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Paul 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…
Continue ReadingSprint #5: Infrastructure Work Continues was completed today, but progress was marred by influenza at Paul’s house. After a lengthy recovery, he’s feeling much better and back on track. Completed stories were: Create Utah Beach module XML meta-data file Create OOB for Ten Days in August Create OOB for ASoC: Western Front Clean up obsolete…
Continue ReadingI have been disappointed with operational-level WWI games for the entirety of my involvement in the wargaming hobby. Contrary to majority opinion, I find that WWI military history is rife with dynamic situations, or, should I say, the possibility of dynamic situations. There are numerous occasions of “what-if” where one side had the possibility of…
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, February 19th, Paul and I finished Sprint #4: Gaming Infrastructure – Phase 1. While there were two development stories that we didn’t finish in our three-week time frame, it was still a very successful sprint. Our completed stories were: Implement an Asynchronous Server I/O Comms Queue Implement User Authentication Game Module XML Metadata Definitions Game Module…
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…
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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