January 14, 2007
lol, so I started moving the output of Rhubarb's PHP scripts from HTML (eww) to XML (*scream*). XML is, by nature, a bitch to work with. And my benchmarks show that there wasn't any performance gains from converting the forums, though the XML output is like 1/3 the size of the HTML output (which is…
January 02, 2007
1) its for the forced tutorial you go through when you start the game. includes explanations of the game mechanics and stuff, basically answers all the questions I've been asked before by other people etc.
2) no it can't be accessed yet lols. I need a day or two more (lol, discovered I didn't code t…
January 01, 2007
lol editors
Before I had to manually input the link points by hand, basically by manually grabbing them in MS Paint. That was such a shitty method, so I'm going back and re-doing my content creation stuff. To make links on the maps, you just... click on the map to set the x,y position and the size. …
Before I had to manually input the link points by hand, basically by manually grabbing them in MS Paint. That was such a shitty method, so I'm going back and re-doing my content creation stuff. To make links on the maps, you just... click on the map to set the x,y position and the size. …
December 27, 2006
Whee! Pouya wanted to try setting up a subdomain on his DreamHosters account, so I ended up getting rhubarb.lepouya.com. Sweet. 1GB of storage, 100GB bandwidth with PHP5 and MySQL. Basically, everything I need to host my current project.
Now, what I really need is a name. I can't bloody come up with…
Now, what I really need is a name. I can't bloody come up with…
December 23, 2006
Whoa, explosions! I wish I knew about that when I was doing not-PHP stuff. Its a pretty sweet procedural 2D explosion texture generator which outputs files like this:
In a nutshell: fucking awesome.
In a nutshell: fucking awesome.
December 21, 2006
So I implemented item usage in (and out of) battles yesterday. There's a potion in the tavern (bottom floor of the inn) sitting on the small table in the front of the room which you can use to gain about 15HP from. You can use it from the inventory menu, or with the 'use item' command in battles.
To…
To…
December 20, 2006
Well, I've been busy. Kind of.
Last night I flashed my router (WRT54G) with DD-RT firmware. Its much nicer, and lets me telnet into it. Sweetness. The actual flashing procedure was really smooth and easy, but when I turned the router back on the internet no longer worked. I attributed this to my DSL…
Last night I flashed my router (WRT54G) with DD-RT firmware. Its much nicer, and lets me telnet into it. Sweetness. The actual flashing procedure was really smooth and easy, but when I turned the router back on the internet no longer worked. I attributed this to my DSL…
December 17, 2006
Whee! There are now (very basic) battles! There are two types of battles: random 'on-map' battles which can occur whenever you click on the map, and 'location-specific' battles which essentially is just a place where you can fight an endless series of monsters and stuff. Hooray!
More stuff to implem…
More stuff to implem…
December 14, 2006
(continued)
I'm highly influenced by Kingdom of Loathing, to the point it can be fairly claimed I'm making a clone. Anyway, in KoL, gameplay progresses by 'adventuring' (spending turns) in locations, where you essentially encounter a series of adventures, which are generally battles and such.
Anyway,…
December 14, 2006
So I was laying out the battle system for the PHP crap (instead of studying for my probability exam which... is in an hour LOL!), and I realized that, hey, I really have no idea how my battle system is going to work. lols.
I mean, I've got part of it: each character has 8 stats:
POW MAG TAL
CON WIS CH…
I mean, I've got part of it: each character has 8 stats:
POW MAG TAL
CON WIS CH…
December 12, 2006
Email to one of my CS professors this morning -
Quote:Well, I woke up this morning and sent Demetri a message asking if he was ready to take the exam. He responded back to me saying he was sitting in the airport waiting for his plane to start boarding.
...
I thought he was joking, so I checked the sit…
December 10, 2006
Quote:Dear Mushu,
Greetings. Since yours was the second of three reports we have now received regarding students who are spoofing their MAC address in order to use up more bandwidth, I am writing to ask you to share how you knew you had the ability to do this.
I am concerned that in the future ITC…
December 10, 2006
WHOOPS!!!
To everyone who tried to log-in yesterday - I switched the database server over from dwarfsoft's host (which was really ick) to one hosted at the university that I found. Unfortunately, I did this right after posting, and register.php (week-old legacy code) was still using the hard-coded c…
To everyone who tried to log-in yesterday - I switched the database server over from dwarfsoft's host (which was really ick) to one hosted at the university that I found. Unfortunately, I did this right after posting, and register.php (week-old legacy code) was still using the hard-coded c…
December 09, 2006
Okay, so I mentioned that I have to learn PHP and stuff so I have a better chance of getting a job, so I've been working on a web-based (MO)RPG project for about a week. It actually isn't that hard, once you get past the fact that PHP is a turd and debugging sucks, and other various issues.
Anyway, …
Anyway, …
December 06, 2006
Hur hur!
So I'm sitting here watching some anime (Fate/Stay Night), and my phone rings. I'm like 'lol ok phone' and pick it up. The person asks me if I'm Mushu, and I say yeah and they're like, well, we found out that you're spoofing your MAC address and sent you an email blah blah expulsion blah bl…
So I'm sitting here watching some anime (Fate/Stay Night), and my phone rings. I'm like 'lol ok phone' and pick it up. The person asks me if I'm Mushu, and I say yeah and they're like, well, we found out that you're spoofing your MAC address and sent you an email blah blah expulsion blah bl…
December 05, 2006
O_o
Also, I just got back from one of the gamedev meetings I probably mentioned earlier. It was given by one of the graphics professors here (actually, the only one left after they fired the other two...) about what makes a video game good or bad.
Too bad said professor swore off video games years ag…
Also, I just got back from one of the gamedev meetings I probably mentioned earlier. It was given by one of the graphics professors here (actually, the only one left after they fired the other two...) about what makes a video game good or bad.
Too bad said professor swore off video games years ag…
December 03, 2006
Life's been busy recently and stuff. Been working on a crappy project in PHP to learn some of the language basics and stuff, and watching way too much anime for my own well being. Hopefully I'll have some gamedev-related stuff to show in about a week's time (maybe more) - having some browser issues…
November 25, 2006
"The rumors of my life have not been greatly exaggerated."
A week without internet is seriously killer. At least I had my Wii to play with. Har har, only had to camp outside in freezing weather with a camp chair and some blankets for 12 hours. Zelda dies. Oops .
At least its a quick, though ungraciou…
A week without internet is seriously killer. At least I had my Wii to play with. Har har, only had to camp outside in freezing weather with a camp chair and some blankets for 12 hours. Zelda dies. Oops .
At least its a quick, though ungraciou…
November 14, 2006
FF3!!!
Okay, so I went into GameStop this morning when it opened, and was like "whuz up babe, gimme ff3 plox" and she was like "whut we dun hav ff3 it dun arrive until noon or one lolz" and I was like "shiizzzzz" so I bought a different game.
Then I came back around 2, after they had unpacked today's…
Okay, so I went into GameStop this morning when it opened, and was like "whuz up babe, gimme ff3 plox" and she was like "whut we dun hav ff3 it dun arrive until noon or one lolz" and I was like "shiizzzzz" so I bought a different game.
Then I came back around 2, after they had unpacked today's…
November 11, 2006
Stuff to buy -
[ ] Children of Mana (DS, $40, Released)
[ ] Final Fantasy III (DS, $40, November 14)
[ ] Wii Console ($310, November 19)
[ ] Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Wii, $50, November 19)
[ ] Metal Slug Anthology (Wii, $50, November 19)
[ ] Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Wii, $50, November 19)
[ ] Kirby…
[ ] Children of Mana (DS, $40, Released)
[ ] Final Fantasy III (DS, $40, November 14)
[ ] Wii Console ($310, November 19)
[ ] Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Wii, $50, November 19)
[ ] Metal Slug Anthology (Wii, $50, November 19)
[ ] Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Wii, $50, November 19)
[ ] Kirby…
November 06, 2006
blaaarrrgggg I have a test on wednesday that I'm completely unprepared for, and I discovered that I'm not going to be here for the 17-19th, which is UGHHHH so I'll just have to try my best to get a Wii at home. The Target (PLACE OF INFAMY) has 51 units to sell... hopefully I'll be able to get one.
F…
November 03, 2006
Random posting: How to write a Combo-Event Manager.
[ Source: .cpp | .h ]
I'm going to simplify this to a single-button input system, not for any obvious reasons except that it makes drawing the input signals easier, and that the system can be easily built on to differentiate between buttons.
First, …
[ Source: .cpp | .h ]
I'm going to simplify this to a single-button input system, not for any obvious reasons except that it makes drawing the input signals easier, and that the system can be easily built on to differentiate between buttons.
First, …
October 27, 2006
lol, so my dial-up punishment period is officially over. Hooray.
Also, apparently someone caught on to my abuse of the UNIX cluster. Specifically, I've been transferring data off via Apache - throw it into the public_html folder and then downloading it from there. Well, this morning, Apache redirect…
Also, apparently someone caught on to my abuse of the UNIX cluster. Specifically, I've been transferring data off via Apache - throw it into the public_html folder and then downloading it from there. Well, this morning, Apache redirect…
October 23, 2006
So yeah, haven't been posting recently. Mainly because I haven't been on the internet much the past couple days. Mainly because
ITC has limited your network bandwidth speed to 56kbps (modem speed) for 7 days effective 2006-10-20. This limitation only impacts commodity Internet traffic. The limitatio…
ITC has limited your network bandwidth speed to 56kbps (modem speed) for 7 days effective 2006-10-20. This limitation only impacts commodity Internet traffic. The limitatio…
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