My name is Martin, better known as Fengshen (or just Feng), and I’m from The Netherlands.
I’ve been gaming for a long time now: ever since I was 3, I played on the pc, later on the NES, SNES, GameBoy, PSX, N64, PS2, GameCube, PS3, but still, most of all, on my pc :3
During weekdays, you’ll find me studying the most interesting study EVAR~!
I study Game Technology at the University of Utrecht and it’s freaking awesome there ^^
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I was strolling along t3h intarwebz when I stumbled upon Grim Dawn (youtube vid) and immediately saw how it resembled Titan Quest so much! I’m playing TQIT with a friend of mine right now, so I’m really interested in how this game’ll turn out ^^
When I’ve got myself some money, I’ll buy the Legendary Fan Edition straight away :3
If anyone’s got some questions about me, feel free to ask, I don’t bite (that hard)… :rolleyes:
Thanks a lot for the warm welcome!
How can you possibly say you envy me, when you’re just 23? If you’ve got some time on you and possibly money (though you can earn money here without speaking Dutch as well: just look for work in Amsterdam), you can just come and study here You’re young enough, so what’s holding you back? (I’m not even nearly the oldest person studying it)
I can even tell you some more about the study if you’re interested ^^
grins How much they pay you for your advertising and do you get bonuses for every person you lure there?
I’m not really very comfortable with travel unfortunately. I’m very much a homebody. I stress about catching a bus to the city and thats only a 2 hour trip.
ponders I suspect I may turn into an agoraphobic by the time i’m in my mid-thirties.
Might be interesting to go there someday though and i am curious about what it is you do in Game Technology.
Hahaha, if only they’d pay me for this advertisement…
Ah well, everybody’s got his/her style; I’m more of a traveler I guess, like being on the road (especially trains, they’re excellent: you travel fast and you can keep on working on your laptop while you’re at it )
Agoraphobic… at least you already know you might become one; time for pre-emptive counter-measures?
I don’t know too much yet, since I’m only in my first year now and the study just started this year, but so far, this is on the list:
Programming in C# with the XNA 3.1 library (Microsoft’s library that’s used for making games for Windows, Xbox and Zune)
System- and network architecture (how do computers and networks work?)
Logic for Computer Science (boooooring, but a necessary way of thinking when programming)
Databases (for what program can work without them?)
Game Design (history, what is it?, rules, gameflow, balance, etc.)
Data structures (algorithms and search functions (quicksort, heap sort, bucket sort, …) that make sure your program works efficiently)
Graphics (ofcourse, what’d you expect? :P)
Furthermore, there’s some courses free of choice:
Webdesign
Designing Interactive Systems
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Thing is, I don’t know whether or not all courses are available in English as of yet xD
Note: All courses are in the first year of the study, the complete bachelor spans 3 years and there’s quite some master-level studies related to this study :3
Might I add, to give some counterweight in the train-promotion, that the comfortability of trains is a completely subjective topic in Dutchland? As I, for one, completely hate and disgust trains. They bring you from where you are not, to where you do not want to go on the wrong time. And the delays. The horrible, horrible delays. Anyway, imo trains are a waste of tax-payers money really. Oh well.
Hahaha, I think this fellow Dutchlander has never tried travelling by train in any other country. I can reassure you, we don’t have that much delays (in fact, 95% of all trains is running on schedule!) and the comfortability of the seats is increasing with every new year as well.
Explain yourself btw, how can you travel from where you are not? Philosophical matters? And not going where you wanted to go is a classic “you took the wrong train” error
Don’t get me wrong, I love the car as well, but nothing annoys me more than traffic jams: you’re just sitting and waiting, but you can’t work on your laptop, because you have to stay focussed and drive a bit every 30 seconds…
Actually, I did take trains in other countries and I was surprised to find that they’re much more accurate. In fact, when in vacation on Spain, we and dozens of (only dutch passengers stepped on the wrong train because it arrived 2 minutes before our train arrived. None of more than a dozen dutch passengers would’ve imagined train intervals riding at such accurate and exact intervals.
I imagine the 95% to be a statistic you pulled out at random. I used to travel by trains a lot, that’s pretty much where my hatred for public transportation came from. Getting from one train to another train is especially nasty, as trains often have a 5 minute delay (which doesn’t even count as a delay according to official terms) and if you miss that, you’re delayed by 30 minutes (or an hour if you’re unlucky). The depart times suck for me. I used to have to go from one train to another, where the train I had to go to departed 1 minute before I arrived at the station. Yay. Whenever I have a tentam I try to take a train one hour earlier than I ideally should and hope I’ll get there in time.
You first have to get to a train station somehow (than take a 10 minute walk from the cycle depots to the train station (at least in Zwolle, where I live), travel to the closed station and from there travel more, because the trainstation is hardly ever remotely close to where you have to be. Perhaps you’re from the Randstad though, where things are different, apparantly.
Public transport as opposed to international transport. the companies that use those trains want them to be comfortable and accurate so people keep coming back to use them again where as public transport is allowed to slip because those that use it have few other alternatives.
Yes indeed, I live 10km from Utrecht and have only ever had problems with trains during bad weather conditions (freaking Pro-Rail) or other serious problems. I imagined you’d be from somewhere outside of the Randstad, since every single town inside the Randstad is perfectly accessible by public transports
Either way, we’re slipping off-topic here xD But thanks for the warm welcome!
You’re young enough, so what’s holding you back? (I’m not even nearly the oldest person studying it)
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And not going where you wanted to go is a classic “you took the wrong train” error