Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Tech, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Congratulations to Sci ‘11 for their one-hour, 47-minute conquering of this year’s greasepole!
Can we all just take a moment to reflect on the academic year called “Sci ‘11″? Man, I feel old all of a sudden.
Just for giggles, here’s the current list of achievements for Legend of the Greasepole. I wonder how the crowd around [...]
Posted in Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Photography, Tech, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Just 2 days before her surname will no longer be correct in the credits of the game, here’s my sister Elizabeth, who designed the Frosh character, playing Legend of the Greasepole on the XBox360!
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Tech, XNA on Sep 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ve posted Windows and XBox360 versions of Legend of the Greasepole 2007 to the Queen’s EngSoc website!
The new version is built with XNA and includes the following new features:
Controller support for either the mouse or the XBox360 Controller attached to the PC
3D sound
Modestly enhanced graphics (although we realized it was ultimately a choice between a total revamp [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Personal, Photography, Tech, XNA on Sep 8th, 2007 No Comments »
… in fact it’s probably happening as I type, but I’m three-and-a-half hours down the 401 in Toronto. Sigh.
A huge thanks to the folks who have beta tested the re-release of the game. I had hoped to have it ready for today, but I’ve received some great feedback about a few things to tweak, and particularly [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Tech, XNA on Sep 4th, 2007 No Comments »
By my reckoning, it’ll be next Saturday when Queen’s University frosh week will culminate this year for a new batch of fresh-faced Engineering students. Surrounded by upper-years dyed purple with gentian violet, they’ll struggle to form a pyramid and climb a lanolin-covered pole to liberate a Scottish tam that’s been nailed to its top, and officially [...]
