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There 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…
Continue ReadingI have quite a few things to talk about today, after a seemingly long hiatus from writing posts. Frankly, with Nor’easter XXIV around the corner, there’s still a lot of work to do to get our game client up and running. The good news though, is that we keep making progress. JSCanvas One of the…
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 ReadingOnce again, Paul and I had to extend one 3-week sprint into the next one due to outside influences. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you’re trying to balance day job needs with trying to get a new company off the ground. Truth be told, we were both trying to burn the candle at both…
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