Submitted on Sun, 2008-09-28 - 00:54
I'm working hard in London, but when there's some interesting gig I can't miss it!
The last week, on Wednesday 17th, I went to see the We The Kings playing as support band for The Academy Is together with The Maine. It's been a good show, even if the We the Kings played for just half an hour as support band, but it was fun, and the beers made everything better :-) And... this time I got a guitar plectrum from the We the Kings' guitarist, my souvenir collection is growing... :-)
I've taken some pics this time too, they are available on my picasa web album as usual, enjoy!
Submitted on Sun, 2008-09-06 - 01:26
One of the thing I prefer about London is that almost every day there's a different gig.
The last week I went to two gigs in a row! On Friday 29th I went to see the Goldfinger, great gig, even if the support bands were not the one announced. I also got a drumstick from the Goldfinger's drummer, that's a very cool souvenir :-) On Saturday 30th I went to see the Clutch, they are not one of my favourite bands. but I've to admit that they are amazing live!
I've taken some pics during both the gigs, the "best" ones (I should buy a better camera...) are available on my picasa web album, enjoy :-)
Submitted on Thu, 2008-08-14 - 01:05
I had no time to update my website during the last 2 months, mostly because I've been very, very busy...
In July I've spent more than 2 weeks in the UK having 6 job interviews. I've been in Brighton (Blackrock Studios), in Leamington Spa (Blitz Games), in Cambridge (Frontier), in London (Curve Studios), in Burford, say near to Oxford, (Fuse Games) and finally in Dundee, Scotland, (Realtime Worlds). So it's definitely been a busy period, but it's also been so exciting! I've visited a lot of different places (my picasa web albums are the proof ;-)) and met a lot of different people.
Anyway, at the end of my job-hunting trip, I've accepted a job at the Curve Studios in London, mostly because they offered me so many beers I was too drunk to say no :-) Speaking seriously, Curve Studios is definitely the coolest and the most friendly company I've ever seen. You can't see the sea from the office like in Portsmouth... but, who cares? I'm not a gal :-)
I want to conclude this long post with some thanks... First I want to thank Grant Mark from the Specialmove (the only good recruiting company in the UK), even if he didn't find me a job (not his fault of course), he was always available to give me some help and to support me, he's been more a friend than a consultant and I really appreciated that. Then I want to thank my friend Steve, without him and his advice (and his flat :-)), probably I would stay still in Italy now! Finally I want to thank my parents, for the economic and moral support they gave me.
So, from Monday the 11th of August, I'm a Junior Enginner at the Curve Studios, my dream has come true, I'm in the game industry! :-)
Submitted on Wed, 2008-06-25 - 11:36
I've added a brand new demo to the OpenGL section: radial blur, showing a cool warp drive effect.
Furthermore I've updated the Simple Terrain Engine after a refactory work aimed to make the code more Object Oriented.
And... new demos are coming soon ;-)
Submitted on Tue, 2008-06-17 - 17:55
Today it's been a very important day for the IT world... Today Firefox 3 and Wine 1.0 have been released and last but not least... Today, after a long university career, I've graduated with honours in Computer Science! :-)
For more info about my thesis project check the GPU Terrains page.
Submitted on Fri, 2008-06-13 - 13:25
Last week I've had my first job interview in the game industry with the Climax at their wonderful studio in Portsmouth.
I don't have any news from them at the moment, anyway, it's been a great experience, and I'm really optimistic for my future carreer.
I've also taken several photos during my trip, so I've registered an account on Picasa to keep them online, some of them are amazing, so I definitely suggest you to have a look ;-)
Submitted on Fri, 2008-05-30 - 15:20
Last week I've tried several different CMS for my website, but at the end I drew a sad conclusion... they all suck!
Actually, Drupal and Joomla are not that bad, but they miss some features I need, and it's almost impossible try to modify them without understanding the whole plugin and themes framework, so I've decided to make a brand new website from scratch!
At the moment the website is still under construction, and it's mostly a static website, but I hope to add some dynamic feature (in CMS style) soon.
The template is inspired by the interactive media template for Drupal, but it's totally made by me from scratch, but the icons from the crystal project icon set.
This is the first time I make a table-less website totally based on CSS, so it could come with some bugs/errors, if you find any problem, please contact me.
Submitted on Tue, 2008-05-20 - 02:17
I've registered the domain m3xbox.com about 6 months ago... but all this time I've used the web space just for the GPU Terrains blog and to store some stuff online.
I've set up a real website at last, powered by drupal CMS, it's still under construction, but I hope to finish it as soon as possible, so to show and share my stuff and keep online whatever I want.
Enjoy ;-)