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Pixalguild: Day 39

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:21:08 GMT

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

Pixalguild: Night 38

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:54:26 GMT

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.

Pic

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

Pixalnation: Night 37

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:32:29 GMT

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!

Pixalnation: Day 36?

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:17:09 GMT

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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Pixalnation: Night 35

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:51:04 GMT

* 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

PixalNation: Day 34

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:12:12 GMT

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

PixalNation: Night 33

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:00:57 GMT

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

PixalAttack: Day 32 (Internationalization)

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:32:50 GMT

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

PixalAttack: Day 31

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:33:29 GMT

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

PixalBattle: Night 29

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:02:51 GMT

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

Pixalwars: Night 28

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:19:01 GMT

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

PixelWars: Day 27

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:53:51 GMT

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

MyBuddy: Day 26

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:13:05 GMT

Development goes on!

* Added settlement linking
* Added generic notifications

Pics
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Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 83:30 hours (79:30 + 4:00)
Source Files: 91
LOC: 8424
SLOC-L: 3899
Database Tables: 21

MyBuddy: Night 25

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:03:40 GMT

Development goes on!

* Added buddy customization, you can now set hair for your buddy

Pending
* Hairs and beards
* Shields
* Gloves and Boots
* Item sharing

Pic

Stats:
Aprox. Work Time: 79:30 hours (77:30 + 2:00)
Source Files: 89
LOC: 8064
SLOC-L: 3736
Database Tables: 19

PixelWars: Night 24

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:20:09 GMT

Development goes on!

* Introduced the concept of "Settlements", you have a settlement of certain size, and depending on that you can create a number of fighters.
* Added a lot of headgear

Why would you need more than one fighter? You will know soon :)

Pending
* Fighter customization
* Shields
* Gloves and Boots

Pic

Stats:
Aprox. Work Time: 77:30 hours (75:00 + 2:30)
Source Files: 87
LOC: 7766
SLOC-L: 3585
Database Tables: 16

PixelWars: Day 23

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:45:01 GMT

Will day 24 be the first testing release? much likely!

So, everything is mostly working... I must polish some things, like the messages, and add some other ornamental items (helmets, boots, gauntlets, etc). I must also coordinate with the projects graphics designer about the site look and feel :)

I will also probably add for buddy customization (adding beards and hair, mostly). Probably :P

* Implemented attacks per day control, you can only attack X times per day (depends on your fighter level)
* Added session security for fighter pages and controller
* I spent a lot of time loading the initial tileset, from the cool paperdolling set used in dungeon Crawl, RLTiles. Which will be properly credited, of course.

I probably did some other things, but my brain is burning ATM, so I dont remember :P

Here goes some pics:

The profile screen with some evil looking fighters

Choose your enemy well

The battle starts, I will smack you down Paulita!

But she was stronger than I thought...

This is a well armed lady's

A backup crossbow always help

Aprox. Work Time: 75:00 hours (67:00 + 8:00)
Source Files: 84
LOC: 7539 Lines of Code
SLOC-L: 3469 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

PixelWars: Night 22

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:20:04 GMT

Done
* Battle prizes, experience and cash
* Fighter profile page

Check http://slashie.net/mantis/roadmap_page.php

Aprox. Work Time: 67:00 hours (64:00 + 3:00)
Source Files: 82
LOC: 7096 Lines of Code
SLOC-L: 3348 ( Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

PixelWars: Day21

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:32:25 GMT

Done
* Buddy Befriend Request and Accept
* Filter Armor on Weapon Choice

Check advancement and roadmap at http://slashie.net/mantis/

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 64:00 hours (63:00 + 1:00)
Source Files: 79
LOC: 6786Lines of Code)
SLOC-L: 3200( Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

MyBuddy: Day 20

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:16:31 GMT

Hard times at work, life while on a software company is never easy... I guess. Little time, lots to do, usual stuff

The done
* Implement unique identifier for buddyClothing
* Add navigation bar
* Destroy Buddy
* Unequip items
* Equiped inventory for buddies

The pending
* Currencies System
* Buddy befriend requesting
* Remove all references to Clothing for Item
* Add session security for fighting service and pages
* Filter armor on weapon choice
* Implement Battle Record
* Implement battle prizes
* Create items, a lot of them
* Remake buddy anatomies

Pics

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Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 63:00 hours (57:00 + 6:00)
Source Files: 78
LOC: 6652 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 177
SLOC-L: 3122 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

MyBuddy: Day 19 (Pixel Fighter)

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:27:20 GMT

Ok people!

The Done
* Buddy fighting works now
* You can also buy and equip weapons and armor
* Weapons and armor are loaded from an external XML file into the database, including graphic resources creation
* Changed BattleItem relationship with Item instead of BuddyItem
* Fixed listing for buddy setup to not include equiped items
* Fixed item wearing method to not delete acquired items

Pending
* Implement unique identifier for buddyClothing
* Add navigation bar
* Massive buddy befriending
* Destroy Buddy
* Unequip items
* Remove all references to Clothing for Item
* Add session security for fighting service and pages

Pics

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 57:00 hours (53:00 + 4:00)
Source Files: 76
LOC: 6431 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 189
SLOC-L: 3001 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

MyBuddy: Day 18

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:37:08 GMT

...

* Worked on buddy fighter, three new pages (pickFight, confirmFight and fightOutcome) and all that is needed behind them, including lots of DAO methods.
* Worked on the combat model

Next
* Ensure thre 3 screens are working and make any pending adjustements
* Create specialized entities depending on the Buddy type
* Allow buying weapons

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 53:00 hours (49:30 + 3:30)
Source Files: 72
LOC: 6037 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 175
SLOC-L: 2774 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

MyBuddy: Day 17

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:28:23 GMT

Allright... I decided to finish the >Buddy Fighter< universe for the first testing release, so it it at least a bit interesting to try :)... onward we go, some internal changes were made

* Changed the data model destroying an unneeded relationship table. (Adjusted all depending on that and tested)
* Fixed autoincremental image anti-caching thinguie, which was not really working ok
* Created buddy fighter data model and entities
* Made a nice looking Entity Table diagram, to make things easier

This took longer than I thought I'd work today, and buddy fighters aren't working yet... sigh... I guess it will take yet another week.

Pics

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 49:30 hours (46:00 + 3:30)
Source Files: 68
LOC: 5495 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 138
SLOC-L: 2529 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 14

MyBuddy: Day 16

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:25:54 GMT

* Generic Profile page for both public viewing and dashboard
* Friends Buddies, you can now add your friends' buddies as friends of your buddies (this will be handy later on)
* Added user directory at home

Next:
* Profiling Buddy Befriending and Profile Posting actions for logged in users
* BuddyFighter

Pics

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 46:00 hours (43:00 + 3:00)
Source Files: 61
LOC: 5205 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 138
SLOC-L: 2381 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 12

MyBuddy: Day 15

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:36:16 GMT

Getting closer to the testing release!

* Added Posting (You can post in yours or other people's profile)
* Made public profile page
* Autonumbering of sequential buddy images
* Added parametrizable secure Servlets
* SQL Script cleanup

Stats
Aprox. Work Time: 43:00 hours (40:30 + 2:30)
Source Files: 61
LOC: 4934 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 137
SLOC-L: 2290 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 11

My Buddy: Day 14

ragnar300@hotmail.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:15:25 GMT

Well, there was no advancement today, I just set up the project into my new dev machine (which is great :P), which took a while, and fixed some JS bugs.

Stats

Aprox. Work Time: 40:30 hours (39:00 + 1:30)
Source Files: 56
LOC: 4419 (Lines of Code)
CLOC: 141 (Comments LOC)
SLOC-L: 2097 (Logical Source LOC)
Database Tables: 10