Hutton Honors College Bulletin (PDF)

Check out page 7 for some Kelthas coverage. The main photo on this page is the last known photo of my mohawk. According to the caption at the bottom right I am a part of Steve‘s “gamer posse.” I like that. You might ask, “Rory, why do you have such a scowl on your face in the photo?” Well, I brought a copy of my map to the photo shoot because the photography people thought we’d use it in a few pictures. You might be able to gather from the lighting in the photo that it was not a very good day — the weather was a bit like it is today, actually. Kinda rainy. What I learned that day is that the slightest bit of rain mixed with Indiana’s horrible humidity is a disaster for plotter prints. The instant I unrolled the map the ink began to drip right off the poster. So that’s why there’s an unhappy face… well, that and the fact that we were standing in the rain. Luckily the ruined map was only one of three copies I had made and it is not the final version of the map. The final version has some minor modifications in order to make it work better with the game. I’ve got a bit left to do on that map. Back to work.

I was just thinking how the photo looks like the album cover of some cheesy fantasy metal band, like “Lord Tsabo’s Kelthinators” or something.

I read some previews and reviews for Star Wars Battlefront II and it sounded really cool. I hadn’t played the original (which I hear is basically the same game) but I had wanted to try it. I hadn’t gotten much use out of my Xbox Live account with Halo 2 but I can see that SWBF2 will fix that problem. The game is a ton of fun to play. I don’t think I’ve played another Star Wars game before that has captured so much of the action of the movies. Today I manned an AT-AT and picked off rebels running around the snow on Hoth. Yesterday, while I was still learning the controls, I flew an X-Wing around the hangar bay of a Star Destroyer and took out several TIE pilots and stormtroopers. This happened because I hadn’t yet figured out how to land. The different classes and characters really make the game interesting. This evening when I was playing “Conquest” on Hoth, a message at the bottom of the screen asked “Would you like to play as Darth Vader?” Um… YES! After a few large force jumps across the icy terrain, I (as Darth Vader) slaughtered some rebels and took out a couple of turrets. A lot of reviews said playing as the heroes isn’t very exciting. I disagree. I don’t think they are overpowered but they are strong enough to make the gameplay interesting.