BrenDevLog: codin'.

Follow along as Brennan attempts to bootstrap a 1-man software company/indie game studio.

What I'm workin' on

wifight is a free online multi-player multi-game turn-based game service. Is that enough hyphens? It's fun. I'm basu. Say hi in the chat room!
WINDOWS/PALMOS

Debris Visual Art: A long-running art project. It generates surrealistic paintinglike displays from random imagery accumulated from the Internet. The image continually shifts, but just barely too slowly to see. Someday you'll have a dedicated LCD picture frame in your house running this. I have been working on this off and on since about 2001.
WINDOWS

bmem: A simple (very simple) HUD for your PC, showing memory/CPU/disk use. In win32 the disk cache memory and free memory are kind of the same thing but they are reported separately, which is a huge pain. So I was inspired to write bmem. I also tried to make it as tiny and efficient as possible.
WINDOWS

RSXE: This is my RSS/Atom/whatever newsreader. It's kind of approaching alpha 1.0. I use it every day and code up a feature or two when I find something I miss. The goal here is simplicity, efficiency, and speed.
WINDOWS

Hlscript: When a programmer starts a blog, he can either use a pre-existing software package, or write one himself. Guess which option I picked. Hint: this blog runs on it! The design goals here are once again simplicity and speed. And easy hackability/customization. And not requiring a SQL engine. And not requiring too recent a version of PHP. Or browser.
PHP

Listo: A PHP-based personal streaming mp3 server. I wrote this to use with my Treo 650. It has a Web page interface to queue up songs while you stream them via PocketTunes or similar. It uses LAME to transcode songs to a usable bitrate. I use 32-40kbit mono variable bit rate over GPRS/EDGE.
PHP

08-jul-2009
wednesday

wifight is 1.04 already!
screenshot of games list

Well, I have been elbow-deep in C++ land and cranking out client builds since 1.0, and following naturally upon the release of 1.01, 1.02, and 1.03 (which apparently I forgot to blog about, but were certainly worthy builds), we have... 1.04! I'm pretty happy with this build. Especially the new game title font in the game list. Check it out:
Download the latest wifight client (currently version 1.04) for Windows and PalmOS at get.wifight.com.

Here's Whats New in 1.04:

palm: fixed rare crash bug in progress popup

all: inverted text on hilited item for game browser too

all: "Delete game" option in gamescreen menu for completed games (instead of "Resign game")

win32: enabled keyboard shortcuts in menus like palm has

all: new chunkilicious font for game titles in game room screen

win32: window stays centered over old position when double-size is toggled

all: moved "PLAYER/SPECTATING" indicator in games archive list to the lower right

all: fixed game details popup bgcolor not matching color theme bgcolor

palm: fixed GPRS login popup coming up before progress popup paints

palm: game icon drop shadow wasn't showing up, fixed

palm: problem where once you turned off the screen it didn't want to come back on should be much better

all: updated inbuilt user guide to latest online version

all: fixed memory leak in select game screen

Thanks for all the feedback in the chat room! You can also read the past release notes for all versions.

screenshot of dungeon And here's a random peek at how Dungeon's doing lately. Remember this one's a work in progress. I've just been working on it here and there while I work out some design ideas on paper. But you can see the room rendered in the background there, and how about those graph-paper-esque lines? What do you think?

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