News from 2008.07.*

PS3 Gaming

Ladies and gentlemen, the Playstation 3 gaming experience, for me:

Seriously, every time I turn this thing on, it needs to shuffle off to the internet for a few hours to update itself. Perhaps it could download updates in the background; then I'd only need to wait the interminable 15 minutes for the update to install.

Interesting Times

The previous two weeks have been exhausting. I flew to Dublin for the Symposium on Computer Animation, arrived back in the states, and catapulted into a glass blowing intensive class -- five days of nothing but sleep, eat, glass.

Needless to say, progress on almost everything TCHOW-related has been minimal. I am inching the necklace server code forward; in fact, as it stands, the game can submit high scores and learn if they are new. What is needed, however, is a cleaner design -- all this net code is getting confusing! The plus side is that a correct design should basically "drop into" other projects.

Time is running short, and there is research that needs to be done.