Off to interview Team Bondi tomorrow; it should be an interesting experience. I’ve seen plenty of games studios but never actually been to one. I think it’s fantastic that I’m doing this in the first semester of a course, it’s a great opportunity and I’m actually quite excited. I’m very keen to ask about L.A. Noire as given my recent adventure gaming spree it’s sure to be a title I’ll love.
Programming ain’t that great though, I have a number of beefs with the way it’s run. For instance, is it necessary to drill a concept into us during a lecture, change it around a bit in the tutorial and finally, when the lab comes around, provide us with skeleton code that features completely different statements altogether? It really frustrates me how the tutors assume we can pick up on this, and I would be able to if Java wasn’t the first language I’ve never learned and it wasn’t so god damn picky about how you write it. It would also help if the course didn’t skip two chapters of the textbook, so that when you go to do the books exercises it’s utilising concepts you have never even heard of before. I am very, very slowly coming to understand the language and I really do wish to learn it, but the course makes everything more difficult than it really should be. I regret not doing Software Development for the HSC, knowledge of Basic here would not have gone astray.
I managed to pick up The Matrix: Path of Neo for $10 and Paradise for another $10 at Game yesterday. I had to do a double take when I saw the price sticker because I had just been to EB and they were still $50 there. Incredible value, even if Path of Neo is a terrible port and Paradise isn’t Sokal’s best effort. I’ve been a fan of his games for a while though and I’ve no doubt I’ll enjoy this at least as much as Syberia.
The touchscreen on my DS is still broken but I’ve managed to make-do without it. Geometry Wars: Galaxies keeps me nicely entertained on the bus to and from the city and the new Advance Wars is quite probably one of the best games on the system.
Why isn’t Smash Bros. out yet?
