Ferby's Blog
These are just some random ramblings, because I have nothing better to do with my time.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Fonts

By John, Annie, Lucy and the Woof-Woofs at 1:43 PM

I got custom font loading implemented today at lunch. Unfortunately my choice of font is pretty hideous.

 
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Server Progress

By John, Annie, Lucy and the Woof-Woofs at 9:42 AM

I got my server deployed again. Subversion, web and Ventrilo services are all set up again. I've got my project uploaded into svn and the eclipse projects updated with the new repository.

I'm hoping that I can get some time this week to get the menus displaying in the correct positions so that I can move onto the logic behind vendors and inn keepers. Once that is taken care of opening chests will probably be the next step.

I did get the basic code for combat written down in my notes. I still need to do the code for combat formula stuff and the random chances, but that is more tedious that difficult.

 

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Progress for a Change

By John, Annie, Lucy and the Woof-Woofs at 3:23 PM

I've actually made some progress during lunch. I've implemented props. Which are just stationary objects like tables, chairs, signs, etc. You can "use" them like Npcs or vendors. That way you can read a sign or a painting or something.

The other thing I've worked on is vendors. They are in the game, but until I have time to work on the menus you can't buy from them.

I have random encounters working, but nothing other than a System.out.println() message happens.

My next steps are to get get the menus working and looking as they should. Once all that is done then I can work on buying things from vendors, sleeping at an inn, and spawning monsters.

 
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Monday, December 3, 2007

Debian

By John, Annie, Lucy and the Woof-Woofs at 10:42 AM

First off I installed the new hdd into my main pc and booted up my XP cd. Turns out that the cd is trash now. It thought my 160 and 300 gb hdds were 130 each. When I tried to make a partition with it on my main drive I think it might have nuked the data on my data drive. So I could be looking at a loss of about 270 gigs of stuff. Really the only crappy thing about that is my 30 gigs of music. I'll have to drag my tower over to my parents house to get my Dad's back up of music. Then I'll have to re-rip all of my cds again.

So instead of windows I'm going to try a Linux only system for a while. Which might mean no more games for me for a while. I'm going to look into getting wine working well enough to try and emulate some games. More than likely I won't be playing HL2:EP2 or TF2 any time soon. Not like I have any time right now to do that. I'm going to put together a guide for setting up a Debian Desktop. It will be what I did on my system. Since I'm using this for more of a testing/learning system I'll post up guides on doing the extra things like compiling a kernel. So far I got a basic system up. Then compiled and installed the latest Openbox, obconf and obmenu. The last thing I did was get Firefox(well Iceweasel) setup to my liking. I'll work on those guides and probably have them up next(not this) weekend.