Goten84's Webblog

Final Fantasy Date

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:32:41 GMT

If you like Final Fantasy and you're on a date, keep it to yourself, and for god's sake don't play the game on your date! ^_^

Link: http://www.g4tv.com/e32008/videos/27086/ Final_Fantasy_Date.html

G4 did a great job explaining that one!

DBOII... Work... Busy...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:09:38 GMT

This summer has been pretty busy for me, with tons of work to do at home and at my job it seems like the summer is going by too fast.

DBO II Updates
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Well, at this point the game has been up for a while and the team has been doing a lot of testing. We have some really good people on the team I think, and it's been fun working with everyone. Most of all, we've been doing good on the team meetings lately and making sure everyone is caught up on what's next to come. We've also completed the outline for the Earth map, which is a good thing. It's been bugging me that we've been using test maps up until now, so finally we're working with official maps in the game. This month will be a busy fix/testing month for DBO II.

Work Updates
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My boss loves my work so much that he decided to give me a raise, which can only make me more productive right? Heh, work is fun as always, and being in charge makes work worth it even more. I have been working over 40+ hours though, but there's so much that I need to get done before the end of the summer. In October I'll be heading to Chicago for a conference my job offered to pay for, and if I'm lucky I'll be going to Tokyo for a conference! I wouldn't mind going there.

My mess of a work desk (Click to enlarge)

The Byond and Ubuntu Brawl

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:21:18 GMT

So I installed Wine on Ubuntu because I really want to use BYOND in Linux instead of loading up VirtualBox and running XP. The newest version of Wine, wine 0.9.58 allows for a smooth installation of BYOND and everything seems to work until you try to load up the DreamSeeker, then you run into problems. Instead you have to revert back to Wine 0.9.51 if you want to get BYOND working in Linux. Also, you'll need a list of dlls to be overwritten:

(Not sure if this list is accurate, but it worked for me)

msvcirt.dll
ole32.dll
oleaut32.dll
riched20.dll
riched32.dll
rpcrt4.dll
shlwapi.dll

Like I said, this gets BYOND working in Wine 0.9.51, not the newest version of Wine (0.9.58). If anyone has any information on how to get BYOND working in the newest version of Wine please let me know, I'm all ears. ^_^

Good luck to you Linux users!

New Layout... at last

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:30:12 GMT

Well, I had made this layout a while ago, but I finally got around to putting it up on BYOND. It's honestly not that fun and exciting editing the css for BYOND, but I guess I have to deal with it. I hope this layout works for everyone as I haven't don't huge tests with it yet.

Oh... yes I know, the "Add" comment box is grey. I left it like that because I kinda like it heh.

I'll try later on to test the members_info stuff, but for now I want to take a break.

Linux + XP = Great

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:07:55 GMT

So lately I've been doing a lot of web development, and being pretty much the Senior Programmer at my job, I've been having a lot of fun. What's even more fun is that I've finally taken off Vista from my pc and installed Ubuntu instead. Not only that, but I was able to get VirtualBox working and can now run XP and Linux together. The only bad part about installing XP on my laptop is that I have SATA drives... yea... Here's a screenshot:

A Tale of Funny Kids and Code Stealers

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:02:47 GMT

*Censored* (By will...)

Personal Projects on my server

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:49:47 GMT

So lately I've been working on a separate personal php project on my dedicated server I bought a while ago. The project is taking it's time to develop, so I won't spill out any details yet, but it's been fun. I hope that by the end of this month I can announce the project and get users to sign up. I can say that it involves games! No promises on any dates though.

Also, since a more stable Linux version of Byond 4 has been released I may try to put my Byond game up on my server. Before I was against it, but I might try it out just for fun and see how it goes.

So much work

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:08:39 GMT

I've been spending whatever free time I have on this game for a month now and I've finally come to the point where I can do some testing with other people. I didn't really expect many bugs in the game, but there are a few that will annoy me for a while. I'm calling it a night now with a screenshot, take care everyone, and Good Night!

Idea Behind Alpha, Beta, Release States

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:11:05 GMT

So I've been looking around on byond and a lot of games say, "Beta" and seem to skip alpha completely. Ok, this is just my idea of what an Alpha, Beta and Release state for a game is. Also, this should be for each release; so version 1.0.1, 1.0.2, etc would all go through these stages.

Alpha
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We have something playable, although functions, addons, new features, etc may be added later on. There are definitely known bugs in the system, and we're working hard to get them out

Beta
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The game is playable and no new functionality or features are being added. All new development has stopped and we're just working on getting out the bugs.

Release
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Most, if not all major bugs are fixed. The game is release so we can begin on the next release.

After a game is release it increments the version number and goes back through the Alpha, Beta, Release cycle again.

Btw, this is just me ranting. It's just that I've seen so many Betas out there and I'm not sure if people really know what it means to be in Beta.

Tough Recruiting: Game Update

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:06:29 GMT

Man... I didn't realize how hard it was to recruit people for my game. Meh, I'd agree with anyone skeptical though. You don't want to work with someone who hasn't proven to be a good programmer. All I have so far are words and not works. Well, here we go: If any Pixel Artist are interested in helping out with a Naruto Game, please let me know =)

In the meantime, I spent all night creating some new turfs. I didn't realize how hard it was. It's really just Programmer Art. I should note though that I didn't create all of the tiles, only the building tiles. I'm working on windows now >.<

In the last picture below, you'll see the text, "Believe It". It's just something that I though was funny. I'm not a fan of the "English" version of Naruto, and that's one of those funny lines they never needed to include when it got translated.