I’m sure everyone is already aware that Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dunegons and Dragons, passed away on Tuesday. Was never a fan of D&D but without it, I wouldn’t be playing Nobilis or writing roleplaying stuff today. Muted feelings really.
Also announced on Tuesday (before the news of Gary’s death): STOCs (irishgamingwiki link) one of the oldest running Clubs in DCU proposed “merging” with the Games Soc. STOCs is/was the gaming & roleplaying society in DCU and even though I’ve been long out of college, I still have strong ties to the club. The “merging” is rather actually being subsumed into the Games Soc which is oriented towards Computer Games (though originally the Games Soc was an off-shoot of STOCs, I’ve been led to believe). STOCs ran the small annual games convention Sillicon with it’s popular Pub Quiz (irishgaming wiki link). I’ve even ran and wrote games for Sillicon in the past. I do not know the fate of the future of Sillicon. This has saddened me.
I saw this story via slashdot.
Members of the area Chinese community have rallied behind a Clements High School senior who was removed from the campus and sent to M.R. Wood Alternative Education Center after parents complained he’d created a computer game map of Clements.
So this kid, creates a mod for some FPS (First Person Shooter computer game like Doom or Quake) based on his school. Oh and he had a hammer.
The map the boy designed mimicked Clements High School. And, sources said, it was uploaded either to the boy’s home computer or to a computer server where he and his friends could access and play on it. Two parents apparently learned from their children about the existence of the game, and complained to FBISD administrators, who investigated.
“They arrested him,” Chen said of FBISD police, “and also went to the house to search.” The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy’s room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn’t in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.
And he gets arrested and “removed from the campus”?
The thing is, while I was in DCU (Dublin City University) many years ago, I created two maps/mods for Quake, a very popular multi-player FPS at the time: CA Labs and Sports Hall. Both were based on buildings on the campus. (Since I did these mods, the buildings have changed quite drastically).
Am I a terrorist? Should I have been suspended from DCU for them? If I was living in America should I be expecting police officers to raid my home and if they find DIY tools, arrest me?
Magic users across the Fair City of Paris have been suffering visions of a howling spirit in the burnt remains of Paris. Maxime, Head of the Order of Hermes, has asked you to find out what is going on and what it may mean. Even the Technocracy has no clue.
A very non-canon Mage story set in the French City of Paris. A City dominated by the very ancient Order of Hermes and the very new technology of the New World Order and everything else just bubbling up through the cracks.
Banshee in Paris is a Roleplaying Adventure/Scenario for White Wolf‘s Mage: The AscensionTM Roleplaying Game.
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SimUniversity was my final year project for Computer Apps in DCU.
It’s a simulation of a University using a mathamatical model and a simple GUI frontend. It was inspired by the line of Sim computer games.
It was devolped using Object Oriented Techniques (UML) in Java.
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This is a conversion of my very first 3D level, from Quake, to Quake 2.
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TankStorm was my third year project for Computer Apps in DCU.
It was devolped with Mark Greene.
It is an Applet game where you control a tank and it’s turret and must battle to the end of the single level.
Our examiners thought it was very good at the time (but that was a while back).
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This level for Quake is based on the Computer Labs in DCU (Dublin City University). It’s the second level I’ve done for Quake and it’s the second level based on a building in DCU college. (The first one was the sports hall).
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This level is based on the Sports hall which is on the campus of DCU (Dublin City University). This was my first ever Quake level. It is deathmatch only.
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