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Information about Benjamin "Beni" Knecht

Occupation

With the Bachelor title in the pocket I'm studying electrical engineering and information technology in the 8th semester at the D-ITET at the ETH Zürich. Partying all the time and in between lots of studies and working on semester thesis fills my semester.


Contact

You can contact me 24/7 per email or with the contact form on my ​homepage.

ICQ#: 135297208

MSN: piranha2004@…

Skype: p1r4nh4

or of course in #orxonox on irc.datacore.ch

If you're a good friend you may be able to aquire my mobile number. Please precede with caution, though.


Programming before Orxonox

Matura thesis about artificial intelligence and some other work with Java, the object oriented programming language

Programming besides Orxonox

  • Working for ​e-serve ag as intern doing several easy and less easy tasks.
  • Semester thesis (no link yet) about online image recognition in a movie, taken by a mobile phone.


Beni's Support for Orxonox:

winter semester 05/06:

  • DataStream for network module
  • Control? for spaceship control (Ticket #60) (helicopter control, dynamic camera)

summer semester 2006:

  • Task: ConceptPaper (Ticket #129)
  • Content Creation: md2-Models with animations (crane arm and similar stuff, doors)
  • .md2-Models with animations for Singleplayer-Level? (Check out the Tutorial? for md2-Models)

winter semester 06/07:

  • project leader for PPS WS 06/07
  • reviewed the Track? and reimplemented a simple version of it

summer semester 2007:

autumn semester 2007:

  • project leader for PPS HS 07
  • some core design of Orxonox V2

spring semester 2008:

  • project leader for PPS FS 08
  • maybe something with the ressource management


Cool Links:


Ideas:


Now playing those games:

  • Jack Keane (studying OGRE engine)
  • Beyond Good & Evil (reviewing, studying atmosphere)
  • GTA San Andreas (reviewing, studying large world and mission management)
  • Rayman 2 (reviewing, now on PC, studying design)

Favorite Games

  • Outcast - Best looking water and great KI for that time (1999), great action-adventure with free explorable world and lots of secondary quests.
  • GTA serie - Free world and a lot to discover, lots of secondary tasks and mini games, very many cars/airplanes/ships
  • Freespace 1 / 2 - I finished Freespace 1 the first time in one night together with a friend of mine. Great game with a exciting story. And the game is not so short.
  • The Longest Journey - Breath taking Click-And-Point adventure with an absorbing SciFi-Middle-Age mix story
  • Monkey Island series - Probably best humor in a computer game
  • Mafia - Great Story, realistic world, a bit crazy FreeRide-Mode (CDs don't work anymore!!)
  • Jagged Alliance - Most exciting round based action strategy game
  • Yagger - Unique 3D-shooter air battle game, has a little bit the style of Aquanox.
  • Ikaruga - Dreamcast/GameCube/Wii vertical scroller with innovative game play. (Check out the ​flash version of Ikaruga on Newgrounds)
  • XIII - shooter in comic style (cell shading) (pretty unique concept) with deep and exciting story
  • Beyond Good & Evil - Jump and Run with perfect atmosphere. Everything fits!

and many more… :)

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