Team Fortress Game Afternoon

Hull University, like most others, reserves Wednesday afternoon for games. So does our department now. Hull Com. Soc. is using one of our labs for Team Fortress 2 sessions every other week. I went along with the camera.

The event was something of a success…

I would have liked to have had a go, but they had people queuing outside the door, waiting for their turn. Apparently there were also students taking part from off campus too, since we were using the Departmental Games Servers. The next one is in a couple of weeks, I’m going to try and get there early for some multi-player action.

Incidentally, if you are in Hull this weekend there is a FragFest organised for Saturday 17th at the Lawns. You can find out more at the Hull ComSoc web site.

Masters Welcome Party

We had another party tonight to welcome our Masters level students. Same format, different quiz questions and some different winners.

First prize

Second prize (they actually got a higher score, but since the team was all staff and contained Warren, Head of Department, it wasn’t allowed to win.

Third prize

We had a wooden spoon (or plastic microphone) prize for the team who made it into last place.

Then it was on to Rock Band, Wii Sports and dance mats for the rest of the evening.

True Hitch Hiker?

Strange things. In a week when a new volume in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series is released (although sadly not by Douglas Adams) a company releases this.

Makes you think.

Fantastic Mockup Software

Adam put me on to this software. He plans to use it for his design documents for his Final Year Project. It is really nice if you want to make mockups of your user interfaces and storyboard your programs before building them.

http://www.balsamiq.com

The supplied templates look really good, in fact I’m tempted to get a copy myself…

University Open Day

We had our first University Open Day of the season today. We had a huge number of people turn up, which was great.

I like a nice audience.

Thanks for coming along folks, I hope the day was useful to you. The links I mentioned are:

www.csharpcourse.com – you can get the C# Yellow Book from here

www.verysillygames.com – there are some XNA C# samples here

www.wherewouldyouthink.com – our admissions site