Microsoft Research Student Celebration Day

Doesn't that sound jolly. Me and my team mates from my imagine cup team have been invited to go to Microsoft's student celebration day. I'm not sure what it is exactly but microsoft are paying for my train ticket and have asked for my T-shirt size so im assuming that ill at least get a free T-shirt. Mind you no amount of free T-shirts will ever make UAC on vista a good idea.

Some code that might help you

This code really helped me so i thought i would share it with you.
Throw it into visual studio, try and understand it before you compile.

Get the code here. or here if you are in halls.

All credit 2 Squig

Imagine Cup - Round 2

Great news for me and my team in the 2009 Microsoft imagine cup. We are through to the semi-finals. More work for us.

Here is a link to my team page. Should Be Studying.

We are all really excited to have this chance to show the world what we can do after not even a year of our course. We will do this to promote ourselves as well as our university. I have looked up and down the leaderboard and it is a daunting task when you see competition from countries like Norway, Egypt and as far away as Japan. Wish us luck.

Talk from Marcus Lynn (Lionhead Studios)

Today I was lucky enough to attend a talk by Marcus Lynn, a Lead Programmer at Lionhead Studios.
He took us through the production process behind a game. To show this to use he used the production of Fable 2 as an example.

Here is a audio recording of the talk. There is a little bit of moving, laughing and whispering that i apologise for and alot of the presentation was visual but due to them being secretive i could not record video.

One interesting fact we have learnt from a few leaks in some of the screenshots of documents from lionhead is that Lionhead are working on 2 games at the moment and one of those is Fable 3 (in fact their 2nd development milestone is on the 13th of march)! so if you are a fan of Fable i can confirm that there will be a Fable III. Not that its that ground breaking because you would have thought it was going to happen, but still.

Its exclusive events like this that make me glad i am at Derby. The talked happened because of our lectures contacts and the fact that there is a 3rd year (work placement year) student from Derby working there at the moment and impressing the lionhead staff.
Its thanks to the Staff and the original students that Derby is the best place to be if you want to get into the games industry. Good stuff.