MLC Group - Ramblings<title/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="mlc_style.css"> </head> <body> <h1>Ramblings =</h1> <h2>2D + Game </h2> <hr/> <p>September 2008: Making progress in the 2D game port using TGB 1.7.4 - very nice tool, some quirks and Torque Script is as fragile as ever. I'll post some tips on programming in Torque Script (and TGB) later.</p> <hr/> <p>April 2008: I am finishing up a 2D game in Flash. It's written using AS2 and is actually quite fun to play. I wrote it over a couple weekends to see how fast I could do it. The AI is pretty good, the graphics could use some work and the game-play is about perfect. It will be ported but befored doing that, I will add some sound-effects, some menu operation like "save" and "replay". Selling it? I couldn't sell a dollar bill - so that aspect escapes me for now... </p> <h2> Dreams + Warnings</h2> <hr> <p>September 2008: CO2 <b>385 ppm</b> and rising... Time to be nice to the earth, folks (that includes me - I could do much better, myself). </p> <p>This image was captured from ><a href="http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends">www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/</a> and scaled to 256x256 (you never know when you might need a power of two texture):</p> <p> <img valign="center" src="images/NOAA_CO2_Trends.png"/> </p> <p> Wikipedia has an informative page on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide">Carbon Dioxide</a> </p> <p> Oh, for those looking for technological miracle, here it is: Keep a bunch of healthy CO2-scrubbers and Oxygen-makers around. They're called <i>trees and oceans</i>. </p> <hr/> <p>November 2007: We (finally!) watched <i>Inconvenient Truth</i>. Everyone should watch this.</p> <p> I realize now that CO2 at 250 ppm are the good old days. </p> <p> So, I just discovered that readings taken in 2006 were at <b>380 ppm</b> and for 650 million years we never go that high! That's messed up. </p> <p> <i>Fact:</i> Vegetables have much less nutrients but are larger when grown in high C02 </p> </p> <p> <i>Fact:</i> Global Warming is a very serious problem. It is going to kill off the oxygen-giving lodge pole pine, here in Colorado, by the billions. This is a serious disaster that will happen by 2012 (only five years from the time I write this.) We need a couple years where the weather is cold enough to kill the pine beetle. <p><i>Editor's Note: It is now 2010 and the beetle is winning. Very sad.</i></p> </p> <p> <i>Fact:</i> What caused Global Warming? Pollution. What caused pollution? People. There are just too many people on this planet. What's the answer? A little bit of population control and some commitment to a sustainable system. Of course, anyone reading this already knows it... </p> <p><img valign="center" src="images/ash2.png"/></p> <hr/> <p class-"lastupdated"> Last updated: Sept 10, 2008</p> <hr/>  <ul class="navbar"> <li><a href="index.html">Home page</a> <li><a href="ramblings.html">Ramblings</a> <li><a href="game_development_stuff.html">Game Development Notes</a> <li><a href="local_scene.html">My Local Scene</a> <li><a href="links.html">Links</a> </ul> </body> </html>