Simulated Reality

For the last 7 weeks I've been in a group called Locker15 to develop a training simulation. On the first day of class Professor Maynes picked myself and Anthony to be the two team captains for the project. After that we picked out teams, picked our names and then went to work figuring out what our simulation would be about. We chose to do ours in a GTA/Crazy Taxi fashion where you'd have a top down view and would need to pick up patients and take them to a hospital. We got a chance to use Game Maker, and even though it's super limited we managed to pull off some really neat things and even though I was skeptical from the beginning our simulation turned out pretty damn cool. I'm not sure how much it would actually teach somebody, but it was fun and it looked nice. After we had our presentations today we still had a couple hours in class so we did some four player Wii Sports and the Prof even got down on it. Overall this class has been a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to next semester.

Marching On

Wow, March wrapped itself up pretty damn quick, didn't it? This whole year's been going by pretty fast, it's hard to believe it's already a quarter of the way over. Wow, I was really inspired to blog and now that I've started it I just can't get it going.

Let's see, after Sweeney last week we had a party at my house. It was a pretty standard affair with the usual people, plus some cameos from the UC kids since they were on spring break. The mood was pretty chill, we had a couple good Smash brawls before I ended up passing out and making everybody go home, but all in all I think good times were had. This past week has been pretty shitty because I've been sick since Monday. Coughing, sneezing, fevering, the whole thing, it sucked. I started actually feeling better today but that's when I ended up going to the doctor to get some meds. Unfortunately I went to the wrong one and we might have to pay more for it, which pisses me off because I generally hate privatized health care anyway and this just gives me a personal reason for it. Now Diana's really sick so this weekend looks pretty uneventful as I'll probably just do what I can to take care of her.

I do have a lot of schoolwork to take care of though, so maybe that's for the best. I've got two weeks left in my simulation programming class so our game needs to be totally wrapped up real soon. I've got a whole issue with that project, but that blog can be saved for another time. Well, guess I got through that alright.