So far, the game is a blast. I’ve only played a couple of evenings (well, three, for a total of eight hours or so) but the game play is pretty darn good. I’m still working on getting some experience with more of the classes, but I’m liking what I see so far. It’s a shame there is hardly any team play on public servers, hopefully once the release happens there will be some team leagues starting or something to get some organized action.
Wow, today is going to be a long one. Last night, I went to see EOTO play. EOTO is a spin-off of the now defunct String Cheese Incident. It was a solid 2-hour techno show, but not the hard house or trance that I’ve heard so much about. It was more trip-hop or something like that, very cool stuff. The drummer played for two hours straight without a break — pretty wild.
The MacBook Pro continues to evolve. Post Fusion install I’ve gotten all my development tools installed, including Resharper, TestDriven.NET, TortoiseSVN, and NAnt. So far everything seems to be working great. I’ve yet to install PowerShell (so I can have my NIX command-line goodness for the Windows box). I pulled down the trunk of Castle and got it to build as well. I had to create the Test & Test2 databases on my local instance of SQL Server 2005 in order for all the tests to complete.
It looks like I’ll be giving a presentation on MonoRail at the TulsaTechFest 2007. It will be an introduction to building a web site using MonoRail and Brail. MonoRail is part of the Castle Project and provides a MVC (model-view-controller) framework within ASP.NET. MVC is a solid pattern for building web applications that is a significant improvement over the page-based WebForms model. MonoRail embraces web standards allows applications to be built based on controller logic and helps facilitate the separation of concerns. It’s good stuff, I can’t wait ot talk about it.
Did I mention that I’m old and staying out until 2 AM at a live show is painful the next day? Where is the Tylenol again? Strange that I can stay up until 3 AM playing with a new computer and not feel fried the next day but this was… different.
Oh yeah, Peggle Extreme is part of the pre-order package for TeamFortress2 on Steam. I highly recommend it as a fun diversion! Speaking of TF2, I’m all set for the beta that starts on Monday. I can’t wait to play the game, I hope for some cool in-game video recording (with FRAPS or otherwise) next week. I wonder if voice-chat is built into the game? Things I don’t know — they are plentiful today it seems.
I got my iPhone store credit, $100, fast and easy from Apple. I guess this means a trip to the Apple store is coming soon.
Oh, and today’s post is an experiment in link diarrhea to see how long it takes this post to go up!
I popped into Steam today to check out a few things and was shocked to see a special offer. Pre-order Half Life 2: The Orange Box on Steam and play Team Fortress 2 Beta on September 17th! I was stoked, cancelled my Amazon pre-order and picked up The Orange Box on Steam. About 6 GB later (and a few hours, seems that a lot of people saw the Pre-load option when they got home) I had a bunch of new files in my game folder. Looks like a lot of shared Half Life 2 assets, along with the Team Fortress 2 assets.
Quite a find, I’m glad I logged in to check it out. They also included a really fun peg game that’s great for wasting away idle time waiting for the beta to start. And if you already have Half Life 2 registered on your account, once released you’ll get gift passes to give to friends so they can play your extra copies of the game you got with the Orange Box. Very cool.
I can’t wait for Monday night, anybody want to work on a recreation of the original QW Canal Zone map?
Looks like a bunch of videos are coming out of the Game Conference in Germany this week. I’ve linked a few of them here:
Fresh Comments