Mirlix

Last weekend a first prototype using the component framework was created, the player can walk on a plane and monsters spawn on the 4 cornes and follow him, nothing more. But this is done using only 4 or 5 different components and 100 lines of game specific code, which is a really good result.

During the programming of the game i found some edges in the underlying component system which i will take care of this weekend and the build process is rather annoying at the moment, but i dont have time/motivation to make something about it in this early stage and it  isnt that bad, 30 minutes should be needed to make it running on any system. Also there are some bugs and missing features i havnt thought about earlier, so more work for the next weeks/months. I couldnt to work on the editor and the lua binding is still incomplete, so much work so few time:) .

But all in all the development is going quite well and in april i begin univeristy which will help improve the system, i will have more time and i can use the system for papers.

I tried updating Wordpress today and in retrospective i should have read the manuel, i dont knwo how, but i killed it. I installed the new version in an other folder and copyed the database table containing the posts, everything should be back again, but i coulnd test it properly so maybe some errors are still here and i lost my theme.

I will use the weekend to get everything working again, including a new theme, the old one wasnt that good.

I used the weekend to made some progress with my prototype. Now i can walk on a plane with a functional 3rd person camera using my component system. Now im working on the luabinding, so everythink can be controlled using Lua. And im planning on adding some monster to walk the empty world to make it a bit more interesing for the player, a game where you cant die or do anything isnt much fun, excpet for the programmer how created it, i played more than an hour with it:) . My component editor is still in the planning phase and i think it will remain there a bit longer, i just dont have enought time, damn you fulltime job.

During the holidays i coudnt find any time for programming, i met some of my friends and spend some time with my familiy. For xmas i got the new book from Jasper Fford “First amoung sequals” which is as good as the first four Thursday Next book, which is rather surprising, normally bookseries tend to get worse with every new volume.

The only other author i knew where i know every book is as good as possible is Terry Pratchett, two or three more and i have read the whole discword series. I wish i could make an MMORPG based on these books:)