{"id":3624,"date":"2015-02-01T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T00:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2015-02-01T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T00:23:16","slug":"update-milestone-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2015\/02\/01\/update-milestone-9\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on Milestone 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick update post on the Milestone 9 build (which adds save\/load functionality to what was in Milestone 8).\u00a0 My plan was to have it finished today, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to manage that;\u00a0 it&#8217;s probably going to take an extra day or two.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the following things are being saved\/loaded successfully:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Map regions, and terrain within the regions<\/li>\n<li>The current setup of player classes, monster types, and NPC types, including their abilities.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not yet being saved\/loaded successfully:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buildings<\/li>\n<li>Roads and intersections<\/li>\n<li>Towns<\/li>\n<li>Player characters<\/li>\n<li>Subscribers<\/li>\n<li>Developers\/GameMasters<\/li>\n<li>Developer task queue<\/li>\n<li>GM support queue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That makes it look like I haven&#8217;t made much progress, but actually most of the time has gone into building the save\/load GUIs, and most of the remainder went into extending my save\/load code to support the sort of complicated internal linkages required between (for example) monsters and their monster types and abilities.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m actually only expecting to need a couple extra days to do all the rest of these tasks.\u00a0 Should easily be finished by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>So Milestone 9 is not far off;\u00a0 definitely sometime in the next three days.\u00a0 Once that&#8217;s done, it&#8217;ll be time to get back to core game functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick update post on the Milestone 9 build (which adds save\/load functionality to what was in Milestone 8).\u00a0 My plan was to have it finished today, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to manage that;\u00a0 it&#8217;s probably going to take an extra day or two. So far, the following things are being saved\/loaded successfully: Map&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Ws","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3626,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}