An Independent Game Developer’s Diary

So I’ve been doing this for almost a week, and I’ve got another version up at shipwreck.mibgames.co.uk.  It’s still not really playable, there’s certainly not a game there yet, but it’s a lot better than it was.

• Now when you create a character, you get the generic stats, and can’t edit them
• Your characters location is randomly set to be a beach location along the north coast of the island at creation
• You can now see a map of the areas around your character (using some free graphics I found online and threw together in 5 minutes, hence the mismatched sizes)
• You can click on a map location to travel there, assuming that it’s possible (you can’t walk on the sea)
• All new code uploaded to the google code project

So, I’m feeling slightly proud, or was until I started writing my todo list, here’s the main features waiting to be done

• Character creation should be fleshed out, choose a profession
• Action points based on time, and moving around the map should cost action points
• See other characters on the map, and send them messages
• Character advancement commands - (learn skills, practice skills)
• Items - Allow items to be found, and picked up
• Monsters - Allow monsters to be met and fought.
• Interzone travel - Currently you can’t travel from zone 1 to zone 2, this should be fixed.
• Finish drawing the map, my laptop power ran out last night, and the mpa was only half started.
• Better / More graphics, including Terrain tiles, characters, monsters

Phew!

You’ll also notice if you look at the code that there are no tests anywhere.  This is against my normal coding practice, but the django test suite refuses to work under AppEngine (the database layer is required to run the django tests) and I haven’t got around to writing proper tests for anything yet.  The key classes to write tests for are the helpers.  That would probably also help me split a lot of code out from the views and into more helper style methods.

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