Last week I deleted the Hubb’s database by accident, with no possible means to restore it. Oops comes to mind.
To celebrate (?), I bought tamworth-wargames.net and threw up a sparkly new PHPBB3 for Tamworth Games club (all 8 of those that visit anyway). Hopefully I’ll get some time to turn it into a nice big greasy rig at some point.
Whether I’ll rebuild the other aspects of the Hubb is yet unknown. I’ve given it thought, but its probably not even wanted.
Some old news now, but I can’t believe I forgot to post it here. I’m a bit of a lazy blogger, probably because no one visits my blog.
Anyway, Blizzard has announced Starcraft 2 - the most anricipated game ever?
I’ve also been busy setting up a community to support the game and its interests:
Since I’m in that limbo between Uni and Career, I’ve been spending some time to redo my portfolio site and hope to make some new examples to stick up there.
Check it out:
http://www.fulgrim.com/wh/
Well all my work is finally handed in, but I have 1 last exam this Friday. Here’s hoping that’s the end of it and I get a degree!
So, anyone want to give me a job?
Erwtenpeller has now completed this fine piece of art for Arda.
Click for large version.
Not too much to report just yet. Ironing out some bugs in the system and trying to finish up the movement and combat systems for testing.
I’ve thrown up a placeholder front page for the game, sporting Erwt’s latest version of the cover image and a few links.
http://www.fulgrim.com/arda/
I finished plugging in the last few bits of data for the map hexes in MySQL. The map is now whole.
363 total tiles: 180 Water, 88 Forest, 48 Hills, 26 Mountains, 21 Plains.
Again, you can see the full flash views of the map:
> shrunk < or > scrollable <
With a live beta drawing near, I wanted to recap on the current developments:
The registration system is fully active, viewable > here <. You can also setup an Empire and see a small preview of the Empire panel. That's about all is ready in that build (Throne, April 1st).
If you are further interested in the game or system, Arda has its own forum over at GRaP > here <
Two full-views of the map beta map (currently incomplete) can be viewed either > shrunk < or > scrollable <. These are mostly design aides, but are available to all for viewing.
Icon Previews, created by > Tiki <
Mohor army icons:
Keltoi army icons:
Our dearest > Erwt < has been working on a promotional (and likely cover image) for Arda. The idea is inspired by Battle Chess and The Settlers, with the rival armies coming into life, growing out of their 2-dimensional bounds.
Yar harr! So, this is the extent of my current game in development - a headache, an ragged actionscript book and the intention to never use Flash again!
It’s not all so bad, something works. Just not half of what I’d like to have working.
Check out some of the alpha releases on my grap site:
> Arda alpha <
