Month: April 2005

sechsta sinn weekend

Published by Matthias Gall

Tomorrow another sechsta sinn weekend is going to start, and right now I feel sick. This sucks. But not just physically, but mentally as well … mattin told me that he has to leave early on Sunday noon, Julius is thinking about attending a birthday party on Saturday, I have to work tomorrow before I can take off, and Christopher, Jochen, Jan and Sebastian won’t join us at all due to several reasons. Melancholic I remember the days when we managed to get the whole team AND visitors into our little cellar for the whole weekend. Anyway, I’m looking forward to being as productive as possible this weekend. I’ll take my webcam with me again, so don’t forget to catch a glimpse.

Privacy and Copyright on ICQ/AIM

Published by Matthias Gall

I’m sure it’s an old hat for the most of you, but I read about this for the first time and found it unacceptable (and I can’t believe I really overlooked this when I agreed to the terms of service). From the ICQ Terms Of Service: You agree that by posting any material or information anywhere on the ICQ Services and Information you surrender your copyright and any other proprietary right in the posted material or information. You further agree that ICQ Inc. is entitled to use at its own discretion any of the posted material or information in any manner it deems fit, including, but not limited to, publishing the material or distributing it. From the AIM Terms Of Service: You or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to public areas of any AIM Product. However, by submitting or posting Content to public areas of AIM Products (for example, posting a message on a message board or submitting your picture for the …

Weekend Gamedev

Published by Matthias Gall

I’ve done a huge refactoring of our game project, DVW, over the weekend. One reason was that I could not see the GUI code anymore. It was a mess! Most of the stuff was about four years old, and it looked like 40 years old or so. So I was spending the whole Friday night to rearrange things, move attributes and methods up to the parent class, remove some redundant stuff, and I even killed about 1000 lines of code by simply removing some GUI controls which were not used any longer and which were buggy as hell. The main reason was that I am currently writing the main menu code which is completely controlled from a Lua script. I didn’t want it to be hardcoded, because I don’t want to be the one who needs to do all the fine tuning with all the visual effects we’re going to have. We have people who are much more talented with this detail work. I wrote a state machine which supports multiple states at once, so …