On Wednesday, Paul, Justin, Reuben and myself head to U of C to participate in Microsoft’s Develop Mental Tour. In this tour, they had a guy named Derek Pierson from Microsoft who basically showed you how you can write simple games using Direct X and C#. After the presentation was said and done, I was pleasently surprised at what you could do with free software.

This all brought memories of Dr. Richards Computer Graphics class. In the presentation he basically summed up what the whole computer graphics class was. Anybody who is thinking of just dabbling in game programming should take a computer graphics class (or at least buy a book about it).

What I’m liking more about Microsoft is they’re giving programmers something to do outside of “work”. They’ve built a whole minisite on coding for fun. The articles give countless examples of game development and windows apps. Kudos to you.
Do I think I’ll every dabble in it? Maybe. Maybe all of us guys at work can get together, make a game, make millions and then live in Bermuda for the rest of our lives.

Well some of us can dream!

-Mateo Laterns