It's time for another for blog. It's my turn this week to do the midweek blog and we've been quite busy getting stuff done. So, it'll be a short blog today. Projects!Last Sunday, after Adrian did Sunday Musings, I did some work on the later levels of the Air Temple in Reprieve. They are, for the most part, now working with only one or two needing some more work before we can move on to the rest of the Temple/Boss Battle. Reprieve will be in a bit of a limbo (not the dance), while we do another project. For the next few weeks we'll be taking a break from developing Reprieve in order to develop a new App that we've started this week. So far this week I've been working hard on the menus and making sure that everything scales and works as it should. We'll be talking more about it as development continues. So Many Damn Spiders!I'm a smidgen late to the party (by a "smidgen" I mean unfashionably late) but after months and months of nagging from Adrian, I've finally started playing Binding of Isaac. And...I'm absolutely terrible at it but it's damn enjoyable to play. Closest I've gotten to finishing a run was the 2nd last level and I unfortunately got over confident and promptly had my arse handed to me. I have Rebirth on my PS4 too but will probably give it a purchase on Steam too at some stage. That'll do me for this week. Time to get back to it!
I'll be back with Sunday Musings on Sunday, until then, enjoy the rest of your week! Well hello there, It's my turn to do a blog after the fiasco of Sunday Musings 2 weeks ago when I was struck with PC problems... Boss Battles and Small TweaksThis week has been going relatively well for us on Reprieve. Adrian's back working on it after completing some more of the sword packs and what not but there'll be more on that in Sunday Musings. I've been doing some more of the same small tweaks here and there. For instance, there was a small problem with the cursor always showing when the game was being played. So that's been fixed, if the player doesn't move the mouse for a set period of time, the cursor disappears and then reappears when they move it again. Pretty much standard stuff in games but it's been bugging me when testing. I've also been doing some work on the boss battles. So far it's been mostly the Fire Guardian battle. That's needed some work since I coded it initially. I've also discovered Animation Events, which have blown our minds. Can't believe we didn't notice it before but we have now and it's damn awesome. Basically it allows you to pick a frame on an animation that you want something to happen. In our case, when the Guardian opens his mouth, he shoots fire balls. Which meant using animation events to time it perfectly every time. It's looks pretty nice because of it. After that's done, it's on to the demon battle and other small jobs which will hopefully be done by the end of the week. PC Shhhtuff!So, after a few weeks of ordering parts and having them sitting there doing nothing, I finally got impatient and built a new PC nearly 2 weeks ago. Began building it on Saturday before realising I'd run out of SATA-PSU cables. Only to find one at 3am on Sunday morning...in the bag of Wires I had... Then on Sunday afternoon I decided to quickly attach the HDD, turn on my PC and then discover I put the Radiator fans on the wrong way. Huzzah! Took the PC back apart, took the fans off and then turned it back on and realised I'd just put them back on the same way. Never has Minor Mistake Marvin been so apt... Cue much swearing and facepalming. I just about manager to get it right the third time and finally got everything up and running. I have been having some problems though. Some crashes which have hopefully been fixed by installing a BIOS update. I haven't had any in 2 days, so HUZZAH! Onto the all important Specs though. I managed to harvest some parts from my old PC that I could use, namely the PSU, RAM and the HDD. Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Orange) Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Hero CPU: Intel i7 4790k CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken x61 RAM: G.Skill Ripjaw-Z 16GB GPUs: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X in Crossfire SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 128GB HDD: Hitachi 1.5TB and WD Black 3TB PSU: Corsair HX850 The SSD is for booting, obviously and it's lovely and fast. So boot times and back to being in the seconds rather than the minutes of my old PC. Also played some games like Sniper Elite 3, Project CARS and some Assetto Corsa. Frame rates remain consistently high on highest settings. Huzzah! |
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January 2016
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