*laughing*

Yeah.  I still live with my parents, and will for the next two years.  After two years (transferring in from Ventura Community College), I plan on living on Chapman's campus.

Wow, great story Vorax.   That's very impressive.

I'm more of a casual programmer though; it's not my preferred career (just my second), so I don't know if I could pull something like that off, if only because I'm spending most of my time working in the direction I'd prefer to go (filmmaking).  In other words, I'm not "truly dedicated to programming."

That's still very awesome.  Which company do you work for?

BTW, to keep everyone update, the interview at the hospital went well, it looks like I'll get the job.

Along with that I'm doing some low paying contract out programming in my off school time.

Thanks for all the help guys.

I'm sending in an application to the hospital (10.23 an hour).  My dad knows people there (he's the supervisor of the same department at a different hospital), so hopefully that'll help me get in.

By the way Woogley, I'm taking my senior year of highschool at the local community college.  I only have school two days a week.

I'm still in highschool (actually college courses for highschool credit) ; 20 hour week is most I could manage.


That's good, seeing as it's my chosen career.  i just am looking for a job to carry me through highschool and college.

I PM-ed you.

Well I have plenty of time, I'm not even a highschool grad yet.

Hmm.  It's not my first career choice.  My primary choice and dream is to be a filmmaker, but I'm being practical and realizing the chances of that are slim, so I'm going to minor in CS (majoring in Film Production).  Is minoring good enough?

Ok, I had figured that's how it'd be.   Just wanted to make sure.

Hey guys, I live in California (Ventura area).

I've been programming in Java since I was 13, when I was 15.5 or so I decided to pursue developing skillz in computer art and such, so I sort of abandoned programming, only occasionally writing some code now and then.  About six months back, I decided I'm not really cut out to be an artist, so I've picked up programming again.

I'm turning eighteen at the end of this month.  I've already bought a car (found a great deal on an almost mint condition 1993 3000GT SL), and I obviously need a job for insurance when I get my license, which I'll be getting at the end of this month.

Now, I can work at a hospital for about ten dollars an hour, which is a good wage...but I'd rather not.  I'd rather not work at all, but I need money, and unfortunately nobody planted a money tree in my backyard. 

So if I have to work, I'd prefer a job in IT at the very least, and I'd like something that'd have me writing Java code.

I searched on Monster for java programming jobs in my area, and everybody seems to want college graduates  with one to two years of professional experience at the least.

Should I give up on trying to find a programming job?  If not, where should I look?

Hey, blah^3, I noticed a bug in your site.  If you try to log in and your don't get your password in correctly, i'm taken to a page that says:

Yay!

Competition is the catalyst of innovation, invention, and refining.

Tired of waiting for the new boards.  :-/

Other than the afore mentioned lack of a screen rez setting, the game is great.

I also have a problem with alt tabbing; the screen seems to move down; it's weird.  I'll get a screeny later if you need it.

Yes, but you can set the file preferences to show the extension always, that's what I do.

I don't like spaces in file names; I dunno why.  I always use underscores or dots.  For picture files I'd usually do something like: Name_MM.DD.YYYY.extension

Works ok for me.  Besides, in modern OSs, there isn't a limit to your extension, is there?  

.htaccess comes to mind, but I'm not sure if that's really an extension with no name or a name with no extension.

.tiff is 4 letters as well.

Wow, a LOT of cool stuff.

*plots plans to be on GDC 2006 game demo reel*

Here's another one of me now.

I got tired of coding my IK system today, so I goofed around with my camera.  I recently bought an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 949 processor that I'm probably going to put in Sunday, which is what I'm holding.


Back to coding.

What's wrong with Overloading?

I'm with JBanes.

I did not play several of the games because I didn't feel like extracting the zips and locating command.com (or run: cmd and cd-ing over to the correct directory).  It's too much work for a game I'll play at the most a few times.

Click and run (executable jar) or webstart please.

I like the new logo colours btw (I'd change the purple though maybe, it kind of clashes with the red).

If you like my work, I could also create other GUI elements.  For example, I really, really don't like that gradient silver oval thing that the links are in...  If you want, I could design something nicer?

Also, we need the text Java Games Factory anti aliased or something, it looks dreadful.

Let me know.

Thanks! I felt stupid sitting there staring at my screen that long.

@ blah^3, what about the system timer that's actually accurate?  That's why I upgraded to Java 1.5 (it's still 1.5 to me for some reason. )

It's good, although you may want to add something along the lines of "press space (or any key) to continue" at the end  (Beginning) of each level; I sat there waiting about 10 seconds for the game to start and nothing.  

Lol, good work.  Nice graphics, gameplay is fun.

Here's my simplified game loop:



game.tick() , this is just how I'm delegating things.

game.getFrame().render();  = me showing the bufferstrategy and disposing the graphics object.

Yes, I know I'm a freak for putting the calculate FPS code in it's own method.

Edit: eh, no idea why the indentation doesn't work right.  Sorry.

Edit 2: This code locks the fps at 60 fps (the value of my constant).

I'm confused a bit as well in regard to why security matters.

Aren't you uploading what other people will be downloading anyway? :S

CLOSE  

If this is referring to shooting yourself in the face, it's a goddamned shame you didn't succeed.

Somebody with moderating/admining privledges, PLEASE IP ban this guy and delete all of his posts, and all of mine that respond to him.

Please.

Someone, please, hand me the fscking ban hammer so I can slap this prebuscent 11 year old into internet oblivian.

angelfaerie, run to mommy and say that you are too young and too stupid to use the "internets."

Or another alternative:  For the love of humanity, take one for the team and shoot yourself in the face.  The world will be so much better off.

Can you please stop spamming?

I'm with blah^3 here.

My average class length is 200-300 lines.  I have some classes as small as 10-30.

Yes, I like my classes small and manageable.