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Information about Benjamin "Beni" Knecht

Occupation

With the Bachelor degree in the pocket I'm studying electrical engineering and information technology in the 10th semester at the D-ITET at the ETH Zürich. When not studying I work on an autonomous helicopter in the field of computer vision or watch American TV series.


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 the IRC channel

If you're a good friend you may be able to acquire my mobile number by adding me as friend on Facebook.


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 (movie) 'Real-time server side object recognition for mobile devices'.
  • Semester thesis 'Wortbedeutung und Satzstruktur'. Mostly matlab and scripts.
  • Internship at kooaba.


Beni's Support for Orxonox:

winter semester 05/06:

summer semester 2006:

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
  • triggers

autumn semester 2008:

  • implementing script object for underlying game logic (no time, very stressful semester)

spring semester 2009:

  • teaching assistant in the PPS
  • GUI?
  • (more to come I guess)


Cool Links:


Ideas:


Now playing those games:

  • Full Throttle
  • Secret Files: Tunguska

Planing to finish those games:

  • Dark Star One
  • Freelancer
  • Spore

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-Medieval-Age mix story
  • Monkey Island series - Probably best humor in a computer game (only the latest game - Monkey Island 4 - sucked)
  • 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. In Japan they actually play Ikaruga in amusement arcade. (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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