15 Steps Roguelike

[ido]

Cross-posted from rec.games.roguelike.development[1]

I'm starting a game using TheSheep's 15 steps plan[2], doing 1 step per day.

I will be starting fresh but reserve the right to pilfer and pillage any of my previous projects for source code, as well as anything  I can find online.

In January 14th at night (or January 15th in the morning) I will post my success or failure.  I also reserve the right to use the most generous of time zones for determining the end date.


See you in 15 days!

-Ido.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/browse_thread/thread/900884a15bc79453
[2] http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=How_to_Write_a_Roguelike_in_15_Steps

[Fenrir]

You won't be posting updates with each step?

Either way, I shall be watching.

Fenrir begins staring at ido with a blank expression, following him with an wide-eyed, immutable gaze no matter where he may move.

[ido]

Each step would be every day, which is a bit much for substantial updates - but I will try post small status reports here if you find that interesting

[Fenrir]

Fenrir replies without changing his expression or breaking his gaze.

I forget that not everyone has as much time on their hands as I do.

[ido]

Day 1 (this was actually yesterday, but I didn't get around to posting it until this morning).

[Fenrir]

Oh, by "post updates" I meant exactly what you're doing. I don't know if you thought I meant something else.

[ido]

I ended up more or less just posting my done/todo list (which I was keeping anyway), so it's less of an effort than I first imagined

The items left under "to-do" are the ones I didn't manage to finish up that day and will rolled back into the next day's to-do list.

-Ido.

[ido]

Day 2.

[Fenrir]

Any particular reason you spent exactly 6.6 hours on both days?

[ido]

Not that I can tell, I use time tracking software (http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/) and it says I just happened to spend about 6.6h each day

It's an estimated amount, since a couple of times I forgot to turn on tracking until well into an activity and I modified it to add the time I guessed I spent on it before starting to track...but I'm pretty sure it doesn't deviate much from the actual time.

-Ido.

[Vanguard]

Good luck!

[ido]

Day 3 - this time I caught up with all the tasks for that day and ended it with an empty to-do list!

[ido]

Day 4 - another successful day - all tasks done.

[ido]

Day 5 - some setbacks with getting firefox to accept my JSON as well formed, but I eventually overcome the issues and implemented most of the saving/loading code.

[ido]

Day 6.