Why I Love Nethack

1 min read nethackUncategorized
My current game is a great example of why I love nethack. I am playing a healer and I have had really horrible luck with pets dying. What I needed was something… more powerful. Something that could eat those pesky shopkeepers and cross-aligned priests so that I can convert their stupid altars. 
Luckily, I found a polymorph trap. Since I don’t yet have magic resistance this was a lucky find (last time I literally stumbled into it and turned into a queen bee for about 600 turns). As I have yet to find a magic whistle, leash, or any way of controlling my pet, I constructed a rather useful fort of boulders…
Before
After

The greatest part? This was after only my first try.

JavaScript = Die

1 min read getyeaxeUncategorized

Thanks to liberal debugging via Firefox and the firebug plug-in, I have working two-way communication from the browser to the app engine via the channel functionality. I have almost no idea how it works… but it does!

Mostly just for test purposes, I made the same map (in HTML5) click-able and it now dynamically updates (ajax style I guess?) the terrain type at the bottom of the page. Seems a bit slow but at this point I have not done any kind of optimization or testing so no surprises there.
Onwards!

First steps towards ye axe

1 min read getyeaxeUncategorized

Google app engine is fun.
JavaScript… not so much.

Here’s what ‘get ye axe’ looks like so far. I’m trying to use the HTML5 canvas element for the front-end since I have no desire to learn flash.

Keep looking…

Not much to look at yet but actually further than I thought I would be at this point. The idea is that a lot of the path-finding and dungeon generation and field of view code that I made for AarrrRL and GnomeSquad will carry over quite easily to the new game. It’s all in python!

You cannot get ye axe

2 min read getyeaxeUncategorized

Experimenting with google app engine, and using it to make a game.

The idea is to use this space as a devblog, and track the game through it’s life-cycle. Judging from my previous gaming attempts, this life-cycle will be extremely short.
Here’s the idea:
scribbly ye axe

It’s sort of like the slow-form simple strategy (and backstabbing) of  Neptune’s Pride…

Neptune’s Pride

plus the dungeons and random potions and scrolls of nethack…

Nethack

plus multi-player tactical gameplay ala shining force, or x-com, or GnomeSquad?? (just throwing it out there!)

Shining Force 2
GnomeSquad

plus the asynchronous nature of mobile games like wordfeud…

Wordfeud

Plus… oh hey did I mention the backstabbing? Anyways, that’s it for now. Hopefully this spot will show the game as it progresses from “back of a letter scribble” to “hey this is a cool game you can actually play”. Wish me luck.

Android blogger test

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Yeah I am trying out the android blogger app. For… some reasons that I’m sure will come to me later.

Also: new url!
Http://www.heroicfisticuffs.com

Apparently there is no way to add a link in this app?? Laaaame. Switching to tumblr NOW.