Information about Benjamin "Beni" Knecht

Occupation

Studying electro engineering and information technology in the 6. semester at the ETH Zürich in the D-ITET. Partying all the time and in between lots of studies.

Contact

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

ICQ#: 135297208

MSN: piranha2004@…

Skype: p1r4nh4

programming before Orxonox

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

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:

• project leader for PPS SS 07
• modeling the space gate (Ticket #219)
• enhance HUD and weapon (FPS related programming) (Ticket #211)

Cool Links:

• ​All the space ships you know and all in the right scale

Ideas:

• OrxWeapons
• most of the Story?

Now playing those games:

• Outcast (not that much anymore)
• Ikaruga (finished game in easy mode, it's a freaky game, I gotta relax )
• XIII

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 a 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
  
• 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

and many more…