mandatory first post

so i guess this is that post where i say, "omg welcome to my new blog!" and i tell you a bit of background and something about myself, and tell you everything that i hope to write about but probably wont. well here goes.

i'm a computer science student. i'm currently in singapore, on a sort of exchange, but when i get home i'll be starting my fourth year - and subsequently graduating (hopefully). in said fourth year, there's a little dissertation we have to do. a kind of research (as far as i'm aware), something to do with computing. this is a pretty wide subject so since i have an interest in games (and game designer is this week's dream job), i'm narrowing my topic to something game-related.

if the gods are kind, i may get a mentor that will let me have access to their little game room - fully equipped with the consoles, sweet-ass tv and some crazy mind-reading devices. if the gods are this kind, i may have a very exciting dissertation thing.

so for starters there's been a number of ideas cropping into my head depending on my mood before i even started this thing, they are written briefly as follows:

- dynamic camera for player-controlled cutscenes (a kind of programmed director determining good camera angles depending on what's happening in the scene)
- realistic player relationships with NPCs
- emotion-responsive something (because i really want to play with that mind reader thing...)
- a first-person shooter without controllers (because i REALLY want to play with that mind reader thing)
- somethingsomethingelseiforget

tada! fantastic.

another note: get used to the lack of capitalisation. none of these entries will be at all cohesive, this whole thing will (hopefully) serve as some kind of replacement for the scraps of paper i keep writing on and losing. here's hopin'!

and with that, bye!