Behold the Future of Gaming!
May11
Not much more I can say after that headline! Just go check out the site I’ve been working on for almost a year at GarageGames: InstantAction
Loot
February22
Ok, so I sat down and wrote up a list of goals I want to accomplish with my RPG inventory project. Basically, I want an easy way to add items found in-game and keep track of certain information including quantity, price, when and where they were found, where they are being kept, and I would like to have a decent way of sorting/searching these items. I decided to go with a tag system, which seems to be popular these days, and I can see why as it is pretty flexible. With goals jotted down, I started on the database design.
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Starting a New Project
February16
Now that there are no major bugs left in Overlord, I have a bit more time to spend on other projects, like creating a map for Warcraft III and starting, or rather restarting, my RPG inventory project. The point of the project is to create a simple interface for keeping track of an inventory of items for a table-top RPG group, although I suppose it could be used for other things as well. I had a partially working version writtin in PHP and using a lot of AJAX stuff, but it wasn’t working great, so I stopped developing it. Now, I am planning to develop this new version with Ruby on Rails, mostly as an experiment to see how easy it is to develop with Rails instead of PHP.
I plan to post my progress at regular intervals and comment on the differences between developing with PHP and with Rails. Hopefully, someone will find it useful.
