MistFyre

torn about which library to use

triptych — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:03:52 +0000

I’m torn. I used to use yui 2.x when I worked at Yahoo, and in my current job I use jQuery quite a bit. I’m currently basing my coding on yui3, but I’m torn because it’s an uphill battle to learn this new hybrid library. I just want to get to the part where I design the game, not learn a whole new library. However it may be that betting on YUI3 will help future proof my code somewhat, whereas I could be alot more productive using jQuery. Which should I use?

Mistfyre update - constant velocity thanks to Matt Sweeney…

triptych — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:29:23 +0000

http://mistfyre.com/test002/

Our barbarian walks around now with a constant velocity thanks to YUI guru Matt Sweeney. I dug around and found this code snippet in the YUI forums:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-javascript/message/39201

Character movement!

triptych — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:32:09 +0000

After spending a bit of time coding tonight we have a character moving around when you click! No collision detection yet, but finally some forward momentum!

MystFire update - we have tiles!

triptych — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:52:32 +0000

http://mistfyre.com/test001/

I had a bit of time tonight and I managed to pull together some code to display tiles. There’s a long way to go, but progress is being made.

MistFyre development journal. Talking about building a pbbg rpg…

triptych — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:19:51 +0000

I’m going to try to chronicle my efforts to build a javascript based RPG here. I’ve built “prototypes” of games several times in XUL, Laszlo, Konfabulator, Canvas, and finally settling on plain old HTML.

I am going to be using YUI 3 for the core of the game engine. This allows me to focus on just those parts of the js I need for the game, and take advantage of the hard work the folks on the YUI team. I’ve heard from many folks who are in the school of thought to just “build it all on my own” but the nice thing about an RPG is that it doesnt need to have a fantastic framerate, and it’s mostly dealing with laying out tiles or dealing with data. So YUI 3 is a natural choice for me. Tonight I’m going to get a tile to show up in the game. That’s my goal

Bonuslevel - create your own game levels

triptych — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:59:01 +0000

http://www.bonuslevel.org/games/

I love games which are self-perpetuating through user-developed levels. This site allows you to play lots of 2d style platform games and urges you to dive in yourself to create new levels as well.

Testing code markup - starting on initial coding for game

triptych — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:43:50 +0000

I’m just at the very beginning of coding for this game. I’m exploring YUI3 and looking at what sorts of things I”ll need for this.


for(i=0;i<20;i++){

alert("testing the new syntax highlighter");

}

Testing out code markup plugin

triptych — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:18:12 +0000

Trying out a plugin for wordpress to display code snippets.

('#0' + rint.toString(16)).replace(/^#0([0-9a-f]{6})$/i, '#$1')

if(foo == bar){

// testing

}

Pioneers of Aethora - a persistent browser based rpg

triptych — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:58:30 +0000

http://aethora.com/

This is a fun little web based rpg called Aethora. If you like tactical rpgs with alot of different pieces of information and elements to config, you might like this.

Personally, for me, I think it’s not quite my style. I’m more for a action type rpg.

Creating a browser based rpg from scratch… what a long way to go

triptych — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:26:42 +0000

I hope to chronicle here the work I will go through to create a fully realized web-based rpg engine. I’ve done so many aborted attempts in the past, that I feel like perhaps if I write faithfully here on a daily basis I’ll get somewhere. I really want and need your help! There’s going to be so much coding, features, and hopefully a great game will emerge from this!