Warning: long, meandering musing about some basic UI design follows. Feel free to ignore this; I’m just trying to work some things out in my head. When designing a user interface, one of the critical choices that must be made is how the user is going to give commands to the program. Traditionally, there are…
So that problem I mentioned yesterday — having roads end up being selected as though they were in front of objects which they were actually behind — eventually turned out to be a nasty little leak of temporary collision result data which was being generated as part of an optimisation. Basically, when I’m trying to…
So as I was implementing the mechanics of selecting objects and getting information about them, I was reminded about just how hilariously awful my character name generation code from MMORPG Tycoon 1 was. Generating such unpronounceable character names as “Iqkeb”, “Adqiy”, and “Ojkage”, it really is going to need a big overhaul for MMORPG Tycoon…
So my web server apparently decided to die in a rather spectacular way about two hours ago; I only just realised it now, as I came to post this update. Apologies to those who may not have been able to connect during that time! I’ll be watching closely to make sure it remains okay. On…
Today, I actually got very little work done; was doing the rounds and looking at various new MMORPGs. Took a peek at Champions Online and the new free-to-play DnD Online, neither of which really thrilled me. Each had some interesting minor variations on the standard MMORPG formula, but neither seemed to do anything that was…