Little Notes from Cynical Felix

Very Confusing

2008-06-01T23:50:00.001-07:00

Many of problems, accidents, unsolved projects drove me to unsuspected situation, so I was so confused.

Anyway, our *successful* MT(Membership Training) was finished yesterday.

It was great. =)

Icon Designing

2008-05-24T09:09:00.001-07:00

And it sucks.

SF Movies

2008-05-16T15:25:00.001-07:00

Yeah, I love the SF movies just like Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey. But, you know, when we talk about the scientific entertainments, nobody can miss Philip K. Dick.

I've watched many SFs, but recently, I realized there were a lot of his stories of him in my movie list – Total Recall, Blade Runner, Screamers, Impostor, Next, A Scanner Darkly. (There is no Minority Report, because I hate Steven.)

Anyway, his entire work was sweet in spite of poor adaption to the movies, the themes were impressive and the endings were drastic. So I cannot avoid becoming a huge fan.

Finished!

2008-05-14T12:18:00.001-07:00

http://www.storyberry.com/japan_event - Event main page

I've learned many things from this project, and I'll talk about it later (maybe after the event)

Almost done!

2008-05-14T05:21:00.001-07:00

The Storyberry Event Page – which is my first official web design work – will open 0'o clock 5/15, about 3 hours after.

Thanks to everyone for the many ideas and feedbacks.

Math in games

2008-05-13T07:45:00.001-07:00

I have to study the mathematics for the variable reasons - because of the absence of Mathematics Reference Book for the Game Balance System.

All those variables, functions are making me sick. Eeeck!

Bought another book

2008-05-11T08:39:00.001-07:00

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Finally, I bought the book I wanted.

Almost done!

2008-05-09T09:22:00.001-07:00

Concept > Design Documentation > Development > Debug > Concept Changed > Damn it! > Development > 1^st Meeting > Brief > Design Changed > What the… > UI Design > Delayed > Development > Debug > Design Changed (again) > Rebuild Concept Documentation > Development > Almost done!

This time, I learned about many things – such as drawing icons and buttons, but the most important lesson from this project was team working. It's really hard, even though there are only three men…

No time for design

2008-05-07T05:29:00.001-07:00

Concept documentation for new function: About 2 hours

Concept design for new function with Excel: About 2 days

Do I have to practise a skill to UI designing? But the only thing I need is designer!

Bought some books

2008-05-05T07:42:00.001-07:00

Fingerprints of the God

Beginner's Guide to the World Economy

Too Many Cooks

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

Atlas Shrugged

What a Wonderful Day

2008-05-02T02:40:00.001-07:00

Company Groupware has been opened.
Great Soju Party of Madness was finished. The result was…
New development project started.
Self-review time. Checked my old postings, and a lot spam was there.

What a wonderful start! This month will be the May of war. Anyway, I'll keep posting my stories.

Flex-time dilemma

2008-04-30T06:58:00.001-07:00

We have an agreement for our working hours. It is because of our situation, we are students, so we have to do with our studies.

Anyway, some of our employees have flexible schedule, so they can woke up late, and work overnight. This looks cool to somebody who works at formal company – but the thing is, it's not that convenient. We also have strict rules for our project due, and team meeting (except me,) and the other schedule, but we cannot control each other's time schedule.

It's good to be free, but we have to control for it. And it is even harder to being passive.

Learning from Emotion

2008-04-29T11:55:00.001-07:00

To be honest, I'm using intensive motions and words for the conversation with my boss. We have very aggressive feedbacks for ourselves – that's because IT IS IMPORTANT. On the other hand, anyway, I really don't want to be burnout for the emotional dealings with my team mate. I have fate with them, and I know we are taking enough influence each other. That's why I'm talking easily and comfortably.

Today's dialogue was uncomforted with me. It was filled with full of anger, fury, and rage. Finally, I understood what I hypostatized is not important. I had to communicate and instruct with them; even they know my plans.

I have to work harder for not to make this kind of situation again. Not again.

Rewinding and Playing

2008-04-28T13:42:00.001-07:00

Now I'm reading my old stories from my Korean blog. Sometimes, it seem as letters to me, and finally I can understand what I have tried to do, what I have done, and what I really need.

Some of it makes me sad, because of my misunderstanding guided me to bad results. But I know that becomes a great experience, for now. Yeah. My life continues.

Anyway, my regretful life reaches at the serious point. Can I change everything? Nobody will know.

A Hungry Start-up Venture Company Employee’s Monologue

2008-04-27T03:14:00.001-07:00

Is there no company supporting new, fresh seed-level venture with the foods and beverages for getting 1% of stock?

Newbie need caffeine (like Coke and Redbull), fast food (we need meat and grass, that's all)!!

The Way to Improve the Searching Keyword

2008-04-26T04:50:00.001-07:00

We, the Storyberry team, had a meeting for our service about three hours. From the conversation, the key points of main issues were come out, and we spend whole time for the solution. And yeah, we found the solution (maybe!)

But the thing is another one. I suggested Wiki function - Tag Redirection for the Search Engine Reliability - for SNS development which has the most important advantage for contents provider, just like us.

So this week, I've to design the concept, so I could post about the idea, when I'm done.

Overnight Survivor, my first game project

2008-04-24T12:46:00.001-07:00

A few months ago, I've started CGSBP (Creating Games with StoryBerry Platform) Project. This was business-scaled project, but also one of my objectives.

In February 17^th, I posted first news of the very first game development plan, "Overnight Survivor!", and I made up a team for this work. Finally the three guys (Kalito, Timur, and I) took the role and started to try to make something new. Timur has made the BGM of "Overnight Survivor!" I made documents about the main concept idea, and Kalito gave many of ideas with his experienced career.

And I spent the time about three months with nothing. There were papers from my classes, exams, tasks from my Service Design Team of STORYBERRY… But hey, I have time to enjoy the Peggle!

Well, the time is coming. Two days ago, I made the Introduction of "Overnight Survivor!" Game System. The game is based on web, so it have to be enjoyable – which means SHORT, on the online world – and that means I can make the gold fast.

After the gold goes to world, I will gladly share the full-story of the first CGSBP Project. Also all of this will be the great experience to me, and my team, though.

I've just started my new blog

2008-04-24T11:56:00.000-07:00

Yeah, this is isdead - who's running isdead: The Cynical Felix blog for a long time. And also, a lot of my friends from Korea will know about my Korean, Japanese blogs on the web.

But I have no place to talk about my life, and my works on English, so I've just started my another English blog for myself.

Anyway, on this blog, I'll write down several issues from my study, work, and my feeds from diffrent languages (may the Korea-related issues are on the high priority.)

I'm always awaiting feedbacks from my friends, and newcomers, but not the spammer. =)