I'm a student at a university called DigiPen. Here at this school a lot of us specialize in programming in C++, especially in game programming. At DigiPen each year you have to make a game, and in certain years (like Sophomore year, which I'm currently in) you have to make it entirely from scratch in only C and C++. This can take a lot of time, and so groups of 2-5 people are formed to produce group projects over the span of a school year.
So the story starts with my team and I of merely two people, doing pretty badly with our project. We recruited another student, and things from then on became better. The second semester rolls around just a few days ago, and I'm expecting to have a whole lot of work to do going into the semester. Honestly, too much work and too much playing catch-up from the previous semester. We needed some more developers, and needed them bad.
Then a particular DigiPen Professor, out of the blue, approached our team one evening. She asked if we needed more developers. She introduced us to two developers looking for a project to work on, and then proceeded to tell me one of them named Kim (of course, all koreans have the name Kim) was a Brood War professional in Korea for 5-6 years in the past.
Needless to say we recruited Kim without much of a question. Honestly even if Kim were the worst C++ developer in the world, I'd want him on our team; he doesn't necessarily have to write any code for me to be happy with meeting him. So now with my fan-boy status full blast, I ask him a little bit about Brood War. He told me, rather nonchalantly, that he played for Samsung KHAN for 6 years when he was around the age of 16 or 17. I asked him if he still plays at all for fun, his response was to be expected: He focuses on schoolwork now because if he plays any games it distracts him far too much from his studies. He then smiled and said "But don't worry I can still beat you ".
He has no idea how good or bad I am at playing RTS games, but just because I'm white he has no doubt that I'd never win a game against him. And you know, I don't really doubt it either. When interviewing him briefly about C++ he would micro the Windows 7 desktop as if it were Brood War. Box all the things! He deleted some files in a folder we were working in with precision and speed. Hahaha...
All in all I'm extremely excited to work with the guy. He's taken a lot of advanced graphics courses and will be working solely on optimizing the current state of our graphics implementation, and thereafter implement any custom shaders that we all decide we'd like to see. This really is just too good to be true, as nobody on our three person team really had the time or desire to fix the current state of our graphics. Graphics is also one of the only areas in our C++ engine that is really isolated from the rest of the engine. There is a language barrier that gets in the way of clear communication, but as it currently stands he can work on graphics without affecting the rest of the engine implementation much at all. My team's producer is from another country, and english is her second language; she can communicate and understand what Kim is thinking a whole lot better than I can. This helps a whole lot during team meetings and talks. His English is actually really good, there's just a lot of complex concepts that come with C++ programming that cannot be communicated across the language barrier. It just sounds a little too good to be true.
And there's my story of how I "work" with an ex-Brood War professional player. I don't actually work in a paid position with him, but we are on the same year-long project, and that pretty much constitutes a near full-time position's worth of hours and work going from week to week.
He seemed a little private about exactly what player he was and I felt it was clear he wanted to focus on school. I don't know if he was an A or B teamer, but from the sounds of it he was an A teamer. I won't ask to one vs one him, and won't ask exactly what player he was, at least not until we're more familiar with each other. I don't really know how Korean culture works, so I really don't want to offend him by prying.
Once I figure out what player he was, I'll share all the exciting details in another blog. I'll probably also show off any cool visuals and shader effects he makes within our project too. Oh the suspense!
On January 11 2013 07:30 tonight wrote: a KHAN Kim? Break down his personality. All progamers play the race respective to their personality.
Okay so far he's: not really shy at all. He also doesn't like to hang around the school much. He says it's loud and stressful. His girlfriend looks like she's straight from Korean, and having the girlfriend would explain why he prefers to work on schoolwork at home compared to here at the university.
On January 11 2013 07:30 tonight wrote: a KHAN Kim? Break down his personality. All progamers play the race respective to their personality.
Okay so far he's: not really shy at all. He also doesn't like to hang around the school much. He says it's loud and stressful. His girlfriend looks like she's straight from Korean, and having the girlfriend would explain why he prefers to work on schoolwork at home compared to here at the university.
Spoiler alert: It's Kim Jong-Il, he reincarnated. Don't you think the man who brags about having cleared a golf course with 18 hole-in-ones would slip a white lie about his progaming past?
shows only one Kim in there, and it's Reality. Though it says he still plays so probably not.
That's just the roster at the end of the BW leagues though, not the full list of players that were in KHAN, and there's a lot of retired players called Kim (just TLPD it). Also MUST KNOW.
Gotta think way back, not just the current Liquipedia edit.
Could be FrOzen, but you'd think he'd mention his time on STX.
Going on that route, I searched " "history=''Samsung KHAN'" " because snippet of code should give results for only progamers who spent their whole careers with KHAN.
Only results there that haven't been mentioned in the thread and are named "Kim" are SaferZerg and SorrOw.
If the personality = Zerg guy is right, SaferZerg is my bet.
On January 11 2013 11:03 netherDrake wrote: I don't really follow BW or know the less famous players on Samsung Khan. I still have an urge to know who it is.
I never watched BW and I don't know any players on Samsung Khan, yet I still have the urge to know who it is...
Calm down guys. You can't rush getting an ex-progamer's ID, you know. It's like coming up to a girl you just met and saying, "wanna fuck?" These things take time. Cecil and the "mystery pro" have to get a little acquainted, become a little more comfortable with each other and then maybe Cecil will casually pop the question over a beer one day. Hopefully soon.
On January 11 2013 21:55 Subversive wrote: So you work together, but you don't know his full name at all, just his surname? So you just call him 'Kim' when you speak to him? Really.
Which is less likely, a programmer progamer or a 300APM girl? By the way DigiPen sounds like a very cool place even if its focus is a bit narrow. A lot of game programming could have applications in kinds of development (scientific simulations etc) if you decide you don't want to make games at some point.
what happened to this guy? all i could dig is that he had a large number of posts but he got perma banned for something... can anyone explain why/what happened?
On January 13 2013 21:13 Kotreb wrote: what happened to this guy? all i could dig is that he had a large number of posts but he got perma banned for something... can anyone explain why/what happened?
I did a simple Google search on the name DreaM)XeRO and found out. It's not that hard, dude.
On January 15 2013 10:22 CecilSunkure wrote: Well I'm comfortable asking for his name now! Too bad you guys keep downvoting the blog. I'll have to wait until I feel better to release some info.
Downvoting? I'm not sure what site I'm on anymore lol.
On January 15 2013 10:22 CecilSunkure wrote: Well I'm comfortable asking for his name now! Too bad you guys keep downvoting the blog. I'll have to wait until I feel better to release some info.
If you don't update by the weekend I will hire a botnet and DDOS an indie game developer every hour, and if I run out of them I will go for bigger studios. Their fate is in your hands.
If this isnt the greatest troll TL has seen yet. Then it is illogical for him to tell you that he was a progammer in BW for korea yet no say his ID. But if it is the case then you should challenge him - not head on however, you should take a more strategic approach to challenging him, a more playground style, simply taunt him like say stuff like "Come on man you're not a pro BW player, you are probably just some random korean pretending to be pro, i bet you never even touched BW in your life" and then he will either leave your team project or challenge you and beat your arse or say "mate, i was _____" then you'd go "omg im soryrosoryosrysoryosyoyrsory please forgive me"
okay im too lazy I give up. and I'm probably just getting trolled :<
Not Child, would have mentioned his time on STX, or Stars. Also not on KHAN.
Players on KHAN named Kim during 2006: 김동건 Kim Dong Kun - FrOzean[Name] - Terran 김근백 Kim Geun Baek - SaferZerg - Zerg 김영미 Kim Yung Mi - [NC]...Navy - Zerg --Female
Players on KHAN named Kim during 2005: 김동건 CuteAngeL[Name]--FrOzean 김근백 SaferZerg
Both Frozen and SaferZerg are too old to fit the description and Navy is a female. Maybe a B-teamer?
On January 15 2013 10:22 CecilSunkure wrote: Well I'm comfortable asking for his name now! Too bad you guys keep downvoting the blog. I'll have to wait until I feel better to release some info.
-5/5. Real fuckin tease. I hope this becomes the first negatively voted blog to actually accumulate negative stars.
On January 17 2013 05:46 Necosarius wrote: Still no name?
I should have a new blog by this coming Monday
High star ratings may expedite the process. Just throwing that out there. You know, it's hard work to gather this information, and I don't want people hatin' all up on me while I'm working on it.
I just saw this and assumed it was a hoax. If anything he was probably a practice partner or B-Team member. Nothing really fits when you say he was on Khan for 6 years and started around 16-17. So sketchy!
On January 17 2013 05:46 Necosarius wrote: Still no name?
High star ratings may expedite the process. Just throwing that out there. You know, it's hard work to gather this information, and I don't want people hatin' all up on me while I'm working on it.
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So the only reason you blog is so you can jizz over your ratings? lmfao
30 year ban for each word in this blog mentioning BW, pro, or Samsung imo. I've literally been sitting here with my pants around my ankles, staring slackjawed at this screen for 192 hours now.
On January 20 2013 00:16 SamsungStar wrote: 30 year ban for each word in this blog mentioning BW, pro, or Samsung imo. I've literally been sitting here with my pants around my ankles, staring slackjawed at this screen for 192 hours now.
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