If anyone is interested, I put up a project page for the game programming course I’m taking (CSE380). For my individual project, I’m making a game called “I WOKE UP LATE AND NOW I HAVE TO ROCKET JUMP PASS ZOMBIES TO GET TO CLASS” or IWULANIHTRJPZTGTC for short or ZOMBIES for shorter. There hasn’t been much progress but I’m working on it.

Here it is: http://chenstopher.com/cse380

Yeah. I think I’m just gonna do C# and XNA game programming. Seems a whole lot easier and I won’t have to manage memory.

Sure, C#/XNA is slower but I don’t think it matters when the games I want to make are gonna be 2D. When I move on to 3D I think I’ll try C++/DirectX again. I can’t really find any decent online resources for DirectX right now and I don’t feel like buying a book.

I’ll probably take the game programming course here at Stony in a later semester. The teacher is cool and having someone guide you through it is a whole lot easier. Wish they had it when I was at Tech. Screw you weird name people, Ariel and Aljohn. Oh and Lukasz.

This kid Allen(?) is starting up a game programming club so I’m gonna be joining that. He seems pretty awesome at programming, much more knowledgeable than I who only knows Java and a bit of C++ (and php/html/css/js). It’ll be fun. I hope.

So anyway, I’ve starting learning C# and it’s a lot like Java. That’s kind of a good thing since Java’s pretty easy. Still deciding on game to start off with.

Snake? Space Invaders? Tetris? PONG?!

For the sake of randomness. Here’s a video of one of the best games ever.