Category: Project Update

Okay, I recognize that I haven’t been exactly the best about keeping up on things in the blog; most of this is because life is kind of hectic right now with stuff that is going on, and I’ve got a lot of other writing that I’ve been doing that gets in the way of my time. Fortunately, I defend my thesis/creative project on the 14th (the one I made XMICAE for), and that will open me up for a variety of fun and interesting endeavors. I’ve got a lot of other stuff that will make updating at my normal pace difficult for a while, but by mid-December I should be back to three weekly posts, and maybe four (I’m no longer a reviewer at DriveThruRPG, so reviews may not be a weekly thing). Continue reading “Project Update: The Future”

I’ve been really bad about updating this blog, so here’s a brief overview of things that I’ve had going on:

I’ve been working on a number of tiny side projects, none of which have ever really been taken to fruition; d20m was a hybrid modular d20 system that I need to polish up a bit and then release the core elements of, and The Gods Left Them, which is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction game that needs a setting rewrite. I was also doing a weekly video game stream, but lack of time really began to interfere with that and I stopped doing it.

The main thing I have to show for the time since I last wrote is my honors project, which has continued along more or less as planned, though a little more slowly than I would have liked because of class. I’m still using XMICAE, with all the slowness that comes with that, but I’ve made a couple of improvements to the code and stability. I plan to release XMICAE 0.1.1 eventually, though I don’t feel comfortable with releasing all my content to the public until after I defend my thesis (just to make sure that people know it’s mine). If you’re interested in seeing its current state, though, you can check out xmicae.homoeoteleuton.com.

Finally, over this weekend I made a mockup of a game, tentatively titled “The Inky Depths”. It’s a steampunk tactical game with roleplaying elements, plus giant mech suits and a needlessly complex system. I’m including its 72-hour build here, and I hope to eventually polish it and put it up on 1km1kt (as it stands it’s not really “finished”), but this is its “rough draft” if you will. The Inky Depths Rough Draft can be downloaded here. The main changes that will come in the upcoming days are to fix some things that came as a result of deadlines (I was going to do this as an early entry for 1km1kt’s 24-hour competition, but it dragged out to about 72 hours of time and 16 man-hours of work (which should be a testament to just how messy my weekend was),

XMICAE 0.1.0 has undergone some testing and finishing, and I have to say that I’m happy with where it has come. The roll system should work fine, so a lot of what remains is going through and putting in some end of life support for the platform and whatnot. This means documentation writing, which shouldn’t be too horrifying, as well as cleaning up my production folder. I’ll leave all my test files in there so that people can mess around with them if anyone wanted to extend/learn from XMICAE. Continue reading “Project Update: XMICAE 0.1.0”

I’ve got only a handful of things remaining to finish before XMICAE is ready for a test release. Some of these might not even make it in to the first testing, depending on how ready I am when June 7th rolls around. I’d hoped to make the June 7th release be a public test, but it’ll probably be 0.0.0 in my version system and include a without-warranty source release under Apache 2.0. I should be able to start a private test this weekend, and release 1.0.0 as well as open it up for public testing some time the week afterward. Here’s the stuff I have left to do:

• Some UI sidebar stuff
• Removing old test files
• Adding in rolls
• Finish switching over to prepared statements.

Continue reading “Project Update: Approaching a Test Release”

I’ve been almost crushed by the sheer volume of school work I’ve had to do in the past few days, coupled with a couple additional other minor things for school it’s really added up. Fortunately, I’ve still been able to work a little on my project, though mostly not on the XMICYOA side. Continue reading “Project Update: Getting it Done”