FK Zebra’s last match has been played. If you weren’t there yesterday, you’ll have to watch it on TV. I’m happy with the way I played, especially in relation to how the previous night went (Chrystelle, that was an excellent party, but a badly chosen day).
I have a few of Chrystelle’s pictures on flickr, and there’s more info on our Facebook page.
The filming for FK Zebra is coming to an end. It’s been a blast, I’ve gotten more excercise in these two months than in the entire previous year, met some cool people, did some fun stuff and played a lot of tough matches. The last match is on September 28th and he first episode will air on October 1st.
Sadly, our final match will not be at Ullevaal as planned. The grass is too worn out, they say, and I understand that the worldcup qualifications take priority over a bunch of nerds. So we’ll be playing on our home turf, at Haraløkka Idrettsanlegg. The event starts at 11 o’clock, the actual game at 14:00 sharp – I hope there will be a big group of supporters!
I’m going to be sad when this is all over, and I hope we can get together and play a bit more after we’ve all com down from the permanent high that these two months have been.
If you missed this game, you’re not alone. As someone who has played it, let me recommend this game warmly: It’s among my favorites on the Gamecube, and one of the few games I played all the way through. Soon now it’s coming to Steam, so go and get it!
It looks like all the good adventures are being put on Steam these days: The longest Journey, Jack Keane, Sherlock Holmes, Beyond Good & Evil and not to forget, the excellent Telltale games. As an adventure gamer, I should rejoice – just one wish: Somebody convince Lucasarts to do the same. I’d absolutely buy Monkey Island over again.
For those of you who come here through a google search for “enno rehling zebra”: Yes, I’m the guy that’s on TV2’s new football show FK Zebra. For those who don’t know what that is, we’re 16 nerds who are learning to play football, and we’re being coached by Norway’s former national coach, Egil “Drillo” Olsen. This is a lot of fun for us, and because most of us have never played much football before, and we’re playing with some football legends, it will hopefully also make good television. If you’re in Norway, tune in to TV2 Zebra in October.
If you’re hoping for inside information about the show or match results then I have to disappoint: we’re not allowed to give away spoilers (games industry folks will be familiar with the concept of an NDA), so I probably won’t talk about anything that hasn’t already been shown on TV. If you want to see what’s been written about us other places, the Facebook group for our team.
The Eressea server (and with it, this blog) has been down for about a week due to a burnt motherboard. The hard drives could be saved, but the new machine doesn’t have SCSI, so some work had to be done. Thanks go to Andreas and Nils for fixing this.
The new machine is no longer Debian but Ubuntu. This gives me a chance to set things up The Right Way – after 8 years, the old machines had a lot of quirky stuff installed, and was running with a number of unexplained anachronisms. So excuse the mess, we’re under construction.
Here’s my preliminary TODO-List:
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I’m posting about this because I like talking about code and nobody is on IRC. If you don’t like code, you may want to skip this. Also, none of this is rocket science, but it was a nice exercise.
Traditionally, the data files in Eressea have been text files. You know the kind where you’re doing a lot of fprintf and fscanf everywhere in the code. There are usually two advantages associated with that: small integers take up less space (2-3 bytes instead of 4), and when something goes terribly wrong, you can edit the data with vi.
The latter had long been a mixed blessing, with edits occasionally doing more harm than good, and since the introduction of a shell and script access to all the game data, it’s not really been necessary. Which left three reasons not to switch: Slight space improvements, the amount of work to change over to something else, and backward compatibility. However, I had some time on my hands recently and decided to tackle all of those issues.
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Pearls of wisdom from Nostrasaurus. Which imaginary animals are kosher? I’m sure that comes in handy during orthodox D&D campaigns. My personal good news of the week was that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in pre-production. DRM was in the news again when MSN shut down their music service: You do not own the music you buy online, and you won’t get to keep it. And for the yodelers among you, we’ve got iPod Lederhosen.
Posing as a ten-year-old, this guy wrote letters to serial killers and has published the replies. This band from Manchester used CCTV camera and the Data Protection Act to record their video. In the past nine years, the number of government-tapped mobile phones in Germany has risen from 6,391 to a whopping 39,200. Chronotron is a super addictive puzzle game with a really cool premise: Travel in time and help yourself. And last but not least, here’s a coffee table we all wish we had.
And here I had promised myself I wasn’t going to fall victim to another social networking fad. But I did anyhow. Follow me on Twitter.
I have feeling that this is one of those posts I’ll read again in two years and go “what was I thinking?”
Would you like a fresh Wallpaper for your desktop that isn’t a naked babe or some shallow TV star? Pixelgirl has supplied me with cute desktops for years, and I’m currently looking at a leaf everytime I log on. Some guy wrote Super Mario in Javascript, and in only 16K. That is made of awesome. In Germany, having the wrong skin color can get you kicked out of your apartment. That is maybe not entirely surprising, but the complete lack of subtlety about it is. I just tried finding a new place to live in a country where I am a foreigner, and I can somewhat relate. And finally, the new Ubuntu is coming out tomorrow. You should give it a shot, it won’t bite.
