BUME is an acronym for "buildings-units-micromanagement-economy", which describes a sub-genre of real time strategy video games. The terms are sometimes used synonymously, although BUME is more specific. Real time strategy has grown to include sub-genres like Dota and tower defense which do not fall into the BUME sub-genre. The term "classic" real-time strategy is sometimes used too. The acronym is also a play on the word Boom, emphasising the combat between units and the destruction of enemy bases that these games tend to focus on.
Examples of BUME games include Warcraft III and Dune 2.
Seminal titles
Although BUME games have an extensive history, some titles have served to define the popular perception of the genre, in particular the games released between 1992 and 1998 by Westwood Studios and Blizzard Entertainment.
Westwood's Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (1992) featured all the core concepts and mechanics, such as using the mouse to move units, and gathering resources, and as such served as the prototype for later games. According to its co-designer and lead programmer, Joe Bostic, a "benefit over Herzog Zwei is that we had the advantage of a mouse and keyboard. This greatly facilitated precise player control, which enabled the player to give orders to individual units. The mouse, and the direct control it allowed, was critical in making the BUME genre possible.”
The success of Dune II encouraged several games which became influential in their own right. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994) achieved great prominence upon its release, owing in part to its use of a fantasy setting and also to its depiction of a wide variety of buildings (such as farms) which approximated a full fictitious society, not just a military force. Command & Conquer became the first popular BUME game to utilize competitive multiplayer. Command & Conquer, as well as Command and Conquer: Red Alert, became the most popular early BUME games. These two games contended with Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness after its release in late 1995.
Examples of BUME games include Warcraft III and Dune 2.
Seminal titles
Although BUME games have an extensive history, some titles have served to define the popular perception of the genre, in particular the games released between 1992 and 1998 by Westwood Studios and Blizzard Entertainment.
Westwood's Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (1992) featured all the core concepts and mechanics, such as using the mouse to move units, and gathering resources, and as such served as the prototype for later games. According to its co-designer and lead programmer, Joe Bostic, a "benefit over Herzog Zwei is that we had the advantage of a mouse and keyboard. This greatly facilitated precise player control, which enabled the player to give orders to individual units. The mouse, and the direct control it allowed, was critical in making the BUME genre possible.”
The success of Dune II encouraged several games which became influential in their own right. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994) achieved great prominence upon its release, owing in part to its use of a fantasy setting and also to its depiction of a wide variety of buildings (such as farms) which approximated a full fictitious society, not just a military force. Command & Conquer became the first popular BUME game to utilize competitive multiplayer. Command & Conquer, as well as Command and Conquer: Red Alert, became the most popular early BUME games. These two games contended with Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness after its release in late 1995.
The Cisco SSG-6510 was a device introduced by Cisco in 1998 that allows dynamic direction of IP traffic to various services. It was typically deployed at the edge of a service provider's network where users would connect, log in, and be directed to whatever service they were paying for.
The SSG-6510 runs a derivative of Wind River Systems', VxWorks, and included a utility to flash the BIOS chip in-circuit. It was constructed using many of the same hardware components found in the Cisco PIX 510/520 and the LocalDirector 410/416/420/430, such as its chassis, Intel 440LX/440BX/440BX2 motherboard, Intel 82557 NIC's, and 2MB flash card. It comes with a Pentium II 300 or 450MHz CPU, 384MB of SDRAM, and 2MB of flash storage for the OS.
As demonstrated by its "hardware" command, the version of VXWorks running on the SSG-6510 recognizes only Intel Pro/100 cards with the 82557 controller and the 82553 PHY chip. Intel Pro/100 cards with the 82557 controller and the 82555 PHY will work, but VXWorks doesn't properly identify the 82555.
Curt Roland is an American born Actor. At the beginning of Curt's career he first booked a small featured role in a Trace Adkins music video. He instantly began booking lead roles in a variety of short films. By the age of 12, Curt Co-starred on Prime Time TV shows. His first co-starring role was on Eli Stone with Johnny Lee Miller and Gattlin Griffith. He also co-starred on Criminal Minds. Curt has booked many Principal roles in National Television Commercials such as McDonalds, Captain Crunch, Porsche and NFL.
During Curt's spare time he enjoys riding dirt bikes, playing Lacrosse, and practicing the guitar.
Television
*Criminal Minds: (2008) as Young Unsub
*Eli Stone: Happy Birthday, Nate (2008) as Young Nate
Filmography
*The Candy Shop (2010)
*Bobby Watkins (2009)
*Shoot for the Moon (2007)
*Bobby Watkins (2009) as Bobby
Commercials
*McDonalds
*Captain Crunch
*NFL
*Storage Barn
*Porsche
During Curt's spare time he enjoys riding dirt bikes, playing Lacrosse, and practicing the guitar.
Television
*Criminal Minds: (2008) as Young Unsub
*Eli Stone: Happy Birthday, Nate (2008) as Young Nate
Filmography
*The Candy Shop (2010)
*Bobby Watkins (2009)
*Shoot for the Moon (2007)
*Bobby Watkins (2009) as Bobby
Commercials
*McDonalds
*Captain Crunch
*NFL
*Storage Barn
*Porsche
Grant George 'Gigi' Dunlop (born 12 April 1986 in Bangor) is a football player who currently plays for Dundela and the Northern Irish national team as a flamboyant midfield playmaker.
Dunlop, the son of former Northern Ireland international goalkeeper George Dunlop, began playing football at the age of 3 in his parents' garden, quickly catching the eye of scouts at Linfield F.C.. He rose through the ranks at Linfield and the Northern Irish youth setup, where he played alongside current Rangers F.C. striker Kyle Lafferty, who Dunlop once poignantly described as "dead on" and "good crack".
Dunlop went on loan to boyhood heroes Bangor F.C. for the 2005-06 season, cementing his place as the pin-up of Irish football, selling more shirts and posters than any player in Irish League history. Despite his good looks and early promise, his on-pitch displays failed to live up to his huge reputation, and Dunlop found himself largely marginalised and a continual bench warmer.
After falling out of love with football, Dunlop moved to England to study at the University of Central Lancashire, where he excelled while studying Sports Studies at the prestigious educational institution. Dunlop has since disappeared from the professional football scene, now turning out for Dundela whilst working in youth sports coaching in his home town.
Following many years of soul-searching, Dunlop finally received an epiphany as to his true calling while he was out roaming through the woods of his home town looking for dead birds to poke with twigs. As he approached a clearing in the woods, he bumped into a 98 year old goldsmith who had been fashioning his shiny metallic wears for decades. After buying a fetching gold medallion from his new friend, the young Irishman realised that he was destined to study at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dunlop is now studying for a PGCE in Primary teaching at the aforementioned institute of learning. It is a far cry from his days at the heady heights of UCLan, but Grant is doing his best to learn enough to fulfil his ambition of becoming an educator of future generations,
inspiring youngsters to think critically and philosophically about life.
Dunlop, the son of former Northern Ireland international goalkeeper George Dunlop, began playing football at the age of 3 in his parents' garden, quickly catching the eye of scouts at Linfield F.C.. He rose through the ranks at Linfield and the Northern Irish youth setup, where he played alongside current Rangers F.C. striker Kyle Lafferty, who Dunlop once poignantly described as "dead on" and "good crack".
Dunlop went on loan to boyhood heroes Bangor F.C. for the 2005-06 season, cementing his place as the pin-up of Irish football, selling more shirts and posters than any player in Irish League history. Despite his good looks and early promise, his on-pitch displays failed to live up to his huge reputation, and Dunlop found himself largely marginalised and a continual bench warmer.
After falling out of love with football, Dunlop moved to England to study at the University of Central Lancashire, where he excelled while studying Sports Studies at the prestigious educational institution. Dunlop has since disappeared from the professional football scene, now turning out for Dundela whilst working in youth sports coaching in his home town.
Following many years of soul-searching, Dunlop finally received an epiphany as to his true calling while he was out roaming through the woods of his home town looking for dead birds to poke with twigs. As he approached a clearing in the woods, he bumped into a 98 year old goldsmith who had been fashioning his shiny metallic wears for decades. After buying a fetching gold medallion from his new friend, the young Irishman realised that he was destined to study at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dunlop is now studying for a PGCE in Primary teaching at the aforementioned institute of learning. It is a far cry from his days at the heady heights of UCLan, but Grant is doing his best to learn enough to fulfil his ambition of becoming an educator of future generations,
inspiring youngsters to think critically and philosophically about life.