The Brick Mill Games Blog
My last blog post was … over a year ago. While Paul picked up the slack and wrote three posts since then, I cannot believe so much time has passed. So, what happened? Here’s the short list: parental eldercare, Covid, brain fog due to the Covid, day job responsibilities, you name it. I’ll spare you…
Continue ReadingYeah, I skipped a post last month. You know what that means. Either too busy, same old same old, or just plain laziness. This is going to be a quick post as progress is steady, but interrupted by day job pressures and other real life concerns. On the map side, Paul is grinding his way…
Continue ReadingWith each of us working in our sandboxes, Paul and I are making progress on all fronts. The Price of Neutrality The map of Belgium at 5000 yards per hex is coming along. Every time Paul shows me a demo of what he’s accomplished, at a constant risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome, the excitement…
Continue ReadingThere are times when you need to know that continuing a plan will not bear fruit. So it was with Paul and me as we shifted our focus from the TOCS game system onto the game client. The Old Crux Our software architecture is a homemade Web application framework called Crux (pronounced “croo”). I’ve mentioned…
Continue ReadingYeah, it’s been a little quiet outside the mill. Inside, it’s been anything but. That’s on me. As I’ve stated numerous times before, once I get into a zone, or multiple zones simultaneously, I hunker down and posts like these get infrequent. So, the standard excuse list still applies. Day job pressures and side project…
Continue ReadingThere isn’t much that I can add with regard to 2020 that hasn’t been said to death already across social media and the various airwaves. It’s been challenging to say the least, to use a non-profane word. Its impact on Brick Mill Games was not fatal, but there were quite a few challenges that both…
Continue ReadingAfter a few weeks of effort, PixMill 1.0 is now a thing. Why is this important? Well, thanks to the folks in Cupertino, CA and their Catalina OS upgrade, the house of cards that was my collection of Ruby-language code tools came crumbling down. When I refer to my code in such a manner, I’m…
Continue ReadingAnother piece in the TOCS-MASL infrastructure is the ability to map battles that occur on the TOCS map into MASL scenarios, and then to map the scenario combat results back into the TOCS game system. Part of this infrastructure was to create the metadata descriptions of the available scenario boards, so that the Board Generation…
Continue ReadingAgain, 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 ReadingIt’s been far too long since I’ve posted anything here. On the other hand, I did warn you up front that radio silence is a thing with me when it comes to working on projects and how I deal with the workload. Silence on its own means nothing without context and Paul and I have…
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