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Must play games just now

2010-12-05T07:50:00.000-08:00

Best new games to play just now in this order are -

PC -

Crysis 2

Dragon Age 2

Rage

Call of duty black Ops

Medal of Honor 2010

Need for Speed 2010

Bulletstorm

Two Worlds 2

Witcher 2

Consoles -

Gears of War 3

Just Cause 2

Not much but the best.

Nex Wars Site coming soon

2010-06-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

Nex Wars 1 Site is coming soon with awesome and I mean really awesome, concept shots and gameplay details. Screenshots will follow. Watch out this blog for details.

Unreal Engine 4 or Cry Engine 4 which will dominate in 2012

2010-05-12T02:51:00.000-07:00

Market-share standpoint is the most crucial standpoint of any game engine as the continued existence of Engine will depend on money unless it is open source. Even Source Engine has better credibility due to atleast 10 AAA games made on it by valve and other devs, even if it supports Windows and XBox only but it shows it can do and is useful. CryEngine has just stormed the PC since days of Half-Life 2 and FarCry (at that time Epic had only UT2004 technology which was way behind). But due to great luck and buisness sense they were able to make their not so optimised UE3 available just at the time everybody needed one Engine for PC/XBox360/PS3, and released Gears of War which actually attracted attention. A good game always attracts attention to engine just as HL2 and FarCry did, but UE3 was the only PC/XBox360/PS3 technology available, UE2 was largely familiar and respected technology in game industry, due to late release of Doom3, and not cross platform source engine(still it was begining to licensed seriously those days). FarCry was on PC and XBox and very new at that time. Human beings love familiar things. Thus UE3 just put every body behind.

They can again do it with UE4 if they can predict and make available the right PC/NextGen console technolgy at right time(arounf 2012 as many think), whereas CryTek is also doing same thing. UE4 may again win as loads of developers are familiar with UE3 toolset, but if they look seriously at quality of CryEngine4 and if it is available at that time, CryEngine will 100% take over UE4 as it is just the best and onle look at Crysis tells that. Id is ready with idTech5 which still does static lighting and need loads of hard drive space due to megatextures, is not popular and used by id and there partners only. They always timed release of their engines wrong. Even Betheseda teams(their owners/partners use Gamebryo for internal development) IMHO Oblivion still looks great and is available on PC and both consoles.

NextGen is definetly UE4 60% and CryEngine 40% unles someone else comes or id does something amazing at right time(Jhon Carmack is secretly working on idTech6 for some time which will use Intel's Larrabee, which may or maynot be awesome, he himself is doubtful).

As far as I have seen developers just need something easy and good enough for PC and Consoles at right time, and gamers just notice sharp textures and good lighting(HL2, Oblivion, Crysis) and care far more about game play(Assasin Creed for ex. which uses internal engine). That is also why Uncharted 2 is just plain awesome even if it is just PS3 tech.

Best Graphics Engine to use for Next - Gen games

2010-01-18T08:03:00.000-08:00

Best Graphics Engine to use for Next - Gen games
Megatexturing, Id Tech 5, Unreal Engine and Cry Engine

John Carmack has been touting Megatexturing as the most important features of his Id Tech 5 Game Engine. Though the Technology itself is impressive, in effect allowing very very large textures to be used without memory constraints (as the texture is streamed), and making it possible to use Unique detail anywhere on any size mesh, it has the major drawback of using phenomenal amount of Texture data for even one level. A game like Unreal Tournament 3 which has lots of various levels(but textures can be shared between levels and meshes too, and it is done also), and is also good for expansion by mod quantity(You can get lots of High Quality Maps for both Unreal Tournament 3 or Quake 3). Making a new map is hassle free can be made very small in size(use maximum UT3 supplied textures, and pack only your own added ones), and easy to distribute, add and use. Compare this with Enemy Territory Quake Wars(Maps by mod community? where are they?). Each of ETQW's level has a megatexture(.mega file) with size of 400-500 mb which can be opened in specific toolset of id software only. Even if you use the same ground and grass, you have to repack your megatexture at size of 500 mb extra. And as one goes adding levels only 50 levels will mean some 25 GB Extra space + 4.5 GB of original making it 30 GB, where as with (UT3 + nvidia PhysX pack + UT3 Titan pack) some 60 maps of UT3 take only 12 GB space. And adding a new map doesnot mean 500 mb it can be even done within 50 mb, which is not possible with ETQW. Thus megatexturing makes modding and expansion of content with new maps extremely ridiculous which is a strong point of such games. One can very well contemplate the texture usage of a Jedi Academy like game(27 levels) made with id Tech 4. It goes far much higher with id Tech 5, for a game like RAGE which is rumored to be released on 4 DL or 8.5 GB Discs making it almost above 30 GB and that too when compressed. But the Content is just two big areas and environments till now seem pretty closed and not 360 degree open like Oblivion. Just imagine the hard disk requirements for Oblivion like game in Oblivion like Visual fidelity and very large environment. It is almost difficult to travel all the world of Oblivion from one end to other on foot in one palythrough and you can also go on foot. And all this take only 5 GB. In Oblivion Meshes and Textures are cleverly reused and it looks pretty impressive.
The point I am trying to make is Megatexturing does not bring a great graphical difference, actually if you look attentively and kowing beforehand then only you can notice the Unique texture on terrain in ETQW, it does effect on Subconscious level, but the price for such minor difference is very big. Real Time radiosity makes far much greater difference in Visual fidelity for that matter. Even Pre - Computed Radiosty of Half-Life 2 was very real looking, providing a great hint to subconscious mind for realism in lighting.

And Crysis just looks 3 times better then Enemy Territory Quake Wars(which itself is very good looking but the lighting is static) and Half - Life 2(Static Lighting), but the lighting effects in Crysis are fully Dynamic and still very realistic(Ambient Occlusion is used if you are wondering which is a bit less real than Radiosity, but can be done in realtime these days). And Even Screenshots of RAGE look inferior to Crysis screenshots of 2007 and RAGE is still not released. Though I agree that if you look closely, texures in RAGE have Unique detail, which might look more clear on Grand Canyon(RAGe Environments) but will be definetly lost in Crysis like Islands, Jungles, COD MW like Urban, UT3 like Sci Fi environments. Crysis itself has a Grand Canyon or Black Mesa like map in Multiplayer which looks great to me.
I am not a Crysis fanboy or infected with Crysis Influenza but when you look at Crysis technically and graphically it seems to remain unchallenged for next 3 years from now, (though in 2007 it was surmised that it will be so for next 3 years but we are already in 2010 and no new game looks better than Crysis). ARMA 2 has bigger environments but it does not look better than Crysis and kills the performance. Oblivion has possibly the biggest world in a single - Player game(A level of FarCry can also be noted as the biggest level that didnot needed any loading in between and that too without streaming) and looks far better than ARMA 2 due to quality artwork, and runs very efficiently. Also Crysis also has great performance on High setting on 600$ PC, at which it looks far better than Ultra of any game that is to be released these days.
I may also point out that id Software has always outperformed itself and others, so we may wait and watch, but then Vlave has always put a great game after major id release which has blown them. Half - Life after Quake, Half - Life 2 after Doom3 and the difference was very big both in graphics and gameplay. Recently Crytek is busy blasting everybody with there top quality games like FarCry(which had different but boring gameplay) and Crysis(which has great gameplay but flounders in last 4 levels of aliens), Crysis Warhead(which also has some boring alien levels and falls a lot short of spectacular Call of Duty MW1 , MW2 gameplay). Gamepalywise is a subjective issue and this post is about graphics technology.

I am considering only complete Game Engines(preferably cross platform)
and not Graphics engine like Gamebryo(Oblivion)

1 -
I give Cry Engine most points as best technology for creating next gen great games, development is also super smooth due to all development being done in rela time and now that it runs great on PS3 and XBox360 also and looks Ultimate cool. Only this Engine supports true great quality Dynamic lighting and Dynamic Time of Day.

2 -
Next is Unreal Engine 3 as it is tested, efficient, easy, featureful technology and has proved itself countless times. It also support maximum platform including Linux.

3 -
Next is Valve source Engine, If one really wants to make a gmae which can run on majority of PC's and XBox 360, and Source Engine has proven track record of delivering highly interactive games. But I warn it has not well organised or clean code-base.

4 -
Next is id Tech 5 being the last one available, which I do not recommend at all, due to not having any qualities mentioned above, and it still burns Lighmaps in its Giant Textures, foregoing full world Dynamic lighting, no Dynamic Time of Day.

Ther lot more other Engines like Duna Engine of FarCry 2 which may dazzle a bit but falls short in many departments so I strongly advise aginst using any other engine then top 3 I mentioned.

You can e-mail me for a full feature comparison of the 4 ngines I mentioned in tabular form at kinjalkishor@rediffmail.com. The comparison table will soon be put on this blog and my website(which is under construction for now).

Avatar the movie, being Primal or Star Wars

2010-01-18T08:00:00.000-08:00

Avatar the movie, being Primal or Star Wars

Recently I watched the movie Avatar, which many people find a great refreshing movie after Star Wars. For me it succeeded in taking me to land of dreams(where I want to go also) like Star Wars A New Hope and Star Wars Revnege of the Sith, and Lord of the Rings.

The main appeal of movie is the Primal versus moderm conflict, which is the conflict present in every urban person. Human are instinctively primal but are now accustomed to technolgy(what happens when humans are put to survival tests really and not like discovery channel?)
The attraction being breaking free from Urban finally and becoming what you really are the Primal like Jake at the end of the movie.

Jake himself says that he may not be ok for riding the horses ( or if you prefer Direhorse (Pa'li in Na'vi language) ) but he is born to fly the flying predator bird (or Mountain Banshee (Ikran in Na'vi language) ). This is a subtle hint of his Psych how he is not ok for a paraplegic human working for avatar program of his greedy masters, but instead he is born to be one of Omaticaya(and not a genetically mixed mind controlled dream walker duplicate) permanently. And the greatly interesting part of the movie was to see Jake ultimately becoming "Toruk Makto" riding Great Leonopteryx (Toruk in Na'vi language) from a outcast.

Many people have pointed out as yearning for transformation as its main attraction but I see resistance to transformation as a basic trait of Humans. Instead avatar is a way back to the hidden primal self which is waht we truly are at core.

The part I like most in the movie was the extremely satisfying ending (as compared to District 9 which was extremely unsatisfying like look we are going to make a sequel) and how the whole movie led it to that one highly desirable ending, the viewer even silently paraying at the end that Jake be transformed. Being a writer I appreciate this strong point of whole story.

Avatar is a good concept that needs to be developed more(though arguably I donot see Star Wars or LOR like longevity and draw in its material for now). I read that James Cameron is willing to explore the other moons in sequels, which I am waiting eagerly to see.

New Moon, the drama inherent

2010-01-18T07:58:00.000-08:00

New Moon, the drama inherent

Twilight Movie itself was brim filled with drama. And now its sequel New Moon is just exploding with drama, succeding beautifuly in hypnotising the viewer till the end.

Bella wants to become vampire(we know that alredy).

Now the Drama starts -
Edwards leaves inspite of conquering himself in Twilight, he now leaves for a even more greater reason(and no he is not afraid of Jacob).

As if that was not enough he goes to Volturi for being made smashed potato.
And then Jacob seems to have evil plans and he is the third party in love triangle. Jacob seems bbecoming more evil.
Then Isabella Swan herself is driving to brink of madness, quite literally.
Victoria seems herself to be dwarfed in face of these surprising events.

Then the roller coaster ride turns towards resolution falling like a cascading waterfall. And we are sticken to our seats till the last moment everything is sorted out(not without real disturbance by Volturi at end).
See the movie and compare what I say, as I donot want to spoil the fun for those who have not seen the masterpiece till now, so I do not say everything explicitly.

Stephanie mayer may not be a great magician of words like Stephen King but her Twilight series is brim filled with charm and great plot and story. People wrongly compare her with JK Rowling, with whom she can be comapred only as reagrds to her income and being female, otherwise both write different things for different people.

Just see the movie for yourself but do not forget to see Twilight first or the fun will be spoiled and you will feel lost.

Risen, Review of the new game by Gothic 2, Gothic 3 developers Piranha Bytes

2010-01-18T07:52:00.000-08:00

Risen, Review of the new game by Gothic 2, Gothic 3 developers Piranha Bytes.

Like Painkiller Resurrection(which itself is a good game but suffers largely from bugs and AI problems, but features great artwork) Risen is also overlooked.
But unlike Prey(which was good but not very good), Risen is one very good game. The only problem is less varity artwork(but good graphics), smaller area, 3 factions, 5-6 main areas, and long initial travelling before meeting people or reaching cities(refer map, but it is difficult to survive wilderness without training which one gets in city, catch 22 problem).

I suggest travelling with Jan first, and then going straight to harbour city or monastery as you ca train there and get gold.
If played this way the good parts comes latter and then also it is not great fun. It feels like flat game.

BUT BUT BUT... , a high quality of Emergent gameplay is hidden beneath this flat looks.
HOW?
Ok look for cheats of Risen which basically are -
type "minsky" quickly while playing the game without quotes. you will see test mode activated message.
press ~ (tilde above TAB) and type "god" in the opened console window without quotes. Now you cannot be killed. You wull need to do this every time you play Risen. A more persistent cheat may come, just keep looking at internet.
Now you cannot be killed so you have solved the number one problem of Survival, as foes are really strong in this game for a beginner and require a lot of training before doing anything which is really irritating.
Now go whereever you want, do what you want, meet people, fight and beat whom you want, revel in immortality. You will see all the fun and emergent behaviour aftter that and Risen does not crashes, instead performs beautifully as it was meant to be played that play.

Like everybody will say that you cannot get out of Harbour city and Monastery without permission once you get in. But you will discover that you can travel on rooftops and can get out from anywhere and even go to supposedly locked doors by alternative routes.

Now go anywhere, do anything, solve quests, enjoy all the fun(since the major annoyance of being killed quickly is over).
In all the madness all the NPC's seem to be performing admirably beahving as they wre made for this type of game.

All in all Risen is one of the best emergent games of 2009 that is unputdownable once you play it in god mode. And the story itself is focussed and very good despit area being smaller compared to Gothic3.

Graphics are very good with weather effects and beautiful island(It does not have very high-res textures, large variety of shaders and cool artistic geometry, neither variety in buildings). Once you play this game you will be engulfed and lost in it.
Now do not complain Risen being a bore game, once you know how to break the rules. The classic solution of shifting strategy when required works perfectly on Risen.
I even suggest developer Piranha Bytes to put a check box in the UI for enabling God Mode as Risen is highly enjoyable and very good game when played this way.
Though Risen is not better than Oblivion and Gothic 3 nor Graphically superior it is an excellent RPG in its own right which can provide large amount of fun. Same can be said about FarCry2 and Enemy Territory Quake Wars which are fun but fall short on the border of becoming great,which in any way doesnot mean that they are bore games, but are in fact good games.

You may look at
Are Consoles better than PC
Piracy of PC Games, Problems of PC Games, are Consoles superior that PC
And if you like my these posts you may want to look at
Avatar the movie, being Primal or Star Wars
New Moon, the drama inherent
and
Best Graphics Engine to use for Next - Gen games, Megatexturing, Id Tech 5, Unreal Engine and Cry Engine

at my blog
www.nexon7.blogspot.com

Are Consoles better than PC

2010-01-18T07:28:00.000-08:00

Are Consoles better than PC
Piracy of PC Games, Problems of PC Games, are Consoles superior that PC

In comments of my previous blog post on Microsoft killing PC Gaming I got a comment about the problem of "Piracy of PC Games" and if so, then why develop for it.
First the facts I know first and from my own observation in my own city, and information from my own first hand friends in some other countries :-

1.) PC games are Pirated and Console games are Piracy free.
-Fallout 3 on XBox 360, leaked 3 weeks before release.
-In China, Malaysia, India, Russia and many such countries, you can get modded playstation 3 in the "Showroom of Sony itself - I can do it in my own city in India", And Pirated XBox360 DVD's that run on unmodded XBox360(It does not need to be modified to run those pirated discs which are easily available for just 2 USD.)

If Chinese hackers can make a Software(in assembly language) that just emulates a OEM PC after motherboard setup and before Windows Vista boot up, how can be anything protected. Similarly PS2, PS3 are also modified with a hardware chip and PSP too(easy game download too).

I am seeing all this around me myself and then saying it.

Anyway the point being piracy on PC(which I point it is not exclusive on PC). Better service, better games, Downloadable content is proving a good solution and sensible companies are using it.

It seems Many people are just accepting the wide spread belief on PC piracy and Console security from general news sources instead of searching the truth and questioning the news. Obviously when all this will swell up it will become news then also and everybody will know, introspect, come back to PC.

2.) You need PC only for graphics and you donot need graphics "only" for a good game.
A good game can be liked even in Quake 3 graphics(but is anyone ready to droop down to Quake 2 graphics, I am not, and if so what about Quake 1 graphics, you can play it on P1 333 MHz. Arguably Quake 1 tech cannot suport the gameplay of Gothic 3.)
But not beating the bush too much and not giving extreme arguments, I agree that "upto a point Graphics does not matter", butGraphics does matter the percentage it is required in a good game. I allocate 33% for Graphics superiority these days.

Tech matters. --- Crysis ---
Crysis itself is a greatly enjoyable game even if in Half-Life2 graphics or Quake 3 graphics. It does not suit taste of majority like Call of Duty 4,5,6 is another matter. For that matter COD6MW2 is still as much enjoyable in Quake 3 graphics, the only difference being Graphics fidelity. But now you will not want to go back. Was not Half-Life 2 and Oblivion had best graphics when they came and were also very good games.
And to point out(as already has been pointed out many times by Crytek itself) that CryEngine was meant to use hardware of upto 2010 fully, and it does. The only problem being people trying to run it above Ultra Quality on 2007 hardware. Crytek itself was latter thinking of locking Ultra mode in Crysis as better, though I would like the freedom to crank my game to Oblivion "If I want", I may not be unable to do so on 2007 hardware, but I like freedom.
Crysis performs far much faster on a scene complexity which just drags Unreal Engine 3. Frontlines Fuels of War tried to put large levels on Unreal Engine 3 and it had awful load times and very bad draw distance. Jungle Rendering is awful in any Unreal Engine game, and I am bored with only labs of Area 51 like games. Halo does not compare to Crysis or even UT3 for that matter, graphically.
And anyone who has played Crysis on Medium wil swear it look lot better than any PS 2 game(except God of War), but once you put Crysis at High no Console or any other PC game including current ones look better than it. This Crysis on High Settings which runs real smooth on Cheap GeForce 8800GT, 2GB RAM, 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo(All within sweet 600USD range). That leaves nor oom for talking abou the very high settings of Crysis, just do it yourself and decide, and donot worry it may lag on GeForce 8800GT(2007 hardware), but it will not fry your PC.
And you can play Crysis on High at 800 x 600 resolution on eve cheaper GeForce 8800GT. I have myself tried all these combinations. And Crysis Warhead performs even better.

3.) You need to constantly upgrade your PC to play latest games.
First read the "Tech matters. --- Crysis ---" section above.
If you invest wisely which is not too much to ask for a rational human being and are a bit informed on PC hardware(there are numerous blogs and forums), and can take decision on your own(Is this too much to ask, though many people waste thre whole life being puppet of others)
you can get hardware which will last you 3 years, and you will still play all games at high. And if you want to got ot Very highest tahn you are in problems as games at Ultra setting(games which are graphical showcase like Doom 4 are designed to bring SLI hardware on knees), this is not possible to do on 6 month old hardware by nature of the event itself. But this is not required to enjoy the game. Consoles shield you from upgrades but have less freedom and very inferior graphics like playing on medium settings. If one just wants ready made food he will never be able to taste good cooking.

4.) Why Develop for PC? has different reasons for different people. The major reason being PC is the only platform where you can make the most technologicaly superior game. And if technology does not goes forward it is a retrogressive mentality, like stopping a children from being growing in a adult.

Piracy can definetly be minimized, Linux gaming can definetly be made popular, Very good games can definetly come on PC, but anything requires more effort in start and then rolls smooth when wheels are set in motion.
I am ending on a hopeful note, and Game Developers are in general smart talented people, soon enough they will se the logic in PC.
Once upon a time everybody was saying that PS1 will kill PC gaming and then Jhon Carmack released GLQuake and all PS1 games start looking like shit - Gabe Newell, Valve Software.
For one atleast some people have logical, problem solving minds.

You have read all and I leave upto the rational human beng reading this post to decide for himself what is good for him.( If a retard is reading this he is advised to not waste his time and others, by asking and arguing and in the end buying only console - see how he is smart enough to stick to his decision but just as stupidly keeps trouling others for info though never using his own mind - Just go and buy XBox 360, PS3 and Wii, that is the least hassle free path:) )

Is Microsoft Killing PC Gaming
Review of Risen - a excellent role-playing game by Gothic 3 developers.

And if you like my these posts you may want to look at
Avatar the movie, being Primal or Star Wars
New Moon, the drama inherent
and
Review of Risen - a excellent role-playing game by Gothic 3 developers.
Best Graphics Engine to use for Next - Gen games, Megatexturing, Id Tech 5, Unreal Engine and Cry Engine

at my blog
www.nexon7.blogspot.com

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Crysis - a premier PC Game in Ultra Quality (released 2007)
Gears of War 2 - a Prominent Console Game(XBox360) in Maximum Quality (released 2008)
Call of Duty 4 Modern Wrafare - a Multiplatform Game(XBox360, PS3, PC) in Maximum Quality (released2007)
See for yourself

PC Gaming Microsoft Killing It

2010-01-13T07:51:00.001-08:00

PC Gaming Microsoft Killing It

Game Development on PC is becoming increasingly difficult as compared to XBox.

Graphics - DX 9 on XP, DX 10 on Vista SP1, DX 11 on Vista SP2 and Windows 7, Nothing on Linux. Compare to OpenGL on everything. How Quake 2 still runs everywhere (except only XBox360 and that only due to MS not allowing OpenGL on that) having only just 2 renderers OpenGL and Software. How OpenGL lagged. Though ARB is still to blame also for that, and then game developers. It is bit more difficult to code for OpenGL than DirectX 10 but it can be done in bug free way (just see GPL code of Quake 3 and see how solidly it is protected checking everything and as a result, games based on Quake 3 are generally very bug free like Jedi Outcast).

Innovation - Majority of Multiplatform games have playthrough suited to only Controllers, so many Gears of Wars Clones.

Graphics Innovation - Majority are lowest common denominator of PS3, XBox360, PC. Except may be RAGE and Crysis 2.

Save Files - If one tries to synchronize PC and XBox360 development, PC version generally runs with profile save problems, Halo 2, UT 3, Gears of War (All PC editions). It is great detective work to find and restore saved games if you format your computer. How easy it is with Quake 2 and Half - Life 2 which directly save in Installed Folder and ask to leave them when installing, and many others which directly save in My Documents, both being elegant hassle free options.

Game Releases - It is Microsoft own released games that are delayed, badly ported or never released on PC. Gears of War(lots of problems), Halo 2(Very bad port and very delayed), Halo 3(maybe not come at all or probably after 5 years), Fable 2 and so on.

Is Crysis well optimised ?

2009-11-19T08:11:00.000-08:00

Crysis and Crysis Warhead are very well optimized. But both games have 3 times the processibg load of games made on Unreal Engine, due to larger environments, draw distance, AI complexity, and stress on gfx cards for Dynamic Effects. If the effects are preprocessed like HalfLife 2, Crysis can easily run anywhere, but all the cool dynamic lighting and destructible environments have to be sacrificed. And sinc ewe have the gfx cards of today it is logical to use them and stress them for more new features. I agree games need gameplay first, but gameplay is very subjective issue differing among people, whereas graphics is easily decided upon and Crysis simply seems to reign supreme there for 2-3 more years. But it does look best Graphics wise.
Also Arma 2 stutters on very high on my machine whice runs Crysis Warhead without lag. Arma 2 has far much bigger levels and rendering load then crysis, but by its very nature of long range tactical gameplay it need such features. Also except operation flashpoint 2 DR, there is not other game comparable to Arma 2 today. Crysis itself has very good AI, and gameplay even if not unique is different. Being different some people may not like it. Also last 1/4 levels of Crysis are total stupid, but first 3/4 is real good.

Making names in Fantsy and Science Fiction

2009-10-28T06:47:00.000-07:00

I still didnot saw Hellboy 2, Underworld 1, Underworld 2(funny when I consider the fact, despite I am very intereseted in them). I was more busy writing novel and doing programming for the game, but increasingly my time is being engulfed by writing novels.
I like writing it anyway, and there is so much to learn. It is taking time, as I am busy deciding names for things and peoples in various races,and I want them different to each other, but similar in-between. for which I am selecting alphabet groups based on linguistic divisions(in Hindi) and overlapping as required to create that unique feel in names. And also names for word roots, prefixes and suffixes for words which are very common in fantasy - as I donot want to write complete dictionary - like vik = man, via = women.
Using it Dorvik is male dwarf and Sylvia is a woman. Further more syl = forest and Dor = may be caves. So sylvia is a nature power user wizard. Also note taht different races will need different words for same roots. like dwarwen word for man will be different like own, using it Dorv becomes Dorown.
Also there will be a common speech also. vik and via are words of common speech and as such can be easily used by any races.
Also names in a family, village, country, race need to be similar in that order but still bit different to each other group in that order. That is why Elessar(elven) and Khazad(Dwarven), feel so different. But Gimli son of gloin and, Aragon son of Arathorn are similar to in between them.

I am liking this system and it is working well and will solve the naming problem for future as well. Names need to mean something in mythology and need to sound sweet. Like Polgara(David Eddings - Belgariad), Cazaril(Lois Bujold - Curse of Chalion), simple but fantasy like. I am not in favour of unpronouncable names like xblmerphe and xnblmerphe, which many SF authors use. See how easy it is to pronounce Gimli or Gandalf.
For SF good examples are Salvor Hardin, Bel Riose,(Isaac Asimov-Foundation), Bran Sol(my own).
I am using alphabets from Hindi as it contains all the sounds pronouncable in any language, meaning if you can speak hindi clearly you can speak any language(For ex. japanese does not have L, so they pronounce Hotel close to Hoter.)

The "NOVEL" Novel

2009-08-29T07:24:00.000-07:00

I wrote some more chapters of my novel and I am very happy to see my writing has lot improved. Working hard on HighSchool Grammar by Wren and Martin, and reading Terry Brooks Sahnnara Series, Robert Jordan Wheels of Time series and Walter Scott Ivanhoe is really paying.
I had already decided to write my fantasy novel in Adventure style like Ivanhoe and Shannara series more closer to page turner thriller, but with leisurely fantasy like tolkien also at appropriate places also.

Review of new games

2009-08-29T07:18:00.000-07:00

I completed X-Men Wolverine's Origin and it turned out to be a funny game overall. Now I am completing Halo 2 and after that I think of Gears of War 1.(recently I downloaded a patch which will save the save games in My Games folder instead of in a windows live account. Halo 2 also does that, and if u format your computer, which I do lot often, all the save games are lost of Halo 2 and Gears of War. Putting save files for Halo 2 says damaged profile and Gears of War save games could not be found.) Really I am thinking Microsoft is itself killing PC gaming at the cost of XBox360. Windows for live is pathetic and Games for Windows tend to have Save file issues lot of times. It was so easy with quake 2 which saved directly in installed location. Luckily all are not fools and steam games like HL2 also tend to store in installed location or documents folder. Losing save files is really stupid and inability to save them and restore is really bad. I have 2 dvds full of only various save games. Then there is the problem of mouse sensitivity and Quick save on PC ports of console games. Even UT3 got dumbeed down for Consoles and "looks and feels real(y) like a PC port of console game" to quote Unreal demo movies.

RAGE is developed primarily for consoles and Tim Willits will scream at id if anyone is found using mouse and keyboard(like Steve Balmer).

And Supreme Commander 2 on XBox 360(imagine playing RTS without mouse, if not impossible it is certainly less fun) Already there are lots of dumb average shooters, which one plays and then try to get rid of DVD, not collect it in collection like Half-Life series. People even have Doom disks in collection.

I bought ARMA 2. Really the Island is very big, massive scale, But game is too much miltary simulation and less fun. It feels more like GRAW but on lot big scale. But again many people like serious game like ARMA 2. It has one big city and some villages. But you cannot enter many buildings(Open World). Oblivion is more open then.
It clearly seems that RPG gameplay is more suited to games with very large levels. Graphics are less then Crysis say 60% of Crysis. It seems Crysis will still remain the pretiest game(And it is actually quite fun till one fights aliens). I tried Far Cry 2 once again but again I am feeling bored.

Windows 7 The Best OS of Microsoft after Windows XP

2009-08-17T01:53:00.000-07:00

Windows 7 has gone into manufacturing on July 22, 2009 and with general retail availability set for October 22, 2009.
Well atleast on time as comapred to Windows Vista.
It is tauted as "Refined" Windows Vista. So you sold Unrefined stuff as premium and Ultimate and Genuine, you nasty, mishchiveous Uncle Bill.(Gates not Clinton). While Bush was raking in refineries you were so unrefined how aweful.
Lucky for you that your name is Bill Gates. Atleast you can make a living by selling books on how to become millionaire if u become Bankrupt so you are secured far better than American Social Security plan can offer. Atleast you accepted in interview taht Vista was the worst Window and you atleast remedied it.
But as always it is the pattern of one good Window after another good Window with a bad Window in between.

Anyway Windows 7 looks good, Ok it looks like it is not made by color blinds and has all the primary colors red, green, blue, yellow in right place, as compared to Black and White Vista.

Features are just so good and really needed while doing away with unecessary ones. All the godies of XP are restored. And there is XP Mode to run all older applications.(this is equal to a virtual pc running XP SP 3 in your windows 7). So now you can safely and easily use 64 bit Windows 7. Especially good for people who really need to use closed source old legacy critical Applications. I know one person who still has one pc with Windows 98 due to a Application required for his business.

Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate will be available for retail sale in most countries.
Get Professional or Ultimate as XPM is not available in Home editions. And get 64 bit only as many applications are becoming 64 Bit.
I use 64 bit Vista and apart from minor problems(All solved) I like it very much.
Also Windows 7 runs faster then Vista on same hardware as it is lot more optimized.

-- Removed Features --
A number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of Windows Vista are no longer present or have changed, resulting in the removal of certain functionality. Some notable Windows Vista features and components have been replaced or removed in Windows 7, including the classic Start Menu user interface, Windows Ultimate Extras, InkBall, and Windows Calendar. Three applications bundled with Windows Vista — Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Mail — are not included with Windows 7, but are instead available for free in a separate package called Windows Live Essentials. Additionally, it is no longer possible to eliminate anti-aliased text from the user interface.
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Unlike in Windows Vista, window borders and the taskbar do not turn opaque when a window is maximized with Windows Aero applied. Instead, they remain transparent.

The taskbar has seen the biggest visual changes, where the Quick Launch toolbar has been replaced with pinning applications to the taskbar. Buttons for pinned applications are integrated with the task buttons. LIKE MAC OSX.

*** Games ***
It Contains DIRECTX 11
and
Windows 7 will run all your Old Games (very old games can easily run in Windows XP Mode option, it is different from the app compatibilty option you chose in Vista. It is a running XP virtual machine inside Windows 7. Meaning Win XP SP3 inside Windows 7, without rebooting, just with a setting for the application. Start the application normally and it will work as if it works in XP)

All in all a very Good OS after Windows XP.

As for Linux the best one currently is Ubuntu 9.0.4(I am using), and Fedora 11. Of which I like Ubuntu much better and I prefer Gnome over KDE or any other.
Ubuntu is the Easiest and Best Linux made for Humans till now. Try it, and you will see the sense in it.

So currently my Own Choice and Recommended is
Windows Vista SP2 64 Bit Ultimate (Windows 7 when it is available)
and
Ubuntu 9.0.4 or above

In dual Boot.

Next time I will blog about the direction my Nex Wars Game is taking in physics(Like Half-Life 2 interactive) and AI(Half-Life 2 like NPCs and Mosters for sp with Halo type behaviours augmented with Fuzzy Logic), a positional 2D Audio system like miles to blast your room even if you are on 2 speakers stereo like with Vampire Masquerade Redemption. And Graphics for Massive Terrains with seemless indoors and outdoors with new features in Editor for making big levles faster by specifying flags in editor on terrain for replacing them with the 3D model of building, a direction being taken by Far Cry 2 editor and which is upcoming in Unreal Editor. Making procedural cities on procedural terrains and forests. Easy fast tools for terrain generation like Terragen or Crysis Sandbox(Both are so similar)

And a lot of info on my novel, about tactical warfare of humans on elves and brotherhood of assasins. And Psycholgical warfare against the Protagonist.

New RAGE trailer

2009-08-17T01:32:00.000-07:00

id software has realeased a new trailer of their new awefully awesome truly freeform in body but not in spirit game called RAGE. The salient points were -
(The ? marks are for views I am not so sure or undecided)

-- The Good --
1.) Shooting is very good and fun and enjoyable.(Like Halo?). Machine gun looks very similar to very good machine gun of Far Cry 2.
2.) Physics is just mindblowing(Comparable to Havok 2.0 like Painkiller?) Still good. Still not better then Crysis.
-- The Bad --
3.) Facial Animation is just ok(But a lot of time is left in release so they may improve it. Interestingly Animation is very good in Crysis(Better than Half-Life 2) but Faacial Aniamtion is far less then Half-Life 2. But this looks more due to bad Art work and low artist effort for animating faces. As the face animation toll in Sandbox was very good complete with features. Still acuracy of Facial Expressions is still the best in Half Life 2 and its Episodes(But other aniamtion as a whole does not feel so smooth)
4.) Story does not seem to be much as required for a good Role Playing Experience. In fact tehre does not seem much variety other than - I am bugged by Mutants, kill them I give you money. For Ex. A quest in Neverwinter Nights was to get the true name of mephistopheles(really different).
-- The Very Bad --
5.) AI - If you see any AI in monsters apart from running and jumping then you sure have good eyes, better than Legolas.
6.) -- Graphics -- Yes it is very bad even considering todays satndards, and this game is still a year from release at a minimum. Yes Graphics of RAGE are very bad. They look like Underpowered Unreal Engine Mock Up, except in Outdoors(where Unreal Engine is just a frightened cat). Megatexturing is nothing compared to Very Accurate Shaders for Materials as used in Half Life 2 and Crysis. Atleast a Brick should have light reflectance of a brick and not of tin be it a brick of any planet or dimension, or otherwise it is not brick. Basic Physics of grade 10.
Graphics are ok but when RAGE will release they will not look so great for a 20 GB game.

RAGE is not better than Crysis in any way. And Crysis has been already released for over a year now. And now it runs good on present day hardware also.

If this continues I donot see any future for id tech 5 and RAGE. RAGE still will be a fun game, but not a very good game.
Seperate Wheat from Chaff and you may see that Half-Life 2 was a incredible game even with 6 years development time, but nobody has remembered Quake 4 now, and Far Cry 1 is also rapidly going in Oblivion. But will you forget SWKOTOR ever if you played it.

Rage the next Massive Game by id software

2009-08-06T01:59:00.000-07:00

Recently there has been a furore on edge forums regarding performance of Rage on PS3, 30 fps PS3 vs 60 fps XBox360, owing to edge article covering RAGE. Whereas Carmack claiming that performance is bit slow, whereas people say 30 fps difference is not a bit, it is half. Actually both are true. I think the following discussion clears the misconception.

Both things are true -

1.) PS3 version of Rage lags a bit beside XBox 360 - Carmack
2.) PS3 version version will run at 30 fps or 20 fps - edge magazine quoting Carmack

Edge is using Carmack's quote for fanwars, but the fact is true also.
It is clearly written in book "cross platform game programming" that if u do not get 60 fps (exactly 60 fps) then the next stop is directly 30 fps on PS3. Meaning if u get 59 fps even once, PS3 will revert to running in 30 fps, it is architected that way, and after that 20 fps(even if u get 29 fps. So u see both are correct.
And that is why Carmack said that he will lock fps at 60 htz(Also the game functions and updates itself at 60 Hz). Anyway he is pretty confident that he will deliver 60 fps by the time game is finished(Just drop the quality a bit to get 5 fps more, and difference is not even noticable). It looks like as if he is getting 55 fps on PS3 but due to way PS3 functions it reverts to 30 fps.
It is ceratinly not a big challenge to get that bit more performance, but he is actually sad at the level of effort invested in PS3 vs XBox 360(which is lot easy to program and a dominant console now). Ipersonaly do not favour any Console. I like PC(u get 59 fps if that is what is presented).
And PC has lots of Ram too(if u feed it).

Anyway this discussion is pointless seeing u can easily drop visual quality a bit to get some more fps and Carmack clearly says that performance is a bit less, which actually makes PS3 (thank u sony) run it at 30 fps.
Sometimes it amuses me to watch fan wars.(By people who really even do not know the specs of consoles even)

And I really do not think Rage will look better then Crysis even if it comes out after 2 years, and it will not be as fun to play as Fallout 3 (though Rage wil have far better Shooting and Driving which possibly will make it a very enjoyable and good game, but it lacks the core of Fallout 3 and does not will be "interesting" making someone to keep playing it time and again).

I am confident that Carmack will make Rage run at 60 fps, given his history of doing atleast what he openly says, and his knack for making games work on lowest hardware(Quake 1 on 33 MHz CPU complete, Doom 3 playable on Uber stupid Geforce 4000 MX, actually a DX7 featured card lacking shaders completely and that too after release.)
By the way the screenshots in edge article are looking cool, reminds me of Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome. If they just do it right, even just copy the whole Fallout 3 with quality run and gun shooting I am more then happy. Though it already looks a Shooter Fallout 3 conceptually. Still great.

I think visually
1.) Crysis, 2. ) GTA 4, 3.) Oblivion, 4.)Half-Life 2 and that is the end. All these games are the most beautiful and ahve clear realistic graphics and a beauty to look at with top quality artwork.
And Gameplay wise is a matter of subjective opinion.

Crysis and Halo 2

2009-07-21T08:38:00.000-07:00

I am playing Halo 2 on PC and despite bad graphics, very sluggish mouse, it is a very fun and good game to play. I just wonder if it were made with CryEngine2 or Source Engine. I will again buy it if Bungie will do it.
It is not that PC is lacking games, but developers are overlooking the quality of PC port, or publishers tempering with titles (Gears of War?) to further their mean machine(XBox?).

Atleast Crysis and Half-Life 2 take full benefits of PC and are very awesome games(I am talikng of gameplay of Crysis, which is revolutionary/evolutionary, good and have high replayability). And both games look nearly photo realistic(What Half Life 2 did in 2003 was really awesome. and it still is one of best visual looking games)

Unreal Tournament 3 has improved so much

2009-06-27T09:54:00.000-07:00

UT3 has become far better game now since patch 2.0 and Titan Pack, and very enjoyable too. Its gameplay has become better then UT2004, but UI and customization options are still very bad. So now is the time to enjoy UT3 fully. Though visualy Crysis is the best, while it has good singer player gameplay it lacks bots in multiplayer and multiplayer modes in variety. It will very much like to see a conquest type game mode in UT3 like Star Wars Battlefront with 32-64 players, and all the modes of UT3 plus Conquest mode in Crysis. Also I am trying to make a mod for Battlefield 2 that will make it fast paced and similar too Star Wars Batlefront 2. Though finally I will like to see all the modes of UT3 and Conquest in my own game Nex Wars. Read specifications in the post below.

Nex Wars - The Best PC Game

2009-04-19T09:06:00.001-07:00

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If you are really angry at PC game developers, wait for a long time till I complete my Own game with Game-Play similar to unreal and much more. Full details will be soon on this blog or a link will be given for its webpage. It will take long time as I am alone, poor, actually a novel writer, not a coding god like Jhon Carmack, etc. etc.
I estimate 10 years at current Rate. (Duke Nukem Forever has taken more than 10 years already, they are funding it from their pocket, so it is natural)
My inspirations are Unreal Tournament 2004, Halo 1, Crysis, NeverWinter Nights 1, TES4 - Oblivion, Age of Empires 2 - The Conquerors.

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or maybe - Nex Tournament or some other if needed
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Platform -
Windows 64 bit or whatever
(Linux Maybe - Ubuntu Linux)
Consoles - never ever!!!
Graphics API - Direct X, OpenGL or Whatever available at the time of completion. Because Intel Larrabee can disrupt API's in future.
A software renderer may be. Though highly unlikely as you will not like to play pixelated games now and Good Graphics card are very cheap these days.
Target Hardware - Only NVIDIA Graphics cards for now. But obviously it will run on AMD or Intel cards also if they have the required features atleast on Windows in DirectX mode.
On Linux - Ubuntu Linux (if made), NVIDIA + OpenGL only obviously.

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GRAPHICS GRAPHICS GRAPHICS -----
OBVIOUSLY IT WILL BE BETTER THAN *** CRYSIS ***
Game-Play, AI, Graphics, Physics, Interactivity, choices, branching play
are the focus in this order.

In short the Game is a mix Package containing
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FPS -
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1.) Multiplayer and also in Offline Single Player with Bots
Fast Deathmatch, Team DM, CTF (Like UT2004, tweaked)
, Vehicle CTF (Like UT3)
, Conquest - includes Vehicles (Like Star Wars Battlefront - a really good Conquest game, forget battlefield, and this is fast in right amount)
No Warfare as Conquest is more freeform and similar. The only weakness of Unreal is lack of a good Conquest Game Type or Mod.
Assault may be added.

2.) Single Player Game (Like Halo 1 - Combat Evolved + Crysis + Star Wars - Jedi Acdemy)
A suit having powers similar to Crysis nano suit atleast.
And may have powers similar to force powers of Star Wars - Jedi Academy.
Powers can be turned Off in Multiplayer and Offline modes as they disrupt Game play balance.

This means 2 Single player Games 1.) and 2.)

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RPG -
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3.) Single Player (Like NeverWinter Nights 1 - story, choices + Oblivion - Real Time Combat and controls) - Medieval Fantasy

May Be Added
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RTS -
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4.) Single Player and Multiplayer (Complete copy of Age of Empires 2 - The Conquerors, but civilizations upgradable from Dark Ages to Science Fiction Age)

As you can see from this list It is not difficult to select features from best popular PC Games and make a enjoyable Game Package, that is sure to sell millions of copies to PC Gamers, will be liked by many people. Will be very interesting.
But it is very difficult to complete this task. As I collect more money and people get added to this project, work will be in full speed.

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Now the best part -
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This game will be completely heavily moddable, will use Squirrell as a Scripting Language, every thing may be changed by Sqirrell scripts or cfg files or GUI tools (even color of menus and in game characters body build, gear, colour, etc.),
Come with editor comparable to CryEngine2 Sandbox, and other tools.

And the SOURCE CODE WILL be OPENSOURCE under ZLIB License within one year.

Of Course as many of you have guessed this looks a very difficult project to complete without money and people, speed will be very slow in start, but this project will not be abandoned in my life-time atleast.

Money is planned to be arranged from my own Novel writing income + donations.
People may be hired or asked on voluntary basis as required, depending on financial situation and needs.

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I am not taking donations right now and not adding people right now as I am myself financially unsettled in my life, but may be I will start soon.
Though every person will be considred for help who asks once I start adding.
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Current status of project -
Even code for doing 3D Vector calculations is not added (Though easily available in DIRECT3DX Library and as source code from Books, time spent is the factor)
A Blank Window is started which will provide Window for DirectX and OpenGL Rendering
Code done -
Math Lib Functions
Data Structure related List and Dynamic Array functions
String Class
Window Creation and Clean Up
Time Taken - One Year

Laugh till you get tired. But projects are started like this, as seeds, then as they grow they look big and are made iteratively. Also I didnot knew anything in starting and had to learn loads of things. Even creating a windows by WinAPI is very difficult for beginners and my programming concepts were also not that good.

Other than that My Primary Interest is Writing Fantasy Novels and I am good in English Writing only. So it takes much of Time and Energy , also it is more Financially returning, I am going to get almost nothing in money from my game as it seems now, while Novel Writing is a very good career. Also I am finacially very poor these days.
These are reasons of Delay.
Though the project will be continued in my spare time and will never be abandoned.

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Search "Kinjal Kishor wikpedia" in Google for more info on my *** novel *** I am writing and my previous novels.
I live in India.
Read this blog for more information in time to come.
A webpage will soon be put with more info on the game. With Screenshots and Playable Demos as made, since I donot believe in pre-rendered videos like of Killzone 2 - A great video of a game that was never made that way. Compare with Playable Demo of Crysis which actually showed what to expect in real game. It can be agreed though that only half of Crysis is that way and good but what is very good is still very good.

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PC Games the best games and our memories and what is happening now

2009-04-19T09:02:00.000-07:00

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When I first saw these games, I felt these,
I was exposed in this order.
Half - Life 1 - Phenomenal Game. Wow games can be 3D, I had only seen Super Contra on Mario previousely and could not imagine games in 3D. And I was directly exposed to Half-Life 1.
Age of Empires 2 - The Conquerors - This is the RTS.
Quake 3- It is so tweaked game, so fun wow
Vampire Maasquerade Redemption - Great Story.
Unreal Tournament 2004- Epic has got Alien TEchnology, so good looking with such a performance.
Half-Life2 -Phenomenal Interactivity, So Real and immersive
Star Wars - Knight of Old Republic - Graphics and story are amazing
NeverWinter Nights 1- Such a range of choices
Star Wars Battlefront - It is so fun
TES - Oblivion - Graphics with Real Time Combat
Crysis - Phenomenal Graphics, Random Play, View Distance, Realism
Fallout 3 - Immersiveness
Heretic 2- This old game has over 1600 animations for Corvus.
Deus Ex - This old game has amzing amount of features.

Can any one of this be said about any Console Game, They Come and Go, whereas PC Games has become our most Fond Memories, most Prized Posseesions, most Collected Games, Great Entertaiment, things we cannot forget.
I have given only few games phenomenal, but they were really phenomenal.

Keep reading this blog I will now continously keep promoting PC Gaming here. I am pissed off completely by the Unreal Tournament 3 which continously keeps annoying PC Gamers by its attitude. Note that epic got loads of popularity and money by PC Games. We made them and they are kiling us. Let us protest. We are in a Democracy.
Or still better do something.
JOIN ME - The Offline PC Gamer like you has bought his games with hard earned and saved money and who is being annoyed and overlooked these days.
You can contact me by E-Mail at
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for suggestions and Questions.

I am a Fantasy Novelist though. But still a human being like others.
Soon more will be on my website and very much more on this blog.
Of course join me means, raise your own inner voice, comment on my blog, other sites and forums, and become my friend also.

Fix for Unreal TournamentT 3 Patch v2.0 bug offline profile saving

2009-04-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

Solution Fix to for UT3 Patch v 2.0 bug offline profile saving
Solution Fix to for UT3Patch4 bug offline profile saving
Solution Fix to for UT3Patch 4 bug offline profile saving
Solution Fix to for Unreal TournamentT 3 Patch v2.0 bug offline profile saving
working best guarranteed Solution fix to for UT3 Patch v 2.0 bug offline profile saving

The solution is -
1.) Go to Folder SaveData in "Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\SaveData" on Windows Vista, or "My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\SaveData" on Windows XP.
2.) You will see a file named "Player.ue3profile" in the folder SaveData. This is a binary file generated by Unreal Tournament 3 which saves your keyboard,mouse,player character,etc. settings.
3.) Keep this folder open and start a game of Unreal Tournament 3.
Goto settings menu, Change all the settings which you want. Click Apply button where you see it, for example on Video menu. When you are done Go to Main Menu, Select Instant Action, Now you will see the menu showing game types.
4.) Press ALT+Escape (Keeping ALT key pressed, then press ESCAPE Key) You will see the folders and UT3 game screen will be minimized and will be in taskbar. Go to folder containing "Player.ue3profile". "Right Click" on this file -> Click "Properties". Select "Read Only" check box on this page so that you see a tick mark in the box in front of read only -> click "Apply" -> Click "OK".
5.) Click Unreal Tournament 3 in Task Bar(Bar at the down of screen, place mouse at below the screen if you donot see it, if you have made it to hide). The game will again Start. Do what you want, play or exit.
6.) Now whenever you will start UT3 your settings wll remain saved, as UT3 cannot now overwrite your profile file as it is read only, and it cannot change read only permission as it is given by administrator of computer in Operating System.
7.) If you cannot change the read only settings you will need to login as a administrator or ask for sufficient permissions from your administrator. Search in Google for more info on this topic by key words "How to change read-only property file permission denied".
8.) Now if you want to again change some settings, you will need to
start Unreal Tournament 3 Game, Press ALT+ESCAPE, Goto "Player.ue3profile" file. change its read-only property, make it unchecked(you should see balnk box in front of read only), go back in UT3 game by clicking its name on task bar, change the settings you want,
again press ALT+ESCAPE, Goto "Player.ue3profile" file. change its read-only property, make it checked(you should see tick mark in front of read only).
Go back to UT3 game, Do what you want, play or exit.

Your those settings which remained saved earlier(like some video settings) can be changed normally anytime as this are saved in config files.
9.) All this steps actually make you manually save your profile settings, nad prevent UT3 from overwriting them.
10.) This soluton works on all Windows(Linux, Unix, Mac), will work for all patches and versions(even ut3v1.0). Will continue to work for v2.1 and other patches after it also.
11.) After looking at features of UT3Patch5 for UT3 v2.1 Beta3 I see that this problem is stil not corrected. May be it will not be done till UT3Patch6 for UT3v2.2, or whatever. This is such a simple solution that it will function all right.
12.) It may also hapen that this is done delibrately by epic for piracy and will not be corrected or will keep coming in new patches from time to time, since they seem to have taken a U-turn on PC Gamers(Just compare UT2004 to UT3, and u will see what I mean).
13.) Previous solutions on Epic Gear, UT3 forums do not work, which include something like typing net,etc. in dos window from run OR using previous saved game of UT3 v1.3 etc.

Only this solution works perfectly and took me 2 weeks to figure out after I got Titan Pack. Also every UT3 Patch is near 300 mb,you download it and this problem comes again, may also be corrected in some patch and the come again, use this fix when necessary.

14.) You will see from screenshots that my UT3 looks more colourful then previous colour sucked levels of UT3. The reason is that Titan Pack has improved Graphics and added more levels with natural bright colours and improved colouring in previous maps. but new maps are better looking and more colourful so definetly get Titan Pack and use my solution for offline profile saving till they fix this bug in some future patch. Also new levels are all very good making UT3 a lot better game. If this continues it will soon become good like UT2004. Hopefully they donot get U-Turn after this.

Only Unreal Tournament 3 is one game in fast Deathmatch type game since there is no Quake Arena, everything else is Battlefield.

There is no choice but to play Unreal, and epic keeps annoying us. Use this solution to get less annoyed. hee hee, and play the game. Let us see what happens in future.

It may also hapen that this is done delibrately by epic for piracy and will not be corrected or will keep coming in new patches from time to time, since they seem to have taken a U-turn on PC Gamers(Just compare UT2004 to UT3, and u will see what I mean).
Also id is not interested in even Quake5 for now. A Quake 6 Arena seems a far fetched dream even in mind of Jhon Carmack. Then again After Quake 3 there has been no competition for Unreal, and UT2004 was alone the leader on summit of fragging Gods, though still a very good game.

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Wait for next Unreal Tournament or some other game or wait for Consoles to die down or atone down or PC to surge up as is Evitable and destined.

Note this incident - When Playstation 1 came out after Quake 1 many
people said that PC wil die. The After one week Jhon Carmack of id released "GLQuake" patch which made Playstation one games look like shit compared to Quake 1. And this myth died of death of PC.
This incident was told by Valve's Gabe Newel (A good PC Developer of Half Life Fame) in a interview.
Then Again Half-Life was Phenomenal in every respect when it came and completely changed everything, NeverWinter Nights 1 did the same for RPG, and Age of Empires 1 for RTS.

This myth has again surfaced due to lots of stupid PC developers who are fortunately out of busisness rapidly. Then EA hold the crutches of Piracy and many others. But Piracy cannot kill sales of good games like Deus EX nor can no-piracy save games lik Haze on Playstation 3. Also Killzone 2 is a best game on Playstation 3 but not the best game on all platforms. Comapre to Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare.
Haze developers are sold out, whereas Valve (Half Life) arranged 10 million dollars for marketing of Left 4 Dead and are still doing good.
The Witcher is doing very good as a first project of unknown Polish developer. Though famous developer of Haze are sold out.

It Looks like the Myth of Death of Pc has again surfaced and the Storm of even CRYSIS, Half-Life2 Episode 2 also cannot kill this myth. But somethiing is sure to happen soon, as this just a strt for a tornado and if a need be even a Super Nova. It remains to be seen though who will cut the Cake of PC Gaming.

You can get Gameplay on every Platform but you can get Amazing, Great, Phenomenal Graphics only on PC, the best advantage. good looking things are instinctily like dby human beings.
PC is light years ahead even if you have a cheap Graphics card like Nvidia 8600GT on Windows XP.
Buyers will get more clever and informed in time to come and will throw the consoles out. Already anybody who has seen Crysis being played at Very High on Nvidia- 8800 GT Graphics card(still cheap now a days) has got Unconscious.

Just wait till something else agin comes which will burst the bubble or a steady stream of good titles which will kill the myth. The equal Graphics Quality of all games on all platforms this days is delibrately done by lazy developers. Surely they are killing Innovation and Spirit of Science. But it will just take one Great Game to Demolish this Death of PC Myth.
Just wait for Supernova, Somebody will get sufficiently pissed and will do it.

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Many Video settings are stored in Config files which are saved when you exit the game. But the settings of the profile are overwritten every time you start Unreal Tournament 3. This is a bug, which was present in UT3v1.0 but corrected in UT3Patchv1.1 and was ok till patchv1.3. Then UT3 Titan pack came ( Which IMHO is very very good ), and Ut3Patch4 also came which made UT3 version 2.0 or also called "Unreal Tournament 3 Black Edition". And due to some other bug again this problem of not saving your settings in profile came up. It does not happen if you have a Online profile, you Login and change the settings. But you are not a Pirate and you legally paid money to support epic which first blundered with UT3 and then actually has improved UT3 over time, and Titan Pack is a good step in right direction. With Titan pack the game gets 19 maps, lots of fixes and wditions, and it has become lot more enjoyable. But many people are annoyed with profile saving problem when they play offline. It is to be noted that according to survey of epic majority of players play Unreal series games offline.

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If you are really angry at PC game developers, wait for a long time till I complete my Own game with play similar to unreal and much more. Full details will be soon on this blog or a link will be given for its webpage.
SEE NEXT BLOG POST after this for FULL DETAILS for now

2009-02-02T01:09:00.000-08:00

On the side are images of some of the games I am playing these days and like very much.

NOVEL -
Now for the novel. It is mainly High Fantasy. If you liked JRR Tolkien and Robert Jordan then this is the book for you.
The main theme is friendship as far as one person even goes on alone to get his friend out of captivity from protagonist. And then there are some others also who are on the same track but for a very different reason contrasting what friends do, people in need do and malicious people do.

The world is earth like but with magic, portals and a different geography then our own .Though it is still medieval fantasy.

Graphics
Voxel Technology, a favourite of Jhon Carmack is still not Hardware accelarated, which he thinks to bring in Id Tech 6. That maybe possible with Intels Larrabee or Nvidia's CUDA. But I donot think it will be before 2012. Well people say it will make fully destructible environments in games easily possible.
Shaders
A good way for managing shaders is to make shader code reside in one .fx file and then feed the parameters through different .mtl files. This makes it possible to manage large amount of shader permutations. few .fx files and many .mtl files. I think Mass Effect also uses this approach, which I am currently playing. Though the best shaders are arguably in Crysis lowest image. So real.

Fallout 3

2009-01-11T08:31:00.000-08:00

Fallout 3 has turned out to be such an amzing and interesting game. Spore is not exactly equal to Sims. Ltet us see Fable 2. And yes the novel is being written.(For the peroson who emailed me. But it will maybe out fall this year or next Q1.

some more games

2008-11-17T05:52:00.000-08:00

Certainly this year show stoppers are to be Icredibly fun Fable 2 and Left 4 Dead. Dont look beyond them. No need to upgrade your PC for them. Also Crysis Warhead is every bit of money. Absolutely insanely good game.
I am looking forward to spore. I am such a fan of The Sims.

What Now

2008-10-25T09:20:00.000-07:00

Novel running again, Sleep times restored, Global economy falling, may comeback again. My friends injuring there backs. Some getting fat, some thin. I wonder where world is going. Crysis need 4Gb RAM on Windows Vista 64 bit to play on High or above. RAM prices are not falling. Festivals and sweet eating. Hopeful life. I think all is mixd bag. Atleast I am not having writer's block on novel. Thanks to all authors who provide learning material for free on internet or otherwise.

Novel again started

2008-09-15T09:00:00.000-07:00

It is finally satisfying that after quite ages I am again finally able to give time for completing my novel which had been put on hold due to unforseen circumstances. Now is the time, Now is the time.
It is such a refreshing feeling, nothing compares it.

Windows Vista

2008-07-13T08:07:00.000-07:00

Plz install service pack 1, all those who are having problems with it. My favurite game Satr Wars Battlefront 2 doesnt run with sound on it, it is already so buggy. for benefits Vista provides Better Image, Audio filtering and better performance on multicore processors then XP. Also go for 64 bit Windows Vista as it is likely to get future 64 bit apps, runs all 32 bit apps also, and mainly allows u to use more then 4 GB of RAM. Now buy a copty of Crysis and play on it. Anyway it looks like Vista will be forced on customers. XP is great but a good 64 - bit OS is needed nowadays.

new movies

2008-06-08T01:03:00.000-07:00

Now it is rainy season again.
New movie I liked was "The Forbidden Kingdom" and "Narnia - Prince Caspian".
I want to see Iniana jones 4, Iron man, Hancock.
And why the hell I cant get the dvd of "Equilibrium" on rent.
christian bale actually looks better in equilibrium then Keanu reaves in Matrix. Though both wear very similar suit and are doing very same core acting. Though this does not mean I dont like neo. It would have been very cool if ther would be a Matrix 4 with both of them in their same suites and set in star wars universe. hee hee. But I think George lucas will not agree. though some will argue that Constantine was Matrix 4 if we belive that Neo change dhis buisness became constantine. Though actualy keanu reaves is a good actor.
As for gaming everbody and their dog is playing either GTA4 liberty city(100 mn to make and earned 600 mn in first week, a fps takes 10 mn if built on unreal engine 3(or comparable tech), 20 mn if built inhouse, 50 mn for a MMORPG, so 100 mn for GTA4(FPS) is eriously high, but it is a exception even in sales.) or World of Warcraft.

Crysis

2008-05-06T09:27:00.001-07:00

I remember at GDC IBM tried to run Crysis on their laptop and it sinked the laptop in Oblivion. Except Crytek(on their alien hardware), no other comapany could run Crysis at very high settings in 1920 resolution (whatever hardware they tried). Though nvidia came close. It seems only 5 entities can play this game - Crytek, EA, Bill Gates, Nvidia, George Bush.
The reason basically is that Crytek made Crysis so that it stresses out any known hardware(like Far Cry). And they specifically wanted to make the prettiest game ever. But I think a game should be made compatible with cheap lower hardware too. It is bit of not so good that nvidia 8800GT blasts any known game, still it is just sufficient enough to play Crysis at low resolution without antialiasing and then it gives barely 30 FPS that is required. Not to mention that nvidia is the best card manufacturer(cheap and good) and Value for money for 800GT is amazing and unmatched. U dont need a card other than that for maybe 2 years and it is very cheap.

play what?

2008-05-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

Currently I am trying Crysis and Oblivion. Crysis is going to kill your PC, u will need atlest 880GT 512mb and 2 GB ram and 2.67 GHz Core 2 Duo, to play it on very high in XP.
Then u will never want to look at anyother game except Half Life 2 for Graphics. Yup HL2 is that good and that too when it came out in 2004. Just it doesnot have the forests of Crysis Quality. But its performance on lower hardware is amazing, thats why it is also so great. Why did Crysis dont have some Static Pre Computed Radiosty Lighting system nad compatibility modes so that it could run on atleast nvidia 6200. Eeks. Seriously than lots of people could have experienced this great game. Unreal Tournament 3 has only Warfare gametype which is good, on rest all counts UT2004 is amzing. Though I play bot. Waht is with sequels. Battlefront 1 is amzing but Battlefront 2 is so bad. Atleast Crrysis is lot better than Far Cry. Actually after looking graphics for first 2 days I amreally impresed by its gamepaly. And Oblivion is already undisputedly great game.

singing

2008-04-29T05:43:00.000-07:00

Finally my voice and singing improved and looks like I am improving.
But I am actually busy writing The Novel I was writing. hee hee.

endlich

2008-03-21T08:29:00.000-07:00

Well at last finally I got some sleep.

Greaaaaaaaattttttttttt

2008-03-16T02:47:00.000-07:00

Arrrrrrgh, grrrrrrr, uhhhhhh. Exams are finally over and like all creatures of hell I like giving exams. I love them more than the hottest chicks of this world(Ok I hate hot chicks also, actually better they be nice chicks). I am playing Crysis and Gears Of War these days, both are great games of these times.

lovely singing

2008-02-13T01:20:00.000-08:00

These days I am watching Britney Spears music videos. And I am practicing singing these days. And my novel is going as I like it.

Happy New Year

2008-01-09T02:04:00.000-08:00

Hi Happy New Year to all

The best computer games I liked in this new year are Half-Life2 Episode2, Call of Duty 4, Crysis, Medal of Honour Airborne, Unreal Tournament 3. I cannot still get Hellgate London though I think it will be great. And unreal Tournament is not better that Unreal Tournament 2004, it only has better graphics but still it is good. Hope mass effect will come on pc soon.

It is mind-blowing

2007-12-12T02:44:00.000-08:00

I swear never in my life I have found so much voluntary work done by me in so less a time.
It seems overwhelming. EEKS
but I think I will son infilterate the problems, do a assault on them and will do conquest, um may be invasion.
Yups somehow I took out time to play Unreal Tournament 3 and Call of Duty 4. I have become army guy now he he. I just wish I could get time to play gears of war I am so much impressed by this game I keep thinking about it.

Festivals

2007-11-01T02:22:00.001-07:00

Festive season here.
Hoping for a computer upgrade and eating many sweets. Hopefully I donot get sick eating before too many sweets as in my birthday

FAKES Engine Specification

2007-09-26T08:50:00.000-07:00

Fun At Kryid Epicaly Sourced Engine or FAKES Engine
OverView
We make cool technologies and we want to show you that we make cool technologies. No other engine can even remotely match the yet unknown useless features of our future gen engine.

FAKES Engine is the most incomplete (since we expect you to complete it) game development framework targeted at yet to be announced future generation consoles (we somehow got the technology but cannot tell you) and DirectX Whatever or OpenGL Whenever equipped PC’s providing the mega array of core technologies, content destruction tools, and negligible support (yup you support us by licensing fees) infrastructure required by top and rich game developers.

Every aspect of the FAKES Engine has been designed with difficulty of content creation and programming in mind, with the goal of snatching as much power as possible from the hands of artists and designers to develop assets in a character based environment with maximum programmer assistance; and to give programmers a highly unified, static and inextensible framework for building, testing, and shipping games in all the genres ever devised or going to be researched (we were kind of hoping that you can use our engine in some new unprofitable genre and show us its extensibility).

Offline editing, relief mapping, global illumination lights, bottlenecked network system, disintegrated physics system, flat shaders, bright shadows and a silent music system are just some of the state of-the-art features the FAKES Engine offers.
The FAKES Engine comes complete with all of its incomplete internal tools and also includes the FAKES Engine Sandwich world viewing system.

Licensees receive most of the useless source code and manual for the engine and tools. Support is provided directly from the Outsourced IBC (illiterate but cheap) R & D Team that continuously watch (and praise) the engine and can arrange teaching workshops for your team to confuse the learning process.

The engine supports all video and hardware which will come in future on the market. New hardware support is thus not needed as it becomes available.

Rendering Features

Our future Gen renderer has following exceptional Features:

Giga Threading: We have offloaded everything on the GPU so that you need your HexaDeca Core CPU only for starting and exiting the game. Our giga threading system can bog down even the latest Quad CoreDuo SLi set ups. So this is one really future gen technology where all your latest hardware just slogs.
Seamlessly disconnected indoor and outdoor technology: We use brute force rendering method for rendering all the geometry since we do not want to sacrifice visual accuracy even on backface and occluded volumes. We treat all the geometry as one Mega Mesh on which many Nano Textures are mapped providing unique details even at nano level. All the previous technologies simply look very ancient gen in front of it. And we hope to sell our engine solely on the over marketing hype generated by our lead technical designer on this really cool technology. Volumetric clouds (they are always white) and still ocean technology (all oceans are blue and inside them it is so dark that you cannot see) are also included to further bog down the hardware.
Image based rendering: Everything in the scene can be rendered as an image except your weapon so that you need not tell the difference between 3d objects and 2d image.
Epic Dynamic Range Rendering: All the colors that lie outside the human visible range spectrum are rendered by our inaccurate vector color space renderer while supporting a wide range of pre processing effects such as light blinding, filled halos, and blur-of-field.
Static Lighting and Shadowing: Since it was already available on the internet for free we support this technology which generates some really cool environments. We see no point in boasting on dynamic lighting and self shadowing when we cannot implement it, so it is left for you. At least we are honest.
Shader: Since these make the surfaces too much shiny we have dropped this useless feature from the engine but if needed you can implement it yourselves (again vampirize the free GPL code on internet like us without giving credit to creators) and figure out yourselves how to plug it in our unified code base.
Particles: If you implement this feature do not forget to tell us. Otherwise use the permanently cached pool of particles provided by us.
Effects: Effects like fog are used to render the massive environments supported by our engine where you really see nothing beyond the fog (how else are we going to render the Mega Mesh). All other effects are left for you to implement as these are game specific extensions and as such not provided by us.
Normal Maps: Real 3D models are always better than fake mapping solutions. Again use free code on internet if you need this feature.
Offline Rendering: This feature allows for generating high quality videos and screenshots for showing to the public for creating the hype and passing time while you develop the game. The engine also support direct import of cg movies and high res screenshots generated in Maya for giving that extra edge to your promotional videos. Remember you need something to sell your game.

Animation

Muscular and Skeletal animation system supporting up to million bone influences per vertex and very very complex skeletons. Guaranteed to crash even the most powerful current hardware. A really future gen technology.

Our most boasted feature is our inaccurate lip syncing technology and very very advanced facial animation system which can map human expressions even on alien faces.

Audio

While playing the game run your favorite audio player and listen to any song you like. This will provide you multi channel surround sound you want. For in game audio (which is really not needed in our opinion since it distracts from gameplay) just buy some middleware or implement yourself.

Physics
Physics is better left to text books since we always failed in it anyways.

Game Scripting and Cinematics

Every time you change something you need to compile your game due to the compiled (interpretation is slow anyway) nature of our scripting language.

Use Maya for cinematics as it is great tool for making high quality videos.

User Interface System

It is really geeky and character based.

Content Creation Tool
Only you can write the best editor for your game so we have left this feature incomplete.

Localiztion

Since everybody speaks english or can understand it you need not worry about this issue. You can supply printed translated material and english learning books if needed in the game box.

Artificial Intelligence

You need to shoot in the face and kill everyone in sight in the latest games. Thus there is really no need of AI in future gen games.

Hated Partners Program

The FAKES Engine is written from ground up completely using middleware technologies for each and every subsystems and it is left for you to figure out how to connect them since we want to make the latest engine without writing code ourselves. So we go out and buy every competing product or middleware available at cheap cost from poor, small developers so that we can make money from there hard work without giving them share. They have also agreed to provide low level support for their products (for this we give them small fraction of the licensing fees you give us).

Networking

You need the latest network card from our allied hardware partner to use our network technology.

Content Streaming
Allows for a loading screen every few seconds. We have even managed to get loading screens within the same room using our arcane portal technology.

Programming Features

We do not do any programming ourselves and since future gen hardware is not available, you also do not need performance monitoring tools.

Proven Technology

Our technology is already proved by our R&D team on a total of 6000 sheets of papers. Contact us for the massive book written on this subject by our R&D team.

Licensing and support

Our licensing scheme is unique. We charge unreasonable price for our future gen technology. You get support for all the future gaming platforms for this abnormal price.

No doubt you have definitely heard about our infamous support. We provide the engine as it is and everything you need is treated by us as game specific code (even our own extensions) and as such is needed to be developed by you. You can get every extra feature from us for extra payment to us though. If you are unsatisfied or hate us for our support we suggest you to battle with us in court, where our paid lawyers (we pay them from your licensing fees) will fry you. Try not to challenge us until you have m$ or a family business in which case we probably have not messed with you. Try not to bother us because we are really busy figuring out how to use your license money to, somehow make best selling games for our company and thus get an upper hand in games business by unfair competition. Though that will not be tough because we have anyway licensed the useless part of our engine while we keep all the extensions. Yup everything that is of any use is a game specific extension not provided to you. For that you have to pay us more money and even then we will somehow find some broken code to be provided to you. Please understand. We really need the money so that we can make more useless engines for future gens. We really like making cool technologies.

And we really hope that you somehow donot discover the great open source 3d engines on internet which are really useful. Remember what bespectacled billionaire say "All open source is evil and induces viruses in your already insecure sytem. We cannot provide good security so we blame innocent open source developers. Somehow we need to force the customers to use our new products by using only proprietary technologies."

That said best of luck for your doomed game if you decide to make your game with our FAKES Engine. Ifever you release your game (if against all odds you manage to do that) then do not forget to pay our fifty percent royalty on the game sales.

sad and happy

2007-08-20T02:58:00.000-07:00

happy lots of work done and many books completed reading which looked like eternity work.
sad lost 4 close freinds for various reasons.
Anyway looks like my novel is going on right track

Happy Birthday?

2007-07-25T06:13:00.000-07:00

I planned to eat: --------- I ate:
Choclate cake Soup
Cream Biscuit Tablets
Becoz I was ill
Though "I ate a Choclate anyway
though in the end it was a real ?Happy Birthday
Finally finalized the story for my new novel
and going to complete my computer programming books

Great thoughts

2007-07-03T02:46:00.000-07:00

I completed the basic story for my novel.Atleast it is complete.My kittens have grown up somewhat and are nasty. My birthday is coming soon and I plan to eat a choclate cake and buiscuits.

Finally completed my new home page and a terrific idea

2007-05-25T08:14:00.000-07:00

I have finally completed my new home page
you can see it at

www.nexon7.cjb.net
or
www.nexon7.freehostingnow.com
or
www3.webng.com/nexon7

and my blog at
www.nexon7.blogspot.com

also h.p. lovecraft stories are now freely available at
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html

and robert E. howard conan stories at
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/howard.html

on project gutenberg

both wikipedia and project gutenberg are very informative and great.

I finally got a terrific idea for my fantasy novel.

some more fun

2007-04-25T05:16:00.000-07:00

Finally met someone special.
Finally completed Never Winter Nights after 5 months(Yes whole Winter was passed playing it).It is the longest game I have ever played, but also one of the best ones.Currently I am playing Vampire Masquerade:Bloodlines and started far cry.Far cRy has the best human enemy AI till date,and its over all AI is second only to Half-Life 2.Facial animations are Like Half-Life one.Character animation of humans is realistic.Game is fun to play.Has great looking outdoor environments and very less indoor levels.But its game engine seems capable of handling great indoor levels also.Best indoor levels are still in Half-life 2 and Unreal Touranment 2004.
I am working on My website very much to give it a new look.Made 3d buttons with Illustrator.working on a navigation system and page template is almost complete.
Working with Ogre(the amazing 3d engine written by Sinbad) is a great fun in life.Sinbad is also a helping nature guy.

Songs :-
English :-
Too many to list. Mainly very fast dance nos. In front of them shakira and linkin park look like turtle in speed which are rage these days in India.And some soft and slow songs.
Hindi songs I like :-
chura Ke dil mera goriya chali - akshay kumar
Pyaar tera jine ka ek bahna hai - donot know.
ishk hai suhaana pyar hai diwana - kuli no.1
sona kitna sona hai - hero no.1
Ishk chandi hai ishk sona hai - biwi no. 1
Kahin karta hoga woh mera inntezaar - Anamika
Made in India - Alisha
Bole Chuudiyan bole kangana - k3g
aisa jaddo dala re, dil dooba, wada raha - khaki
Rahna hai tere dil mein - rhtdm

Favourite actors -
Hollywod - Pierce Brosnan,Keanu Reaves,Ian mac kellan,Tom Cruise,Will smith,Arnold,sylvester stallone,Harrison ford,jet li,Mark Hammil,Ian Mc Gregor,Jacky chan.
Bollywood - milind soman, sanjeev kumar, Dev anand, akshay kumar, Shahrukh khan, anil kapoor, govinda and amitabh bachaan in his old movies.
sports - sachin tendulkar,vishwnathan anand, Rahul Dravid, Jhon Wright,
Adam Gilchrist,Dhoni,Shane warne,Beckham,glen mcgrath,marat safin,roger federer,raphael nadal.

Favourite actress -
Hollywood - Jennifer aniston,mila jovovich ,Latetia casta,uma thurman, Cameron diaz, scarlett johanson, jessica biel,alicia siverstone,delta goodrem,denise richards,Nicole kidman,Michele Yeoh and many more whose name I donot know.
Bolly wood - Sonali Bendre, Sushmita sen, Karishma kapoor.
sports - Maria Sharapova, Ana Kornikova, kim

Favourite singers -
Madonna ,Michael Jackson, sunidhi chouhan, Bryan Adams, alban, and all those whose even one song is pure joy but whom I miss here. and all the composers who compose wonderful dance music.

real fun

2007-04-13T23:49:00.000-07:00

today i am playing vampire masquerade redemption : blood lines.I always liked Rpgs