Quake9.com Blog has arrived.

As of today, life³ will go into history. life³ is officially renamed to Quake9.com Blog and is now available thru www.quake9.com/blog or http://blog.quake9.com. However please do remember this blog as it will remain as the temporary backup blog, should any things happen. So keep in your bookmarks library. Meanwhile, see you at the new Quake9.com Blog!

Browse Happy

Integrated ASSignment, which accounts for 40% of 4 core modules is finally over. Now what’s left is the Problem Solving and Programming Exam coming up on March 2nd. I know nothing about Actionscript. And the sad thing is no one believes me. There’s only a week left and I’m now trying very hard to understand this bloody programming language by reading through the books I borrowed from the library (which I owe $14 according to the kind librarian due to overdues). Let’s just hope that I can really grasp the concept and at least be able to answer the questions.

The paper is THE REASON why the launch of Quake9.com is set at March. Anyway if you use Internet Explorer and you actually visited Quake9.com recently, you might have noticed that a message appears telling you IE is unsafe and Quake9.com is not compatible with IE. Yeap, the new Quake9.com will officially drop support for Internet Explorer, because of reason #1021321; It sucks.

You will see the message popping up all over the website whether you like it or not. It’s for your computer’s own good. Switch to a safer browser. Browse Happy. Get Firefox. It’s safer, faster, and web-compliant. But if you still hate dumping the oh-so-disgusting browser and insist on visiting Quake9.com, you might send your hate mails or whatever complains to jwloh01 [at] gmail.com.

Oh I went for Franz Ferdinand concert, and it was fucktastic, pictures at GAA.

Quake9.com is back! (soon..)

YEAP it’s official: QUAKE9.com is finally coming back! Change back your URLs and check it out this coming March. As for the blog, i’m still contemplating whether or not to use back *life or not. Chances are slim, but I can’t think of any new name. Suggestions anyone?

NP Open House just ended, it was a tiring 3 long days, but hey! it was fun. The time has come for yet another Integrated Assignment (Final Semester Project), so I won’t be updating anytime soon unless I really have the time to spare…

Seem’s like there’s alot to do within these two weeks. Each group has to come up with a 30secs animation short, a board/card game that is packaged nicely and ready to sell, and a company website to promote the animation and the game.

Okay, you might wanna check out the Quake9.com splash page, nothing really special there, but just to let you know its online FINALLY. More details might be coming up soon.

Life in a polytechnic might seem carefree and stress-less in the eyes of many. But I tell you it is not. You need to be in a polytechnic, to know how it feels. It’s not as easy as you think. Sometimes I wonder if life would have been better in a JC. Instead of getting assignments, we do projects almost every week/day. Projects is the new word replacement for assignments, just that projects requires more than normal assignments.

What’s worse is that projects all come together at the same time and requires you to submit at the same short deadline. I wonder if JC students actually sleep at 4am just to complete their assignments. Judging from the amount of my friends online until late in the night, I think the answer is unlikely.

I don’t know, but I often find myself very tired, stressed out most of the time. (Note: The stress is not the kind of stress you get from an impending exam)

Put him off air please!

As I was posting the last few posts, I casually tuned into 987fm and Shan Wee (the loser, no pun intended, from Eye for a Guy). What I want to say is, sorry Shan Wee fans, he can’t deejay for god’s sake! Listening to him on-air is dreadful, awful, terrible, shocking, appalling, horrifying, horrific, horrendous, horrid, hideous, grisly, ghastly, okay you get the idea. I don’t care if he speaks fluently, or puts up a very fake American accent. He voice just doesn’t suit the airwaves. He is utterly boring. The things he  say, the topics he discusses on air can put an insomniac to sleep. Put him off air please! Give him a job at the airport’s public announcement desk instead. Thank goodness there’s Power 98.

Snippets

Well I thought you might want to know what’s been happening recently…

1. Had fun and rested well during the Christmas and New Year break. (Was supposed to do some project, but didn’t in the end)
2. Shopped until broke during the pre-Christmas, post-Christmas, New Year sale.
3. X!capade on 7th & 8th January at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza
4. Visual Interface Design – A interactive website for a mobile phone (some lame mock up shit brand)
5. Animation Principles & Techniques – Working on a short claymation.
6. Game Design – Working on a new game prototype
7. Individual & Community – Report!!!
8. Open House preparation and training
9. Open House!
10. [EDIT 12:24am] I forgot to mention the ever long battle with Actionscript. I still can’t even understand a single line of Actionscript code. I am so going to fail the Problem Solving and Programming module.

During this period, if I appear to be missing from the blogoshpere, I’m doing either one of those.

A day in the life of..

Game Designers!

Yeah, this post sounds awfully similar to someone’s post. Today we did something very interesting in class and I thought I might want to share it with all of you. Don’t get jealous though… While most of you are having common tests (in NP) and the rest of you probably trying to fit in back to the same old routine (JC), I was having fun playing games in school!

Don’t tsk. I was playing because I had to! You see, Friday is Game Design module day. In Game Design module, we learn and understand how a good game works. The mechanism of each and every games, the rules, the game experience and all that. The easiest way to understand how a ‘fun’ game works and the experience it creates? Play it!

Before the 2 week vacation and after finishing the prototype of my first game (‘Find the Golden Ticket!’ A Charlie & the Chocolate Factory board game), we playtested our own game, played other groups’ games, and had fun playing Dai Dee (Big Two) in class! I bet the only place and time to play poker cards legally in Ngee Ann is during the Game Design module.

But today was really different. We played two different card games and I had so much fun with it that I think it’s worth mentioning and recommending to you.

The first game we played was ‘Citadels‘.

This game is damn fun! It’s actually a card game, though it looks like a big box with a board inside. Though a little confusing at the start, once you get started and midway thru the game, you will get the hang of it! If you like Age of Empires, Civilisation and blah blah, you will definitely like it. The illustration on the cards actually look like those on Magic: The Gathering trading cards. But I think everyone will like this game, because it’s so interesting and new! There’s a lot of interactivity between the players because the game involves a little suspense, luck and also sabotage!

It’s so fun, we played two rounds of it!

The next game was ‘You’re Bluffing’, also another card game. (no images though…)

‘You’re bluffing’ is a game about auctioning off your animals and and earning as much as possible to buy animals! Each animal has a score and at the end of the game, you calculate the score to see who has the most points! It’s a very simple game, but it’s damn addictive! I think we played 3 rounds of it! (Zanna wanted one more round!)
Well that’s what we practically did for today’s lesson. We played games for lesson. Sounds like fun? It ain’t as easy as you think yeah? We still had to go back and do a 6-page Game Analysis. Anyway if you want to play the games mentioned above, I think the only place to find it in Singapore is at Settler’s Cafe. It is only widely available in Europe but not at his part of the world yet =(.