A Matter of Perspective

I have always been fascinated by this -- found it on Digg

Geometry Wars - Retro Evolved

From wiki:

The object of Geometry Wars is to survive as long as possible and score as many points as possible by destroying a constant, ever-increasing swarm of enemies. The player controls a claw-shaped "ship" that can move in any direction using the left thumbstick, and can fire in any direction independently using the right thumbstick. The player can also detonate a bomb that destroys all enemies currently visible on the screen. The game takes place on a rectangular playfield. As the game progresses, the player earns extra lives and additional bombs, and his/her primary weapon changes at regular intervals. Also, enemies spawn in progressively larger quantities and at greater frequency as the game progresses. If an enemy touches the player's ship, it explodes and a life is lost. The game is over when the player loses all of his/her lives.

The Evolved version of the game takes place on a playfield that is slightly larger than the display area of the TV screen, and the camera follows the player's movements. A background grid pattern adds to the graphical effects by warping in reaction to player shots and the behavior of certain enemies. This version of the game also introduces a score multiplier that increases to higher levels as the player survives and destroys enemies.

Enemies in the original versions of Geometry Wars include:

• Light blue diamonds, which move slowly toward the player.
• Magenta boxes, which move more quickly. When hit, this enemy splits into three smaller boxes that swirl around in circles while moving toward the player.
• Green boxes, which also move quickly. They attempt to avoid the player's shots.
• Red circles, which move very slowly. When hit, they become powerful gravity wells that attempt to suck in other enemies and the player, while also repelling the player's shots. Each time an enemy is sucked in, the circles grow in diameter. If allowed to grow large enough, they explode and send a swarm of smaller blue circles toward the player.

Enemies in the Retro Evolved version include the above enemies, plus:

• Purple pinwheels, which move slowly and in seemingly random directions, serving more as obstacles to the player rather than as direct threats.
• Aphids, small dark blue triangles, which appear in huge swarms and attempt to overwhelm the player with their sheer quantity.
• Red claws, which take aim and charge toward the player, emitting a shot-repelling force field in front of them.
• White snakes, which appear either in the corners of the screen or in a circle around the player and "wiggle" their way toward the player. Can only be destroyed by shooting the head.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved also features enhanced graphics, including 3D effects, and an overhauled user interface.

Well..that's what wiki has to say about the game. I have been playing this game everyday during the Christmas holidays and I should say its just awesome and very addictive. As for the graphics its all vector and no bitmap and its just stunning. The brilliant colors that show up on the screen are just amazing. My top score so far has been 230,000. Still trying to improve. The highest I saw a guy game 3.2 million on youtube. I wonder how much time he spent doing that.

EDIT:

I just scored 1,072,000 lol

Testing Windows Live Writer

Seems to be pretty good. Let's put some junk stuff

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Finally yesterday night I was able to sit and put up my new template. The new blogger made it easier to change the template although there still seem to be some bugs in it. This is actually a wordpress template which I modified and put on blogger. I wanted to change the template for a while but could not do it because I was either busy or didn’t have the patience to do it.

While putting up my new template I was trying to use imageshack as my image host but the damn site was too slow and was not responding properly, which pissed me off as it wasted a lot of my time. So then I tried photobucket, but the problem with that host is that it always resizes the images for some stupid reason, even if the image is small. I spent an entire morning trying to find another reliable host. I read that some people used geocities as an image host, but it offered very limited bandwidth and that would finish just by me using it. Then I finally realized that google pages can also be used to host images, so uploaded all the template images to my google pages and after some editing it was all done. Still have to do a few tweaks.

Teach Both theories

Teach both theories and let the people decide.

I say, learn both theories and decide, because many people out there learn one and say the other is stupid.

Best stick ever!!!

My Best Friend

tHeSiD: what life you made for me
tHeSiD: already im sick of being the official repairer for 5 houses now
tHeSiD: i am a girl consoler cum left gf entertainer
tHeSiD: why oh why didnt i study in iit
tHeSiD: and over that.. im doing all this crap for free
tHeSiD: if only i atleast passed all courses there
tHeSiD: never regretted coming back
tHeSiD: but asshole like you makin me do that

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