Halls of Grace

I've improved!

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:45:06 GMT

I was looking over my 'Movement' file for Pirates! earlier, and realised it was hugely redundant. In about two minutes I managed to cut down 250 lines to 40. How embarrassing! Plus I managed to balance some things in there, to make it fairer! Woot!

~Ease~

Pirates - Teaser Images

Thu, 08 May 2008 04:19:25 GMT

So my Pirates game is nearing completion! Not a lot left to do, though exams for the next two weeks should slow production!

Male base by Zerburius.

Training is done using minigames and quests;

You can strive in three main areas; commerce, hand-to-hand combat, and naval combat.

All fighting is turn-based, to ensure fairness even in high-lag periods. The merchant is balanced with algorithms, which ensures that players will always be able to make money from trading routes, without being able to topple the system.

So, what do you think?

CSS Newbie

Fri, 02 May 2008 05:51:20 GMT

Just played around with CSS for the first time in my life! Woot! Didn't do anything fancy, just changed the fonts ( I <3 Garamond!) and the basic colours. Now my page is all dark and ominous! Bwahaha! I wonder if there are any really talented CSS people out there, willing to make a half-decent Pirate-themed one for me...? He he.

~Ease~

First Blog Post

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:22:59 GMT

So... this is my first blog post! I've had the membership for about one hundred and fifty days. Oh well! Definately going to renew my membership at the end of this one. I love BYOND. It truly is one of the most creative environments in the world. I've learned so much more here than just programming, and honestly believe it has given me a significant edge at University.

BYOND-wise; still developing my first real game, Pirates. I've started on about twenty projects; only finished one. A 3D Maze demo, which got deleted when my old computer died... shame that, because I thought it was a great piece of work.

I'm quite proud of Pirates so far; I've used some pretty innovative ideas, and really got down to using Skins for optimized performance and gameplay, even though I find anchors a complete mind-bend.

So that's it! Feel free to comment!