Arrr, I've got some winnings

So well well well, it's almost a month since we presented Mornomia Mobile (well, in fact, two months) to Bite, a mobile operator in Lithuania, for a contest. Today we went to the award-ceremony during our class, and such could slip through some not-so-much liked classes. Long story, short meaning:

We won in the category "Best Game".

Yes, yes yes yes yes yes. We finally won something! Mornomia was quite a beast working with, and it's really nice to see that it finally gets the appreciation it should have get even last year. We won a nice cash prize, which we will invest into a server, or anything that is needed for developing and launching Mornomia. Finally. Even though I expect results only in six months, since the whole exam fizzle right now is really eating a lot of time, and the server has to be rewritten (maybe made together from copypasta) to a completely new and stable server system with a more flexible core and better security systems. Mornomia also needs a new interface handler, to handle a new help system (one of the problems Bite noticed) and better support on completely different mobile phones. Right now Mornomia is basically a MUD without monsters or quests. Well, there are monsters and quests, but right now it's more like a mobile RPG-like chatroom. Which yeah, you've already guessed - sucks a lot.

Many people told us now, that Mornomia has quite potential now, and we will really try to use that potential. This game shouldn't go unnoticed, as it is even right now the most advanced mobile MMORPG, and I don't fear to say that.

Thanks by the way to all my team members for all the support and everything that they've done. I don't think it would have been possible without them. Also big thanks to my girlfriend, as she has always supported me and always pushed me up, when my motivation was down to the ground and even lower.

This is a new type of MMORPG (mumorpuger), and I'm fucking proud of it. Get ready. This year will be very special. Just watch...

My precious!

So here I am, again. Took me some time again, but quite faster than last time. Since this is somewhat like a revolution in Chaosteil-computing, you can expect that I will blog a lil' more often and regulary. It's not that anything happened with my already sick mind, no, it's just that I got a new gadget, which is quite awesome.

I've got an Eee PC. THE beast in ultraportable (and cheap, don't forget, being a cheap-ass is awesome) computing, and this blog will be quite just about bragging how awesome it is.

Well first of all, this is quite my first REAL laptop, the other ones before that were the ones of my parents or else, so they weren't actually mine. Except my first one.
Being obsessed since my childhood with high-tech and shizz, I decided to get a very cheap one, used, whatever. It had about 16 Mhz (which was even then as lame as you could get), a black-white screen and about 2 seconds of runtime without A/C. Yeah, it was lame. But it had one significant thing, which was at that time quite awesome for me: QuickBasic. Hell yes. With QuickBasic I learned many things about programming. Yeah, maaany. Actually not: I could do simple I/O, never heard of any cycles and never tried to get any better, maybe because I couldn't quite understand the higher level syntax of other source codes, and maybe because I was simply focused on making text adventures, which were quite lame in their own ways (My text adventures of course, Zork is still awesome)

Soo here I am again, but this time I have a quite nice laptop. It isn't quite the death machine a geek like me dreams of, but it fills its purpose: I can code with it.
One of the first things I've done with this PC: install nethack. Well yeah, but after that I installed all my basic coding utilities:

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion

And that's it! The last thing I'm waiting for is Code::Blocks, but even that isn't necessary on this little thing, as it got kwrite already installed, which is a nice on-the-go editor. And it has helluva lot already installed. It would really be sad to format everything, as it has everything needed for using an operating system. As I said, a neat, small, on-the-go laptop.

And with on-the-go, I mean on-the-go. This laptop, is ultra, no, hyperportable, I can even brush my teeth with one hand and surf the web with my other hand, while holding the laptop in it. It is really small, fast (I have yet to experience something like a slowdown or an instance, where it is slower than my desktop), lightweight, and hell, it has my favorite operating system running smooth on it. Even if it was first very hard to get used to that damn keyboard, now I'm even touchtyping with it nicely, with minimal backspace-using, so in a few days I can start to code normally and fluently without any hickups.

Well, so this was my quite biased "review" about the Eee. If there are any questions, give me a comment.

PS: It is really a waste to not carry this little fella everywhere you go. It is designed to be ultraportable, so let it be an ultraportable laptop.

After a while

Ok, I must admit, I neglected my blog for a short time, and that was mainly because I'm just plain lazy. Even though there are so many things to talk about, let's just focus on two things: Gaming and Programming. Ironically, this is what this whole blog is all about. I'll start with the gaming part.

Brawl. Yes, I have it, and yes, it's awesome. Nuff said.
But seriously, I waited so long, so many YEARS for this game, and the last minutes before I inserted a full working disc into my Wii were terrific. I've been a huge fan of the series, up to a fanboi even, and it has always been a lot of fun to play it with my friends, and lately even my girlfriend enjoys it. Anyway, I can't tell a lot of impressions, because I'm just too busy playin' (to that level, where I don't care much about anything else, which I personally find horrible, since I just can't stop), so I'll just post a random Brawl video:

(Yes, Metaknight ownage. I'm trying to main Metaknight, so obviously a video with him)
For now I can't say any flaws, as I just started to play, and my fanboishness has to go away first. And I'm probably going to wait for the US release until I post a message how I feel about the new brawl in all its completeness.

But then, besides of Brawl, there is another thing I want to talk about. Programming. And my post for the day will be about motivation. Hell yeah, motivation. I seriously need to get that stuff. For example, instead of working on my mobile project, I... Well, I waited for Brawl, did other stuff, I was simply disgusted by the idea that I should work on it. Nothing moved my stinky ass, even when I opened Notepad++, I saw my code, tried to focus, but I simply wouldn't move. Maybe it's because my teammates weren't doing anything too, or to put it short, as much as I did. Even though I did a hell of a lot more before, and it's kinda sad, that I don't want to sit on it anymore. The last lines of code were a very very very basic fight system, and that is utter shit. Anyway, I have some motivation on another project, and that will may be ported to the Mornomia system, thus making it helluva better. It's a multicell dynamic server system, and if everything turns out well, it will be portable to every massive online multiplayer game imaginable, in a few lines of code. I don't want to talk about it a lot, as it is only in the planning phase, and I'm still writing some of the base/basic algorithms for it, but the system is quite robust, since I won't be repeating some damn errors I made for the previous servers.

I now fully understand, why Google forces to work some time on an own project, where nobody interferes and no time-limit is made, since this really supports a free mind, and gives an opportunity to make something unexpected by other team members. For example, the known and loved Geometry Wars was first a tech demo to test the analog stick of the Xbox, until it got quite popular to everyone in the team.

If nothing else to boost up the motivation works, I recommend to read this blog: Achieve-IT
There are some very useful tips there, and it's quite fun to read how you can hack yourself to work on stuff.

Well then, that's it for today, maybe I'll post something next week.