39% Geek

39% geek, not bad eh? I answered "huh?" to most of the questions.

On a side note: I have a 1 week and 6 days left of my membership, I'm not too sure if I want to spend money on renewing it, it's not much useful other than the blogging on the main page and the file-space features.

Heya guys,

Anyway, recently I've had a lot to do, I seem to have many exams and coursework due in, High school is clearly taking over my life, I can't do anything right and with the amount of work I get it seems I just need to organise my time better. So for all of you who care I have this to do at this time and point:

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• Science Exam (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
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• German Oral Exam (I have to learn, by heart, 2 and a half pages of german [I'm not German and I don't have an excellent grasp of it.])
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• English Coursework - Book Essay on "Kill a mockingbird"
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• Geography Case studies (Reading, Walton on the Naze, Colombo and Mississippi River flood in 1993)
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• Information Technology (2 courses I have to hand in, "Dance O'clock" and "Tell Me a Story")
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• Maths preparation for exam.
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As you can see, this is quite a major list (it comes with stress) for a 14 year old (turning 15 tomorrow =]) and I just can't find the time to relax, is there an easy way out of so much work? I feel like I'm never going to finish this work because I keep finding something else to do, so much work!!!

Pixel based movement is getting to my head. I can get the basic movement working but the collision is confusing me quite a bit, maybe because this is my first time around.

Anyway, I was referred to the "bounding box" method of detection, I was slightly confused. I looked around to see on what it was, I see the pros and cons, one con being that it's difficult to work with shapes that aren't fully square and leave spaces which usually let off the Collision checker to return a collision detected, anyway, that isn't the problem.

I found the main problem for me to actually write it in terms of BYOND. Here is my base movement system:



So this is where you all come in, I've searched all of BYOND for the bounding box, in the forums, libs/demos, everywhere. I need help creating a simple bounding box collision detection system. I was thinking something modular would be fine, Calus Corps's LineWalk demo helped a bit, but not enough for me to potentially write my own. So lead me to my first pixel based collision system :)

A small demo would be nice :)

Thank you all in advance.

Haywire

Well I've been wanting to actually complete a game for a long time, but I have the motivation of a 80 year old so I need some support.

Recently, I've been playing Foomers' Tomb Explorer game, it has really caught my eye, which is quiet hard to do, so "great work" Foomer.

So after playing his game I've been inspired heavily, but inspired genre-specifically. I feel like writing a Puzzle game, not too big so my motivation doesn't run out, but not too small either. An original idea, something which will catch the eye of many, I want you guys to help me think of an amazing idea.

I have nothing to show to BYOND, so a game would be nice.

P.S: Thanks Foomer for Tomb Explorer, I appreciate it a lot. =)

Well, earlier today I received my Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition, so as I was talking about how cool it was on Chatters, a discussion started, then I asked the slightly intriguing question - "What IS Linux?", this returned a simple answer, "a kernel".

Now from General Knowledge a kernel is something that connects an application to hardware, so basically it tells what the hardware to do.

Ubuntu is a brand which makes use of Linux (the kernel). Right now, I basically want all you Linux users/scientists, etc, etc to help inform me more about Linux,

I was pointed towards PirateHead but I was too afraid to talk to him due to his opensource traps (he basically loves to open source).

So anyway, tell me all you know about Linux, smarten me up.


P.S: I have been messing with Linux while running it virtually through a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) and it looks good so far, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10.