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I need to shake Ron Penton's hand

Started by Acoustica Oct 8, 2006 at 8:50 PM 5 replies 4.7k views

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Oct 8, 2006 at 8:50 PM

For the last couple of months or so I've been trying to figure out what on earth to do with my free time. I started my first out-of-college job and really like it, but I have a lot of free time in the evenings/weekends. I've learned a bit of Ruby, a little bit of Python, and dinked around in Photoshop making textures on and off, but nothing was really sticking. Tonight, I randomly found myself in Barnes and Noble, more randomly in the Game Development book section (our two B&N's both have 3 whole "shelves" dedicated to game development, awesome selections to boot). I noticed Ron's C# Game Programming book and (again) randomly picked it up to see what it contained, since I remember him from back in my glory days of GDNet as being a really nice guy to me. I was flipping through the pages and one of the pages I got to was the thanks page. I started noticing a lot of GDNet'ers amongst the group, then about halfway through, "Tyler 'Acoustica' Roehmholdt (socialite extraordinare)". I think my jaw broke hitting the floor. I was mentioned in a book, and a game dev book no less! Now, I know this seems really quite trivial, but to me this meant a heck of a lot; that I actually gave someone some sort of inspiration in the process of writing a book on game development. I sort of floated out of the store and came home as fast as I could. I'm now working on the back story to the first game I've conceived in over 3 years, all thanks to a thanks. Now it's my turn to thank Ron, giving me something to do, and something to return to after a much over-extended break. Acoustica's back, and this time he's not here just to socialize, he's here to create. :)

Bossk

Oct 8, 2006 at 9:07 PM

Yeah, but do you have a t-shirt with "Ron Penton Conceived My Babies" on it?

Because I do.

Acoustica

Oct 8, 2006 at 9:10 PM

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Original post by Bossk
Yeah, but do you have a t-shirt with "Ron Penton Conceived My Babies" on it?

Because I do.

Now was this a gift or a late night printing job at the local shop? ;)

Ravuya

Oct 8, 2006 at 9:20 PM

I worked with L. Ron Penton for quite some time on maintaining and updating the Mithopedia, which will be released in 2009 as a print competitor to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

load_bitmap_file

Oct 8, 2006 at 10:09 PM

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Original post by Ravuya
I worked with L. Ron Penton for quite some time on maintaining and updating the Mithopedia, which will be released in 2009 as a print competitor to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

That wiki is awesome. If you need me I'll be awaiting the glorious return of The One True nes8bit.

ArchWizard

Oct 8, 2006 at 10:12 PM

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Original post by Acoustica
For the last couple of months or so I've been trying to figure out what on earth to do with my free time. I started my first out-of-college job and really like it, but I have a lot of free time in the evenings/weekends. I've learned a bit of Ruby, a little bit of Python, and dinked around in Photoshop making textures on and off, but nothing was really sticking.

Tonight, I randomly found myself in Barnes and Noble, more randomly in the Game Development book section (our two B&N's both have 3 whole "shelves" dedicated to game development, awesome selections to boot). I noticed Ron's C# Game Programming book and (again) randomly picked it up to see what it contained, since I remember him from back in my glory days of GDNet as being a really nice guy to me.

I was flipping through the pages and one of the pages I got to was the thanks page. I started noticing a lot of GDNet'ers amongst the group, then about halfway through, "Tyler 'Acoustica' Roehmholdt (socialite extraordinare)". I think my jaw broke hitting the floor. I was mentioned in a book, and a game dev book no less!

Now, I know this seems really quite trivial, but to me this meant a heck of a lot; that I actually gave someone some sort of inspiration in the process of writing a book on game development. I sort of floated out of the store and came home as fast as I could. I'm now working on the back story to the first game I've conceived in over 3 years, all thanks to a thanks.

Now it's my turn to thank Ron, giving me something to do, and something to return to after a much over-extended break.

Acoustica's back, and this time he's not here just to socialize, he's here to create. :)

You can call him Mith, you know. That's what we all do.

Acoustica

Oct 8, 2006 at 10:29 PM

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Original post by ArchWizard
You can call him Mith, you know. That's what we all do.

Mmm yes... well you see... I associated the name with the name on the book. Although seeing the author name as "Mith" would have been rather nifty. :)

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