Happy 4th Weekend

Well the test is canceled and im out of town this coming weekend so dont expect to see much of me. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

On the DynamicMUD front the only thing thats really happened this week is that I think I might convert my CVS stuff to Subversion. I like how SVN uses a global revision instead of revision numbers for each file. I have 70+ files now and that will multiply before this game is ready for the public. It is too hard to try and turn back multiple files if I want an old version. When I make the switch will depend on when I finish researching it and have the time (and a good break in the forward development).

In other news I noticed another non released game is on www.topmudsites.com and ranked in the top 30. I think if enough people were interested here we could do the same thing and quite possibly build up the reader and testerbase. We already have more stuff available to players because of the tests we will be running. If you would vote please post a comment to this entry and if we have 5 or 6 willing I might just get Dynamic listed. I think TMS allows a vote per ip every 12 hours, so maybe everyone could specify if they think they could vote once or twice a day. With the added readers coming from TMS we might have enough traffic to increase ad profits and make some money. By the way if your reading this from the google groups page click the link to this blog post somewhere below this so you can post a comment.

Thanks all.
-Toraux

Test Cancelled

Looks like the test I was planning for sunday will be put off another week. I basicly found out today that im heading up to Vermont to train this weekend and thats a much better opportunity for me then sitting around watching text scroll. I should have even more cool features available by then so it will be worth the wait.

I ended up spending the past two nights mashing away at the Eclipse IDE trying to get the metrics plugin to work. I finally fixed it and realized that all my files need to be correct for it to compile the metrics. Here are some cool stats about the project so far:

Total Lines: 13396
Lines of Code: 7124
Classes: 73
Methods: 657

This project is really growing. My short term todo list is shrinking which is good, and things are really improving quickly. I also added a performance command the other day which lets me see a graph of the last 100 pulses and how much of their allocated time is actually needed. Please keep checking here so you can get in on the real next test. By the way I also added a google calendar to this page, it should be in the list of links at the top right of the page. I will try my best to post all test events there.

See you all soon.
-Toraux

Moving Forward

Ok so work is moving forward, the first 11 items on my todo list have been eliminated. Only 20+ left before the immediate stuff is done and I can grab some stuff to do off of my long term list. Abbreviations are in tonight as is a nice command I can use to untag everyone at once which will make testing a million times easier for me, especially if next time is larger.

The next test still looks like it will be a week from Sunday. I am on the line about where I should post notice for it. I think MudConnector is a safe bet, but im not sure if I should post to that set of roguelike google groups. Dynamic isnt exactly a roguelike but those people need to play a good game ;) Anyone that might have come to the site because of the last time I posted there should weigh in and give me some insight from that seat at the table.

I am toying with concepts for how the staff organization will work and hopefully will be ready to start taking on a few support people to help this all continue forward smoothly. In other news I start teaching in my new location tomorrow night so Tuesdays and Thursdays from here on out for the rest of the summer will possibly lost to the cause of getting my lazy ass back into shape. Everyone please tell your friends who may be into MUDS or MMORPGS and see if we can grab some of them for the next test, I would like a bunch more people this time around. Until this weekend.

-Toraux