Category Archives: Coding

A Static Situation

Posted on February 7, 2013 by adamantyr

So, I’ve done a further bit of change to how weapons and armor work… now all base types (sword, dagger, leather armor, etc.) have fixed amounts for ALL statistics, read from CPU memory. (I could push it out to disk … Continue reading →

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Eating on the Run

Posted on February 1, 2013 by adamantyr

The code and spreadsheets are a’changing… so far, I’m really looking forward to how the changes work. With simpler math, the combat engine should be much easier to balance out. As usual, changing some spells was in order. I had … Continue reading →

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A Farewell to Arms

Posted on January 29, 2013 by adamantyr

The refactoring continues… part of which is the redesign of how weapons and armor work. Playing World of Warcraft in the last few years has really made me recognize the serious problem of high-scaling. Basically, if you create a system … Continue reading →

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Ready, set, action!

Posted on January 25, 2013 by adamantyr

Okay, I got my new system figured out in my mind… actually re-configuring the code base to use it is a long arduous process I probably won’t start for awhile, but at least I know what I’m going to do. … Continue reading →

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Moving Forward

Posted on January 24, 2013 by adamantyr

Okay, so the debugging has started again… and it is a pain. If there was one major downside to vintage programming, it’s that the debugging tools are either absent or lousy. But, I’ll report more on that when I have … Continue reading →

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