However, I would suggest checking out CyberpunkRL, another CyberPunk based roguelike, being programmed using LibTCOD — this time with C#.

Sometime in the future I will get around to releasing a working project (again?)

Sorry for the inconvenience.

I’m looking for an old friend, Nic/Nat Gee, also known as weebeestie/wee_beestie, and I’m not having much luck. Not that I think anyone would have much luck finding me, but finding “Scautura” is fairly easy if you knew me by that name. It’s unique, fortunately (now watch all the squatters/spammers etc. grab it for usage), so I guess I’m fairly easy to find, but I don’t really put my real life info online, so I wouldn’t necessarily be findable like that.

So Nic, if you’re out there… Let me know? I’ve been looking for a while, and you’re the only person from my past that I actually miss talking to.

I’m not taking down any code, so you’ll still be able to see my terrible coding.

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There was a wonderful article on GameSetWatch’s @Play about Python for Roguelikes, giving some great comments on its use in roguelike development. I suggest you go read — personally, I do plan on using Python for parts of CyberRogue, as it is very useful for things such as modding or pluggable content.

And yes — I’m absolutely terrible at this social networking thing (AKA Blogging)!

It might be a little longer before I release more code — my main development environment/machine has gone belly-up and I’ll need to reinstall XP on it. I’ve got Vista x64 on it which is still running fine, but I’ll need to tweak and fiddle to get it working the way I want it for coding (it’s set up for web dev — Adobe suite runs so much better in a 64 bit environment) to the point where it may be quicker to reinstall Windows, which won’t happen until at least the weekend.

On the plus side, school’s out, so I’m not going to have to deal with hundreds of needy humans at work… Oh, and there’s no kids either.

I’m a Firefox user, so the only reason I noticed was using somebody else’s computer at work with IE6 — it came out so bad I thought I’d check 7 as well, just to make sure everything was OK, and of course, it wasn’t. Stupid compression script…

Until then, you’ll have to put up with the debug build and my lack of info.

I took some time yesterday to tweak some of the rendering code, changing the way it works (using temp variables rather than static class variables) and introducing the concept of dirtiness (no more rendering the whole screen on every pass, just the parts that have changed. I just need to remember to mark them as dirty when making changes.

I’ve been playing Prototype a fair bit, and it’s good fun. For someone with godlike powers, you do get battered around an awful lot. Mind you, Alex is still “only human” underneath all that, and while he regenerates quickly, is still killable. Opinion seems to be polarised as far as the game is concerned, people complaining the boss fights are long, hard and boring, while other say they’re easy as long as you keep moving. I haven’t come across anything I haven’t enjoyed (so far), but it’s taking my time away from development.