The whole last week was crazy. After I gave up my efforts on realistically getting my hands on some code files for mobile games using Java decompilers, I started concentrating on creative aspect of it. Imagine me developing a brand new game for my son!!!!!!!!!
The idea just kind of kept growing on me until I was unable to shake it off. It just looked like the most important thing to do. So after I started dreaming about it, I knew the time of the idea had come. I looked around on the internet for common tools to develop games. There are games based on Flash, on PHP and finally using Java. Now Java is a language I understand. So more digging on it revealed the names of J2ME. More digging led me to microemulators and other plugins that need to be installed. And so after a long long time and downloading lot of files, I was able to set up the environment, ready for some action. Now as per the 2nd step of the agenda, I am reading a lot about game development constructs, the methods, the design etc etc. So far it has been fun !!!!!
While on J2ME and game development, my son came up with another request. He wanted to run an exe file on Mac. Now it can't run, see. Exe is meant for windows not Mac OSX. But my son wont' listen. So again searched on internet and rammed into MacPorts and Wine. Wow!!! A windows emulator on Mac !!!! After I read a lot about how to install these cool applications, I was able to install MacPorts. But then I needed XCode. So I became member of ADC, downloaded XCode (1gb) and installed it. Right now Wine is being installed. Hopefully by evening I will have it ready so that my son can run his game exe on my Mac. things that you need to do for your son !!!!!!!!!!!
Apart from all these esoteric geeky stuff, I also read Paulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage. It is really really bad. I had loved Paulo's Alchemist, but this book had no believable characters, no great philosphical discussions, nothing working. My advise to you will be to avoid this book. Just reread the Alchemist once again.
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