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Kane and Lynch 2 - officially announced!

Thursday, 19. November 2009, 10:59:43

the first Kane and Lynch game(here's for my post about it) is one of my all time favourite shooters! and now the second one has been confirmed finally .. after all the rumors and teasers

the official site is at http://www.kaneandlynch.com/

. it has the two teasers that had been doing the rounds of the interwebs

for my previous post about the first game go here

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Black Carbon

Wednesday, 18. November 2009, 06:45:18

Black Carbon

A colleague was designing a booklet cover on the subject "Black carbon - India's Achilles Heel".. and we started discussing design ideas for it. i had a feeling that Black Carbon couldn't be just India's problem.. so i googled it, and happened upon this neat little info-graphic video(by StopSoot.org) about how its a worldwide issue. have a look

"Soot, also known as black carbon, is the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and it's totally preventable. We already have the technology to avoid producing it; it's just a matter of using it.
For more information, go to StopSoot.org." -from the original Earthjustice youtube page

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Unreal Development Kit - FREE NOW

Friday, 13. November 2009, 09:30:42

Unreal Development Kit

The UDK Kit is now Free to download! as in you no longer have to buy one of the games it used to come bundled with(like Gears of War PC) The awesome Unreal game engine has been used in the Unreal games as well as other awesome games like Gears of War and Batman:Arkham Asylum.. the UDK kit will theoretically allow anyone to build games of that caliber! heres the launch trailer:

and
heres a Developer Diary about the kit:

The UDK installer is a 562mb file that can be downloaded from various mirrors.. found here at the official UDK site

I put it for download from the mirror on the Nvidia site.. a few days back.. but due to constant interruptions it only finished last night. I tried it out this morning. basically it looks like a simplified version of a standard 3d modelling program like 3ds max or blender.. which means that unless you'r already comfortable using "visually-complex" interfaces.. you're going to have a tough time with this. so far have been able to load up the demo level ,move things around..run it.. havn't actually created any original content yet.. will have to work on this over the weekend.. heres what it looks like: it opens with this welcome screen

after going through all the tabs i decided that i needed to come back later after reading some documentation.. the level visible is dark.. and well theres only one object in it.. so no point doing much here other than clicking the lil "play in viewport" button

this lets you play the level.. which in this case amounts to just shooting your gun's blue glowy ammo into the dark.. So I opened the demo level.. and tadaa!

and now if you press the "play in viewport" button

you can actually play the little level.. basically you can walk around.. drive one of the vehicles.. fire its weapons.. go up the elevator.. onto the landing.. plant a bomb on a wall and blow it away.. then walk in and trigger a cinematic that brings in a NPC robot dude.. you can shoot up this dude. I have been able to change some of the collision behaviours on the objects.. will have to spend some time on the docs now.

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My google location!

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 06:15:06

My google location!

to get yours, you need to be a google lattitude user first. If you already are go here

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My New Ultra-Portable

Thursday, 5. November 2009, 09:17:34

My New Ultra-Portable, sketchbook, colour pencils

my dell's 9 cell battery had a good 2yr run.. but now its dying and needs to be replaced.. something that's currently out of my budget

. This and other developments at work like a new workstation for me, has led me to leave the notebook at home and use it only for gaming,browsing,videos etc.. while i'm at home. While on the move i always had my trusty htc pharos for quick doodles, now i've decided to carry something with a larger screen

its got a large hirez screen with sensitivity to over 30000 pressure levels(wacom's best tablets have a lot less)

the screen is non reflective, anti glare and the texture is just awesome for sketching! The open source OS it uses has a boot time of 0seconds

(try and beat that mac OS and Win7)! The hardware is incredibly easy to upgrade. it weighs only a few grams, And best of all its solar powered!!

Oh and did i mention, it hasn't crashed on me even once! heres the first few sketches

robo bird sketch by ~chaitanyak on deviant ART

tank sketch by ~chaitanyak on deviant ART

persp1 by ~chaitanyak on deviant ART

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Idea cellular has some ridiculous "ideas"

Tuesday, 27. October 2009, 12:38:33

idea cellular, roaming problems

mailto: grievance.kar@idea.adityabirla.com
mailto:appellate.kar@idea.adityabirla.com

hi,
ive been an idea postpaid customer for a few months now.
name: chaitnya krishnan
Idea mob: 9844044048
the reason i switched from prepaid to postpaid is so i could avail of all the "advantages" of having a postpaid cnnection.. unfortunately its been far from that.

i have been highly dissatisfied since then. especially with your roaming service..

for example i am currently in delhi, i got here on sunday and my mobile is still not getting connected to any network!

last time this happened when i went to hyderabad and you guys told me to submit a request in writing- on a physical paper form! i did that and it worked.. i had the roaming service enabled while i was in hyderabad and kodaikanal... so what happened this time?

do i have keep coming to your outlets and filling out forms each and every time i have to leave town? sounds like a pretty dumb "idea" to me..

i hope you fix this and enable my roaming asap.. or i promise you i'l just switch over to a simple hassle free prepaid connection on airtel or vodaphone, etc..

yours truely, an extremely dissatisfied idea customer
--
chaitanya krishnan
Interaction Warrior and Space Bender

ph: 91 9844044048
mail: me@chaitanyak.com
personal: www.chaitanyak.com
official: www.flipdesign.in

please think about the environment before you print this out,
and only print if absolutely necessary. And if you do print it out... I hope you feel a little guilty that you contributed to the death of a poor innocent tree.

UPDATE::
5min after sending that mail, my phone's connected to the network and I'm updating this post from it

I also got a couple of calls from Idea Cellular, checking if I was happy now.

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Astroboy is looking awesome!!

Thursday, 22. October 2009, 08:43:25

sf, Astroboy is looking awesome!! io9, science fiction, astroboy

Never really watched this show until last year when i ended up designing a small micro site(not online anymore) for a asian network channel that was airing the old show... was a fun experience, and i was looking forward to see this movie.

From the trailer above and the stills and concept art below, its obviously going to be awesome!

For more about the movie, read this in depth article over at io9.com my favourite online resource on SF.

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The Zune desktop app is cool!

Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 05:47:18

mix view, The Zune desktop app player is cool

Been using the zune desktop player for a month now

. Basically coz i hate the way itunes thinks it owns my files

... anyway, its a light weight player, that doesn't use up too much of the system's memory resources.. and has some visually and functionally interesting features.

these are the 3 features i like best:
#1
it takes the old album art concept (that almost all media players support these days) and makes it so cool! it gets all these band/artist photos and does a nice dynamic slideshow.. with overlay text and all..great for those parties where you play music off of your computer.. and are tired of the old visualisations.

see the video for more of that

#2
its got a nice thing called "mixview" where it displays a mosaic of connections to other artists, albums, and fans - all in relation to the track your listening to currently.

#3
by cicking the little "i" icon you can instantly get loads of Album info, including reviews and stuff

The software doesnt have a lot of the feature we've gotten used to with other players, but then in the month that i've been using it.. i havn't missed em

and i'm not even a Zune fan! well not until i see it do some serious gaming anyway...
for now i just wait and hope for a version of this app for the windows mobile platform.

meantime if you want to give it a whirl, click here

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welcome to your Studio

Monday, 19. October 2009, 04:52:47

welcome to your Studio, contest

Dell has this ongoing contest thing called "welcome to your Studio" the prize is Rs. 50,000($1080.61) + a Dell Studio 15 Artist Edition Laptop*!

i submited a bunch of my designs..and a few even got past the "selection" process.. no reasons were given for the ones that were rejected.. like

soo anyhoo..

the others are available for voting, if you have a few minutes to burn, just go ahead and put yourself through the ridiculously tedious vote submission process and vote for me

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planted tank

Sunday, 18. October 2009, 16:36:18

aquarium, planted tank

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after the goldfish "passed on" we decided to keep plant friendly fish, and have a fully planted tank.. i know there are much prettier tanks out there.. this is just our first attempt at maintaining live plants.

and we're quite happy with the results so far

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chaitanyak
2009-10-26 03:28:03

thanks
persianweblog
2009-10-22 08:50:55

Nice Page !
chaitanyak
2009-06-04 11:13:02

thanks
thangduybo
2009-05-28 16:38:37

some of ya nice sketch
chaitanyak
2009-04-09 12:15:19

its a free 3d modeling, animation and game production software thats as good as the "proffessional" expensive ones out there
thangduybo
2009-04-06 15:00:05

what is blender 3d