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A decade of GDNet

A decade of GDNet

It's been just about ten years since I created the Ravuya account on GDNet. There's been so many things that have happened since then, and so many...

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Getting Comfortable With Some New Friends

Getting Comfortable With Some New Friends

I'm testing out the new journal software by doing a small update: I've implemented the NPC editor in the Afterglow editor, so you can now place...

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Finishing a Game

Finishing a Game

I wanted to hypocritically point people at this excellent Derek Yu article, complete with adorable cartoons.

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Cut that out

Cut that out

I'll just leave ">this here.I'm trying to end a lot of my inactivity by taking Afterglow improvements a little at a time. Last night, I improved the...

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tuuurbos

tuuurbos

So I sat down tonight and decided to finish off the view for the Afterglow conversation layer, and here's how I started prototyping:Just starting...

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Holy crap

Holy crap

It was the fifth anniversary of my journal yesterday. I can't believe I've been posting to this thing for five years.I've mostly figured out how the...

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Another entry this month - can it be?

Another entry this month - can it be?

I got the Afterglow collision fixed a few days after I made the previous journal post, but I haven't had much news to report at all.I'm also...

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Hello there

Hello there

I've been oddly productive recently (especially despite Mass Effect 2) - trying to get rid of a nasty collision issue in Afterglow that keeps me from...

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Metaphorical Journeys of 2010

Metaphorical Journeys of 2010

I'm starting my new job tomorrow - I'm a bit anxious. Even though I've worked at this company on my internship, I don't know much about what project...

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Ho ho ho, the bodies hit the floor

Ho ho ho, the bodies hit the floor

Afterglow now has support for corpses, and as a side effect of hooking into the existing Afterglow sprite setup you can have animated corpses. This...

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y halo thar journal

y halo thar journal

I just wanted to pop my head in here and say that my finals are over and they seem to have gone well. I have (unofficially) graduated with a BSc in...

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Once a month journal post

Once a month journal post

I'm surprisingly deluged with a combination of schoolwork and vidjagames so I've been quite lazy on doing new stuff.New stuff (according to my bug...

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Pretty much dead

Pretty much dead

I'm not really dead, but I might as well be for all the progress I've been making over the last few weeks. I started my last semester, and although...

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Editorial bias

Editorial bias

I've been working a bit on the entity functionality of the Afterglow editor; my dream objective is to spend a lot less time in TextMate tweaking text...

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I'm alive!

I'm alive!

I just finished out my summer work term last week, and so I've been taking it fairly easy this week.Some notable updates, though:Afterglow can now...

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Afterglow Updates

Afterglow Updates

I'm working on some more stuff for Afterglow.New:Explosions look way better.Went out and looked for musicians; found one, and will start looking for...

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Thog push button, make post.

Thog push button, make post.

Some busy updates to Afterglow, but nothing immediately visible, I fear.The player can die and respawn; when you get killed it goes to a "mission...

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Prepare for ULTRALOUNGE

Prepare for ULTRALOUNGE

I have succeeded Oluseyi as GDNet Lounge Moderator/Fascist, fulfilling the prophecy handed down by the Rhino to nes8bit two thousand years ago...

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Penance

Penance

Sorry I haven't made an update in the last little while, but I have been working on Afterglow.New:Rotation of decals - blood, etc is rotated slightly...

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There's no place like home

There's no place like home

In Afterglow, I got the homing bullet implant working after harassing SHilbert with math so simple I have literally solved it before. [crying]On the...

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