In previous iterations of MoE, I had a simple enum for tile types:
desert, tundra, forest, grassland, hill, mountain, etc...

This kinda sucked. It created a number of conditions in other code, which would then need to be edited if the tile type list changed [which I'd like to do eventually with expan…

Interview today went well, I think. The interview was a bit different as they were testing more that I would fit into their culture than anything else.

I rather wish more peoples' journal posts would post code rather than screenshots. It's more interesting to see new approaches for problems or how p…

Implemented limited scrolling. The actual scrolling I wanted to do is broken, the 'ties' between the rectangles that identify what tile goes where are broken somehow. I don't have the infrastructure made enough to trace a dependancy tree to find out where/when they break, so it just regenerates the…

Had a phone screen this morning [finally] and did not do terribly well. Probably for the best too, they wanted someone to be the sole AD and Exchange admin for a 600 person org. That's just asking for trouble.

I've another inperson interview tomarrow with a place that seems cool, and a position that…

One test map, communicated to client, and rendered to screen with test map layers:



Now to flesh out more of the widget and layers, gamedata event binding, gamedata itself, and the formal transition from waiting screen to game state.

In one day I managed to sort of meet my goal. The server/client code knows enough to serialize and deserialize Units and Tiles. The map renderer functions enough to keep track of a reference tile, and build 1 line of the fan of the map.

Unfortunately I've uncovered a bug. Not a bug really, but one o…

Not a bad start this afternoon.

- Added events, data and properties for Tile class.
- Added basic events, data and properties for Path class.
- Modified Unit events to be called after data setting, not before.
- Added Empire->Player mapping for serverside.
- Added FogOfWar class, data and a few manip…

Hat trick tonight even!

Er, anyways, I'm not one for goals usually, but I'm going to set one for next week. I need to either get a job, or get MOE to the point where the game actually starts. Maybe doesn't play. Maybe map generation doesn't work, or race customization, or any fancy UI. Just some tes…

I finally got around to breaking ground on actual game code. I removed some of the older code I had for the Empire setup, and uid stuff. It wasn't very modular, meaning server and client code couldn't share what was essentially the same in game object. So this afternoon:

- Changed namespaces around,…

Yet more skirting around actual game code...

- Added send/recv counters to the network code. Throughput can be tracked on a per connection, per service [TCP/UDP/Thread], or per network object basis.
- Added another little widget like the FPS and memory displays to display client's current TCP through…