Posts by Zacker

  • 99 achievements in Orange Box

    Quote from zaphod

    I would really like to see a well written article by a psychologist / game developer about why people love these arbitrary achievements and the base way to use them in games.

    People have always loved high scores and loved to brag about how far they could get in a game. When taking all this online and public then it's fairly obvious that lots of people go crazy:)

  • How are you doing?

    Interesting topic to see on Mapcore! Good idea skdr:)

    Personally my life has changed quite a lot over the last year including new city to live in, new job, new girlfriend, lots of new hobbies, etc.

    Back in high school my life was pretty much just school and Sands of War. Leading a mod after school was quite a time demanding which left me in a constantly stressed state with no time to do anything else.

    After high school I took several months off just to relax and play games and generally do nothing. That time felt really needed for me, when I look back on it it was some incredible boring and dull months though where everyone else moved on except for me.

    Finally I got a job and what a job! My dreamjob as level designer at IOI:) Was quite a change to go from doing nothing to having to move and start at a new job within 14 days.

    The time after moving was quite annoying, I spent all my energy at work so I was wasted when I got home. Furthermore I had no internet for a month which obviously also sucked ass. In addition to this I had very few friends over here so I did not really have anyone to hang out with.

    Since then things has just become better and better:) I have begun to use my newfound sparetime to do all kinds of things that I enjoy but never had time for. I have been taking karate lessons for a good half year now and I really enjoy those.

    I have been with my current girlfriend for around 3 months and we still love eachother most of the time. A downside is that she lives some hours away by train, so for the most time we only see each other in the weekends.

    After this last weekend I have been kinda confused about my love life though. Thing is that I was at a party where I met a nice girl who I kinda ended up together with. We both had strong feelings for eachother, but as I had a girlfriend we just could not take it all the way, it was quite ackward really. So now I would actually really like to go further with this girl, but then again arises the problem that I have a girl already.

  • ModCenter, a mod project manager is out of beta

    ModCenter sounds like a good choice for mod teams who want to get organized:

    http://www.modcenter.com

    It features a bug tracking systems, task management system and SVN repository. Sounds like a good deal to me, as I am quite sure most mod teams could benefit from this. At least I know that if I personally dig into modding again, then I am sure as hell going to have proper project management and versioning tools to help me.

  • New iPods

    Quote from Mazy

    The iPod touch is pretty damn cool, but the 16GB's kill it for me. Seriously, you'll be juggling content like there's no tomorrow, at least if you also plan on using it for videos. Its like having a Nano but with a huge fuckoff screen with the potential of doing really cool stuff.

    Imo 16gb is more than enough to have plenty of music on it. I still have my 256mb mp3 player and it still serves me well.

  • Time to move on..

    Sounds like a well thought through decission, I am sure it wasn't easy to just give up on a fantastic job at Crytek.

    I am curious however, what exactly is "Media economics" about? Does it have anything to do with game or graphic design? Or is it a traditional economics degree with a little twist?

    But good luck!