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This week I am coming off of a short little vacation, mostly of the mind. In essence, I needed to take a few steps back and look at some issues from a mind that was not dragged down with progress. I escaped from the constant grinding away at the code and design elements and did next to nothing for several days in regards to working on DPnP, or E-RPG as a whole. It paid off.

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There still seems to be some confusion about the exact roll DPnP will play in your gaming. I am going to try to lay that out quickly here. I will also be compiling a PDF on all of the features concerning the release products and the potential of the system.

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I know I have been a poor blogger. I have not kept up these past weeks as I should. There are some good reasons for it, but the main reason is not important at all. You see, I found twitter not long ago, and I have been updating very frequently through there. This leaves me with very little to actually blog about. Not much of an excuse, but there it is. Anyways, onto thing you really want to know.

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I have to be really careful here as I have a bunch of stuff I want to spill, but I have to be very careful about what I can actually release information wise so I don’t blow it for the future. Let it be said that the past two weeks have been HUGE on production, development, and overall goodness. (more…)

I know, I have been quiet. I have been sick with migraines and back problems (one compounds the other which compounds the former). Anyways, I am back, but that doesn’t mean a whole lot of catching up this week. It is a busy week for myself and my daughters. So, with having almost two weeks of very little progress, it is time to catch up, right? Well, with limited time, I think I can take what little time I have and apply some little bells and whistles. I am also looking at reintroducing some features. They key feature, XML files, will allow for third party application development that I think may a good topic for discussion. Primarily because it has been on my mind for some time.

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This week was fun, pragmatically speaking. I got to finally finish off the bugs and call skill selection in the character generator complete. Plus, I got some initial rich text code done for the character sheets. Furthermore, I got to add in a new feature.

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…but that is what happened. There was a serious hiccup in skill selection when it came to selecting racial skill affinities for your character. It seems simple enough: you have skill affinities for a race, therefore you automatically get that skill at that level. Everything worked fine except for my dwarf. My dwarf has a skill called Craft (Type). The character maker allows you to use these skills by filling in the text for (Type), replacing it. This function was the cause of a seemingly infinite amount of problems. I will spare you the details of the fix (which finally occurred today) and ramble about some new things that have been happening. Some are about development, one is not.

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I don’t really have a topic. So I am just going to ramble on a bit about the development, and the fun going on with it. (more…)

I spent the better part of this week writing out a very complicated bit of controls for the character creators skill selection section of the program. The code was complicated so that the user interface would be very easy. However, there have been some problems. There is a noticeable lag in button press responses. Even after streaming down the code, refreshing menus is taking too long. The problem is that graphically there is too much going on. I went about this the same way as the CRM but there is a more aesthetic appeal in this program. Therefore, it is creating a problem.

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I can’t say this week was very productive. In fact, by design and purpose it was not (though some things did get done). Instead, this week was an exercise in frustration. I quite smoking, so for almost a full week now I have been trying to survive through the week without my crutch. I have succeeded at something I thought would be a monumental task with very little true effort.  My wife spilled coffee all over my keyboard, thus killing it. I have to settle for a cheap $20 crapper with very poor ergonomic support until some sales bump the good $70 ones down in price. My wife and I shared a cold this week as well. Only one real positive, my wife’s birthday, was fun at all. However, it carried its own stress. All of this made for a poor week to not be smoking. But, then again, there would not have been a good week for it either. So now that its over, it is time to sum it up as a good week for accomplishment personally. I must say, success is a good feeling. With that, lets push on to the next week with some plans.

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