Hibame's Blog

Buying a Laptop

Hibame — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:20:24 +0000

I never thought the day would come when I would want an apple computer after my high school using them. I always looked at them as overpriced and under powered. The day has come though where I am really considering a Mac book pro, the 2010 13” version to be specific. It would seem with apple running Intel chips now they have really stepped up their game.

As I look for a new laptop I have had a few key points in mind that I thought were important:

6-8+ hour battery life
Faster than my C2D 2.0 with a 8400M GS
Good build quality
Under $1600
Most importantly 13”

I looked around and saw many 13” laptops a few notable ones were:

ASUS U30JC for around $1000
Apple MacBook Pro for $1100
Sony Vaio Z for $1900

The ASUS was basically a cheaper and slower MacBook. With both of the ASUS and the MacBook under budget there was no reason to even look at the ASUS. The Sony while very nice was bordering on insane for the price and way over budget. Also with the apple there were benchmarks that the battery really lasts 8 hours with light to moderate use and a very solid feeling body. Overall I think I might be buying an Apple laptop soon…

Attero

Hibame — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:03:34 +0000

So the build that is going to be handed out at GDC is done. There has been a lot of work put in and I think it shows mostly. The game has a few things that need polish in both the art and programming side but I believe that the game is more than ready to be initially shown to people.

Also while everyone else was discussing what they wanted to change for minor value tweaks I decided that this site should get a new theme. It does not look to bad at the moment but I will keep tweaking it for a little while yet until I get it just how I want it.

Business Cards

Hibame — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:54:55 +0000

I just got my first set of business cards today. They turned out nice I think, considering I have never had any before and I have no idea what is what when it comes to business cards. Looking forward GDC is only about two weeks away. Hopefully everything will be ready with Attero by then. A lot of stuff will be cut close it seems but will make it. The team demos the game to the our school next week and everything for the DVDs to be printed must be in before Wensday.

Man time goes fast…

Master Game Servers

Hibame — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:58:27 +0000

So as time grows closer for Attero the project I have been working on to have its first demo. I have decided that there should be at least a semi functional server browser as the UDK does not give on. This seemed to be both a curse and a blessing. The blessing is that I get to learn something new. Though the curse is that I know almost nothing of low level networking and how a master sever should be properly set up.

Building a master server really is a learning process for me. I have gone through several iterations as a new problem or feature comes up and a major part of the server needs to be redone. Overall the end product is not to bad, I have not yet tested how far it can scale or how secure the system is (I bet not very) but it gets the job done.

The new challenge I seem to face now is to create a NAT punch through server on top of the master server to allow a wider group of people to play the game. We will see how well this goes.

Internship

Hibame — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:22:18 +0000

I got my first internship recently. My tasks are to create and customize ecommerce websites to customers specifications. While it may not be programming for a large studio making video games, it is a start and should be fun. I am already diving into Amazon’s API to automate everything.

Projects

Hibame — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:30:35 +0000

I really need to post more it is already 2010. I keep telling myself that I should, I just never think I have anything worth writing about. Well I finally am starting to get something. I joined a project called Attero which is taking a good chunk of my time. Check it out on the site, it is going to be pretty cool.

On the side I am working on a gamemode for the Garry’s Mod Fretta Contest. Development is going slow as most of my time is spent on school and Attero. Something may or may not be appearing on this site with some information linking to the game mode Jumpathon.

Modern Warfare 2

Hibame — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:45:49 +0000

I just finished the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 single player. All I have to say is, wow. Everything about the game is superb, from the story to the gameplay, everything is solid as a rock. I originally was not going to pick up MW2 from the lack of dedicated server support. Though a friend who did get the game claimed MW2 to be the best game of the year, so I picked it up anyways. It was well worth the buy, even for the singleplayer and co-op alone. The multiplayer is not as bad as I expected but I still would rather have a dedicated server. Over all 10/10 a definite must have for any gamer.

Hello world!

Hibame — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:54:19 +0000

Hey, it is my new blog! All fresh and clean. I should be posting progress on my projects as they happen.