Zesago's Data Den

Stuff That's Here

Here, on my little space aboard the SDF, you'll find my endeavors into three-dimensional computer-generated art, some first crawlings toward playable, interactive fiction games, and fiction and non-fiction writings.

Stuff That's Elsewhere

In my wanderings around the Internet, I discovered SourceForge. They host some of my old software stuff that's marginally up to snuff:

Pocket Starfighter, the most interesting C/SDL project I've made. Still in beta!
MAJOB, my first real Java project. It's a web-browser that's slowly getting re-written.
Plant-Plotter's Quest: an almost-roguelike game about planting plants.
Compyrinth: A basic 3D maze game that you might have expected in the 80s.
JFlagCap: A 2D Capture-The-Flag style game with deathmatch stuff added. It's Internet-enabled, too. This is probably the most advanced project here despite it's age.
LiveHack: A multiplayer ASCII shooter HTTP server. It was written in a weekend as a class project, but it's kinda fun, and certainly spiffy-looking.

Also, LiveJournal hosts my personal blog, which is here.

About

I'm Mark Burger, a graduate with a degree in the exciting field of Computer Science. I like programming, writing, science fiction, and computer-generated imagery. As an antiquarian, I like old programs, old writings, old science fiction and ``retro'' computer-generated imagery. There's probably more to be said about myself, but I'm not as interesting as Simon Tatham, Jamie Zawinksi, or Leonard Richardson. Now those are some people you can stalk.

Also, way, way back, I wrote a random name generator. The randomizer wasn't properly portable, so when tested in Linux, it made a variety of names. When I compiled it for Windows, it kept printing "Zesago". I thought it was pretty catchy, so, that's my name. Also, my other handle, ScottishPig, is more than ten characters and tends to get truncated when using certain services (like SDF). It came from a misheard line in the world-famous nineteen-seventies T.V. movie S.O.S. Titanic.