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And so, after a long break, I have finally come to a final decision.
House Rules is to be delayed indefinitely. Development is halted and the project shelved.
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Day 366
Today starts a new year.
And so begins year 2 of development on House Rules.
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Day 365
One full year. And what have I to show for it?
Oh, nothing. Just an accomplished goal.
House Rules has entered Alpha stage development. Playable builds have been exported to windows and linux.
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Day 361
My schedule has actually cleared up a bit.
Today is the day.
Once I'm done some misc errands, I'm locking the fuck in and getting shit done.
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House Rules Milestone 6 has been reached.
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Day 317
It has just dawned on me: I could have an Alpha build of House Rules by the end of the year.
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Day 310
Tag system is mostly implemented! Once I can get basic chess working again, I'll call that a milestone.
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Day 295
Yes, I'm working today!
Right now, writing out how Drop-in will be implemented, as well as expanding promotion rules.
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Day 286
And with the Narigin done, that's all the non-monarch Shogi pieces done.
Now to actually code them all in.
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Day 268
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
IT WORKS!
IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT!
IT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORKS
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Day 261
Shogi Kyosha is done. I was looking for japanese peasant lances when I hit on the idea of just using the Shogi piece itself as the spearhead.
I think this is good.
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Day 259
Think I need to organize my thoughts vis-a-vis Shogi piece designs.
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Day 230
Today is UI stuff day!
Featuring this little guy! He's gonna be next to the player's status display, colored in appropriately.
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Day 225
God dammit I've just seen the error of my ways.
I can't do the stuff for this milestone until the UI layout is finalized.
I hate this.
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Day 221
I've bitten off more than I can chew, regarding 3D boards. I need to implement rules, effects, and tags first.
Since the scope has ballooned, I think I need to reorganize priorities. Therefore...
House Rules Milestone 3 has been reached.
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Day 220
Promotion work. I think we're almost there.
I should be able to start work on the 3D boards proper soon.
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Day 213
At last! 4P Chess! Actually working as it should!
er, except promotion.
And castling.
OH BUT EN PASSANT FUCKING WORKS, I'M NOT LOSING THAT SHIT AGAIN.
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Day 210
Movement system work continues. Looking at JSONifying movement stuff to allow for custom pieces for the future.
Not necessarily for modding, but it'd make the Roguelike mode easier to implement.
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Day 209
Decided on some hard limits for the first release. I'm sticking with square tiles and 4 players, and I'll consider weirder stuff later.
Today I conquer the movement system.
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Day 200
Something about these milestone days and realizing stupid silly mistakes I've made.
I KNOW why the King is in the wrong space now. It's because I put it there when I was making the teams up. I had the king and queen in the wrong spots.
I'm an IDIOT.
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Day 194
Today is the goddamn day. Milestone 2, here I come!
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Day 183
I feel much better today. I think if all goes to plan, Milestone 2 should be ready very soon. Ideally today, but I hesitate to set that in stone. I'll through and see.
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Day 178
I can see a clear path. Being able to concentrate on my original problems has helped me feel much more comfortable about the future of this project.
Once Checkers are done, I can make a simple menu for selecting teams.
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Day 151
The actual milestone day.
I FINALLY have the important core pieces of the team selection menu working. I'm currently getting the actual piece selection part working, and then it's done. After that is getting the new pieces in and the team selection menu.
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OH FUCK I WAS RIGHT
IT WORKS!
...sorta? Why do the models all look weird?
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Day 146
Menu still needs connecting and working, but there are other bits that need attention as well. The changes to the scenes loading has broken the Base Color Menu's ability to return to the options/title screen. I also want to add in materials to play with.
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Day 145
Struggling with things. I'm trying a different approach to the main game scene, which will hopefully stop the multi-scene loading from happening.
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Day 144
Quick post today. I've still got some menu stuff to do, but I wanted to do something else. I've got the new models loaded in, and have coded in the Fairy Amazon, Empress, and Princess pieces.
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Day 143
The bug is squashed! I can load the menu!
But why is it so weirdly... low-res?
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