After 24 hours of solid development, we successfully created a Tower Defence game controlled by the Kinect, it was really good fun, especially when testing (although I have to confess it became a pain having to stand up and move 3ft away from the keyboard to test it, so we may have implemented mouse functionality too…).

The game turned out quite nice, with map generation being left out in the end (though we did have forests drawing randomly on parts of the map, they offered nothing to the game), a lot of the art resources were sourced from Lostgarden which were incredibly useful, so massive thanks to them!

I find myself mass revising just two days before an exam, reading as much as I can, as quick as I can, hoping it all sinks into my brain ready for Wednesday afternoon. At least this is how I should be if I wasn’t too relaxed about the whole thing. I never seem to get worried about exams or coursework until the deadline comes really close – sure I find things difficult, but most of the time this doesn’t worry me, it motivates me. The only time I would really be worried is an hour before something is due in and I haven’t done anything for it.

Some people might say it is a bit arrogant that I’m not worried, but those people clearly don’t know me.  My state of mind is simple, why worry about something that is inevitably going to happen? The more you worry the less you focus on the problem and get it done. I am an incredibly laid back person – I’m not denying that. I often leave things late (I’m going to the United States for about 3 months in June, I still don’t have a flight and my visa has only just got back to me). Similarly I’ve just started revision for my exam on Wednesday, and I haven’t even done any revision for my exam on Thursday!

Now this is my secret of why I am laid back, and why I feel comfortable leaving revision to the last minute: Facebook. You might be wondering what the hell I mean by this, so let me elaborate a little. Facebook has the option to talk to your friends whenever you want to, and that conversation can be made public to share with other friends, it is good for organising social events, like nights out, formal meals and day trips to a theme park. It is also good for sharing knowledge.