Category Archives: university
Gamification: Challenge Accepted!
Today at ITU, the lectures was about “Gamification” got an interesting challenge, which can – in short – be described as short as in 7 words, as follows: Gamify a part of ITU in 20 minutes. Me and 3 others … Continue reading
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Now that the first half a year of my time studying Game Design is over, I found it would be a good time to look back on the experience so far … and I realized that I had forgotten a … Continue reading
the video game name generator generator game with no name
Name is still a placeholder. So, for now just “The VGNGGGwNN”. Not to be attempted to be pronounced. Ok, you may, but you might fail. Yeah. Alternatively “Primal Internet Fun”. It started with the following link was thrown out at … Continue reading
so, today’s tweet…
… was just like any other tweet – I guess – but the difference is, that it made me realize that it has been ages and ages since I’ve actually written anything here, save perhaps an update or two. What … Continue reading
gwardar
And so, the 3 week programming-course I’d been working with is over. The report is written, the program compiled (and worked!) flawlessly – although the last compile was done 1½ hour before the actual exam – and the board that … Continue reading
that’s rhetorical… right?
Today, the “big course” of this semester started, which for me is “General Rhetorics”. The first reaction from most is probably most likely “What on Earth would you take that for, as you’re a Computer Scientist?!”. And, that’s what I … Continue reading
raiding the raid
While doing the exam I was going through the previous week, I happened to notice a funny, yet extremely obvious similarity between the subject and World of Warcraft. Part of the assignment was about Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID). … Continue reading
powerbooking
It’s in periods like these, where irony shows its ugly face. The period in this matter, is exams. As usual, that takes a lot of reading, with your face deep into the – way too heavy – books. Now, the … Continue reading
comments
If you’ve ever written or read sections of code, you’ll eventually end up seeing comments pretty much everywhere, describing what’s going on, arguing why this exact approach is the best, or why it was necessary that a certain ugly hack … Continue reading