Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Finding the Master Thesis post

Author
Message
Cloud Cobra
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Jan 2008
Location:
Posted: 28th Jan 2008 22:10
Link
I remember that a year ago there was a post concerning a student having used Dark Basic as a thesis. I believe the topic revolved around proving that DarkBasic could be used for RTS games. Does anybody remember which forum that was, or perhaps give a link to the subject? As a Graduate student looking for a thesis idea, I would like to see what he did. Thanks for your time.
Back to top
Profile PM
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Apr 2005
Location: The Fifth Plane of Oblivion
Posted: 28th Jan 2008 23:13
Link
I think you will find that Fallout made a thesis; can't be sure though.

Rapid texture streaming, Pixel shaders gleamin',
Cooling fans a screaming, And power bills a reaming.
darkSMASH: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=121881&b=8
Back to top
Profile PM Website
tha_rami
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Mar 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 28th Jan 2008 23:16
Link
Yes, it's Fallout's game called Operation Desert Fallout in WIP. More info on Fallout in this months' Untitled (issue 4).


A mod has been erased by your signature because it was larger than 600x120
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Benjamin
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 28th Jan 2008 23:31
Link
Quote: "I think you will find that Fallout made a thesis"

Are you sure you're not confusing thesis with feces?

Operation Desert Fallout.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Cloud Cobra
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Jan 2008
Location:
Posted: 28th Jan 2008 23:48
Link
Hmmm...this project doesn't seem to ring a bell. I believe there was also a picture showing a brown hardback cover book on the page. Talk about trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Back to top
Profile PM
RalphY
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Sep 2004
Location: 404 (UK)
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 16:47 Edited at: 29th Jan 2008 16:49
Link
Yes it was fallout, he made a post in Geek Culture (or posted in a thread in Geek Culture) with a picture of it.

[Edit] added link to thread because I'm awsome
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=84301&b=2

Oh boy! Sleep! That's when I'm a Viking! | Super Nintendo Chalmers!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
GatorHex
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Apr 2005
Location: Gunchester, UK
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 17:43 Edited at: 29th Jan 2008 18:06
Link
I also did War MMO as my MSc Thesis. An experiment to build a MMO that was impossible to cheat by using online banking level security.

In 3 months, I had write an encryption module for DBP and setup a full working prototype server, supporting 100 players, so people could log in and try to hack it, along with all my own hacking tests and the reports.

However, I got screwed out of a distinction by my University. I had a 76% grade average and the idiots who marked my project didn't have a clue even though they call themselfs game lecturers. "You cant build an online game using TCP" and "your online game can't support physics" was just some of the many stupid comments they came out with.

They graded it 60% and when I complained the university just ignored all my communications. I'm left with a 70% overall average graded as a Pass instead of distinction because they will only award a distinction if the project also scores 70%+.

DinoHunter (still no nVidia compo voucher!), CPU/GPU Benchmark, DarkFish Encryption DLL, War MMOG (WIP), 3D Model Viewer
Back to top
Profile PM Website
David R
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Sep 2003
Location: 3.14
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 18:45
Link
Quote: ""your online game can't support physics" was just some of the many stupid comments they came out with. "


Ouch, that has got to be the dumbest comment they could possibly come out with. You should of bought them Half-life 2 death match as a Christmas present or something, that'd shut them up


09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Accoun
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jan 2006
Location: The other end of the galaxy...
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 19:38
Link
Quote: " the idiots who marked my project didn't have a clue even though they call themselfs game lecturers."


Quote: "ou should of bought them Half-life 2 death match as a Christmas present or something, that'd shut them up"


You're sure the could know how to install it?

Make games, not war.
Back to top
Profile PM
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Apr 2005
Location: The Fifth Plane of Oblivion
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 19:45
Link
Therein lies the problem in education. 99% of teachers of any subject do not know the subject, they're just ticking boxes. You could come up with a superior method for doing something, but if it doesn't tick all the "method" boxes, you're stuffed.

Rapid texture streaming, Pixel shaders gleamin',
Cooling fans a screaming, And power bills a reaming.
darkSMASH: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=121881&b=8
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Accoun
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jan 2006
Location: The other end of the galaxy...
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 19:56
Link
Quote: "Therein lies the problem in education. 99% of teachers of any subject do not know the subject, they're just ticking boxes"

Yeah, my mother said, she talked with one of professors and he said one of his worse (if not the worst one) students is working as a... teacher, because she wasn't good enough to find a better job...

Make games, not war.
Back to top
Profile PM
Seppuku Arts
Moderator
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Aug 2004
Location: Cambridgeshire, England
Posted: 29th Jan 2008 21:58
Link
That's daft, I'm glad my lecturers know what they're talking about (I'd be a bit worried if they didn't, considering their books are in the reading list) in fact they're very passionate about their job.

'Ticky boxy' lecturers or teachers aren't very useful, because innovation or quality goes over their head, good ones will ask about your project and tell you if the requirements don't 'dig' your work. Though, from what I understand, lecturers do the marking anyway, one that know what they're talking about will be impressed by innovation and probably would mark accordingly - looking out our 'degree mark deadline' to get a first/distinction, your work has to be anything between 'very good to excellent' to 'outstanding, exceptionally high standard'. It says nothing about following a particular route. Makes sense for creative courses, programming is creative in the sense you're 'creating' something, thus it should really be subjective to the lecturer.

Exit Pursued by man-bear-pig
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Phaelax
DBPro Master
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 30th Jan 2008 00:38
Link
Quote: "You cant build an online game using TCP"


LMAO! Just curious, what should you use for communication in online play? UDP?


Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
tha_rami
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Mar 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 30th Jan 2008 01:13
Link
Quote: "LMAO! Just curious, what should you use for communication in online play? UDP?"

What are you, stupid? You should use a Serial Card. Cord. Cable. Thing.


A mod has been erased by your signature because it was larger than 600x120
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Benjamin
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 30th Jan 2008 01:14
Link
Quote: "Just curious, what should you use for communication in online play?"

A piece of string with cans tied to either end.

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Agent Dink
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Mar 2004
Location:
Posted: 30th Jan 2008 06:26
Link
Quote: "A piece of string with cans tied to either end."


*mutes voice chat by cutting string from annoying players' cans

MISoft Studios - Silver-Dawn

Back to top
Profile PM
Blood Of The Prophets
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Nov 2007
Location:
Posted: 31st Jan 2008 19:41
Link
@GatorHex: Sounds like you got royally screwed, i hope the lecturers at my computer forensics course wont be like that.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Apr 2005
Location: The Fifth Plane of Oblivion
Posted: 31st Jan 2008 20:31
Link
On an interesting note, someone I know who has dyslexia typed his science coursework on his MacBook, stapled it to the back of his paper and got no marks. If he'd written it, he would have still got absolutely zero because no one would be able to read it. His science was perfect; had they marked it, it would have been an A, if not an A*. But these markers are silly and downright pathetic sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if disgruntled students turn education upside down in the next ten years if something isn't done.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-19 19:27:42
Your offset time is: 2024-11-19 19:27:42