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Summer hols...

I've finished my PGCE, finally. I've also finished the two-and-a-bit weeks of my first teaching job. So far, it seems like I'll be able to pull through an NQT year, which is a refreshing feeling. I'm liking my new home town, too. It's refreshing rural, and without the commuter mayhem (it doesn't even have a railway station!). Especially pleasing is the amount of time I've been able to put toward coding. I've made some important progress these last two weeks, and hopefully that can continue. I'm still trying to stay focussed on the goal of producing a decent prototyping engine. I'll be like a pig in sh*t if I can get the engine to a state where a new game idea could go from zero to playable in a weekend. Ah, the dreams... Game-playing-wise, I've been mostly absorbed by Battlefield 1943, especially the Air Superiority game (which I've suddenly discovered I'm not so bad at), and the original Rock Band, which I play with my w