Peregrinatio

Mantilogs API-ification: Part 3 - The Model Redesign

Aside from having to make some calls later on today I will be spending full days in the office for the most part now, possibly even weekends. Aside from days when I will be doing more cleaning and packing up the stuff I don't currently need. First thing

Mantilogs API-ification: Part Two?

So I've been messing around writing my custom serializers and whatnot, not much time left in this morning since I had to spend a bit of time setting up the basis of a proper CI system. Anyway; I've realized that the way some of my models

The Mantilogs API

I've already installed and configured Django Rest Framework, now I am on to serializing and adding endpoints. Starting out with a test, using the quick start example I have a user API set up and working fine. Now to actually USE the dang thing. Let's see

Mantilogs MK II: Work begins in earnest

I've got my DB up and project configured, I can now start the integration of DRF and serialize the Feed logs model to create an endpoint for it. I'll have to work out how DRF will handle the authentication when I start building the form but

Mantilogs Mk II: Part One -- Authenticated API

So, in order to make my forms more user friendly I figure I should add some API endpoints and use JWT to confirm the user is authenticated to submit form data. I could use Django Rest Framework or I could roll my own solution. Both are appealing... I have minimal

Project One: Mantilogs Interface Design and Documentation

I've not much time today, things to do. I've wire-framed a design for the first part of the interface overhaul and will be working on it this week. Game dev will continue shortly, but this week is going to be a bit rough. I am hunting

Returning to the office

Well, I am back in the office again. Probably going to be disappearing again at some point in the near future either if things go well or horribly wrong. I need to move, I have been saving for months and am nearly there now. It may be a couple more

Silence.

I'm still alive, still trying to figure out what I am going to be doing... I think I am close to actually having it now. It's been a hell of a year so far, hopefully things will start to smooth out now. I've not

But why, though?

I can't seem to focus on any projects at all. Once I set about working on one another one clouds my mind. My focus is horribly mangled the last few months. I need to fix it. I wish I could have just continued working on Gerucrash. There'

On the ground or in space?

TL,DR; Ground, more work but rather do space in 3D. So I guess I will try building this system with ground-based characters for now. Most of the bits and pieces will (hypothetically) be easy enough to adapt to flying ships or sailing ships or driving vehicles or whatever, I

Persistent, isn't it?

Even blasting myself with light all morning I feel just as exhausted this afternoon as I did the past... few months now. I have ruled out protein deficiency and vitamin D deficiency. I don't eat much fat at all, only about a tbsp of olive oil or so

Seasonal Affective Disorder?

It would appear at least on the surface that my issue with game development or really working on projects in general are related to the seasons. Looking back through logs I see that I just crash around November and remain so, struggling as hard as I can against it until

The Great Migration: Day 2

So far I have managed to get the blog's images uploaded, offloaded my main DBs and got my project management stuff deployed offsite. I still have to do a few things here and there but I think tomorrow I should FINALLY be back to game development. Alright, she&

Server offloading or; The Great Migration

Before I get started on this game prototype I need to do some stuff to offload the server I am running here in the office to save money. See, the electric bill is $120 a month where it was $40 before I started running it again so... I can just

Month One Prototype

I'll give the list one more look and then load the RNGinator with it if I have nothing by the end of it. I did a test run last night, I might just use the result from that, even. I even worked out the outline of the systems,

Decisions.

Time to decide on the prototype for next month... I have a catalog of ideas and bits and pieces but I seem to be having trouble figuring out what one of these things sparks something in me. I know if I just pick one and start I will probably be

Thing a Month, or; What the hell do I do now?

So, I spent a lot of time going through everything I want to do and figuring out what the best path was, still I am not feeling like I have any idea but the thing that seems like it might be the closest to working out is Thing a Month.

The simple game project (No for real, though.)

I really don't have a solid project yet, I've been writing down themes and systems that I think I could do quickly and keeping them organized. I am kinda leaning toward dungeon crawler as I planned to add a dungeon crawler system to Gerucrash and it

Welp.

So; The past week has been... interesting. The house is sinking into the ground and that caused a gas leak. My dog and cat are both sick again so I am trying to figure out what is causing it... whatever it is also seems to be causing a sinus infection

Figuring Stuff Out

So my life's not exactly in a great place right now, the place I live in was probably condemned when I moved in and it's only gotten worse since. My mental health is probably the worst it's ever been and my relationships are basically

The Silence

I'll probably slow down a bit on Gerucrash development for a bit. The last couple weeks were a bit of a roller coaster. I started out the day when I initially started writing this planning to implement the slime renderer on the client and then the power went

Testing the Slime Generator and Populating the server with Slime Data

Last night I did a little overtime, today I wrote a little test function so I could rapidly generate a whole lot of slimes for SonOfTesticlese, as long as I hold Page Up while in the server window it will rapidly create new slimes. I was looking for any crashes

Let's get the generator working, eh?

So I can't seem to make my appointment today, issues with fuel. At least I can work on my Slime Generator, though. I'll have to figure something out for that other thing... I'll start out today by writing the DBMan functions for retrieving bits

Attempting to work on the Slime Generator

Up all night with my dog, she got sick yesterday. I spent the night taking her outside and making sure she drank water and got better. She's not 100% but she's a lot better this morning... though I am exhausted so quality of work will degrade

Generating the first slime

This is going to be interesting. It's pretty complex, lots of moving bits and pieces. I think it would be wise to break this down into individual functions so I can see what breaks and why a little easier, plus DRY. Lots of DB queries will be fired