Sup Party People? Ya like Nexuiz and Geany? Ballin' like a ninja?

Tyler Mulligan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:03:54 +0000

I’ve been quite involved in the open-source project Nexuiz recently. Most of my free time between work and school is focused on it. School’s been an interesting challenge. I’m taking two Psychology courses and a Physics class. They are both helping me get a deeper understanding of the game, the code and the community I run based around it. Nexuiz is an appealing game to people of all skills, the code base has gotten pretty strong and the effects are looking really nice. The recent addition of client-side quakec has spawned new features that simply were not possible prior to this change.

Like this new scoreboard

developed by blub, roughly based on a mockup I created

whose later HUD is being attempted by victim

I also began to theorize object relationships to be future projects I’d like to develop

I started working on my mapping skills (made this baby for my Technical Theatre class)

later releasing a classic Halo favorite remade and remixed collaborating with Michael “Tenshihan” Quinn and Florian “tapas” Schmidt

started building some tools to run Nexuiz game servers

which are being provided by

whom have been very kind in helping us setup, upgrade and change locations. Big thanks to mkzelda who’s helped keep us on our feet in this respect.

gave a little love to the Nexuiz Tournament website, further extending that theme back into the game:

and now the ninjaz at our 1 year anniversary

that we are celebrating with a mapping contest.

I’m still using and loving

with a text editor I’m loving more each day, geany

I hope to have more tips and tricks for you all soon. I’ve been learning a lot on linux recently. I’ve been pretty focused as you can see but I’d be more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Feel free to contact me.

Where I've been (June 2008 Edition)

Tyler Mulligan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:58:42 +0000

So it’s been another interesting stretch of not blogging. A quick recap involves school, work, play and Nexuiz (which is a cross between work and play). For school, I managed a project called Object Organizer which you can learn more about in the wiki. I learned a lot about code, projects and people during this experience. I hope to share some techniques, such as the jQuery AJAX login I’ve developed with you all soon.

I’ve been really busy with my Senior Project / Nexuiz Community, Nexuiz Ninjaz developing a web based statistics frontend for players to check their stats. It will be similar to an already existing statistics script but we plan on doing a few things different. As the project grows, I will post information I find interesting about the project(s).

My main computer died and my thinkpad was going haywire so I was able to get another computer from a friend in exchange for work and I did a fresh OS install on my thinkpad. Both computers use Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, the desktop dual boots into XP 64bit. I’ve stayed booted into Ubuntu most the time. And I’ve done many neat things with syncing my laptop and desktop. Utilizing programs such as Synergy and Unison.

Ubuntu has improved drastically since I’ve lasted tried it. There are a few annoying bugs… like the fact that xinerama is buggy with games causing me to create a single monitor xorg.conf I run in a different tty just for games but the time I’m spending configuring, is time I was wasting on windows before. As crappy as having my desktop die was, due to good planning I was able to recovery everything I need and this event has gotten me back into Linux.

I hope to have something more for you next post but if you can’t wait, start reading some of my other sites :).

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Sup Party People? Ya like Nexuiz and Geany? Ballin' like a ninja?

Where I've been (June 2008 Edition)