<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Chaos at the Sky]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[chaotic_iak]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com/author/chaoticiak/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Year-End Post???]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Boy, I neglected this blog for so long. What did I do this year? In no particular order&#8230;</p>
<p>1 August: I made <a href="http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=62070c89dc7604de2484">Rock, Paper, Scissors</a>, which is probably my best game to date aesthetically. I still need to learn spriting. This one took quite a good amount of tinkering and spanned over the first half of my summer break (the entire July). Level design is hard.</p>
<p>31 December (yes, literally yesterday): I finished making <a href="http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=074d30dd6361cb2b43aa">JAM3 Game</a>, a match-3 game that is as far away as Candy Crush Saga as I can make it. About four hours of development spanning over three or so days.</p>
<p>12 October: I bought <em>Dominion</em>. Three days later (after midterms were done), I played it with friends for the first time; people were instantly hooked. Three days later I ordered <em>Dominion: Intrigue</em>. Fast forward two months; on 9 December, my orders on <em>Dominion: Seaside</em> and <em>Dominion: Prosperity</em> arrived. We managed to sneak in several plays after final exams, before my friends gone back for winter break. I still hope they will get the deserved amount of plays during the next semester.</p>
<p>14 August: My interest on board games began, after for the first time coming to a board game store/meetup with a friend. I started browsing for board games, contemplating to buy them for a ridiculous amount of time, and bugging my friends to consider them as well. So far I&#8217;ve only thrown my money on those four, but I am indeed considering to buy some more again over this winter break.</p>
<p>7 November: My best relative performance on a puzzle test: <a href="http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=SVC2015">Snake Variations Contest 2015</a>, ranking 5th. If I have the time and money, I&#8217;d certainly like to actually do puzzle tests like World Puzzle Championship or 24-Hour Puzzle Championship, to actually compare myself with the world.</p>
<p>30 December: My provisional grades for this semester were out. I&#8217;m certainly very proud of two particular courses: Computation Theory (99.8%) and Introduction to Graph Theory (98.6%). Newfound love of graph theory. I did know I liked computation theory before taking the course, though; after all, I did have my <a href="https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com/np-completeness/">Games are Hard</a> page.</p>
<p>16 January: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2015/">MIT Mystery Hunt</a> happened. The only puzzle I made was <a href="http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2015/puzzle/polyglot/">Polyglot</a>, but I contributed to several other puzzles; I forgot which ones. My memory is apparently terrible.</p>
<p>As betaveros pointed out: 9 December: I told the entire world about <a href="https://ask.fm/chaoticiak/answers/134191194730">my kinks</a> (might be considered NSFW).</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t remember other particular things I did in 2015. Oh well.</p>
<p>Well, good bye 2015, welcome 2016.</p>
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