kismetism

• Scouting (medium)
  • don’t permit scouting of areas that have already been scouted
  • create log messages
  • award slightly reduced XP (3/4? 1/2? … 3/5?)
  • generate 1-3 “nearby” adventures
• Scripts/pages to display logs from encounters (friggin’ annoying) (good enough…)
• Message boards (easy)
• Leaving games releases citizens back to hiring pool (easy)

On a related note, it’s a pretty amazing feeling when you find that your code foundation/groundwork was well thought-out enough for you to add new features relatively easily and with very little debugging necessary. :)

[edit] ::crosses everything off but message boards:: OH MY GOD. ;x

I friggin’ hate when websites make me change my password every x weeks.

And not only that, they’ll do things like require that your password has at least one letter, one number, one CAPITAL letter, and eight characters minimum. Like… grargh, really? It’s hard enough for me to remember one of these, let alone a dozen.

AND AND AND… they will actually keep track of your old passwords, so that you don’t just type in the same one in. So not only are you being forced to come up with something new, they don’t even purge the database of your old one, so if THEIR site was compromised…….

I get it conceptually; yes, yes, it’s more secure, to change your password on occasion. But besides all the points I already mentioned, it really, REALLY annoys me when a website has an inflated sense of importance by including this “feature”.

Like I logged into USC’s School of Cinematic Arts website for the first time since I registered for the stupid thing two point five years ago, and the first thing I see is, “HAY. CHANGE PASSWORD PLZ.”

Rrrgggghhh.

I’ve been programming my proverbial behind off in the last 48 hours. Consequentially, I am OMG SO CLOSE to the planned alpha 0.5 release. Which was, you know, supposed to actually happen like… two weeks ago. Or maybe more. Grargh.

What do I have left, let’s see…

• Scripts to generate citizens and adventures based on need (easy)
• Scouting (medium)
• Scripts/pages to display logs from encounters (friggin’ annoying)
• Message boards (easy)
• Leaving games releases citizens back to hiring pool (easy)

… omg OMG omg OMG omg OMG.

… Seriously. OMG.

Just going to keep coding through tonight and the early morning. It seriously HAS to get done. If there’s no release tomorrow or the day after (or the day after), it means that I’m really seriously screwed because I can’t keep to a viable work ethic.

But if I work at the pace I have in the past couple of days… for the rest of the year? I might still be able to pull this off. ;_;

… crap crap crap. Art. >_>;

[edit] Okay. Definitely not tomorrow, cause I’m in meetings all day. -_- And now I just realized there’s kind of a big snafu in my database design for logging. Hur dur. Arggh. So have to adjust for that. STILL…

Everyone at IMD is beamingly happy about the recent Princeton Review … review of the top 50 schools for Game Design, which sat USC/IMD squarely at the top in the number one slot.

I’m as proud as anyone else, I suppose, but everyone else has been tootin’ about it, so I haven’t really bothered. Still, it’s funny to see the reactions.

For example, in this USA Today explication, they of course make reference to Jenova Chen’s flOw and the more recent Misadventures of PB Winterbottom. But the list is supposed to be about undergraduate programs, and both those games technically came out of the graduate program. ::lol::

But funnier, and maybe more inflammatory, is this comment that I saw on Kotaku’s coverage of the article.

That’s funny that DigiPen is second even though they’ve won the top places at the Independent Games Festival for 8 YEARS IN A ROW.

… mmyyyeah. And the fact that DigiPen happens to also be the “platinum sponsor” of the IGF student showcase has absolutely nothing to do with it, I’m sure.

March. Argh.

At least this means Alice in Wonderland is coming out soon, though.

Also, this is cute.