Quarterflash Designs

I’ve started on what I’m calling Chapter 1 - Setup.  I decided to refer absolute beginners to an appendix for full install instructions and only detail installation for the assemblies and dlls that are required for the project. So far I have 4 pages! Yes, I know it’s a very small start, but it is a start. Oh, and I’ve also done the Windows install of VSE so I have a ton of screen shots to edit for that part of the appendix.

Maybe I should talk a little bit more about what I plan on doing for the book.

I’m writing a book about platform independent programming using C# and OpenGL. I’ll be developing a program throughout the entire book. Each chapter will add a little more to the game and illustrate some point in game programming.

One of the chapters will be about sound and to that end I decided to use a computer voice. As documented elsewhere on my site, I’m a listener of ALICE 105.9 (KALC) here in Denver. I’ve interacted with the show on several occasions and I decided to ask Jennifer Wilde, one of the Morning Show DJs, what it would take to get her to do some voice work for me. She graciously volunteered (as long as I didn’t ask for too much :) and I got the first cut of them today. I asked her to voice about 8 phrases and she did them in a couple of different voices for me.

I can’t tell you how excited I was to get them. I know, it’s a bit (or a lot) geeky, but actually having something in hand that was done for me for the book makes it a little more real in some way.

Evidently Jennifer was cutting the phrases for me this morning after the show and I’m guessing that one of the other folks on the Morning Show asked her what she was up to.  Thus I’m going to be on the show tomorrow, once removed. That is, I’ll not actually be on the show but they’re going to do a bit about Jennifer’s next career move - being a computer voice in a game :)

Oh, if you want to listen (and I heartily endorse them) you can tune to 105.9 on your FM dial if you’re here in the Denver area or you can listen to them online at http://alice1059.com. Then choose Listen Live to catch the number 1 morning show in the Denver area with BJ, Howie, and Jennifer. They’re assisted by Producer Mikey who does a great job of answering the phones even though he doesn’t like counting to 105 :)  To be fair, he does do a bit more. I have enough trouble keeping this blog up to date and he does a blog for the show with all the features and a lot of what they talk about on the show along with MP3 clips of the more amusing stuff.

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