Hi peeps, been a while since I posted here.
Through November I shall be doing NaNoWriMo. This is a thing where people all over the world put aside November to write a 50,000 word novel.
And that's what I did last year, churning out something that was relatively nice and uplifting, but basically unpublishable furry porn.
This year, I want to be more productive, so I've decided that my 50,000 "words" must be programming words. So, from now until Hog'sWatch, ThudGame and the MMO will be getting the love and attention I have been withholding from them for far too long. It's a bit like Google's "Summer of Code", but a lot smaller and colder.
And November starts in... a shade under 2 hours. The jobs I have seem to be in about this order:
1) Fix the ThudGame server.
2) Set up SourceForge ThudGame project SVN properly so that anyone can contribute to it.
3) Set up SourceForge MMO project SVN properly, ditto.
4) Read back through the MMO forum and refresh my memory of what the plan is.
5) Make a world generator.
6) Make a very basic client so I can explore the world.
7) Make it work over the network.
Let people communicate over the network.
9) Make/find/beg some basic textures and meshes to flesh out the world, so it looks like more than just a wireframe mess.
10) Write something so that people can easily add their own content ("stories").
So basically: fix everything broken, then create an entire world. I have four weeks, and God apparently did it in only one, so I have plenty of time... *sob*
If I'm really, really lucky, I'll maybe have something to show pTerry that's not so incredibly cringeworthily BAD that I would rather delete it than show it. But there's SO little time!
Re: NaCoWriMo
Hi Dewi,
That NaCoWriMo topic made me rejoice for a moment, because that was what Magrat used to write about. "She's back! Finally!" I thought. Bit of a surprise to find you in here...
Notwithstanding, that is great news.
Go forth and code, and may the gods be with you. Coffee, strong and black?
"What a mess the world is in... The meek shall inherit the world it is said. What have those poor people done to deserve that?"
- Captain Vimes, Feet of Clay
Visit OB's Thud pages
Re: NaCoWriMo
And so our intrepid hero set out, armed with nothing more than some
/*
*/
and a small pile of
while {
=+-
}
Who knew when he would see civilisation again? But our hopes rode with him, as he traversed the vast java plains, and we knew in our hearts that, tho the road would be long and dangerous (with even the occasional danger of an assault by VB-Bandits), he'd make it in the end.
So, we're 11 hours into november, what've you got to show for yourself
MS
"LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME"
Re: NaCoWriMo
YAY!!!Welcome back, Dewi!!!!!
That's a huge task you set yourself to master but at least you have Ratty's Sausage Supper sausage as a reward to look forward to.
Looking forward to see you and the other thudders again!!!!!!
life is hard. after all it kills you.
katherine hepburn
What is the point of education if people go out and use it?
Re: NaCoWriMo
So far I am failing miserably to get the client back online, and because I've been spending all my time debugging, have been failing miserably to hit my "programming word" target of 3,333 by the end of today.
I've solved the problem of it failing to bind to the port, at least. The fix was maybe 450 "words" (a nanowrimo "word" is anything with whitespace between).
However, people still can't connect to it externally, which may be a hosting issue - I'll open a ticket with them once I've exhausted all other issues.
I'm also having a problem getting it to run through cron - I'm getting "permission denied" errors, despite the 'thud' user (who owns that crontab) having full access to exec them.
Even running as root, the process doesn't start up from cron, only from the commandline. But get no cron errors from root. Weird.
In other news, I've identified a bug in thudpoints, which, if I fix it, might make them work again, which will be nice.
To track that one down I've written a little debugging sub, which brings my total up to about 500 words. Meh.
[Edit: looks like there are two versions of the userpoints module installed, probably for some very good reason, but it's causing all sorts of conflicts. Something I need to ask Lee about I think. So my entire progress this weekend has been to not fix the thudgame and not fix the thudpoints. I will give thudgame until Wed and then if I can't fix it, then I can't fix it, so screw it. I don't want to spend all November on it.]
Yet another geek.
Re: NaCoWriMo
YES!!!!
Yet another geek.
Re: NaCoWriMo
YES!!!!
I AGREE!!!!
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
Re: NaCoWriMo
YES!!!!
I AGREE!!!!
and I concur!
life is hard. after all it kills you.
katherine hepburn
What is the point of education if people go out and use it?