{"id":323,"date":"2004-12-09T08:19:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=323"},"modified":"2004-12-09T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T16:19:25","slug":"metro-article-sjsu-game-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/metro-article-sjsu-game-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Article, SJSU Game Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in at SJSU yesterday.  I saw my old student Gary Singh, I was his thesis adviser for a creative writing project about a pataphysical device called a Ridiculometer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/garysingh.jpg\" width=400 height=267 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>Gary wrote a nice article about me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroactive.com\/papers\/metro\/08.07.03\/rucker-0332.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Metro<\/i><\/a> newspaper last spring.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the final demos of the game projects in Chris Pollett&#039;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sjsu.edu\/faculty\/pollett\/134.12.04f\/\" target=\"_blank\">CS 134 Game Programming<\/a> class.  They used my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/computergames\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Software Engineering and Computer Games<\/i><\/a>, and it was good to see my Pop framework software was working for them.  (Sorry about the buggy wall-corner collisions, guys, maybe I&#039;ll fix them.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/computergamescover.jpg\" width=272 height=398 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by this student&#039;s fashion sense, which is not a given among CS majors!  She had cool running shoes too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/gamefashion.jpg\" width=271 height=400 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>One of my best former students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leolees.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Leo Lee <\/a> was there, checking the demos out. Leo just entered one of his games into the student contest held at the Independent Game Festival at the Game Developer&#039;s Conference in San Jose every March. I&#039;m proud of him and I hope he can get a game programming job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/leolee.jpg\" width=400 height=300 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>Leo&#039;s already finished <i>Half-Life 2<\/i> twice, turning up the difficulty level for the second time through.  Me, I&#039;m still in the airboat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in at SJSU yesterday. I saw my old student Gary Singh, I was his thesis adviser for a creative writing project about a pataphysical device called a Ridiculometer. Gary wrote a nice article about me in the Metro newspaper last spring. I went to the final demos of the game projects in Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}