I have updated the Steam Signature maker hell of a lot during these couple of days. I almost completely rewrote it to use Xml parsing this time instead of the sucky HTML parsing it was using before (didn’t even know Steam gave users community pages as Xml). Now you can either use your Steam community id (the name you have assigned yourself from the Steam Community options, can be identified by the url being like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/) or the profile number (can be identified by the url being like this: http://steamcommunity.com/profile/).
The script now also indicates if you are playing a game (picture 1), just online (picture 2), or offline (picture 3).
It will also detect if your profile is private and write a message to indicate that in to the picture.
Oh and one more thing! I am accepting all kinds of backgrounds the script could use, they just need to have the same dimensions as the one currently in use has and the text has to fit to exactly the same spot.
That’s right! And it’s already in a public beta. You can use the UI yourself by participating to the beta from Steam settings. I’ll give you a quick tour with screenshots.
Use this imagebrowser to see the screenshots. Click picture for a bigger one.
Now that I have made it away from my WoW addiction, I can start focusing on other interesting games. One being the pretty new Bioshock 2. After playing the original Bioshock I was really craving for more Rapture. The underwater city that was impossible to be built anywhere else was so immerse and full of little details that it really got me hooked. The interesting way to tell the story with diaries of Raptures residents and very neat storyline kept the game interesting untill the end.
I had hardly heard anything about Bioshock 2 and didn’t even know that the main character would be a Big Daddy. After couple of minutes of gameplay you receive your first plasmid and instantly notice the fact that you can keep weapon in right hand, AND use plasmid with the left hand! This is such a big improvement from the original Bioshock and this made playing even more enjoyable. The story in this game is very interesting also, setting it’s place in a time after the original Bioshock, where Andrew Ryan is dead and someone named Sofia Lamb is in charge. This Lamb-lady has stolen your little sister so you have to go and kick some ass to get her back.
There are numerous differencies in this game and the first Bioshock. Examples of good ones being the possibility to get special things to weapons after you have upgraded them twice, a little note telling you the code to a code-lock if you have seen or heard the code before and the research camera being replaced with a video camera. One of the annoying differencies is the way collecting adam is handled. You have to find a little sister, kill its Big Daddy and take the sister for a ride. When you find a body filled with adam you lay the sister down and defend her against a endless wave of splicers untill the adam harvesting is complete. This part takes annoyingly long and is just very boring. And you will be doing it a lot. You will be needing the adam in the end when you want to get some of those new upgraded plasmids that cost damn much.
Overally this game is even better than the original Bioshock so I suggest you buy this great game and see the story for yourself. I am not going to spoil any of it!
Just received the cash and gave the guy my authenticator 15 minutes ago and damn I feel fine. Now I finally might have time to start doing some of those coding projects I have wanted to do!
No we are not talking about the movie about Michael Jackson. This is about me quitting WoW for good. Recently I have started to figure how much money and time I have put in that game and realized that I could be spending my time much better. My substriction runs out end of this month and that will be the last one I will be ever paying. Should probably sell my account to get something back of the time I have spent on that game.
So yeah, didn’t make it through the semi-finals in the competition. Well none of the guys from my school made it and one of them had been in the finals two times.
So what else has happened? I reinstalled my Windows 7 and it feels lot faster. I also switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome. This is rather nice browser, but it is missing an adblock addon similiar to the one in Firefox.
So I had a big website project for a competition. I had to create a website for a skating team that had index with list of the members and a video of them skating. That was the easy part. Then I had to create an admin panel where admin can add/delete/modify members and events and where members or the admin can modify whetever a member can make it to an event. Making this took a while and while doing it I learned lots of new things.
On the other news, I am back playing WoW with my warrior I leveled. Healing with my druid become quite boring after a while (year) and I decided to try on tanking. Now I have a very good geared tank warrior to go to Icecrown Citadel with. Been clearing 10man with my guild and 25man with pugs. Here is a pic of my warrior and my custom UI (made by me, idea from tankspot).
Probably not the kind of player you think I ment, but she is awesome. So young and plays like an expert. Was bored and spent a long time singing by myself listening to her playing (only time I can sing is when I am alone, since my singing voice is so horrible).
Oh and I also am taking part in a competition where I will be competing in my skill of doing websites. We will be given some paper exams with questions like “if you had PHP-code like this, what would the outcome be?” and etc. I am very nervous about it, since I tend to think I suck at making websites.
