The Brick Mill Games Blog
There 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…
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 ReadingIt’s been a crazy month since my last post. The transition from relying on a well-known language like Ruby to a brand new one in Swift was not without its moments. Couple that with getting back into GUI programming, trying my hand at using XCode, and learning some new day job technologies (SIMD assembly coding…
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