Party Buzz

We had a few folks round tonight for a "Late New Years Eve Party" kind of thing. I got out the Buzz game that I bought for the Departmental Christmas Bash (and then forgot the disk) and we had a go. It was very successful. There are four wireless remotes with selector buttons which are used by the players to answer questions on a range of subjects in a well presented quiz show format.Great fun.

Apparently the voice of Buzz is Jason Donovan, which is interesting (well, it interested me for a second or so anyway). If you want to keep a bunch of folks amused for an hour or so it works well. The in game characters you can select are great fun and the format, although a bit repetitive after a while, works well. I think you can create your own questions as well. Anyone fancy a C# version?

Of course the best ever computer quiz game was "You Don't Know Jack" which was absolutely hilarious...

Ha!

Update on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 09:25AM by Rob

It took me around twenty minutes (which I've since discovered from the instructions is about average). So, I spent around 10 minutes of the new year thinking how clever I was, which is about par for the course I suppose.

Farcry 2 is Wonderful

Number one son picked up a copy of Farcry 2 earlier this week. Anyone who doubts the ability of computer games to create a believable world should take a look at this game. Just about everything works as it should and the appearance of the game world is amazing.

I went to a session at GDC earlier this year where they were talking about how they "grew" the scenery programmatically.  Rather than having artists who placed each tree and blade of grass they actually wrote code that simulated the way that that everything grows from its starting point. Very impressive.

A Foolish Consistency

Alfred Thompson had a good post on his blog about the way that programmers persist in using single character identifiers (i, j and k etc) for counters in loops.

I posted a comment on the post in which I put one of my favourite quotes - "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" from Emerson.

I'm presently going through back filling all my blog posts so that I don't have any gaps in the days.

Go figure.

Back at Work

Number one wife was back at work today. I felt kind of bad about this, and so as a gesture of solidarity I got up with her, had breakfast and spent the entire day writing some XNA stuff. Which turned out to be great fun.