Break and Back to Work
I’m finally back to work after taking a one week break. The break was quite a good one, although I fell sick right when it started. That forced me to stay at home for quite a while, before finally going out on Thursday to help Nicole’s Voice Collection Project to pack up. Congratulations to Nicole for completing the collection, and all the best for the remaining of the project.
I spent the break finishing up some games and game demos that I’ve downloaded. Now I know which games to get the next time I obtain one.
Black and White is a very good game series in which you become a god who can control towns. You can either be a good god and provide everything for your town, wooing people from other towns to come to yours; or you can be an evil one who wages war against the other towns in order to take over them. The goal is to take over the entire island, and finish the quests.
DiRT is an amazing racing (rally) game which is so realistic that I can’t even drive properly. Seriously, it’s very hard using a keyboard to control your car in the game.
Need For Speed: Carbon is yet another racing game I’m dying to lay my hands on.
Penumbra: Overture is another game from the horror genre. It features an advanced physics engine (e.g. you can block doors using items, to open doors you actually have to grab the door and push/pull it), advanced physics-based puzzles (e.g. you have to shake a shelf by rocking your mouse back and forth in order to drop a fuel can on top of the shelf), realistic dynamic lights (which creates a very eerie environment), and advanced AI (if you make too much noise, the enemy can hear you). Check out the Tech Demo, and I’m sure you’ll be blown away too.
Another game I want to get is MS Flight Simulator X, however I’m still thinking thrice as a lot of airplanes and enhancements designed for FS 2004 are not compatible with FSX yet.
OK, this post isn’t supposed to be about games.
It feels weird coming back to the office. As some of you might have known, I’m extending my internship by one month, excluding the one week break that I took. This time, there are not many other interns as most of them are not extending. The office feels very cold and quiet, without the “college-feel” (quoting my supervisor at work) that it had the last time. I guess this is what work is going to be like when I become a full-time employee.
Anyway, I still have some projects to finish while I’m here. Wish me luck!