You see, there is a whole psychology here. One can make a certain amount of money only if he has something to offer: some product, some service or … some money. Yes, sometimes you need to take some money, combine it with some secret knowledge about a situation (call it speculation) and you get more out of it. Usually to make huge money all you need is to have almost huge money before that… or inherit it, or actually "fake" something or cheat someone or some company in a legal way (that is by seeing a crack in the law) or something of this kind like taking it from a flawed system. If you think you have some great idea or some great something to sell.. well.. you’re in for a big surprise: you are not!! Why? Simply because for sure somebody is going to steal it from you one way or another. There are "business" people on the planet specializing in just that, in fact all business people do is specialize in that. Making business means making profit, and the only possible logical and mathematical way to do it is to ask for money. Yes, you actually ask in a masked way for them. They are free money. I buy something at say $10 and sell it at $12 making $2 profit. What I am doing is not "accepted as stealing" but in fact that’s exactly what I’m doing. Calling this stealing however would destroy global capitalism as we know it and that could be a bat thing so people love it. They love to steal and to have others steal from them. It’s all so wonderful.

Now let’s get to the important part. If I buy 5 things at $10 each and also apply some work or knowledge upon them and I get a product … I am going to sell it at $100 a thing. I am doubling my "investment" meaning that I am selling the services+know-how needed to produce it at $50. I am making $50 out of thin air… Ain’t that something? Well… That’s what human beings call business. So, this behaviour is excused when people buy things because they apparently need them. Since a person needs something, that person may pay more for it and for this reason business people invented commercials. To make you want what you don’t really want. So that you can pay more money… oups… so that they could steal more money from you… (I mean from thin air not you). Cool, huh? I just love it… it’s amazing… The only problem here is average normal human beings stand no chance and it’s not possible for them to become business people no matter how hard they want because they just don’t have the stuff needed or the money needed. It’s a vicious circle. But you could win the lottery or at a casino. Still mathematics again shows us (in a very absolute manner) that chances are you’ll lose everything and sell your organs before you win from a casino or lottery or any other "winning" shit… such as Banks. Yeah, you read right… Banks!!! They are casinos if you don’t really see it… giving you assurances for life but life duration is a gable that only their statistics can encompass when calculating risks. So you are the fucked one, not the bank!!! The house!!! Which always takes just like in a casino.

During the last 3 years, I managed to gain something like 15 kilograms of fat and I was already somewhat … “nice round looking” before that. You can just imagine how round looking I was after that. I never complained about being too fat, but still, I was far from attractive I tell you. Three years of daily mirror looking and not noticing fat becoming more and more abundant. You know, it usually happens like this, you grow fat, you don’t even realize it. Now, people were telling me all the time I was getting way too fat so I had to take some measure, but I had no idea what should I actually do.

I realised I was eating a lot more than I actually needed. For instance, I would have been saturated with just a dish but I was eating two because I used to enjoy the taste more. So my starting point was: I am going to eat only until I feel saturated. You know, any human being is able to tell when they are saturated (not full) still the animal brain inside us keeps on saying: “I am saturated, if I leave from the table I’ll not be hungry anymore but still, these lamb chops are so tasty, yummy, let me have some more, let me enjoy some more.” This is very similar to waking up early or late. A lot of people (including me) tend to oversleep because of apparent pleasure of the moment, when sleep seems so sweet yet if you wake up that very instant, you are fully rested. You usually don’t. You just want to sleep 10 more minutes, to enjoy the pleasure of that sweet sleep, yet your organism doesn’t need it, it’s your brain who thinks it does. So is for food and any other form of psychological addiction.

After reducing the amount of food to the acceptable amount that kept me saturated, I reduced bread, fat, oil, less meat and fewer sweets… actually, almost no sweets. I drank my coffee with artificial sweetener and I gave Coca Cola Light a chance. The human body needs some sugar, it is this thing called glycaemia and it actually needs to stay in normal parameters or else you are likely to faint. So some sugar is necessary. So I had like a coffee once in a while with two tea-spoons of sugar in it. Oil is very consistent, it contains like 1000 kilocalories per 100 grams. Olive oils contain the same amount but its quality seems different. Anyway, olive oil burns faster and does not add to your fat. Still eating without or with less oil is preferable but if you can’t live without it, pour a drop of oil olive on your salad not regular oil, ok? Fats like animal fats are very bad for health. They can actually kill you and I am sure many have had cancers and other heart (circulatory) diseases and they may not have known that animal fat was playing somewhat of an important part there. But for me (since I am still young) they make me fat so I had to eliminate them completely from my food because of this reason. When I mentioned less meat, I actually ate only chicken, beef and fish. Beef like grilled stakes and things but no way McDonalds because fast food is extremely consistent and yet it does not saturate at all. I mean, fast food is the ideal invention for the guys who make money selling it. It’s the kind of food that makes you hungry! You eat one burger and after 10 minutes you are hungry again! Now, isn’t that a magnificent, marvellous money making food? That’s food that actually sells itself per se. Nevertheless I ate no fast food whatsoever and I tried to eat less in the evening.

Naturally this was not a diet, only a very minor restriction on my food. To add to this, I also decided to make some physical exercises to increase the rate of my metabolism since otherwise it would drop to fit a smaller amount of calories that I was going to eat and this way I would have made no business whatsoever. These exercises were consisting of only a little jogging or bicycle since the legs have the largest muscles in our body and the larger the muscle the more energy it needs to contract (when moving) and the more calories it burns to provide this kind of energy. I was like jogging or bicycling around 30 minutes a day. Not much, I know, I was not even putting too much effort into it. I was not even doing it on a regular daily basis, some days I was skipping this.

What came up you may wonder now! Let me tell you. I lost 10 kilograms in 3 months. I still have to loose 5 kilograms more to go back to the way I was looking before but all people noticed this and told me I look so much better. Right now, I know I can do it without effort so maybe some of you could do it just like I did it.

If you want any more details about this, feel free to post comments, and, happy weight loosing! ;)

To start with, there is a 2D map. This map holds abstract information about the world. This map is loaded into the engine, and a visual representation is made. Characters and AI is populated and the engine starts enacting the game. So far so simple.

The Map

The map is at first a 2D array containing tiles. An object of type tile has the following:

• a stack of blocks
• an item
• a character

Usually it’s easy to represent these. This is version 1, which is very simple and there are no complexities for now. Now, when the map is loaded into the engine, the engine parses it and builds up an abstract model of it. Then it represents it in a view. There is a controller software component inside the engine that captures input from the user and other system commands. The engine creates a character for you and places it in the model. The controller operates on the model, while the model operates on the view.

The controller captures input for the following: rotate left, rotate right, forward, back, jump, fire. Whenever this occurs, the controller tells the model to update the caracter and so the model does. After that, the view rerenders.

There is a reason for this design, and a character is not a movieclip which is directly controlled on it’s own, and the caracter does not communicate with something to find out how it should interact with the world, but rather the character in the model figures that out. The view is the view, and how it works is it’s own concern. It might be easier to simplify things, but at this point, I don’t really care.

All in all, what is important is that. 

For a Project Manager position, a good company asks the following:

• studii superioare automatizări, electronică, comunicaţii sau economie
• curs de metodologia managementului de proiect (PMP sau Prince 2) constituie un avantaj
• experienţă minim 3 ani în managementul proiectelor în mediu strucurat de tip comercial
• experienţă 3-6 ani în domeniul IT
• experienţă în vânzări IT (IT business analyst constituie un avantaj)
• limbi străine (nivel) - engleză (avansat)
• carnet de conducere categoria B
• cunoştinţe PC - MS Project, Primavera Project Planner, MS Office, MS Visio
• cunoaşterea sistemului de asigurare a calităţii ISO 9001

For a Java Developer position they need:

• 2 ani experienta in proiecte de referinta
• excelenta stapanire a conceptelor object oriented si relational
• abilitari de comunicare orala si in scris, lucru in echipa
• cunostinte foarte bune de Java si tehnologii J2EE, patternuri OO si J2EE
• web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Servlet, taglibs
• middleware: EJB, JDBC, RMI, JNDI
• baze de date: SQL92 standard, Oracle, SQL Server
• servere de aplicatie: JBoss, WebSphere, Oracle 9iAS
• studii superioare de informatica, automatica, electronica sau similare
• limbi straine (nivel): engleza - bine 

• experienta cu Struts, Ant, JReport, Lucene
• cunostinte XML, XSLT, Web Services, PKI, UML
• cunoasterea de metodologii de dezvoltare software

The ideea came to me some years ago when I wanted to make this game in C++ using Allegro 2D programming library, but it came to pass that I didn’t have the time to make it and I found better things to do. But now, I stopped working in Flash for some months and I feel rusty so I have to begin doing this things agains because I was really good at doing them. It’s a 2D engine, really simple stuff, and so far I have no audio effects whatsoever, but it’s not going to be complicated to make some… the voices are hard to find, and of course some effects require elaborated production and recording, but, I’ll have to find the means to do them when the game is over.

Next, the graphics. I want beautyful graphics, but foremost, I want a story. I think about writting a book before I write this game, because I want the story te be very interesting. More to come … 

I think I’ll use Flash, Java and some Director. I would like some suggestions on this. Please post some comments.