Sunday, March 13, 2011

Things are looking good.

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
On Thursday, I got a letter in the mail stating that I won a Regional Gold Medal In the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards! WHooooo! This was awesome, and also meant that I got to advance to the National judging level. Then, Last Friday(the day after) I was notified that I won a National Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in the Video Game category!@#!@#!@#!@#!!!@$!%$^&U#$^*!$#%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. This is the contest that I talked about way back in January. And I am super excited about how it went. I guess I also get to go to a big awards ceremony in New York!

Summer Internships
I am trying to set up some summer internships and It looks pretty good so far. At this point I will have from one to three. So something should work out. One guy makes mobile phone games. Another programs servers (using python) and the last guy does some kind of thing with programming (I can't remember :S)
I think It will be a really good experience for me. And I'm excited about it!

My Game Server
As you may know, Ive been trying to get a server working for my next game. I've been having issues because I don't know how to use twisted. But this week I got a little closer. At this point, I can connect a client to the server. And the Client has a main loop which is run every frame with     
     
reactor.callLater((1 / self.FPS)self.loop)

Here is my client code so far. 

It's a lot farther than it was before, but at this point, the server and client are not actually sending anything back and forth. (I still need to figure that out)

If anyone knows If i'm doing this whole thing wrong (maybe i need to put everything from my Game class into the ClientProtocol class???) or other pointers, that would really help me out.

Pyweek
Pyweek is coming up in about 20 days. Im not currently going to be taking part in any projects. But I think I may want to do something for it. If anyone wants some help on their team, I would love to talk about it.


So thats all I can think of talking about. Have a nice day everybody!

Oh, Im also considering publishing some of my music on this blog. So that may happen..

Cya!

- Josh 

2 comments:

  1. Sweet! Congrats on the achievements and on the trip! Also very cool to have the internship(s) to look forward to for the summer.

    Keep up all the good work.

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  2. I've never used Twisted before tonight so I def won't claim any sort of expertise. I installed it and used its simpleserv.py example (with the port changed to match) along with your code and the connection failed for some reason.

    When I changed the port number back to 8000, the program ran fine. It stayed running and I was able to move the character around.

    Hope that's of some help.

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