Peregrinatio

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

The DBMan, The Models and the Mail server

Last night I set up a mail server so we can send out e-mails for registration and password recovery, among other things. I'm still fiddling with the DNS settings trying to get e-mails coming from us not to appear as spam but that's a trial and

Wings, Tails, Connections.

All that's left for the slime animator is to set up the wings and tails layers. I originally planned to generate a sprite-sheet but I may want to do things with individual layers(like apply shaders) so I'll keep things separate. Today's music: After

Markings; how do they work?

So now that I have an easy and reliable way to import my aseprite animations I can more quickly add the marking layers, to do that I will need to make 3 markings for my current slime base which I made for the template. I will also need a set

Continuing on the Slime Template

I'm going to try and finish the template today. Before I got started I made a containerized version of EOServ for my own messing around purposes. It was a continuation of something I was doing last night. Just something to do in the evenings when I don'

Back to Designing the Slime Template

Had some forced time off. That tends to happen to me around the holidays, anyway I am back to work now hopefully in alright shape, but I suppose we'll be finding out as the day goes on. Took the time to enjoy my yearly whiskey and some Dwarf

Planning the Slime Server - Part Deux

Now that I have some idea how the data will save and how to operate on active slimes I will need to figure out a few things client-side as well. I did some sketches after I posted yesterday to get some idea of what the UI flow will be but

Planning the Slime Server - Part One

This week will be a little weird and slow, I think. But I need to have a solid plan or at least a good scaffold in place for the Slime Server before I start on implementation. When considering how the slime data will be handled I have to think about

Finishing up the Apartment Server for now

Today I need to do a few things and then I am out of the office early if it all goes well. Monday I have to start planning and building the Slime Server, rather start that fresh and rested so I don't make so many stenanks in the

Placing and Removing Tank Decor

Rent's due. I may need to work on it a bit tomorrow but today I hope to finish up the main functions of the tanks with decor placement as well as managing temp/humidity and lighting. [Future Me: So close.] Today's music: I'll have

More tanks: Decoration

I kinda wish I had designed the furniture model the same way I did the tank model. I think I will start out refactoring the decoration items to work how the tanks do as far as inventory and placement. It will lighten the load on the DB server and the

Tank work continues

The arm is feeling pretty good today, so that bodes well. We'll see if I am back to a full day or if I need to cut it short again. Gonna play it by ear. It's looking like I just pulled a muscle at this point

No tank puns.

Probably going to be another half day, fell on my hand weird on Friday and had a dull ache in my forearm since. Gets worse if I spend too much time typing I found out, so naturally programming will be a bit hampered until it heals. If it starts to

The Tanks and Thanks

Need a safe place to keep the baby geru. Tanks make sense to me. I have geckos in tanks, right? I have gone back and forth on this one, mostly because it's a good chunk of work and the geru will eventually outgrow the tanks. They are in

Verifying furniture with the Apartment Server

Today the server side of furniture placement begins. I need to make sure of a few things... * The player has the item in question * The item is NOT placed * The item does not get placed on the client until confirmed by the server. * The item is saved to the database

Placing Furniture

So I need to write the actual furniture placement code in the client, making the object follow the mouse pointer, flipping it and sending it to the server, where we check if the player has said item and it is available and make sure they don't have too