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The ups and downs of a self taught programmer.
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RanBlade
January 26, 2009
lol

lol

Well so much for Space Shooter. A lil back history here, This was my cousin's senior project for college and his 2 partners were flaking on him so he asked his adviser if I could help and he said it was cool. So the work began and we tore through it the game was almost completed it was time for ref…
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RanBlade
December 24, 2008
Long week
well my cousin and I have been working on a 3-D space shooter for a little while now and we have really started focusing on it in the last week or so. we now have a enemyship that flies around trying to fly towards you. You can fire you main cannon and the bullets collision is setup. Then today we …
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RanBlade
December 12, 2008
SUCCESS
The transplant went great my dad's new kidney is working awesome and my wife is getting out of the hospital today. So all is good and its time to get back to work!. Thank God that is over and all went well. more to come

Peace
Eric Ranaldi
-RanBlade
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RanBlade
December 09, 2008
Transplant.
Well my wife is giving my father a kidney and the surgery is tomorrow. I have been sitting here all day and been browsing around so I figured I would come here and post a journal entry.

This surgery has really opened my eyes in my life to show me how short it is and can be if you sit on your butt a…
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RanBlade
November 23, 2006
First Screenshot
Well this is the first screen shot of Fantasy Battle. its not much but its the start of things to come..

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RanBlade
November 21, 2006
New Baby!
I also forgot to mention with all the stuff going on around here.. On Nov 5th 2006 my daughter Haylee was born. A healthy 9lbs 1oz baby girl.!!
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RanBlade
November 21, 2006
WoW searched for hours and cant figure it out.
I have gone through my books, searched the net, changed my code around but I just cant get it to work.

I have my engine as one project. then I created Fantasy Battle as another project and Iam including the files. for some reason i keep getting unresolved link errors that all the things on the web s…
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RanBlade
October 24, 2006
Gimp
Well I downloaded Gimp today.. and made my two logos.. now I have a open source image editor. Time to see if i can put out anyhting legiable for Fantasy Battle. Could take some time haha as you can see by those logos.
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RanBlade
October 23, 2006
Update
Well I didnt like how I was handling the game loop. I wanted the game to have control of it and not my engine. But I still wanted the engine to handle all keypresses and whatnot. So I took my while loop out of it and made a Run fucntion in my Test_Game class that calls the new HandleInput() functio…
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RanBlade
October 22, 2006
Another Day.
Lots going on these last few days with work..As well with my engine, Not only did i get my state manager working the way I wanted and intented I also got simple logging and timer systems. So its moving right along working with Collision detection now. So Iam pretty excited its all working out atm. …
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RanBlade
October 18, 2006
LGE

LGE

Well my engine's state system moved forward today. The event system I made while I was working on this a year ago just looped through every current state that handled event and sent it the event. The problem was if two diffrent states used the same key for diffrent things it prossesed them both. So…
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RanBlade
October 10, 2006
Woot finnally got linux!
Finnally got a linux distro on one of my computers.. now I should be able to have some more fun.

Ya wife gave me her computer because she hardly uses it and my laptop is dead now.
So I threw a second HD in it and installed Linux. Time to go explore the OS
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RanBlade
October 09, 2006
jeez.. I have some luck
Iam getting into the middle of working on my GameState Manager and I get called out of the room to do something and come back and my laptop had been pulled off the table and the connector to my battery pack had been broken.. Currently dont have the cash to go buy a new battery pack so I was so piss…
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RanBlade
October 09, 2006
Update: Fantasy Battle
I have decided to go with a 2D side view for Fantasy Battle. I have my Legacy engine I have been working on that Iam going to use for this game. So I should have some screenshots here in a couple days.

Stay tuned for more updates.
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RanBlade
October 08, 2006
Basic Char Info
Well I have worked out a basic stats and info for the characters and classes concering the inital stats for each one so here it goes..

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Fantasy Battle V1.0
Basic Character Info


Forumlas:

BStr = Base Strength
BInt = Base Intelegence
BDex = Base Dexterity

BHP = Base Hit Poi…
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RanBlade
October 08, 2006
Fantasy Battle !
Introducing my new concept
Fantasy Battle

The game will be a text based 1v1 battle with fantasy characters. The goal will to beat your opponet in a head2head battle. It is meant to be a simple yet fun game.

--------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1:
It will be single playe…
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RanBlade
October 08, 2006
Long week
Whoa been a long week. Wife is 9 months along now and had a couple false alarms. Cant wait till the new baby actually gets here. It will cut down even more on my programming time.. But o well.

Anyway on to other things I got a lot more work done with a test server and client(cant really do much yet)…
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RanBlade
October 02, 2006
Damn its been almost a year  /cry
Well I cant belive I wasted this time. I finnally broke the addiction called MMO's these last few weeks. Thats no joke I look back on the things I have acomplished in the game and the things I could have of accomplished in programming and game development and it makes me so mad at myself. I could …
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RanBlade
December 01, 2005
well...
Well time sure can fly by when you dont think to much about it. I went to take a lil break to play some WoW with my bro and friend adn man time flew. I realized today that I have spent a lot of time not programming and I wish I hadnt now. Oh well now that iam out of my stupor of playing that mindl…
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RanBlade
October 20, 2005
Update
Ok an update on my engine.. its a simple one and I want to keep it that way to make making the simple games easier.

Video/rendering - SDL
Surface Class
Can load BMP
Can set transparency with ease.

Video_System Class
Can Init the SDL video system
Can Draw to the screen
Can set Resolution width and…
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RanBlade
October 20, 2005
Sleep
Days at work are getting longer and longer... hopefully I get some more done tommorow.. well good night
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RanBlade
October 17, 2005
Day off
Well today was my birthday and so I decided to play some World of Warcraft with my bro and I went out with family... anyway back to work tommorow and time to get back to my game.
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RanBlade
October 14, 2005
I think its time
Well I have a working video/sound/event system. I think its time I make a simple game like hangman or something to test it all out. So now I will be working on hangman using this simple engine. After that I will do some more work on it then probably make another game.. What iam hoping the game will…
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RanBlade
October 13, 2005
IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg I actually got a work event system HELL YA.. woot... omg I feel good... I have a werid screen update issue with it but thats fine i just have the video at the end of the handle event update screen instead of the system loop...time to do more testing

[Edit]
Also i fixed the updatescreen issue.. Se…
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RanBlade
October 13, 2005
Coming along
Well this idea is coming along... Its a slow process as I have been really tired after work these last few days and when I wake up in the morning Ive had to fill out a lot of paperwork. The paperwork is done so now work should pick up a bit before I go to work which should be good.. well good night…
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RanBlade
October 12, 2005
Tired. but maybe
Well Iam tired as hell long day at work.. but I did a lot of thinking today about my engine and if I wake up on time I should be able to get some good stuff in.. I dont know whats up but the last couple days I have had a very clear head about all this... Iam loving it.. it will be gone soon though …
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RanBlade
October 11, 2005
WoW Ima take a day off more often
Well I didnt do any programming yesterday. I did think about the event handling system a lil bit but I think I cracked it

I just need to setup a stack/vector or something to hold all the diffrent interfaces that have events.. like menu - playgame - character and all that jazz.. But I figured out a w…
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RanBlade
October 10, 2005
Ponders
I dont want to give up on anything i start with programming cus that just lets me take the easy way out. But I just dont know how revlevant making a event system is to wnating to become focused on network programming. It is probably fairly invloved but I dont know. I want to get into the network pr…
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RanBlade
October 09, 2005
Bah done for the night
well i fried my brain on the SDL event system today... I didnt get anyhting acomlpished toward my goal but i found a dirrent way to handle holding down a key then has been shown in all the examples i have seen on the net..or atleast it seems diffrent
anyway tme to sleep maybe ill be able to do somet…
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RanBlade
October 09, 2005
Headaches
Well for some reason Iam just not able to get my head around a Event handling system. Been reading docs and articales all night and man my brain is frying. It is on the tip of my mind i can feel it i just cant bring the concept in completly.. ill start with something and then ill be blank again.. I…
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