mintman@realitysend.com (Jaret Cantu) http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification en-us RealitysEnd.com custom scripting, baby~! http://www.realitysend.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:01:14 GMT 1440 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:00:00 GMT Plush, tho', including loading levels from an XML file. The idea is to make user-generated levels (don't worry, not with raw XML) a very real possibility.]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:00:00 GMT Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:00 GMT Avast, me hearties! 'Tis that time o' the year againe to gum like an ol' scalliwag! I know I've celebrated International Talk Like A Pirate Day before on this site, but I often forget this favorite of my fanbase. That, or I misplace or otherwise botch the code to get it out and up in time. Well, no more! I gots meself a handy-dandy Perl module to Swiss-army-knife the translations in with nothing more than a simple include. Ah, Perl. Is there anything it can't do? So, no excuses for me from now on.]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:00:00 GMT Plush. I was kinda worried that I did not make enough visible changes to seem like anything changed at all -- until I played the previous version up at this site. Yeah, I think things are coasting along.
I need to get a feed up for this thing and possibly a dev log like I did for Kirbj (since that worked wonders for interest in that project~!). If I don't sink more time in trying to get that stream attack to look just right making a different HTML5 game with this engine (which, I of course, did~!), there should a fully playable -- if short -- game out in a month.]]> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT While I normally do not like to go into the various badnesses that befall me or my site around the first of June (rampant sickness, among others!), this time, it concerns a rather large stretch of time and this site, and is not just general whinery.
Some time last year, I started to get on a fix-up kick. Believe it or not, I stuck to that goal. I have been hard at work trying to get this place as advanced as possible behind the scenes, working with a purchased server instead of my own personal machine (which is becoming an increasingly limiting factor, by the way). Of course, no one wants to hear about technical updates. I know this. That is why I have been working on actual new features, too.
Yup, I have been working on new content. Game content. That is a fact. Releasing, on the other hand...
If you look at the most recent releases on Reality's End, it is mostly revamps and duds. Sure, the revamps were good, but nothing new. Shadow Aura is about the only standout in its day, and even that has fallen out of member favor.
For the most part, I have just been producing effort sinks like REWS and GraFight. This is not even to mention that fan site I wasted nigh-on three years at. At least REWS has archives and GraFight could become something. I actually purged my changes from Rainbow Resort in spite. That's negative effort.
Because of this track record, I have been trying to make the next RE release something big. I keep flip-flopping on how I think it will be received, and then I pull the plug. Sometimes, things just don't work out. I was working on a watered-down Incarnate recently for two-player realtime battle, but every AI run I did showed that it was fundamentally flawed.
And that was supposed to be for the anniversary.
I know things are desolate around here, and that is coming from a guy who has always admitted his site is barren. Reality's End is in desperate need. This is becoming less about making a smash-hit and more about making anything to stave off the hunger pangs.
I didn't have much time, but I did get a vague idea. And have a lot of unreleased code that I could mangle together. I couldn't get anything appropriate done yet, but all the pieces are there, waiting to become something more than just a crude debugging demo.
For now, a crude debugging demo will have to do. At long last, news darling To-Po gets a chance to shine. The mechanics and graphics are all there right now, but one day soon, you will be able to Make This Game.]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:00 GMT Sun, 22 May 2011 16:00:00 GMT Keep in mind that nothing was broken; separating the feeds was just a bad idea. I mean, who wants to subscribe to a bunch of RSS from the same site for items all listed on the same page?]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:00:00 GMT Kirbj capture sessions. Normally, that is far from front page worthy, but this required redoing all of the capturing mechanisms for Linux. It also actually involves some semblance of video editing, too.]]> Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:00:00 GMT Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:00:00 GMT Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:00:00 GMT