Free open source gaming and documentation

After going to POSSCON, which I had a great time at, I went home and looked into some free open source games. Before this conference I didn't even know that there were open source games, especially  ones that you can contribute to. I found a HUGE list on wiki of open source games and thought I would share a few of them. One that I found really interesting is Gang Garrison 2, which is a 2d version of the game Team Fortress 2. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find the source code for this game so I looked around for another interesting game, but one that had the source code easily available. I soon found one called FreeSpace 2 . I know that I don't have a lot of time right now to spend working on a game that isn't school related but I plan on finding/contributing to a game this summer when I have a lot more free time. I went to some other talks at POSSCON, like one about security by Chris Hinkley, another talk I attended was about encouraging Open Source in education by Corey Donohoe. They were very interesting but I can't really do too much with the information that was passed along. The Open Source gaming talk was just right down my alley.


Now on to school related topics.... I've spent some time with one of my group members (Tony) talking about what we need to try to document in the source code. The code isn't really organized at all and there are limited to no comments so we have our work cut out for us, but I really want to be able to submit something that they think is valuable.
 

POSSCON!

So when looking at the schedule of POSSCON I have realized how excited I am to go! I had no idea that there were gonna be talks on gaming. There is also a workshop on open source gaming and all aspects of it. This is perfect for me because getting involved in this should help me when applying to a game company. The speaker for the seminar and workshop is John Diamond. The other talk that I am really interested in is the one about open source trends in the government. I'm still working on some questions for the speakers but I can't wait to talk to John Diamond and flood him with some questions.

Back to the grind....

Well I had a nice break from school the past week. With saying that I really haven't worked much on our project because I was out of town, but I did respond to an email about POSSCON so I wouldn't lose my spot. I also met with one of my group mates and we talked about doing some documentation for the project because we are still learning C from our other teammates. Hopefully the documenting will also help us understand a little more of what the code is doing.

Not too far behind

One of our assignments for our project (openKinect), we were supposed to find a bug and fix it. There weren't really any bugs so we tried to implement a feature request.  I don't really know how to write a function that writes to a register and their write register function wasn't working for what we need it for so James has been working on a new one that we can use. I was getting worried about keeping up with our assignments for our class but there was another feature request that Ashley discovered. It is way easier to implement so after looking at his new functions, I am getting a better idea of what we need to do for the other feature request. And I think our time line gives us a good basic idea of what pace we need to be working at. Now the fun part with TOSS ch 8 is going to be writing a biography without talking and/or writing it ourselves.