New Curriculum = less respect for working students Monday, Aug 4 2008 

Et cetera , weeklyetc 6:38 pm

This morning an information sharing regarding the ITB’s new curriculum was initiated in East GKU (Gedung Kuliah Umum), more accurately, at room 9231. Guess what? After going up those winding, 3 floors worth of stair, what I got is disappointment.

The course that had been taken but doesn’t exist in 2008’s curriculum will have an equivalent course. For example, Discreet Mathematics no longer exist, replaced by Discreet Structure (what? Structure!?) with the same credits. So, in the transcript, I had taken Discreet Structure with the same score as my no-longer-exist Discreet Mathematics’s score.

So, the paragraph above is not the bad news. Now for the bad news : Practical Work (or Kerja Praktek in Indonesian) course is now only 1 credit worth. What!? I’ve worked 2 month just for measly 1 credit !? And I still have to make the report and presentation!?

CMIIW, but I really think that working 2 month at a REAL workplace is worth MUCH more than those Technical Writing course (which is a lame english course with 3 credits). The one who create this Curriculum must have a few screw loose on his/her head.

 

XNA 2D, first glance Saturday, Aug 2 2008 

Game Development , weeklyetc 12:03 am

Let’s get started on this week’s update, shall we? As most of you remember, I told you that I’ll be exploring XNA’s RPG Starter Kit.

Well… I lied.

Although, it’s not fully a lie. I did try to explore the Starter Kit, but it was too much hassle to do so, and lots of file to look into. (more…)

 

Ar Tonelico II – Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujo-tachi no Metafalica Saturday, Jul 26 2008 

Video Game , weeklyetc 2:07 pm

Most PS2’s RPG Players know this title. Shortly known as Ar Tonelico II, or translated literally as Metafalica of the world’s songstresses. Wrong translation? Well, the main topic of this post is not the title anyway, so who cares :D

Now, for the main event… *drum rolls* Let’s look at this nicely scanned image!

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Birth Day? Thursday, Jul 24 2008 

Et cetera weeklyetc 2:50 pm

Looks like the RPG Starter Kit has to wait. Let’s read together this unfascinating and unimportant story for a moment…

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A new start, still the old laziness… Thursday, Jul 24 2008 

Game Development , , weeklyetc 2:46 pm

And here I am, one of the many people that are too lazy to make a blog. Have tried wordpress, but I don’t know why the wordpress reject my registration today with “oops, sorry an error has occured”, so I gave up on the idea on making the blog there.

K, for the story, today I got the XNA Game Studio’s pack from my friend, which includes the game studio installer (obviously), 4 e-book regarding XNA, 1 DVD image that contains yet another tutorial, an RPG Starter Kit which actually was downloaded by me (but I delete the file when making space on my HDD). Need anything else? Other than some snack and coffee, I don’t think so.

The thing is… I failed even on the first step of creating a game, which is…. installing the oh-so-powerful XNA Game Studio. Why? Don’t ask me, ask Windows :( (more…)