MastishK was born (as I have said in earlier posts) out of the network culture in NITIE… there was another thing that drove us, the want to implement our knowledge … whether it’s the quizzers or the case study solvers – out here all use technology to apply their newly learnt concepts ….
A similar attempt was made by one of our friends Jatin Grover. He was reading “The Goal” where he discovered the ‘matchstick game’ [hey btw matchstick is so similar to MastishK ;)]. So he set out create a simulation of this game. The simulation is still evolving. When I talked to Jatin about including it in MastishK, he said that this thing will take time to evolve, probably next year it could become a game ;))
So I thought why not take the readers of this blog (i.e. participants of MastishK) through the saga of evolution? After all this is how most of our games were evolved – slowly, steadily – as prototypes first and final versions later. So folks, here is the link

http://jatingrover.co.nr/

enjoy and participate in the evolution of this simulation
all suggestions for this simulation can be sent to prerana.mastishk@nitie.edu, mastishk@gmail.com, jatin.im10@nitie.edu

cya ¶ posted by Nikhil Kulkarni @ 10:54 PM 1 comments

Hi friendzz ....

its shoOOonya again . . . . . .

Hope you guys are having fun visiting the MastishK website and Blog .....

Ashi's assurance ki "saath mein padhenge aur pass ho jaayenge" made me realise two things ....
1. I realised that exams are just round the corner from 20th September ... (I'm not sure how much will i study and how am i going to detach myself ) from MastishK.
2. I haven't touched books for the entire module ... Not attended lectures properly (PPMA types = Physically Present Mentally Absent)
3. I have a set of friends who are going to take care of me . . .
(hey ... counting mistake ... I had said two things ....)

MastishK has given me 6 very good friends .... Nikhil, Milind, Shubham, Payal, Ashita and Medda (he is yet to write in this blog) ! We are an inseparable group of 7 individuals now (I call it G7) ....

With the Module end phenomena of assignments / reports / projects submissions on the head on one side AND the launch of MastishK website on the other . . . i would have surely gone crazy under the pressure. It is this group of solid seven that is holding me together.

Daily we have lunch / snacks / dinner together and go for a walk in and around our NITIE Campus. The lush greenery , the NITIE pond and the Mumbai Monsoon ... walking up and down the roadway ... we share a few laughs and live life in tranquility. Once we are back to the hostel rooms, we are refreshed, re-energized ; ready to scratch the head ... the MastishK over the different aspects of MastishK.

I had always thought that I am not good at multi-tasking .... but being the co-pilot seat of Mastishk .. I have relaised that i am handling soooo many things simultaneously. What an experience.

Infact ... I will take this opportunity to thank first the whole of G7 to keep me going. In their absence, I would have not been able to do sooo much. Its their presence around me that has motivated me to keep going. Of course, there are others who influence me and motivate me, but the G7 is like a support system for me.

Coming back to MastishK ... The past few days have been hectic like hell .... Me and Nikhil were literally the only ones making pages and keeping them ready for uploading. The others were busy with other kind of work.

But it was fun ... sleepless nights ... 3 am Night mess rounds ... I did not go to the lectures for almost a week ... whew ....

Now that the Quiz and Crossword is launched, its another challenge to keep things going on. Technology cannot be always trusted. And after the ones who handle technology are humans. And To err is human ... to mess up things requires technology. hehehehehe.

The Counters at the MastishK Onlines games site as well as this Blog are ringing and continuously increasing in leaps and bounds. The MastishK Site counter crossed 900 in just two days (Saturday - Sunday) and the Blog caught more than 222 .

It's actually performing much better than i expected considering that many campuses are somewhat empty with exams getting over and students visiting their homes. I guess I had somewhat under-estimated MastishK and its potential to spread like a virus. Let me quote Agent Smith from the MATRIX (sounds like MastishK ;-) [This one is Nikhil's favourite ... so i will dedicate this to him ....]

"I'd like to share a revelation I had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we, are the cure." Agent Smith in "The Matrix"

Chalo .. ciao ... will connect with you later. Got a test and a series of presentations.

You keep smiling and have a nice day .....

Keep visiting MastishK ... Blog and Gaming Site !!

... shoOOonya ...
¶ posted by Coach Hemant Jain @ 9:23 PM 1 comments

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

"It's a funny thing about life;

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

¶ posted by Coach Hemant Jain @ 8:05 PM 29 comments

namaskar mandali...

for those not conversant in marathi, it was "hullo folks"!
u guessed it right by now...am a POTter who is marathi by origins and mother tongue, very much like our mastishk originator, Nikhil.

to begin with lemme tell u what is POT...mentioned above and previously by Payal too. POT is simply Prerana Online Team, in short ofcourse. It was a name we had to keep before we landed up with Mastishk. Basically coined for ease of usage in mentioning the reason for us burning oil midnight and much beyond.

Now to my little story of HOW I CAME TO BE A POTter...

Some time way back in March, Nikhil approached me with the idea of an online game. i said, "hey am a hathhoda chhap mechie...and not any comp. guy like u....and wud prefer to be away from the same" and he was like "u don't have to code...just think of a game" and i said, "oh that shud be cool....will do it". and then that was it!! i was on the team. Nikhil told me a few days later that i was teamed up with Anish and we were to make some sort of a strategy game.

Now lazy and not quite so convinced as we were, neither Anish or me bothered to do much. also the idea of Prerana Online seemed dwindling, and we were getting geared up for the endterm and the approaching summers. the endterms came n went, and most of us packed off to our destinations, mine being chennai with castrol. i was told by nikhil, on my way out of mumbai that i was to now team up with shooOOoonya (is that the correct no. of 'o's in ur name, hemant??) since he was to be posted in hosur!! i said chalo dekh lenge....

cut to june last week. came back to campus on 22nd to welcome n make junior batch feel completely at home, away from home. me n hemant were here for that job, and guess we organized the best induction ever in pgdim's short 10 year history! anyways, nikhil was back and so was my guilt of not doing anything for the past 3 months....he's after my life again, i thought....

just then, (and i take the liberty of introducing my pardner....) ashita came to my mind as a person who cud help me with the mind-boggling numerics required to run the game.....YA, I COMMITTED MYSELF TO IT AGAIN. july 15th was our first deadline which we managed to beat (black n blue). and it went on n on....and on n off too! and the game is done now. we were then allotted a set of brilliant youngsters by nikhil, each one a master in the world of html, javascript, blah, blah....in which our game was to take shape.

thats about all i want to write about my game for now....more shud come up from ashita shortly....i expect her to be more serious and quantitative in her post ;)

till then,
parat bhetu....
(meaning fir milenge)

p.s: just noticed....i haven't put my name anywhere....not that it matters.....phir bhi....
its milind m. tapaswi (tappu)


¶ posted by Milind M. Tapaswi @ 1:59 AM 1 comments