Selected for Poster Presentation in Gracehopper celebration of Women in Computing.

Hurrah !! ! after long wait of one and half month I finally got the mail from Gracehopper for being invited to Poster Presentation. Feeling very lucky and proud for getting such opportunity. It feels like Dream comes true. Hope I can make to the finals and bagged the prize. Off to Bangalore on 15th of December.Once again I am sooo... excited !!! :)

तलाश

जिंदगी थी बढ़ी उदाश
जिसमे थे बढे बढे ख्वाब
ख्वाबो को पूरे करने की थी तलाश
जीवन हो न जाये व्यर्थ
डर था बस यही हर वक़्त
बनानी थी अपनी एक पहचान
जिससे हो हमे बढ़ा अभिमान
भरने है हमे जीवन में इतने रंग
की खिल उठे हम अपने सपनों के संग
जीना है कुछ इस तरह
की मुस्कुराएँ हम हर एक पल
भुलादे हम हर एक गम
सिखा हमने बनाओ अपने
कर्तव्य को अपना अभिमान
फिर दुनिया भुला न पायेगी
चाह कर भी तुम्हारी पहचान
जिंदगी जितनी भी हो उदाश
सपने देखो तुम हर एक रात

एहसास

जाने आज ऐसा क्यों एहसास हुआ
जी रहे थे हम आखे बंद किये |
खुशियों के आने पर भी
खुश नहीं थे हम |
किसी और की कामयाबी को
बनाकर अपना जी रहे थे हम |
आखे खुली तो देखा
हमारे सपने मुस्कुरा रहे थे हमपर|
दिल ने कहा हमसे
देर नहीं हुई इतनी की तुम मुरझा गए हो
फुल भी सूरज की आखरी किरण तक खिलते है |
रास्ते वही है, सफ़र वही
फिर क्यूँ तुम सोच में दुबे हो
उठाओ बिस्तर, भुलाओ बीते पल
और ढूंड लो अपनी मंजिल |
क्यों दिल धारक था है जोरो से
सोच कर चल रहे हम अकेले|
जब की मंजिल की शुरुआत में
हम थे बिलकुल अकेले|
सफ़र के सहरो ने दिखाए इतने बरे सपने
की अपने प्यारे सपने लगने लगे छोटे
दिमाग ने कहा चलते रहो उधर
मुनाफा है जिधर|
दिल ने कहा पूरे  कर अपने सपनो को
जितने भी हो वह छोटे |

Participating in Gracehopper celebration of Women in Computing

Being a Microsoft Student Partners, I got invitation to participate in Gracehopper celebration of Women in Computing. I got excited to participate after going into details of the program. But my hectic schedule was not permitting me to take part. I somehow managed with my time and made my mind to participate in poster designing. From long time I had an idea of a research paper in my mind, so I thought it would be best time to implement it. After one week of research and hard work amidst my Gre exam and Amazon interview, I finally completed my two page abstract on "Environmental Educational Game" based on the design of Gombli (Imagine Cup Game Designing Competition 2010).Thanks to Dr. Gautam Paul (Jadavpur University), he reviewed my paper and help me to rectify my mistakes. Contribution from my team mate Shubhajit in designing Gombli was no less.

I realized that research on environmental problems can bring significant changes in us.It make us more sensible in terms of saving energy, planting more trees and realizing major problems of our environment. Now a days before wasting a glass of water I feel it can save life of so many who don't have access to clean water. I stopped using plastic bags unnecessarily unless it is required much. Recycling became my favorite. "If we don't recycle today the earth will definately recycle us tomorrow".

Once I win the competition I will proudly say "I am a Technical women". Wish me good luck. :) :\ :)

Folder.exe

This Game is about a geek guy, whom the player have to control, whose computer is being attacked by the viruses, these viruses will eat up all the information of folders. The Player is the owner of the folder and those folders are very important for him to save or recover them. To save his folders he will kill the entire incoming virus. To recover and protect his folders he will take help of some power-ups. The bonus points are given at the end of each level, which is equal to the number of folders saved.

Enemy A.I
Here viruses are provided very simple A.I. Viruses will chase the folder when virus comes in chasing distance of the folder. Viruses will also run away from the player, when the player comes closer to the enemies.

Power-Ups
The RED cross sign appears after some interval of time in the game, which symbolizes power-ups. The player can use this power-ups to recover the folders. This power-ups are symbolizing antivirus which can heal our folders.
Folder.exe

Download
Folder.exe (3 Mb)

Instructions
Protect atleast one folder for certain time to move to next level. The time left is shown by yellow bar. Press [LEFT, RIGHT,UP,DOWN] to move the player. Press [LEFT BUTTON] to shoot enemies and score points. Collect power-ups to heal the folders.

Credits
Game Design, Code & Graphics: Maya Agarwal ( maya.agarwal2 @ gmail.com )

Music: Track Marching from Album MU.S.GA [Music for Strategy Games] EP by PILL under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Brazil