De vakantie loopt op z'n einde, maar ik heb alvast een nieuwe werk afleider gevonden voor tijdens het huiswerk vanaf volgende week...

Met name Trackamnia. Trackmania is een race-spel die echt lijkt als je aan de start bent, maar vanaf je de eerste meters voorbij bent zie je al snel obtakels die niet meer realistisch zijn. Toch is het spel superfijn om te spelen, en zeer verslavend...

Je speelt online tegen een hele comunity van meer dan 1 miljoen over de hele wereld, iets meer dan 40 000 in België, en ik nog eens tegen meer dan 5000 in Oost-Vlaanderen...

Als je het ook wil spelen kan je het via deze link downloaden.

En je kan me dan altijd toevoegen als vriend: ik ben Froy74 in the game ;)

Este é um daqueles games que é pura adrenalina, pistas totalmente loucas, os carros literalmente voam nas pistas, um jogo on-line de tirar o fôlego, e o melhor que é gratuito e em português. Com carros velozes, corridas espetaculares, TrackMania Nations Forever vem tomando o gosto dos jogadores pelo mundo todo. O download gratuito pode ser feito no site Baixaki. mais...

The last time I updated my blog was on June 27th....(those happy days when I was enjoying at my home :))....its not that i forgot my blog address or password :P...after coming back to Chennai...after July 14th....nothing really happened which I can write in my blog(though rarely anyone come to my blog other than Mr. Ishan Manjrekar)... :(

ummm...talking about my lakhon-main-ek-college...we got a project of making/creating a game...yeah making a game...I think I came to this college to study Game Development..but hey I am making a game (actually my team is making a game excluding me :D ) after studying

1. Principles of Design (was a mixture of craps and bullsh**s)

2. Basic of C (...the programming language)...we didn't studied C++ in college because of some reasons (can't write that right now...wait for June 2010 :) )

in first year...but at last, thanks to some good hard working people (lol...dont count me), the game will be finished in a week or two...

...will try to upadate the blog more often (read once in 2-3 months...since I'm sooooooo busy...blame Trackmania...and my internet connection)

PS: btw my college faculty has also been bitten by the bug of Trackmania....ROFL

About two Christmases ago, I asked for a computer. I was falling off of the whole computer gaming scene and I desperately wanted to pull up from hanging on the cliff. I didn't think my parents would give in to my request, though. I wouldn't have minded if they just gave me money. Or, that pony that Santa never gave me that one Christmas. Pretty sad about that one.

But my parents pulled through on this one. The video lag ceased. There was no more crashing. No longer would I have to blame lost CAL matches on the inadequacy of my rig, because I could see that it wasn't lag that killed me but that I actually missed. Imagine that. Crazy talk.

On a side-note, I usually game it up in: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, the Half-Life 2 episodes, Trackmania Forever, and Solitaire. Yeah, anyone who picks up Solitaire is pretty hardcore on my list. That's whassup. I don't really game anymore, though. It's recreation now, not life.

One of the main things about my setup is that it runs hot. The motherboard is the Asus P5NSLI, with dual GeForce 8500 GT (economy cards, I know), duo-core Pentium D's at 3.80 gHz, and my feet next to it. My room is the warmest in the house because of my computer. Regardless of season, I'm pretty toasty.

Because it runs hot, it has a tendency to stop working. It's rather inconvenient. When I need the internet the most, it fails to connect. When I need to go on AIM, it gets stuck on verifying the username. When I try to restart when these problems come up, I get a black screen that says, "DISK BOOT ERROR. PLEASE INSERT BOOT DISK."

I don't even have a floppy to put in the boot disk.

Anthony compared it to a person, how it gets hot and too worn and just shuts down. It made a lot of sense to me.

You know, I've had a lot of things on my mind lately. As I've picked up leadership of the Bible study, started worrying about classes in the Fall quarter, cringing at book prices, become apprehensive of the classes that I'm going to take, preparing for the renovation of our house and the amount of things we need to move out of here, thinking of getting a job, and looking to the future that what is to come, these bricks have stacked and enclosed my mind in fear and doubt.

Unlike my computer, I'm not prone to shutting down when things get hot. I'll sweat it out. But, that just makes it more dangerous for it to happen to me. I can't afford it happening. I don't want it to happen. Therefore, I avoid it.

I know I'm not a machine. But with the way things are falling into place, I don't see any other way of handling it. Mechanically and nonchalantly. Risking the breakdown while trying to break through the wall.

It reminds me of sitting up front in a movie theater. As the projector runs, I can't understand anything that is on the screen. I see flashing lights, moving lines, pixels, and an array of different colors. Objects are moving too fast to catch with the mind. The dialogue and soundtrack are so close to your face that you don't need gel for your hair to stand up. It's pretty chaotic.

I need to get a seat higher up in row.

I need to just relax and get the whole picture in my sight.

The Bible says,

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own (Matthew 6:34 NIV)

The further I dwell into the future, the closer I get to the picture. The more jumbled things become. Things become so complicated and intricate that one would become completely entangled in doubt.

Get a seat in the middle rows and enjoy the show.

In sostanza è un gioco di gare automobilistiche arcade nel quale vedremo la nostra auto eseguire manovre eccezzionali impossibili nella vita reale.

E' veramente ben fatto a parer mio, soprattutto per essere gratuito.

Nel sito dell'autore viene indicato che sono state scaricate più di 40'000 copie.

Il gioco è abbastanza leggero quindi basta poco per provarlo.Andiamo sul sito:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/maniadrive/ManiaDrive-1.2-linux-i386.tar.gz?download

ed effettuiamo il download che durerà più o meno mezz'ora.

Una volta ottenuto il file estraiamolo.

Ci troveremo di fronte questi file:

Per avviare il gioco basterà avviare quello denominato mania_drive.sh

While many are adopting to a new generation of sci-fi and street racing genre, us traditional gamers still prefer to stick with the try and proven formula for the generic racers. Trackmania nations would be just what many is looking for, a true down to the earth arcade racing game thats free of charge. Players can fully customize their race cars in this modern day stunt/speed racer and race in 100 solo levels, and theres always the options of going online to compete with players all over the globe. While i can't say this game would be the best of its category, from what i've gathered, it sure is close to the top in terms of visual, audio and overall gameplay, if not exceeding those of commercial titles.

TrackMania Nations Forever is a fast-paced in your face racing game that will have you doing loops and corkscrews all night long.

There are three different activities that you can choose in TrackMania.

Play Solo where you test your speed and control to achieve the fastest time possible and win Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medals. These medals you acquire give you tokens which improve your Medals World Ranking (comparing you to your individual state, nation, as well as the rest of the world). Faster Times = Better Medals = More Tokens = Better Ranking. There are five difficulties in Solo Play starting with White being the easiest to Green, Blue, Red, and Black being the hardest. Total Solo Play has 65 different tracks. Fifteen per each difficulty, excluding Black which only has five. Since the majority of the tracks are relatively short you should be able to beat Solo Play within a day. The real challenge will be getting Gold on each track.

Play Online is where the true value of TrackMania Nations Forever is. You will be able to join servers to race against people from all across the world. Now while the gameplay will remain the same as Play Solo it is more fun to be racing against real people rather than racing against a set time. One significant addition that Online Play has over Solo Play is that there are hundreds of custom tracks that are created by other players and can be a blast to play.

Play Party is similar to the first two, except it is intended for Local Area Network play. Play Online is easily the best activity out of the three, because you can race against people internationally on custom tracks and pwn n00bs.

TrackMania Nations Forever also has several user friendly Editor Options. You can create your own tracks from scratch or edit any pre-existing tracks. While there is only one car model you can edit the colors, apply stickers, and add textures to personalize it. You can edit replays as well as even edit your horn!

The overall interface is clean and easy to navigate. The controls are incredibly easy to learn. The graphics are standard, not too spectacular but nice. The audio gets the job done. I’d recommend this to anyone, except those who have motion sickness. One of the best racing games I’ve ever played. Oh and it’s legally free! Here's the link so you may install and enjoy this masterpiece. http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=11020

Music: 'Flower' by Moby.

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Този път рекорда е на играта TrackMania Nations Forever (която е напълно безплатна, повече инфо тук) и се състой в това, че 250 човека са се състезавали едновременно на една писта (онлайн) ;)

Повече инфо:
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حالا چجوری سرگرم بشیم؟! 

این بازی TrackMania Nations Forever رو دانلود و نصب کنید ...

http://files.trackmaniaforever.com/t...ever_setup.exe

حجم : 500 مگابایت

توضیحات:

این بازی برای همه رایگان هست...
اگر نسخه های قبلی رو قبلا بازی کرده باشید میدونید که مثل ماشین سواری های عادی نیست
از در و دیوار بالا میرید ، بیشتر رو هوا هستید تا رو زمین ، خلاصه فقط مهارت رانندگی نمیتونه کمکتون کنه...

بالای 200 مپ مسابقه داره که بصورت آفلاین میتونید بازی کنید و حتما نباید آنلاین بشید !
ولی حال اصلیش توی آنلاین بازی کردن هست...
حتی با کارت گرافیکی geforce 4 هم میتونید بازی کنید فقط باید shader رو توی تنظیماتش غیر فعال کنید...

ویژگی ها:

شما میتونید یک کشور رو انتخاب کنید ( حتما ایران رو انتخاب کنید تا تو یه گروه بیفتیم و با هم بازی کنیم...) تا در بازی پرچم اون کشور بر روی ماشنیتون نقش ببنده...
latency بالا تاثیری توی بازی نداره ، یعنی سرعت پایین نمیاد، چون رکورد ها مجزا حساب میشه
ولی اگر سرعتتون خیلی پایین باشه ماشین ها اطراف رو یکم دیرتر یا تو هوا یا ثابت میبینید!

من با Adsl 128 مزخرف با latency بالای 400-500 آسیاتک مجلی از این لحاظ نداشتم...
با 64 کیلیوبیت هم میتونید بازی کنید...

نکته بعدی اینه که میتونید خودتون یک مپ بسازید و بقیه join بشن و توش مسابقه بدن ...
شیوه کار هم راحته... بازی رو نصب کنید ، یه نام کاربری رجیستر کنید و ایران رو کشورتون انتخاب کنید...
میتونید پروفایلتون رو تغییر بدین و ماشینتون رو رنگ کنید تا از بقیه مجزا بشه...
(فقط روش فحش ننویسید! )
باید بیاید و مسابقه بدیم کل بندازیم...
گرافیک بازی فوق العاده هست...
این نسخه جدید هم که خیلی سبک و خوش دست شده...

مپ های خفنی هم اضافه شده...
کسانی هم که توی گروه خودمون (ایران) مدال بیارن تو رکورد آنلاینشون ثبت میشه و اگر جزو رتبه های بالا باشن میتونن به مسابقات نهایی جهانی راه پیدا کنن...

از لحاظ سرور شدن هم مجلی نیست ، هر کسی متونه سرور بشه و بقیه بهش کانکت بشن...
در هر حال تو رانندگی فرمول یک کل همتون جلوی من خوابیدس ...
البته چیزی از ارزش های شما کم نمیشه...

اینم ماشین من :دی

آقایونِ پایه ، همینجا آیدی هاشون رو اعلام کنن تا Add کنیم و یه زمانی بگذاریم هر روز باهم مسابقه بدیم...

اطلاعات بیشتر

So last night I was thinking to myself that I need to get to bed early, but then it was approaching one in the morning when I suddenly wanted a quick go with the advanced editor.  A load of screwing around with superboosters on massive ramps; and finding ways of catapulting myself outside of the track's stadium for exploration later, I decide to quit and check the time, and it turns out I'd pissed away two hours to realise it was three o'clock.  Goddamn.  From this I decided I couldn't be bothered trying to get to sleep, thus staying up all night and having a couple of hours' sleep in the morning, missing my brass lesson and staying in bed with the laptop on next to me, my glasses on, and drifting in and out of sleep until I barely had a clue what the hell I just happened the last few hours.  In other words, I've became so hooked on Trackmania that it's fucked up my sleeping again, which is the first time an actual game has done this to me for quite some time.  This is pretty much my bag, though, since I used to be a massive trackfag and Formula One fan until the start of middle school.  I was obsessed with the thought of making my own complex, undulating tracks to race around, so I guess this harks back to those days of childish creativity over more geekish things, only this time it's more real.

Football
Yippe...its Euro 08 and the final is on Sunday...(btw on Monday in India)...and its GERMANY vs SPAIN...
and what about the semifinal between Germany and Turkey...that was one of the best matchof the tournament...and especially the winner by Philipp Lahm...that was _magic_ ... though the second semifinal was quite one sided...Spain winning easily against Russia..though the assist by Cesc Febregas (2nd goal) was awesome... so waiting for the final...

So who is going to win the Euro 08?????
Lets use Probability(which I studied in class 12th)....
No. of teams: 2 (Germany and Spain)
No. of trophy(s): 1 (Euro 08 )
probability of Germany winning Euro08: 1/2
probability of Spain winning Euro08: 1/2
whoa....so since their is a deadlock...and both have the same chance...I'm going to support.....THE REFREE(cheers) :P .....and wish that he lifts the prestigious European Championship Trophy....

Tennis
Its Wimbledon time and Sania back in action after wrist operation and four weeks rest...though she was not in her best form...winning the first round in 3 sets but the second round match....after losing first 8 games in the match...she made a awesome comeback and  even got four matchpoint...and now she's out of Championships...though feels bad for her :( ....but salute her fighting spirit...

Cricket
zzZZzzZZ

sorry that i slept while writing my post...sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry.......

oops slept again and had my hand on CTRL and C....btw that was "Cricket Syndrome".....

So looking forward to the Euro Cup Final and my latest craze...Trackmania Online(158th this evening)...

well nothing _really_ happened cuz i'm too busy in watching Euro08, Wimbledon and playing Trackmania United...promise to write a new post when these three ends!!!

kiyaslayip indexliyor.. Devasa bir algoritma olmali.. düsünün biz 5-10 sieye hakim olamazken adam milyarlarca sayfayi indexleyip degerlendirme altina aliyor. ve bunlara PR degerleri bile verebiliyor..

sizce google bu kadar siteye nasil hakim?

I didn't know where to post it so i decided this topic would be one of the best.. Some people from Tmn often asking me "How are you doing that kind of smilies" So Here is all smilies i know If you need/wants them

Trackmania is known for providing what it should and nothing more and nothing less. The graphics are very fair , and doesn't require a uber-pc to run it. Though it does look just as if it is run by one.
The DS version will include a comprehensive trackbuilder with a claimed more than 100 "blocks". The trailer suggests that creating a track will require the aid of the stylis. I see no problem at all with that. I'm getting tired of using a mouse and keyboard for gaming pleasure and using the stylis will only increase the fun level of the game.

The screenshot looks vague but it seems like it is following in the trackmania nations footsteps.

Anyway, it's time to break pseudoanonymity a bit. I am a tLegion admin, which means that I'm a Christian, I'm a gamer, and I help to run LAN parties where we (the admins) meet gamers in our area and try to build friendships with them, both in person and on our forums. Ultimately, the purpose of tLegion is to lead gamers to Christ. (Hey look, I figured out how to make a link in the middle of a block of text. What you do is you don't left justify it.)

What does this have to do with Trackmania? Well, at some point in the future, we plan on writing game reviews from a Christian perspective to put up on our website, and I decided I might as well start practicing writing reviews for games now. I realise that the whole "Christian reviews" thing has been done before, on several websites, but I feel we could be a bit less conservative.

So, Trackmania Nations Forever.

When Nadeo released Trackmania Nations, it was rather exciting. While it lacked the puzzle, platform and stunt modes of Trackmania Sunrise Extreme before it, it was a game designed around worldwide competition, and was in fact, made especially for the Electronic Sports World Cup. It was fast, it was fun, and crazily enough, it was free.

But compared to Sunrise, it felt a bit lacking, and I think that was due to the lack of the puzzle and stunt modes. But this was fair enough considering it was free, and Trackmania United came along soon after to remedy this (which of course, was a game you had to pay for).

But now we have Nations Forever (TMNF) and United Forever (TMUF), both free and paid for respectively. Again, you get the normal single and multiplayer racing game in TMNF, and you get more default tracks by Nadeo, puzzle, platform, and stunt modes and to be honest, I'm not sure what else in TMUF, because I haven't played it. But that's ok, because we're looking at TMNF here.

Nadeo's tracks in TMNF are well designed, and range from the simple beginning tracks, to the incredibly difficult, ridiculously fast tracks, the acrobatic tracks, and the multi-lap tracks (appropriately named "endurance"). The controls feel a bit tighter than in TMN, and this alone, makes me feel like I'm playing Sunrise again (and that's definately a good thing). One gripe though is some of the odd requirements to unlock some tracks like "Add a player to your buddy list," or "Challenge another player by link or by file." The latter took me ages to work out what it meant, turns out when you finish a track in single player, you can click on the "challenge" button, from where you can save a file which contains your track ghost data, which you can send to a friend to challenge them, which is actually a nice feature, once you notice it's existence.

One great thing about TMNF (and TMUF I hear) is that you can play tracks from TMN, TMU, and TMUF in the one game. This means that people don't have to modify the great tracks they made for these previous games to play them now.

Gameplay is fairly simple. Drive around the track, go through every checkpoint, and cross the finish line before your opponents do. What sets the Trackmania series apart from other racing games is that crazy stunts are normally required to finish the track, including jumps, loop the loops, and driving along curved walls to get to your destination. Effectively, Trackmania is the evolution of a very old racing game named Stunts.

Graphics wise, TMNF is stunning, if you have a powerful enough machine. I've seen the game running on a quad core PC at maximum settings, with no frame rate loss at all. Personally, on my rather dodgy Athlon XP 3200+ and Nvidia GeForce 5900 (yeah, really old), the game runs fairly nicely at medium settings, still looks great, and only has frame rate issues when there are *lots* of track pieces being rendered, as well as several opponent vehicles, and still looks very pretty at these settings. Initially, I was surprised that my PC could handle the game at all. The 3D glasses setting is a great idea, unfortunately I haven't gotten a hold of a pair yet to play around with this properly, but I have noticed there is a small frame rate hit when you turn it on (as expected).

Online play is where the game really excels. Lag isn't too much of an issue, because vehicles cannot collide in this game, so everyone is attempting to get the best time. There's a few different multiplayer modes, including Time Attack, Rounds, Laps, and Tournament, but Time Attack is the simplest (and I'd say the best). There is an online ranking system, based on your ladder points, which you score for defeating people on a track with a higher rank than you (though not always, there's probably several factors involved). There's been a few times where it says that my time is invalid for some reason, I suspect this is due to the odd network congestion.

Track editing can be simple or difficult, depending on how complicated you want to make your track. You can even edit the textures for the track, and add sound effects at various points, force particular camera angles in specific parts of the track, add a fly by mode (very handy on complicated tracks), and even add an MP3 to replace the default music. Nice.

Vehicle editing basically allows you to paint your vehicle. That's it. There's some decals and so forth, but unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to make your own decals, or to apply a texture you already have to the vehicle model. Not a major problem though.

The one major gripe I have with the game, isn't really a problem with the game itself, but the players who create tracks. Because all textures can be edited, you'll find the odd billboard in custom tracks with almost naked women in suggestive poses on them (and yes, I still consider "almost naked" to be porn). There's also the odd track with music with some rather terrible lyrics. Again, not a problem with the game, but the fan base itself.

All in all, Trackmania Nations Forever is a brilliant game. It may not be an overly complicated game with incredible story and intriguing plot twists (which I like in my games a lot), but it does exactly what it sets out to do, and that is to be a fast, crazy, and incredibly fun (and addictive) game, that people across the entire world will play against each other. That is quite an achievement, and I dare say that TMNF is a perfect game. Add to that the fact that it's free anyway, and there's really not much reason why you shouldn't at least give it a go.

So, if TMNF is a perfect game, TMUF must be mind blowing right? Perhaps one day I'll get around to buying it to find out.

Schliesslich ist das hier keine Revolution des Gamedesigns.

Ja, Trackmania ist ein Erfolg wegen seines Leveleditors und ja, Metaplace wird auch ein Erfolg wegen seiner Vielfältigkeit.

Aber wo bitte schön ist der Unterschied zu einer Doom-Map die ich erstellt habe? Wo ist der Unterschied zu dem Leveleditor den ich Anfang der 90er in meinen Breakout Clone programmiert habe? Ok, wir hatten kein Internet, oder besser gesagt, wir hatten kein WWW aber per Mailbox verteilten sich diese Dinge fast so schnell wie heutzutage.

Man schaue sich nur Facebook an, so viel Müll und generischer Käse auf einen Haufen, die 1000ste Portierung irgend einer Browsergames, welches sich nur durch seinen Namen von den anderen unterscheidet, genau das wird uns bei Metaplace erwarten.

Das erschreckende ist, je weniger Freiheit ich dem User gebe seinen "User generated Content" zu estellen, desdo besser wird er. Jedoch bleibt dann nur ein Leveleditor über, den wir auch schon vor 20 Jahren hatten ;)