My first week as a professional game developer has been pretty awesome. Here are some of the things I have done:
Made the main character able to jump
Made a medpack
Made a time bomb
Built a tower
Build a fort
Built a children’s hospital
Blew up a children’s hospital with a rocket launcher
If you have some time this weekend, we just [...]
My Stanford webspace is going to expire in October at the latest, so I have migrated all my stuff to personal webhosting.
More and more, I’ve become increasingly uneasy with using my real name online. My main concern is identity theft – I keep a blog that is easily found by searching my name, and while [...]
I lugged Cosmic Encounter around for all my college years and I finally got to play it on Friday with Brendan, Jo, Eric Sun, Carol, and Daniel. There’s a bit of a learning curve, so if we were going to do it again, I might take the Flares out of the deck. Still, I think [...]
This was a great week on the job hunting front. Jo got a job offer from Volkswagen – they want her to work in the Palo Alto lab on hybrids, fuel cells, biodiesel, and other green stuff – which is pretty much exactly what she was looking to do. I accepted a job offer at [...]
Where else but Stanford can one amble out at twilight for a walk and come across a two-time Pulitzer prize winner giving a talk on the importance of History? Joanna and I were taking a stroll last night and we came across of bunch of high-ranking university people having an event in the quad. The [...]
My evil robot auction from February is still up on eBay. I imagine that the page will expire soon. It’s interesting to see that even though it has be defunct now for nearly half a year, it still gets several hundred hits a month.
Evil Killer Robot Auction Views: 3416
Oh my crazy antics…
I spent the last week and a half in LA (shout out to Microsoft for the plane ticket). Almost as soon as I got there, I drove down to Laguna beach in Orange County with Joanna, Mommypuff, Gogo, Roger, Matthew, Lori, and Sascha. We stayed at the Surf & Sand, which is a lovely hotel [...]
Last Monday I flew to Seattle to interview for software development positions at the Empire. Over the course of two days, I interviewed with the DirectX team, the Halo 2 Vista port team, and Microsoft Games Studios. Game programming is not something I ever thought I would do for a living, since the industry is [...]
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