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Again, it seems too long between posts, but I have some news to report, and mightily bored you might be reading about it… but here goes. As mentioned before, we had finished implementing the GameBox metadata that describes the AttM (Advance to the Moselle) and OMGN (Operation Market Garden – Nijmegen) game modules, by defining…
Continue ReadingWe just wrapped up the Agile SCRUM PR (Pull Requests) for the changes made from the last play test of the BtM (Breaching the Moselle) scenario in the AttM (Advance to the Moselle) game module. There is no better way to see if the game system and its rules stand up than to play test…
Continue ReadingNow that we have completed the metadata for the AttM (Advance to the Moselle) TOCS module, we are moving on with the OMG-N module. Based on the work that was done on AttM, this effort ports those concepts into the next game module. Making a game “data driven” is an interesting concept as it allows…
Continue ReadingA little news is better than nothing at all. A lack of news implies that a project is dead or dying and nothing is further from the truth with what we’re doing at Brick Mill Games. Metadata Work on creating metadata from the three maps we currently have is progressing slowly, but surely. The Metadata…
Continue ReadingIt’s been far too long since my last blog post. To say that things have been busy, both within and outside Brick Mill Games, is an understatement. For this blog post, however, I will stay on topic and only talk about what Paul and I have been working on. Correctness is Key Regular readers (do…
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 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…
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, January 29th, Paul and I finished Sprint #3: Application Framework #2. This was our most successful sprint so far with 15 closed tasks spread among 4 stories: Adventures in Layout Package TClient into an Installable Thing Build: Implement a Version Stamping Method Complete ConOps Document All of these stories were geared toward coming…
Continue ReadingThis is a simple update to show how much progress we’ve been making on TClient. I was going to post a video on YouTube, but the video quality was awful. If I’m going to post videos, I’m going to have to up my game, tools-wise. Screenshots: Update: And… yeah… I see that the Scenario Chooser…
Continue ReadingAfter learning quite a bit about Swift, nibs, xibs, nib-less coding, AppKit, Foundation, NSObjects of various capabilities, and a metric crap-ton of new stuff, TClient 0.1 is up and running. Whew… While there are still quite a few more things to learn, at least I’ve run down enough leads on various websites that my productivity…
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