Propellor, Battery and myself were at Coventry University's Creative Computing show,
Smoke and Mirrors!Battery was exhibiting his (goddamn hard) shooter,
Laika. I was playing it for a while, starting out in an exhibiting-it sort of way, but as it went on I got more determined to win. I never actually managed to beat it! I think Battery cheats, when he plays it and finishes with three lives left.
There were a lot of really interesting exhibits (the ones that caught our collective eye were A* pathfinding in a 3D asteroid field, a realtime temperature-mapping program, and
some sort of sequential art, but on the internet. Terry Richards, by the way, is such a hulking beast of a man that he cannot use puny mice, and as such has to use a custom joypad to game on PC.)
After seeing the exhibits, in Propellor's case going to a band practice, and in my case swapping URLs on someone else's business cards, me and Prop went down and kicked some ass in the LAN room. The 11-kill-streak as Medic and Heavy on TF2 was a high point, although the mice in that room were crap.
After that it was time for the film show, in which TurnShip was featured briefly (with the caption Ratchet and Propellor Games, haha), and then finally everyone went to the pub, where we annoyed people with my
theremin and discussed the merits of Python over C, and C over Java. And how you need two people to do some things with keyboard shortcuts in emacs.
There are some photos uploaded
on facebook, by the organiser/tutor in charge; Pete might upload some of the photos he took, although I think he took most trying to blind people with his flash in the pub.
Next week, we might have anything from progress on Bounce to painting and weird stuff.
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