Ricky's blog

I've come to the conclusion that the module auto-downloader concept I'd been working on was not useful to implement - there's no ability for it to scale. With potentially dozens or more of modules for the engine being possible, there's no sane way of building an auto-downloader that can be easily maintained and kept up-to-date. It is much simpler just to provide simple instructions for how to install a module and let the users get them from wherever they want to get them. Thus I've turned my attention to getting the codebase compiling and working on OSX.

I've been a fan of Pivotal Tracker for several years now.  It's helped me organize and schedule iterations for everything from work tasks to school projects and more - all in the nice, fluid "Web 2.0" manner we've been coming to expect from modern web applications.  It's been great - until one day I suddenly needed to do some reorganization that required opening several panels at the same time.

Back when the NLS Game Engine was the school project, named "Saturn V" after the rocket of the same same, Adam and I pretty much threw the scripting interface together at the last minute just to get our game demo put together - the team that was assigned the task had no programmers, leaving all of us in a bit of a bind; one of the hazards of taking school courses.  When we rebuilt the code and created NLS we kept a lot of the same hodgepodge scripting interfaces, putting in more as needed to get our final game projects produced.

SAM:DATA vs Dr. Mal Ware 2: Saving Your Friend’s Computer From Being Taken Over By An Evil Overlord, or How to Defeat the Evil Doctor Again is about to be released!  I've been working every morning and evening since my demo at GDC2012 to get and the new tutorial level in the kinks worked out.  It's been a rush, and the feedback I got from GDC was amazing - everyone who played thought it was great.  

After losing my database during a system update (bad admin! Wait, that's me!) I'm back up and running. Good thing I backed up all my client's data, just too bad I forgot mine. If anyone has a copy of the one interesting article I wrote on here I'd be glad to see it again! (I've even forgotten what subject I wrote it on... :P) Oh well. Hey, at times it's good to start fresh! :D And this time I promise to keep regular backups... Now to get that backup script written....