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Keywords: f_damage
For reasons I can never quite fathom, May always sits on BYOND as the month people do stuff, or try to do stuff. Last year we had IainPeregrine's delightful "Get Something Done" contest, spanning over May-time. So in the absence of that, I figured I'd list what I will be doing in May:

F_Damage
First up is my adopted son, F_Damage. SuperAntx came to me recently to 1. say thanks for my updates and 2. cleverly ask for enhancements.

Like all good programmers, I'm vain and like my ego massaged. So his enhancements are top priority. They are:
  • A compile-flag to turn on/off the display of numbers in scientific notation. By default this will be on, to maintain current functionality.
  • A compile-flag for textual alignment of damage. The alignment would work from left of icon, centre of icon, or right of icon. The default would be centre of icon, to maintain the current functionality.
  • Improved documentation on use-cases and compile-flags. This goes to explaining how F_Damage works, and what you can do with it.


Event Scheduling (Optional)
This baby mostly needs improved documentation, and more illustrated examples.

Savefile Transfer / Web Processing? (Optional)
This is kind of what SilkWizard asked after, although I suspect he's resolved his particular issue already now. The concept interested me though, so I'd like to explore possible solutions to the problem of transferring saves between servers, particularly in cases where the saves were obviously not designed for it in advance.

So, what will you guys be doing in May?
Plans for May are...

Be lazy.
Be lazy more.
Attempt to streamline something I made that has like a hundred verbs (not sure how to do this though).
more lazy
You should make a blog post about point 3 there, maybe you'll get useful feedback on how to do it.
Stephen001 wrote:
You should make a blog post about point 3 there, maybe you'll get useful feedback on how to do it.

Not sure how many people would see it, I'm not a BYOND member :(
Unpossible. Someone gear this man up with a membership.
He is a member, what on earth are you trying to pull?
Bad Teka.
hi5 bro, hi5.
Hi 5!, you know i had to get lummy to unblock my card just because you suggested someone, arghh. lol
Teka, you're like some kind of reverse money-vampire.
I'll be writing a short story.

Hey, how would you like to take over the "Get Something Done" challenge? You can rename it and retool it however you want, just so long as it remains a month long challenge that takes place in may. You could even take over this year's challenge, write your own rules, and choose good themes. 3 days isn't too far into the month to not have a go at it.
Iain it looks like you already made him take it over without his consent lol
I'd like to finally get my current game out the door. It was supposed to be just a simple little test of my procedural generation libraries with some artistic flare. *sigh*