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What did you do with your newly discovered time?

Started by frob Feb 13, 2007 at 12:45 AM 48 replies 11.5k views

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Feb 13, 2007 at 12:45 AM

Hello everybody. It's my first time at a meeting like this. My name is frob, and I am a gd.net-aholic. (crowd): Hello, frob. Over the past 10 days, I have accomplished many great things with the extra hours. I have worked on a camera boom system and completed it ahead of schedule, implemented some spline rendering that wasn't supposed to be done until mid-February, and fixed a bunch of bugs. I am now a full month ahead of schedule. To help ease my withdrawal pains, I plan to spend the time writing and replying to as many articles as it takes to get back on to my original schedule. I missed you, GD.net!

Ravuya

Feb 13, 2007 at 12:48 AM

I worked on my games and assignments, though it appears I have screwed up my use of quaternions in my third-person camera.

I also spent quite a bit of time waiting for my machine to come back from service -- not only did it come back, but I got a free power supply out of it as an apology. [grin]

Maybe I should leave the site more often. Good things happen, then.

Sander

Feb 13, 2007 at 12:53 AM

Heh :-) I've written a network jukebox in Python that can be controlled with telnet. The telnet access doubles as a primitive chat channel for when I'm in the office and multiple people are logged in to it.

Godlikeman

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:01 AM

We got a new puppy :)

Forgot to mention: his name is Buddy

Promit

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:03 AM

I bought a guitar.

ArchWizard

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:03 AM

I spent most of my time wondering if my GDNet+ subscription would be extended to make up for the downtime. Also: complaining.

Ainokea

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:05 AM

Refreshing the front page.

smr

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:05 AM

Demolished my living room and arranged a trip to San Francisco at the end of the month-- WITH A GIRL!

Gaiiden

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:15 AM

I played lots of Guitar Hero - when I wasn't handling questions and issues related to the downtime. Now I get to publish 7 interviews. Oh Joy :P

superpig

Feb 13, 2007 at 1:18 AM

Quote:
Original post by ArchWizard
I spent most of my time wondering if my GDNet+ subscription would be extended to make up for the downtime. Also: complaining.

Yep. Enjoy your extra month.

ArchWizard

Feb 13, 2007 at 2:13 AM

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Original post by superpig
Quote:
Original post by ArchWizard
I spent most of my time wondering if my GDNet+ subscription would be extended to make up for the downtime. Also: complaining.

Yep. Enjoy your extra month.

I am humbled by your generosity. Not humbled enough to take back everything bad I said about GameDev over the past week, but I'll take back just about all of it. [grin]

frizzlefry

Feb 13, 2007 at 2:18 AM

I baked bread. And cookies. And saw my kids. They're really kinda cute. . .

Solidus117

Feb 13, 2007 at 2:30 AM

I started going over to the Freenation Foundation. I'm glad GDN is back. Thanks!

ajones

Feb 13, 2007 at 2:34 AM

Quote:
Original post by Ainokea
Refreshing the front page.

...and actually doing some work for a change. [smile]

mutex

Feb 13, 2007 at 2:58 AM

I finally started working on a few projects I've been putting off again. That and some crunch time at work.

I didn't realize how much I visited GameDev until it was gone. The first few days were ugly...

BTW any chance on a technical writeup of what has happened? It'd be interesting. Update: Promit wrote something.

FableFox

Feb 13, 2007 at 3:39 AM

Read books, magazines and write articles for HUGI (http://hugi.scene.org).

Richy2k

Feb 13, 2007 at 3:45 AM

I pumped a large quantity of my usual lounge time into programming, and I'm beginning to get what resembles a game!

MonkeyInBlack

Feb 13, 2007 at 4:20 AM

Made a (small) game for the first time in 2 1/2 years, and got pretty far in another one. Wrote up plans to go into business for myself. Now that the free time is gone, those plans and the half finished game can go into the (virtual) garbage can again.

trevaaar

Feb 13, 2007 at 4:50 AM

My net connection was out for about a week so I didn't notice the GDNet downtime that much in the grand scheme of things. I did, however, get a good deal of work done on my RPG.

Funkymunky

Feb 13, 2007 at 5:07 AM

I bought L3DT and integrated a heightmap the size of a state into my engine. I wrote an algorithm that generates random floorplans for a full skyscraper, and tesselates them accordingly. I integrated OpenAL into my engine as well, adding music and sound effects with surprising ease. I also accomplished various other minor coding breakthroughs, like implementing a "gun" class that handles muzzleflashes, expended shell casings, and raycasting toward targets.

Oh and I looked for a job

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