Applications continued

As of now I have heard back from two companies to which I send my CV two weeks ago. One is Rebellion and they sent me a test which I messed up and so got no employment opportunity. The other one is Pivotal Games saying we aren't looking for people anymore. So far no luck so today I decided to send out another wave of applications.
They went to:

• Full Fat
• Strangelite
• Cohort Studios
• Ninja Theory
• SUMO
• Juice Games
• Gusto Games
• Code Masters
• Double Six
• Frontier

So far I had one reply from this list already from Full Fat they invited me to an interview with them.
So lets hope I´ll get a job now so I can stay here in England and do what I like most make Games/Software related to games.

Send your application day

Today i decided it was time for another round of applications, I hope this time round I will get some more positive responses. This time I send my CV and stuff to Rebellion (Alien vs Predator), Rockstar North (GTA of course), Curve Studios (PSP games now stepping over to X360 and PS3), Stainless Games(Xbox Live arcade games) and Pivotal Games (conflict series). Tomorrow I will be sending some more applications to companies like Sumo(Virtua Tennis) and Ninja theory(Heavenly Sword).
So wish me luck in my quest for a job.

Gunturrets work

Just finished implementing the gun turrets, we now have enemies in the map. Although work is a big word the render thats all for today.
Ow and I fixed a nasty memory leak in my particle system today without having to redesign it all.

On the laptop front of things they haven't come by my place today sadly enough hope they will deliver it tomorrow. Other wise i got more waiting on it to do and i don't want to wait.

Laptop Confirmation

Today I got the confirmation for my laptop, it will arrive at Laptops4u tomorrow or Thursday and then they will ship it to me. Next week I'll have my new laptop, finally i can work at home on my ACW. Too bad it's due in two and a half weeks, still might enable me to get shaders to work in the 2 weeks remaining. As of now I have texturing and point lights working through vertex and pixel shaders. Spot lights are hard to implement in shaders. The problem with shaders is they are not debug-able which makes it kinda hard to write them. Although the result is a lot nicer than the fixed function pipeline behavior. Planes can now consist of 4 vertices's and still light will look good on em instead of the hundreds of points I am using now.
Here is another particle system effect:

Long overdue post

Ok this post is long overdue and it's about all the crazy stuff thats going on on Fridays over here.
This story starts on halloween when we got invited for a party that on the last minute didn't happen. Lucky for us there was another party going on somewhere else. When we walked in to this party, of course we weren't invited but who cares, there were only girls there so we felt well this is gonna be a good night. After we were in for 5 minutes this girls comes up to use and starts yelling at us we we weren't dressed up, and what we were doing there. This lasted for a bout 10 minutes and afterwards we actually had a good laugh with her. This night ended a bit weird though.

The next party was that friday at asylum the night lub an campus it was an ISA party, you know the society that signed me up by having a party, good way to get members though. This was a weird night as well as i couldn't get drunk that night and I was drinking double vodka shots. In retrospect though i might have switch to hard liquor to early that night.
To continue the next week we crashed a party again, he sounds like we are getting good a this thing here. This party turned out to be a birthday party, we a group of about 20 people just walked in and started drinking. Here one of my friends try to climb a wall, more accurately what happened was he walked into the wall. He ran up to it and jumped but couldn't get high enough so he sacked into the wall.
This is also the night the legend of the giraffe was born. See picture blow the guy eating the leaves.

Then finally we come to two weeks ago this was a crazy night as well, also the most expensive one I have been on here. 7 quid 50 for 2 shots of brain hemorrhage. This was just basicly a pub crawl that ended up at some friends house were I saw the greats pile of dishes ever.

As you can tell i don't really remember everything that happens on Friday nights here but thats just because we start to early.