Project Management

A collection of 25 posts

Game Dev

The Next Tools.

I've not even finished the current tools but I have started designing the next tools. I tend to be more creative in the morning or late at night so I have to organize my thoughts in books and pages before I can start coding for a day. Sometimes

Game Dev

Finishing the first version of the DB editor today, Hopefully.

Unless something should go terribly awry I should have the first version of the DB UI in a fully usable state to start testing today. First I need to implement a BACKUP DB function, I will make a backup of the DB before each change is made, then have a

Game Dev

Developing my own tools

So godot allows you to build your own tools in the engine, with the engine and it's kinda brilliant. Like you could build a sprite editor into the game engine or even into the game itself, see; PixelORama. So I have been building tools into the game engine

Game Dev

Databases and test suites.

This week I am working on Databases for Items, Recipes, Etc. For the Slime Resource Management Game. So far I have the material DB, all it's functions and a full test suite built. Next; RecipeDB. That's all. Sleep has been sporadic but work continues. Cheers.

Game Dev

The start of the year's game project

So this year I decided to go with some old school things to get my inspiration from as well as a few somewhat newer things. I'll mostly be developing it in spare time and using it to test stuff before I add it to Mew's game.

Jake

Some work on Jake's Version 4 Redesign

I've spent the morning collecting my notes and thoughts on the way the nodes must work based on the tests I have administered on the bench. I got kinda quiet there about this project and I will do that sometimes it's a long-term year long project

Godot

Today the light node stress testing starts.

In order to really make this fucker rock solid, based on my experience with the newer, cheaper nodes failing I will be doing some longer term stress testing on the light system under 5v and 3v and see if I can increase their reliability, brightness and ability to maintain connection

Project Management

An epitaph for a spoon

So I get attached to things I have a long time, they start to feel like friends. Well, I lost a wooden spoon I cooked with every day for years today. The handle just snapped. I can't think of many food safe ways to effectively fix it so.

Life

Been a while.

Went off to try and figure my shit out. Just kinda unplugged from the world and played old games, watched old shows, kinda been living in the past for the last few months trying to figure out what the hell to do. I've decided to actually set a

Yarrdachi

Goals, Deadlines and Getting Shit in Order

So this week will probably get a bit rough. I am bracing for next month where I will be very broke as well and then the following month is December so I am broke until next year. Sleep is a bit rough again. No more weed, so just gonna deal

Yarrdachi

Yarrdachi: Adventure Design and Docs

So I will continue with the docs I was working on yesterday, figure out what I need to do next for the design, get a handle on Jest hopefully. If it's straightforward anyway. If I am honest I kinda want to make this a WebAssembly thing right now

Yarrdachi

Yarrdachi: Front-end all the way down, more planning and sketching.

It continues. Today I will continue the design sketching and planning. I should also plan out what things I should write tests for by figuring out the functions of each component. Things like testing that selecting an item sends the right command with the right item ID to the API.

Yarrdachi

Yarrdachi: Front end for the phone view continues on...

This is a weird one. I need to finish drawing all the steps of all the interactions from the party menu on the dashboard. I'd like to have all these things drawn up before I get to them so I can just blow through with the code and

Life

What's been going on.

First and most depressing I had to give up on finishing my October game project. I managed to get me a nerve injury in my wrist so I can't draw at all for a while and my laptop is kaput. Now I have to do most of my

The MMO Project

All roads lead to MMO.

I can't quit you, MMO project. If I am going to do anything I might as well just do the thing I have passion for, right? It's better than trying to come up with a simple project and running in circles for months, I could instead

Project Management

Projects: The one true way.

The only way out is through it. If I keep being terrified of failing I will never make any progress. I've just got to commit and follow through. I need to put out at least one game project this year. I have one I am working on, right

Sick Day

Back in the office again

That was over a month. I was expecting 3 weeks at the worst but nope, I had to prematurely attempt to get back to work and elongate the recovery time. Anyway I am back now. I feel like my priorities have changed since this started, though and I will need

Godot

Protobound Day 2

So I started off adding some collision to my interior maps by making specific parts of the walls collide. Furniture and the like will be placed free-hand as objects in the map, this way I can attach behaviors to them or animate them as I see fit. The next thing

Godot

Protobound: Day One

Right now I am updating Arch, installing the new Linux kernel and eating breakfast. Soon, it begins. Had some hiccups in the updates, seems to be on track now. We'll see after the reboot. Could lose a day here if it goes wrong and I have to reinstall

Godot

Setting up Project Management

I set up the gitlab repo with project management and having broke it down into systems and steps I realize it's a bit large but I think if I keep to the milestones and try to keep things simple I should be able to pull it off. I

Rust lang

3 days of Rust and Planning

So I have one more day left in the course and I have to say Rust is pretty great but it does require you to change a lot of the way you think about things and has lead to my brain just not functioning correctly for a few days, I

C#

Two Days; One Post

First of all, I just discovered this https://www.si.edu/openaccess which is great for game devs if you ask me. That's a whole lot of CC0 goodness for all kinds of applications. Good shit, Smithsonian. I will take a shot at 3D printing something from this,

Day Off

Quick Sunday Post about DevOps

Today I started working on a short course to help acclimate myself with some different tech, I have never used docker with any python projects before, in fact I rarely every bothered with it as I never really had much need for it. Though after getting a docker container set

C++

Groundwork

Today I have been setting up the servers for supporting the MMO project and was trying to get some forum software that isn't super over-engineered running. While I will have to write my own forum some time for the Tamakai project, I would much rather use something old

Game Dev

Damage Control

So a lot of my servers and ssl certs went kinda... badly the last couple days. Today I have remedied that by getting a new host for my VPSes. It's about lunch now and I spent the majority of the morning doing research on deals since there are