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Development Sprint #7, codenamed Prototypes and Metadata, finished today. Where the last sprint report talked about partially finished stories, Paul and I were very productive over the last three weeks and completed quite a few stories: Use or Create UI Layout Objects Implement a Layered Window Interface Prototype: Login Window Map Metadata Specification Expand Russian…
Continue ReadingNow that we are in Sprint-7, I started defining how the TOCS maps will be represented as metadata. The term ‘metadata’ means data that describes data. When a player looks at the hexes on a map, each hex has a lot of ‘data’ that describes it, such as the topography and terrain, as well as…
Continue ReadingPaul and I attended Nor’easter XXIII two weekends ago in Fairhaven, MA to finish our long-running playtest of Scenario One of our Advance to the Moselle TOCS module. The module covers the US 80th Infantry Division’s attempt to bridge the Moselle River in the area of the city of Nancy, France in September 1944. The…
Continue ReadingKen and I finished a play testing of Scenario 1 of the Advance to the Moselle TOCS Module at the Nor’Easter tournament in Fairhaven MA, during March 21-24. The playtest utilized the VASSAL prototype developed earlier that allowed us to achieve and prove out the double-blind combat system known as TOCS/MASL. This highly interactive game…
Continue ReadingSprint #6: Infrastructure Continues Framing TClient was completed today. Although upwards of 15 or so tasks were completed, no full stories were completed. The primary push continues to be in the realm of software development, namely in the development of UI containers and controls that work in a manner that we want. Here is the…
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