This was a chapter I had very much yearned to write ever since I embarked on the documentation of this gruelling, demanding but satisfying project.

'Tis indeed a tremendous feeling to pen these thoughts down on a paper draft before I punched the lines out on a keyboard. All these months of late nights, and at times frustration are over at least for now. The few non-threatening network bugs could wait till the end of my 'A' level Cambridge examinations. After all, on my way here, I've already given up Physics as an examination subject. I figured I was more design and game programming than I was an engineer.

By early January I had already completed the coding offline gameplay, in fact one of the teachers remarked that it was already 'good enough'. Despite plunging grades in other subjects, there was something in me that wanted to keep going. My purpose had not yet been fulfilled. I wanted DaidiKing to be played over a network, be it for friends to enjoy in the school computer laboratory or to connect by people disconnected by oceans. After the successful testing of my game, I felt an overwhelming sense of achievement, and of completion.

And of course I have enriched myself under the guise of this tremendous undertaking. Besides the technical programming knowledge, I have come to realise that in the end, faith in myself, and faith in what I have got carries me on. At first, it was a bright spark of an idea, that pleased but never daunted. However novelty quickly resided and cruel reality set in and it was through sheer perseverance that I've managed to overcome the innumerable frustrating obstacles. On second thought, 'survive' in place of 'overcome' would be a truer testament to the amount of everything I have given to this project and how I have longed for this glorious moment of self-congratulation.

"I did it! It's finished! Bloody finished! I've completed my game! Yes MY GAME! MY MY MY MY MINE!!! I made it happen!" However this does not underscore the fact that there have been other invaluable, selfless and unpaid for assistances offered to me by kind people, namely Danica, Waikay, Joanne and my project supervisor Mrs Toh.

Ingenous and tenuous, so strenuously worn.

As the curtains descended on what has been my unrelenting companion for these past months, I, the programmer of DaidiKing would like to thank all that have contributed to my project by offering there sincerest help, or unknowing inspiration.

Junde 02/06/00 The End.

Excerpt from Official Daidiking Documentation Chapter 11 : Words from the Programmer.

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