Busy days. But I am pretty happy with my new Job. And I like my new flat and my new city. … New life. :-)

However, my private projects are not completely on hold. Especially my brain is working as usual. Thus I finally found the name for my board game:

Knights Hunt

In German it is “Springerjagd”. I like the name because is focuses on the “Knights” chess pieces. Especially the German name can be interpreted both as a hunt of knights as well as a hunt after knights. (I hope this is right in English) And I hope this duality in the meaning is somewhat present in the English version of the name as well.

Although there is not much news on the game software development itself I secured the corresponding internet domain name. :-) http://knights-hunt.net (or http://springerjagd.net) Hopefully, I will be able to fill that site with some content.

I am online again!

Due to me moving to a new city I was without internet for four weeks (ok, I have internet at my work, but this obviously does not count). This is a damn long time! But now, the waiting has come to an end.

Next up:

I got one bug report each for Burns 3 and Dib. I am gonna look into these the next days. For the Burns 3 bug I already wrote a workaround and I am waiting for a confirmation that this fixes the problem.

The last few weeks were packed with work. That’s why I had to distract myself and power down my brain a bit. So I tried something new and created three little fonts. Each only contains glyphs for the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and represents them as tally marks. Since these files are simple and small, their are free for download and free for any use anyone would like:

Tally Marks Europa.ttfTally Marks Europa.ttf Tally Marks Europa
[5.69 KB; MD5: beadd7876b05cdfa98a32498fb630ea0; Mehr Info]

 

Tally Marks Asia.ttfTally Marks Asia.ttf Tally Marks Asia
[5.11 KB; MD5: a952cb9ac13ff68b2ada0484bc786e0e; Mehr Info]

 

Tally Marks Spain.ttfTally Marks Spain.ttf Tally Marks Spain
[5.70 KB; MD5: 6219f0201922f513cb3efe0fbd2e1958; Mehr Info]

The TheLib Project was started 22. March.

It is the follow-up project of the VISlib, an openly available library of Totally Helpful Extensions for C++ and C# with focus on scientific visualization. TheLib is created in a cooperation betweent the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart and the Computer Graphics and Visualization lab of the University of Dresden. Source code and error tickes are hosted at SourceForge.

I am eagerly waiting how the project is going to develop.