--- title: Happy new year author: nek0 tags: english description: --- Congress is over, the new year has begun. I hope you all had pleasant holidays and a good start into the new year. I was able to spend New Years Eve with good friends and relax from congress. Congress was a new experience for me and sometimes a difficult one. I still don't handle large crowds very well. Luckily I had some kind of place of retreat at the assembly table of our hackerspace. My problem with large crowds made it hard to visit many talks, but luckily I will be able to watch them on thanks to the great work of the VOC team. At least I got to socialise a little with people I usually don't meet due to geographical circumstances. With me usually spending much time at the assembly table I indulged into programming Haskell. I wanted to see how much my project of the past few months, my game engine [Affection][aff], has grown into a usable state. I implemented a game similar to [Asteroids][ast] called "Haskelloids", whose code base can be seen [on Github][has]. It is basically playable, but I'm still in the process of refining it further. Not only the game, but also the engine are still rough at the edges. Unfortunately I didn't dare to make many photos at congress, but when I have my films developed I'll upload what I have. [aff]: https://github.com/nek0/affection [ast]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game) [has]: https://github.com/nek0/haskelloids