RPG Get! TCG

Some of you may remember me mentioning plans for an RPG-based card game in this post almost 3 years ago.

Well, I’ve been gaining interest in it again (of course when I don’t have any game systems or TVs accessible, much less the games themselves or a means to take screenshots of them) and I hacked together a few cards today to try and get a feel of what the game will feel like. I also polished up the rules a bit… hopefully they’re more balanced and fair now.

(Cards are, of course, not finalized and whatever, but meh).












This’ll be awesome if I keep working on it and don’t lose interest :D

More OS

OS is going very well.
Our thread library now passes all tests, a week early (it’s not due until next Friday). Our mutexes, condition variables, and semaphores have all been tested. Everything seems to be working. This is awesome.
We are going to make a bunch of improvements to it… for example, thr_exit() currently does not clean up its memory (we leave that work to thr_join(), which is kinda not a good idea). We also want to generally clean up and optimize our code and replace our slow linked lists with faster BSTs. Woot.

Other stuff has been awesome too. Life has been full of interviews lately with very interesting companies. Hopefully I’ll actually have a job after I graduate. This would be good.

Student Wars v2 is coming along. I’m almost done with the base set, I think. People should help me playtest sometime (this weekend?).

Work, water, Wean, and wars (of students)

Work has been awesome lately. I’ve been writing more unit tests (the fun kind), and I often find myself wishing I could work more hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and wishing that I could work fewer hours on Tuesdays. I might re-adjust my schedule to be 5 hours every day instead of the current 4/8/4/4. That would be awesome, except it would mean I work until 5 on Mondays and Wednesdays.

In case you haven’t heard (i.e. you aren’t a CMUer), a water main broke in Oakland today, leaving all of campus and most of the area around campus without water. Fairfax still had water (albeit with weakened water pressure), but Greg and I went to an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet for dinner instead anyway, as there were notices that we shouldn’t use water unless absolutely necessary. So yeah… good times.
See here for a lovely piccar of the street exploded.

So yeah, as a result of that, they shut down the clusters (no AC without water) and server rooms, so I was left unable to really continue doing my OS project. I’m fairly confident about the idea though… so I shouldn’t be too terribly worried about the actual implementation. In any case, I have this (extended) weekend to do it, and it isn’t due until next Wednesday.
I also worked on (finished?) my first pen-based computing assignment today: a tablet PC version of tic tac toe. Unfortunately, I can’t get the program to run due to a security error. I should figure out why eventually.

I’ve been doing a lot of work on Student Wars v2 lately. After I make a few more GPA cards, some core Events, and a couple Rules, I think it will be ready for playtesting. Hopefully this will be much more balanced than Student Wars was… and not in the boring “everyone is on equal ground” kind of way, but in the “each of the four primary factions have a specific strength” kind of way. Exciting.

Life is amazing.

Photos from House Wars last week, since I haven’t posted them yet:



It’s almost 2 AM. I should probably be asleep.

Work, day 6 (and Student Wars, and masks)

Student Wars: Loose Ends has been finished and uploaded for your viewing/playing pleasure. There are probably a lot of typos, so please be kind.

Also, there are now people masks in Junk, including a Tom mask (happy, Tyler?).

Work today went decently. I finally got admin rights, and so was able to do all the installs needed to actually do my job. Huzzah! I set up and tested some peer code review programs, and hopefully they won’t break horribly. So yeah.

Wheee!

Edit:People wearing the masks!

Me as 8.

Greg as Zach.

8 as 8… backwards.

Work, day 5

I really should update this more often…

Work on Friday was good. I got my first task done, and the higher-ups seemed mostly happy with the results, so huzzah!
Work today wasn’t nearly as exciting. My advisor peoples and/or boss are in all-day classes until Thursday, and I still don’t have admin access to my machine. This combination means I don’t really have much to do except read the documentation for various code review software packages that they want me to set up and test (which I can’t do until I have admin to my computer). Bleh. Tomorrow will likely be the same, unless I can somehow expedite the admin process.

Student Wars Loose Ends is 13 cards away from completion. I’ll probably finish it tomorrow evening if I feel up to it.

There was an electrical fire in front of Joe Mamas when we went for all-you-can-eat pasta.