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Name:	James Lupiani
Date Posted:	Feb 26, 2003
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I'm bummed.

Well, it's been a while, and my development activity is rather low, so I'll make some more personal notes and try not to take it to blogging heights.

So... here I am, and suddenly I'm a couple months into the semester. I haven't touched Torque much lately, except to keep my local codebase up to snuff with the CVS HEAD. My team's also rather bummed... I think the most we've said to each other the past few weeks revolves around resetting lost passwords. I've also only kept in sporadic contact with the gang on IRC. I kinda miss chatting with you guys; maybe I'll stop by later.

Oh, and I was gone for a four-day weekend (two of them driving days) and got home to face a blue screen of death from my good pal Windows, which decided that it would corrupt HKLM/Software and laugh at me. Meanwhile, Bill Gates is over in Redmond saying "You should've upgraded to eXtreme Privacy violation! Windows 2000 doesn't automatically back up the registry like other versions do. Hah!" But the joke's on them: I have a second drive in this machine with Red Hat 8 on it.

My interest in gaming--and perhaps games development itself--seems to be both waning and shifting. I did a little soul searching. I played a couple MMO games, which led to two inevitable conclusions: One, that they seem horribly boring and tedious after the excitement wears off. Two, I had just wasted $25. I kicked around in good ol' Unreal for a while, too. Maybe I'm just distancing myself; games seem much harder to get into now. I was toying around with the idea of making some simple little games or programs with Python and stumbled upon this neat turn-based space empire game called Outer Space.

I guess I don't know what I want anymore, with my life or with personal little projects. I just hope I find something soon, it kind of gives me something to look forward to when I get home.

Anyone have any offers?

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Pascal Bos (Feb 26, 2003 at 10:48 GMT)

Hang in there James little pal.... You can always become my personal coding slave.

Craig Ball (Feb 26, 2003 at 11:43 GMT)

Here are my suggestions ;o)

1. Play an older game you enjoy. It wont cost anything and you will... well... enjoy it.
2. Go out with ya friends, drink beer.
3. Buy a guitar, play the blues, or some rock.
4. Shake your fist into the air while shouting 'Damn you Gates, whhyyyyyyyy'
5. Become Pascals coding slave

Nauris Krauze (Feb 26, 2003 at 12:15 GMT)

It`s like with love, James. It comes, it goes, it comes back again :) better not push yourself to love, just replay some of the old titles. They still have that charm:)

yeah, and after that - become Pascal`s coding slave, of course :D

Stefan Beffy Moises (Feb 26, 2003 at 13:24 GMT)

Deffy!! The "IRC guys" are missing ya, too! :) You better stop by later... ;)
And, yeah, grab some good ol' games and let go... or get a guitar, that really helps ya out sometimes... :D And I'm sure the Torque fever will come back soon, too...! And you're always welcome to help out with "Project:C.A.", hehehe ;)
Cya in IRC!

Mike Stoddart (Feb 26, 2003 at 14:50 GMT)

I know exactly what you mean. I'm suffering from the same thing at the moment. The best idea I can think of is to get away from gaming for a wee while, and try something different to occupy yourself. Hopefully you'll get the itch again and jump back into it. Hang in there!

Pascal Bos (Feb 26, 2003 at 17:10 GMT)

coding slave is the way to go believe me, i promiss you you will keep time to spend with Mel.. Not alot but hey can't have it all now can you.... Say yes now and i might be able to get you two matching ancle chains...

Phil Carlisle (Feb 26, 2003 at 17:31 GMT)

Its going around James :)) lots of people are singing the game development blues right now :)

I'm on a spurt myself, so maybe Ive drained some of your dev energy!

Go to IGC, that'll be all the "love fair" you need for game dev!

Phil.

Tim Newell (Feb 26, 2003 at 18:37 GMT)

1 word.. PDA Games

You can bring back all the excitement from the old times on a good platform. That is what I am doing and having a blast. I too was game depressed like you, but now I'm excited. The great thing is I'm not using windows.. doing all development in gentoo. I can understand not liking MMOs for long at all... they have the same impression on me... boring. I am hoping StarWars Galaxies changes that.
Edited on Feb 26, 2003 18:38 GMT

James Lupiani (Feb 26, 2003 at 22:19 GMT)

Hmm, coding slave... do you have a dental plan?

Thanks for all the comments, guys. I'm glad to see you're all still around. A few hours after I posted this, my dog had a seizure. This wasn't the first...we had to have her put to sleep. *sigh*

I think I need to get something together that's either local or a two-person deal. Something that's easy to coordinate and that I can't lose interest in so easily. I think that's my biggest failing--er, maybe it's a blessing too.

Pascal Bos (Feb 27, 2003 at 07:34 GMT)

Dental plan??? Sure it involves a sledge hammer and a few days of pain.

Sorry to hear about the dog man.

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