Digital ID

We are Bits!

While I'm writing this lines I'm a registered user. My registration is some kind of identification that somewhere , upon some servers, define me and the data that I correspond.
So I've two identities, one biological and the other ... digital.
My Digital ID is more powerfull than my biological aspect. But in both cases I'm , probably, the same person.

If I go to an Internet Forum, I'm another couple of bits, upon another Server, located somewhere into the world.

When I use a Badge upon my job place, the same badge that allow me to access some restricted doors, I return to be a Bit. If my badge is later, I'm late.

When I pay with my Bancomat, damn, I'm a digital man again. If someone thief my credit card, someone thief me, and my money.

All around Internet and also inside my computer, I'm digital.

Now people make photos, digital photos... and I return to be some kind of logic unit.

This start to be boring... or difficult to understand, or can also be considered a fool series of exclamations.

And again, to force my mind I still consider a bit. When I will die , my bits would remain longer, my drawings, my games, my Digital IDs.
No one can link me to a series of Digital IDs witout hacking some code, do some research a so on. So , what of me will remain upon this pages ?
And what of me would die with me ?

When I've seen "Matrix" and "Matrix Revolution" my mind opened completely to this new Era.
When I've seen "Fight Club" I understood that new era is not well accepted by everyone.
When I've played "Deus Ex", probably I've chosen the wrong final scenes, where the world return to a digital caos between the firsts and the lasts, digital and biological ideologists.

And while we migrate into this kind of digital world (also using videogames and Internet), we forget what we have been, for a while perhaps, or for many years, but now we are forgetting everything at all to become something completely different.

The process has already begun, and we are inside a digital travel.
The Matrix is in You, or is ... you.

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First Step in OpenGL

Hi everyone,
today we will speak about OpenGL . I've started in these days the new chapter of a programmer life, the 3D computing. After the great No One Shoots Forever Game reach its first birthday, and beyond my side project lasted till now, I've decided to point my view to OpenGL.

OpenGL is a Library that allow the Programmers to recreate and compute a 3d volumetric space defining the Objects by vertex, applying textures upon them and rendering the ambient with the program execution. The power of this library is that it's an interface between the programmers mind and the GPU (Graphics Process Unit), that commonly corresponds to your video card.

My objective (remember to always have an objective in life) is to learn OpenGL , mix it with AllegroGL, and create fantastic Allegro games OpenGL powered !!
The problem is that all that I've learn is represented by the screenshot at the top, but it doesn't matter for now... ;P

3D programming , anyway , can also be used to create 2D videogames that are accelerated by the videocard GPU; this represent a huge amount of game speed and framerate, anyway.

My starting place, as many suggest from allegro Forum ( http://www.allegro.cc) has been a newbye OpenGl site : nehe.gamedev.net
In this site there is a complete set of tutorials about OpenGL. That's not everything I need to reach my objective but it's a very good start place . I thanks everyone about that site and his vocation to knowledge distribution!

If I'll reach my purposes, I'll notify to you everything... in the meanwhile, leave to me some comments or OpenGL directives to your preferred sites.

Thank you.
Lord Hol Napult

The Mind is Lost

The best way to create a videogame , is to live it inside your head.
The bad way to create a videogame, is to follow your publisher directions and times.

I've no publisher, no "quality" controls, no businnes at all . I've lived my videogame as I lived every line of code I've written in my past. Every time I encounter a new problem, my head turns into a mechanical powerfull machine that will explode if the problem cannot be eliminated from the source.
The source is the Key.
The key is in You.

I think that heavy programming sessions turns your head into a ambiguous state of mind, and it's very difficult to return back when the line has been trepassed. After the A.I coding , you walk all around this world looking for people as they could be represented inside your engine.
And if you code a data structure, you look at every book or object in your bedroom as It could be organized in advanced language... with magical words. Then you do the same looking at the houses of your neighbors. Then you do the same to everything you look at.

This particular state of mind results in your eyes as they were always departed from reality. People became logic units, and you become a bit idiot in their eyes... but they cannot undestand you at all, of course.
The next step is to manipulate the reality, your reality, you feel like if you were a precompiled logic unit inside the program of another , you feel inside the Matrix (tm).

That's your main persistent question, that's the nail in your head! Damn, how it's REAL!

-The Mind is Lost-

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No One Shoots Forever - Trailer !!!

This is small trailer to show the funny " No One Shoots Forever " , a PC videogame . The Game is FREEWARE and fully Downloadable.

Get your Gun and start to shoot to every South Park Boys (blood filter included for children ).

This Game has been drawed and coded by Lord Hol Napult during 2004 / 2005 - all rights reserved -

By Darkness , Code shall Be !!!

What do you play in summertime ?

The summer, the holidays, finally they are coming for everyone !

I go to the sea, as many of you, and everytime I break my last working year I understand new things, I think to my next projects, I extract my last conclusions, and... I Relax (or this should be suppose to happens..).

I think About what !?! About everything of course. Not only videogames or computer, I really like to think to everything, the war, the politics, the sea, the birds, everything.

It's very important for a mind to change point of view, detach the connections, think differently, and whatever you want. I have, of course, some new projects for No One Shoots Forever Too. I don't speak about a second version but... :)

And you, tell me what do you do in your holidays !

by Lord Hol Napult.

The Hero inside...

Videogames, what are they ?
I suppose the best answer is an illusion in which we found ourselves.

Inside a videogame we can became legendary entity with the same purposes we look for in our lives too. Think about the most common videogames : you must kill the enemy, help the reason you believe, and Survive. Probably we are escaping for a while from the sadness of the current times, so colds and so gray. I suppose the main motivation I find to play videogame is to touch new systems ( it doesn't matter the nature they are) exploring and researching and testing if a projiection of myself could be right over there.

In War Titles I like to change the story, in Medieval Rpg's I do the same, but I discover an ancient world too. Inside the Shooter I only look for a blood action to unchain the stress of the day. All this can be done, of course , without offend (or damage) someone or something. That's very good.

..But Sometimes videogames doesn't care about the player and his reaction, his playing (long) sessiong, his capabilities to advance inside the difficultness. I take an heavy sight to the MMORPG because the young generation are completely involved inside of this. Gamewriters should provide an userfull parent tool for time playing limits ! But beyond the videogame there could be the television, and so on.

I suppose , at this point, that videogamers like to be great kings, but they didn't know nothing of nature and mountains around them... they like to be great soldiers, but they didn't do the obligatory military experience anyway... They like to be something they cannot do until they stay over there.The question is : Illusion can cover the "real" Life ? I don't know, MATRIX is a possibility, not a sure projiection....

and So on.. Live the present as a person and play the game as an Hero, but remember that the second is only a less complete illusion than the first :O

Watch below, freedom seems to be lost at this point....
... I suppose to require some holiday.

Ciao
Lord Hol Napult.

Freedom is only an Hallucination

This video is my personal Bootleg for the Anathema Music and it represents the sadness of a society rythmes and the poorness that my life can assume .
I would like to share this as a personal tribute to the band (that I appreciate) and as a personal cry for True Freedom !!!

[The video]
The Trailer has been created by me using some arranged shortcuts obtained going to work in some of my sad days... Nothing inside the movie is referenced to someone or something or have politics intentions. It's only a personal sum of my actual state of life ; nothing more, nothing less...

[Locations included]
Bergamo/Brescia (Italy)

Builder's Heaven - Mainframe 3270 Support Software

I've created a Software while I was waiting Open Layer (...), that is very useful to Mainframe 390 coders who create in Cobol and Easytrieves their programs.

This has not been a very simple task! It took to me a very huge amount of time, because professional software, instead of entertainment software, have rules that cannot be modified and have purposes that cannot be different from the starting idea.

My last application comes with a new site on which I fell very satisfied about the Results !
here it is :
Builder's Heaven - Your Divine Brick for Mainframe Programs_

and a funny forum dedicatet to the Cobol Programming and the other stuff about that....
Forum of Builder's Heaven

I would like to return to game programming now, but , as I said, Open Layer is not supported to Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and I cannot change my development platform now...
So, I must Only wait....

Give some Feedback about the site :) Please!
Ciao

Lord Hol Napult

The VideoGames Today

Today the merchandise for videogame is something I've never though 10 years ago. We have big companies that manipulate and decide for millions of videogamers. They decide what you will play, what you like, they decide if it's time to simulate 1942 again or if it's time to shoot something else. They decide if you must play in this or that war, or if you need a new accelerated card to play the same old things with new graphic.
RTS are in danger too, it's only a question of scripting and background.
Graphic adventures, a little breath for old gamers. The last breath is represented by the MMORPG, but how much they cost ?!? Daddy, pay me again for a month...

There aren't anymore standalone team of development, they die before to born.
There isn't anymore originality inside the code. Only major numbers, bigger spaces, higher detail, and no one use a good idea because they suffocate all that haven't a good merchandise!!

I've thought that there is a retroaction created from the human mind to regret the nature all around us, and to close our eyes in front of many problems... the only requirements: Play what we Say!

They are deciding what we must do in OUR LIFE and HOW !!! Stand Back for a while and watch the thruth beyond the lines of code... like Neo into the Matrix Movie!!

That's all. I'm tired about all of them.

A Tear for my old suffocated Team, The "Genocide Team" 1995/2002 .
Good Night.

Crisis Within

This week I've lost a piece of me , a piece of my family, a piece of my heart.
I hope her Soul will look down into the blasphemy of this f****d world to take care of us and our destiny.

About my previous post the challenge between Mr. Berlusconi and Mr. Prodi, has been won by Prodi , and the happy notice is that the small winning difference has been made by a previous law that Berlusconi made to get some more elections.... the law about the voting outside Italia.
I hope we will return to normality now... I really hope that.

A last news. I've put a PayPal link into the Download Page of NosF. If someone would give 1 euro for the game I will appreciate it very much.