test each individual subsystem in isolation, as well as with part of a unified system test. It's a very organized production. While the order that he addresses the topics may not make a lot of sense initially, the way that he builds on each system makes the order feel natural.The only downside to the book is that he uses a lot of deprecated functionality in DirectX, but there are plenty of resources online to ease migration from this deprecated functionality.
June 3, 2006
[Sin] Next Few Weeks
This blog may go anywhere from dim to completely dark for the next couple of weeks starting on Monday.
The code side of the next update to "SiN Episodes: Emergence" is getting delivered to test next week, and I really need to focus on it. While most of the issues are corner-case bug fixes (like every once in a while, depending on where you were standing, the security bots would be invincible), there's also some new stuff that we're really going to have to pour over...
But for this weekend, no "SiN" for me. I'm home recovering from some nasty side effects of my new allergy medication. I've got one of my guys handling the tech forums for me so I can rest and recuperate. The only reason I'd have to go in this weekend is if there's a major issue that crops up with YAUSB...and no, I'm not saying what that means.
The code side of the next update to "SiN Episodes: Emergence" is getting delivered to test next week, and I really need to focus on it. While most of the issues are corner-case bug fixes (like every once in a while, depending on where you were standing, the security bots would be invincible), there's also some new stuff that we're really going to have to pour over...
But for this weekend, no "SiN" for me. I'm home recovering from some nasty side effects of my new allergy medication. I've got one of my guys handling the tech forums for me so I can rest and recuperate. The only reason I'd have to go in this weekend is if there's a major issue that crops up with YAUSB...and no, I'm not saying what that means.
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