[Scummvm-devel] Greeting from the student of ResidualVM in GSoC

[Bastien Bouclet]

Hi Liu,

Welcome aboard. I hope your stay in the world of Stark will be pleasant!

Bastien

2018-05-01 18:38 GMT+02:00 Douglas Liu <douglaszsliu at gmail.com>:

> Dear developers of ScummVM and ResidualVM,
>
> Greetings! I am the student with the name "Douglas_GSoC" that got accepted
> to join the development of ResidualVM. Sorry for such a late email, for the
> reason that I need some time to finish some of my end-term projects. Now I
> finally have the time to formally introduce myself, and here it goes:
>
> I am a Chinese coming from Guangzhou, Mainland. I am a current year 3
> computer science student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. My
> Chinese name is Liu Zhaosong and in case you are interested, in simplified
> Chinese character it is "刘兆松", but you can call me Douglas for convenience.
> I have changed my displayed name on GSoC website to Douglas Liu so really,
> you can call me however you like, I am okay with anything :)
>
> I am so happy that I got accepted in this year's GSoC as a participant of
> the development of ResidualVM. I have been highly interested in game
> programming and development for a very long while. I have been longing for
> a chance to experience actual game programming, and now I get it, and I am
> excited about it! For this year's GSoC I am going to implement the menus
> and shadow features of the Stark engine to support the game *The Longest
> Journey*. Although they are not big parts of the engine, I believe I
> shall have valuable experience through this glimpse of the architecture of
> a real game engine. Besides, I get the chance (or challenge, I should say?)
> to learn knowledge of OpenGL and computer graphics, which I have always
> believe a must for game developers to learn. I am really looking forward to
> the coming three months of GSoC and I am ready to have a busy yet wonderful
> time.
>
> Due to the timezone (I am in Hong Kong now), I think it may be hard for me
> to keep staying on the IRC channel and chat with you guys. But I promise I
> will check it through the log frequently. If you see a guy with the name
> "DouglasLiu" logging on and off, that will no doubt be me :D
>
> Right now I have come up some plans to better prepare myself for the
> coding period. I have created my blog through Blogger (
> https://douglasingsoc.blogspot.hk). I have forked the repository of
> ResidualVM in the application period and my Github account is
> DouglasLiuGamer. I have purchased the OpenGL Superbible for my reference
> and future learning material, and the book is on its way. I am soon going
> to further read the codebase and I plan to start working as soon as
> possible.
>
> Last but lot least, I want to express my biggest gratitude to my mentor
> Bastien, a.k.a bgK. He has given me tremendous help when I was applying for
> GSoC. I believe with my heart that we are going to have a wonderful and
> memorable time together.
>
> Wish all the best to all developers!
>
> Sincerely,
> Liu Zhaosong (Douglas)
>
> p.s. Recently I am playing the game *Pyre* from Supergiant Games. It is
> magnificent and now Supergiant Games is now officially my No.1
> favourite indie game studio! I highly recommend it to everyone! Along with
> the other two games from Supergiant: *Bastion* and *Transistor*. They are
> really all masterpieces!
>
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