Making AI Practical and Practicable
The theme of the July project work was “Retail, Resize, Refactor”. As some of you may be aware, the first week of July contains a large holiday. Our family also dovetailed it with a birthday celebration for our daughter. As such, there was precious little time for work on BassRPG,…
During June I (fairly successfully I think) got the battle system for my RPG up and running. While I do not have all of the enemies in the game, I have all of the ‘hard bits’ around the battle system finished. Put another way, I’m not so worried that I…
June is over, or will be shortly. It’s time to look back on the months project. At the outset, let me say I’m pretty happy with the outcome. You may recall, but let me remind you, that , “In June, I plan on running through a whole feature for the…
Last time I said I wanted to accomplish the following for the next piece of work on the battler: Do for Skills / Spells what I’ve done for attack Enable the “Defend” action Handle the win / loss transitions In addition, I implemented a rudimentary party inventory system and got…
Last week, I had started to work on the battle system for my RPG. I laid out a laundry list of work that still needed to be done to get to where I wanted to be. This week, I’ve been able to tackle: Port over the turn taking logic Port…
You might recall from my last post that I said I’d be working on an RPG combat system during the month of June. I found that time boxing my personal projects seemed to be a good way for me to get work done, but I was eager to go back…
What Worked Time bounding the whole project Roughing out one chunk of game play at a time, stitching roughed segments together, and only doing polish at the end Pushing input capture into a single object and reading its state Tiny amount of issue tracking (via trello) for a tiny project…
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in randomizers, like the Link to the Past Randomizer or Final Fantasy IV: Free Enterprise. These games are romhacks that take the content of classic games and mix them all up so that you play them in a different order. Gating…
