Well, I have decided to move this weblog to: http://www.santiagoz.com/blog !

You can get my RSS feed there... stay tuned!

Advanced over techniques a lot today, now you can setup your defensive deck.

Also enhanced the buddy setup for facets, now you can preview your buddy with different hair/beard styles.

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Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 137:30 (133:30 + 4:00)
Source Files: 108
LOC: 11185
SLOC-L: 5174
Database Tables: 25

Ok, so things are changing a bit. I am adding techniques you can use in battles.

This is a somewhat big change in the combat model and also adds some screens, but I think it is worth it, to make fighting a bit more interesting.

Also, Mr. JConde did some quality JS work over the item buying screen.

Done Today:
* UI Enhancements over the buy Item screen, now you can try items before buying them



Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 133:30 (128:30 + 5:00)
Source Files: 105
LOC: 10715
SLOC-L: 4940
Database Tables: 23

Done today:

Internationalize Weapon shop text
Spanish key notEnoughActionPoints
Weapon listing for female not being shown?
Some texts still say pixalattack
Restrict duel to friends



Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 128:30 (126:30 + 2:00)
Source Files: 101
LOC: 10506
SLOC-L: 4899
Database Tables: 23

Ok, I did some testing today and some things emerged. I will get into fixing them next wednesday probably. I already have an excellent QA to test the product next weekend!

Pending:
Internationalize Weapon shop text
Add spanish key for notEnoughActionPoints
Weapon listing for female not being shown?
Some texts still say pixalattack
Remove guild naming
Restrict duel to friends
Resume duel notifications per hour
Add all weapons, change menu appearances
Add duel count for fighters and guilds (how many sucessful / failed defenses)
Grant prizes on sucessful defense.
Add a downloadable "badge" (HTML code)

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 126:30 (124:30 + 2:00)
Source Files: 101
LOC: 10466
SLOC-L: 4880
Database Tables: 23

I had been pushing it for too long, so one week ago I decided I would do it, I had to make the Roguelike World Map a dynamic website in which:

* Mantainance was possible and not manual
* People could add themselves out
* You could get a listing of people
* Different views could be developed

So I jumped on it. After something like 20 hours of work, users feedback and lots of coffee. It is available at http://www.roguetemple.com/map

Today, Mr. Konijin joined the dev team, hopefully we will pull out another view for the map, one that seeks to be even more roguelikish (I am talking about outputting HTML for the map instead of an image and locating people there instead of doing floating divs for each). It will probably look cool, and we already started!

The stats as of today
Aprox. Work Time: 20:00
Source Files: 19
LOC: 1877
SLOC-L: 833
Database Tables: 2

Almost there!

Done
* Edit user info
* Add notifications for fights
* Facelift buy screen, add shopkeeper
* Set gold cost for items
* Show hour and minute on messages

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Pending
* Internal testing

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 124:30 (120:30 + 4:00)
Source Files: 101
LOC: 10466
SLOC-L: 4880
Database Tables: 23

Hard work today!

* User signup
* Main fighter creation
* Search Users
* All in english and spanish

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Pending
* Edit user info
* Add notifications for fights
* Facelift buy screen, add shopkeeper
* Spanish localization
* Set gold cost for items
* Show hour and minute on messages
* Add guild addornments

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 120:30 (114:30 + 6:00)
Source Files: 100
LOC: 10258
SLOC-L: 4823
Database Tables: 23

On the way to the release!

Done
- Guild upgrades must cost gold, not megabucks
- Calculate total guild wins and losses
- Replenish Action Points
- Check against action points before attacking
- Recalculate Daily store inventory
- Fix items names and validate they are being used everywhere
- Allow player to pick main fighter on duels
- Fix Messages formatting
- Split notifications by days, show latest days
- Show strongest fighters on homepage with their stats

Pics




Pending
* Make new user screen including main fighter
* Add Search users screen
* Additional user info
* Add notifications for fights
* Facelift buy screen, add shopkeeper
* Spanish localization
* Set gold cost for items
* Show hour and minute on messages
* Add guild addornments

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 114:30 (108:30 + 6:00)
Source Files: 96
LOC: 9761
SLOC-L: 4592
Database Tables: 23

Ok, after taking some important choices for the project (spliting it into two projects, as described on http://pixalnation.net ), I made some advancements toward the completion of the first one (pixalguild).

* Friend Requests model have been changed from user-> buddy to user -> user, which is much less clumsy
* The duel model has been changed, now you first pick your target, then the attacker.
* The profile page has lots of changes
* Each user has a main fighter now
* Lots of changes on messages and notifications.

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Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 108:30 (105:00 + 3:30)
Source Files: 96
LOC: 9470
SLOC-L: 4418
Database Tables: 22

Some work was done in the duel model tonight, however, issues with the CVS repository preventED me from doing any major advancement... tomorrow will be another day.

Also, Mr. JoSeconde has joined to the pixalnation devteam... welcome compadre! Tonight he shows us some advancement on the "pick location" form (this will be used to select a spot for your city, as well as allowing you to browse the world... the project is growing!)

Sample Pic here

More news coming!

Well ok, this was not really a "work day" for the project.

I have been a bit busy lately, but I have got important feedback from some people and have thought a bit on certain things to be enhanced into the project.

As for the to-do list, we still have
* Usability enhancements and graphics work
* Make the defender attack the attacker in the duel (That means each duel has two rounds and the attacker is damaged too)
* Implement store inventory daily shuffle
* Implement user sign up
* Implement nation creation including the window to pick location (this will be hard.... but fun :P)
* Implement hospitals
* Some content (pants and gloves)

I leave you with some eye candy in the shape of screen mockups :P


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* Fighters now have hit points
* Artificial barriers for duels per day and assault per day have thus been removed and replaced with much more natural "noreasontoattackifyoudonthavehits" constraints

Whats left?
* Usability enhancements
* Graphic work (a new logo is coming tomorrow)
* Some content (pants and gloves)
* Some important work in the combat model and the duel messages

Pic


Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 105:00 (104:00 + 1:00)
Source Files: 98
LOC: 9470
SLOC-L: 4463
Database Tables: 22

We are almost done!

* Worked a lot more on internationalization, including settlement assault messages, item names, error messages and so on
* Added almost all the rest of content, including facets for male and female hair, and male beards
* Separated male and female humanoid anatomies, so your male fighters can no longer wear dresses

Whats left?
* Usability enhancements
* Graphic work (a new logo)
* Some content (pants and gloves)
* Add HP for fighters, and remove "daily" attacks and assault constraints

Pics





Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 104:00 (100:30 + 3:30)
Source Files: 98
LOC: 9407
SLOC-L: 4424
Database Tables: 22

Proceeding with internationalization
* Notifications are now internationalized
* Duel messages are internationalized as well

Pending:
* Army assault messages
* All content and facets

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 100:30 (98:30 + 2:00)
Source Files: 98
LOC: 9315 (Due to the change on program generated messages to resource bundles)
SLOC-L: 4388
Database Tables: 22

Ok, today I finished "internationalizating" all web pages around resource bundles for spanish and english
I also made 4 language icons (Colombia, Spain, U.S. and United Kingdom)... yes, I was bored, (and GIMP rocks)
I also made some changes to the "profile" and "home" layout in the process.

Pending:
* Address some internationalization issues, like in notifications, combat and assault messages, etc.
* Add the rest of initial content.

Pics

Ye ole English profile


Mi perfil, en español! ole ole...

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 98:30 hours (95:30 + 3:00)
Source Files: 98
LOC: 9316
SLOC-L: 4412
Database Tables: 22

Added internationalization, pixalattack will initially be available in Spanish and English.
Of course, had to made it the best possible way (that is, the one that looks better from usage :P)

I had to implement a way to parse "{n}" property values... (example: You {0} the {1})... spend too much time looking, found no way, implementing the parser was quicker :P

Pics

A paisa carriel for Chikita, good luck in your trip!

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 95:30 hours (93:30 + 2:00)

Source Files: 99
LOC: 9583
SLOC-L: 4445
Database Tables: 22

a.k.a. The project with many names

Done:
* Settlement assault, you can now assault your friends settlements and earn money to increase the size of your settlement

Pending
* Autoassign buddies to defense team on creation

Pics



Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 93:30 hours (90:30 + 3:00)
Source Files: 98
LOC: 9484
SLOC-L: 4400
Database Tables: 22

Done
* Join and Leave Army
* Advanced on Settlement Assault

Stats:
Aprox. Work Time: 90:30 hours (87:30 + 3:00)
Source Files: 96
LOC: 9107
SLOC-L: 4208
Database Tables: 22

No seog tnempoleved!

* You can now give gifts to your friends! yay! ( ... )



Stats:
Aprox. Work Time: 87:30 hours (83:30 + 4:00)
Source Files: 94
LOC: 8814
SLOC-L: 4021
Database Tables: 21