Prioritising

Tomorrow the game Tera will recieve a new class. This presents a small problem because I want to play Cs:go and Tropico today and you need to be lvl 40 to play the new class and my wife wants to play with me. She got multiple lvl 40+ but my highest is just 38. Thankfully she knows the ins and outs of Tera so we can Quest efficently but still that's a few hours less of other games for me.

Tera is a different mmorpg because its twitch based which means you have to aim to hit and not just button mash which means skills are much more important than your normal mmo. I hope more games go this way because its way more fun. Especially the bams, bad ass mobs. Mini bosses which actually pose a challenge where you will die if you don't read them and dodge!

Denial

My mother in laws scale is about 10kg off me and my wife noticed. When wifey told her that she was in immediate denial mode.

Fun Run: death to critters

A friend at work recommended this game to me: Fun Run. Its quick fun and addicting and contains furry critter death.

Even our dog is a gamer!

This poor sod got bit by a viper two weeks ago and isn't allowed any strenuous activity so he took up gaming. Currently unranked CS:GO.

He just got of strict rest with only minimal daily walks and now awaits another few weeks with just short walks and he is a Siberian Husky and he is starting to build up his energy. This breed likes to run and for many of them it's their all. It's comparable to what I would feel if I wasn't allowed to sit at the computer for more than 5 min a day.

Network Programming

I'm currently a programmer for Cavelight Entertainment developing a cool game called Velocity Stream.

It's a racing game where the road is built in real time by one player playing as the Paver. Currently I'm working on the networking. A first version used non-authoritative server but that comes with a host of problems so I've almost finished migrating to an authoritative approach, some tweaking on input handling is needed but other than that the largest part is prediction, interpolating positions and reconciliation but I've found this great resource that gives a guide on how to do it: Fast-Paced Multiplayer

We are building the game in Unity and even thou it takes care of a lot of things for you multiplayer games are annoying to work on just because of the sheer amount of things that may have to be communicated and dealt with as well as debugging can be a total pain.

Rockets!

Together with mommy my little 2 year old son comes home from daycare and almost immediately he screams: Rocket! And when asked do you want to play rocket of course the answer is yes.

A few minutes later constant shouts of Rocket! can be heard in the bedroom every time I fire up the engines in Kerbal as I try to maneuver a rendezvous. Docking is a complicated procedure that i'm still new to and trying to do so with a child in your lap isn't so simple.

Not really a station but an interplanetary vehicle assembled in orbit, a bit skew.

Serious gaming - serious food

Serious athletes are careful with with they put in their bodies so if you want to be a serious gamer and be pro/leet/dasheet why shouldn't you? Planning a session of competitive CS:Go? Then you will need some serious food too. If you want to bring your A game you will have to keep you focus for multiple games upwards of 90 minutes. You can't do that on coke and snickers. You will need a constant supply of energy for your brain and not just quick bursts of sugar to be able to perform evenly. So study up on how those pro athletes eat and stock up on slow carbohydrates to last longer!