Get credits point by playing games?

While Lee Wei and Ying Yin is preparing themselves for the MIT GAMBIT interview, I was looking at what is happening the Gaming World. Well it is interesting to found a subject for College Students that is about playing Games instead of Creating Games.



Students in UC - Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits.
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One of the line that I am quite interested for the course is "Calculus and Differential Equations are highly recommended for full understanding of the course." I think it is mainly on to the - flanking maneuver.

Well, here is what I pickup from the course web site
Week 3 Question 1.
A Terran Siege Tank in Siege Mode attacks for 70 damage, has 150 hp, and 1 armor. This
means that after two upgrades, a Siege Tank can kill another Siege Tank in two hits
instead of three. What are other significant damage combos? Be sure to investigate not
just upgrades and numbers of hits, but also unit group combinations. Which numbers are
worth noting?

Week 3 Question 3.
Is it more advantageous to attack in a line or to envelop your opponent’s army? Prove your point using flux calculations.

I wonder what is the answers to that kind of questions?

AMD's "Puma" & UMPC

AMD has been trying to catch up with Intel in mobile platform. Until recently, they have not been very successful. AMD has recently announced "Puma" platform that utilizes ATI graphics card that allows them to match Intel's Platform.





Well the most interesting part for this product is the it allows user to connect to a external graphic unit. This is known as ATI "XGP" that allows multi monitor support, and better 3D graphics.

Fujitsu Amilo Graphic Booster
* First external graphic box solution on the market worldwide for extreme gaming and 3D performance
* Run up to 3 external displays simultaneously (with AMILO Notebook Sa 3650)
* Two additional USB 2.0 ports for keyboard and mouse
* ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 with 512 MB GDDR3 dedicated video memory
* Interfaces: DVI-I (incl. HDCP), HDMI (incl. HDCP and S/PDIF out), USB 2.0
* Small dimensions and stylish design: 180 x 130 x 33.5 mm
* Weight: only 0.5 kg

Well for gamers, the ATI 3800 series support DirectX 10.1.

A new AMD UMPC is also announced at the same time by Raon Digitals Ever Run



If the UMPC would work with the Graphic Booster, that will be of interest to many people. Please note that the UMPC is running on the older platform, so I am just speculating the possibility.

Second Life on Mobile

Like to play second life on your desktop? Well you can now play it on your mobile. Vollee just managed to squeeze the client of that game into various mobile platform.



Here is the video for it.

GP2X F200

Good News!!! GamePark Holdings lately release the new GP2X platform to Mobile Gamers.

It comes with the following games in build (Blocked, Ruck-Man, Ghostpix, Phishy and WindandWater) and another 19 games (Beat 2X, HexBattle 2X, Blox, Camelot Warriors, Cave Story, Chess 2X, Cyber Dog, Enigma, Flobopuyo, gnuGO 2X, Kobo Deluxe, Minigame Project, Znax, PowerManga, Rick’s Dangerous, SqDef, SuperTux, UniColor and Sudoku 2X) on CD.


A few years back, I have a group of student doing a Major Project project on GP2X, any students who are interested doing a project writing a game can get in contact with me.