http://wot.blogsome.com To log the development of WoT (a roguelike game). Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:34:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Geocties now has an hourly limit of 4.2MB. Say if a release is 700KB that a maximum of 6 per hour, excluding browsing. Which is generally not bad overall. But what when a release comes up there is usualy a much higher numbe of people visiting than ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/web-site-blues/ I propose we change the name. Several reasons. The “woods” theme hasn’t been used very much, and I don’t think it will be anytime soon, if ever. “Woods of Torbin” is a bit too long of a name for people to type into an address bar. Having http://www.geocities.com/woodsoftorbin/ is ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/change-of-name/ I have started working on Sound, as Kostatus has gracefully taken over the work of melee code. In the process of doing so, I simplified the Node class originally used by A* and derived an AStarNode subclass from it. This makes the Node class useful as a base for building ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/28/a-memory-footprint-optimization-and-sound-subsystem/ A roguelike trailer: http://fin.broodwar.com/dbd-alpha.avi By Kostatus http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/26/funny-link/ Some draft goals that we need to complete before the next release: Melee and Ranged fighting fully implemented. Save games and persistent levels. Fully implemented inventory handling system. A town map, and maybe even a world map. Support for “simple graphics” which includes the ASCII tiles. Food and hunger (at least for the PC) Character selection (”birth”) Some ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/24/next-release-draft-goals/ I wasn’t so happy with the original AI movement that the nomial creature does; it was implemented quickly to check for the correctness of our A* implementation. So, I started adding in features that make the AI movement more “realistic”. Having implemented all that, I wasn’t too happy with the ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/23/creature-ai-movement-completed/ Latest Java docs are now available for browsing at http://wot.00pro.com/docs/. By Kostatus http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/20/docs/ Before I post anything further, I fixed the bug mentioned in the last post. I for some reason started writing some pretty crazy debugging messages. Here is one: DEBUG: Summer rain. Summer pain. Summer rains when Summer faints. When Summer ends and life gets tough, drink some vodka, take some puff. This was ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/19/wot-odd-debugging-poetry/ The A* as it stands is rather bug-free and is working pretty well on all the tests I have done on it. I ended up using a TreeMap, and 2 HashMap for A* for the fastest operation. The testing revealed some pitfalls in the creature generation code, so it was ... http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/19/a-implementation-completed/ All the features of the (unreleased) 0.0.3 Random World Map Random town maps Basic conversations with NPCs Sound-driven AI for some creatures Highscores By Kostatus http://wot.blogsome.com/2005/11/17/wish-list-for-next-release/