Jack's Blog

Ok, here's another one of those "progress reports".

College Life
I was recently bombarded with 4 tests, which hindered progress on pretty much everything. The World Literature test was possibly the hardest, as I had to associate given passages of text with their author and what book it was from. We've been reading religious texts, including "The Old Testament" [Genesis], Ovid's "Metamorphoses" [book 1], Ahkenaten's "Hymn to the Sun", "Popul Vuh" [books 1-4], and John Milton's "Paradise Lost" [books 4-12]. I'm pretty sure it was a disaster, heh. Psychology, Physics, and Programming [The 3 P's] were easy stuff.

Final Fantasy Tactics [BYOND Remake]
As I mentioned above, I'm in college and was just bombarded with tests. However, I'm still in the extremely long and painstaking process of ripping the landscape art. Once I finally have the first battle field ready, I'll be able to do the easy stuff -- programming in the pseudo-3D engine. I also still need to rip character sprites. Basically, I have a lot of art to rip because I can start adding structure.

Iccusino
Yup, Aaiko brought back the Iccusino. I am adding Texas Hold'em to it, fixing up some odd bug that -just- recently showed up *cough*Aaiko-messing-with-my-code*cough*, and "rigging" Keno to make someone win the Jackpot 'eventually'. I'm thinking after the Jackpot reaches 20k, the odds that it'll "cheat" to make someone win will be significantly low, but exponentially grow with every 1k tokens over 20k. Last I heard, it was just over 96k.

Contests
Tiberath recently linked me to a C/C++ programming contest that simply wants you make a console app. Calculator. Pretty simple little program to do, so I figured I might as well participate.


Other News
Ry4n is Mr. Awesome. 'Nuff said. Also, I only have $32 to last me 2 weeks, heh. I guess that means no movie night or parties. :( Hooray for being a full-time student with no source of income. :/