So far, WSVG has been a lot of fun. Probably one of my favorite events has been the Guitar Hero competition, which has been going on the whole weekend.

It started on day one with open tryouts for the first two days. I watched a lot of them, and the judges were very critical. Rather than going with the in-game score, players were evaluated by a panel of three judges, each giving a score out of 10 for a maximum possible score of 30. Even players that managed to post scores well beyond me, say an 85% on a reasonably difficult song on expert were given scores like 5 or 6, and it wasn’t until today that I realized why.
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Well, it’s about 4:30 AM here, and it’s well into Day One (or is it Two by now?) of both Million Man Lan and the World Series of Video Games.

So far, it’s certainly been fun. I’ve got Komodo hooked up and running, and it’s chugging away as ever. This place is a veritable nerdgasm of electronics. I spent a while wandering around the WSVG floor and got to watch one of the Team PMSers playing Guitar Hero, which was certainly entertaining. They’ve got all sorts of booths and displays set up, I can’t even begin to try and name them all off the top of my head, but I’ll be sure to take notes tomorrow.
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I have an IE 360 exam today, so I had to dig up a calculator to use on the test. I couldn’t find my flashy TI-89t, but I was able to unearth my older TI-83+ that I’ve had since the seventh grade. In the memory of that calculator was a goldmine of old programs that I had written. The first, and easily my favorite of those was a game entitled “War of Shadows 2″ which I had abbreviated to WoSh2. The game was a very simple RPG: walk around a few pre-defined areas, kill monsters, and level up. But, for a calculator game written in BASIC, it was actually very complex. I had a selection of usable items and magic spells. Also, monsters could drop items, some of which could not be bought in stores and did things such as raise your chance of getting a critical hit.
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Do a Google image search for “macintosh” and look at the very first result.