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Information about Benjamin "Beni" Knecht

Occupation

Beni just recently finished his master's degree and is now working as an intern at ​Virtamed AG. When not working, he watches American TV series, enjoys good books or learns Japanese. To get out in the nature, Beni searches for geo-caches in the near vicinity of Zürich.


Contact

You can contact me 24/7 per email.

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.

You can read about my life and thoughts on my ​homepage, where you can also contact me.


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.
  • Helping with the internal and external communication protocols of ​an autonomous helicopter framework.
  • Writing an image analysis tool for segmentation and tracking of moving cells in confocal microscopy image data for the Master thesis.
  • Internship at ​VirtaMed AG.


Beni's Support for Orxonox:

winter semester 05/06:

winter semester 06/07:

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

autumn semester 2007:

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

autumn semester 2008:

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

autumn semester 2009:

  • concept of GUI animations

summer semester 2006:

summer semester 2007:

spring semester 2008:

  • project leader for PPS FS 08
  • triggers

spring semester 2009:

  • teaching assistant in the PPS
  • GUI?

autumn semester 2010:

  • hopefully finally an implementation of GUI animations



Cool Links:


Ideas:


Now playing those games:

  • Minecraft
  • Die Siedler Online

Planing to finish those games:

  • Spore (bored)

Looking forward to play these games

  • Mass Effect 1 & 2
  • StarCraft 2
  • Super Meat Boy
  • … (suggestions accepted)

Favorite Games

  • Outcast - Best looking water and great AI 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!
  • Braid - Maybe the best puzzle platformer out there. Solve puzzles by manipulating time! (one of the few games I finished 100%)

and many more… :)

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