0.7.0...
Published the new Zyps on Wednesday…
This is a major release for Zyps. Most important is the switch from the Ruby-GNOME2 to WxRuby, which is available as a gem. This means no more manual installation of dependencies before you can run the Zyps GUI. (And a nice little rendering speed boost, too.) Behaviors now act upon all eligible targets in a single update, as well. This means more flexibility for your Actions and Conditions.
What I don’t mention there is the feature I’m most pleased with - window resizing. I’d intended from day one to have the playfield expand with the window, but I’m just now getting around to implementing it.
It wasn’t as bad as I’d feared, but it was still kinda tricky. And I need to do an 0.7.1 release tonight: Alex Fenton notified me resizing wasn’t working right on OS X. (Actually, I’m just grateful it’s running at all on OS X, since I don’t have a machine to test it on.) Anyway, Subversion HEAD should be fixed as of last night, and I’ll roll it out ASAP.
Read more...Rabbits...
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About 24 hours after Alex Fenton (wxRuby maintainer) stated his intention to do a demo in Zyps, a complete “rabbit simulation” was sitting in my inbox. (With Behavior remapped to Behaviour, and Color to Colour. :) The little critters run around, eat grass, breed, and die, all in 300 lines of code.
This is exactly what I wanted out of Zyps - someone sees it, gets inspired, goes on a mad hackfest, and in a minimal period of time has a finished “game”. Hopefully once the library is sufficiently polished, many more people will be doing the same.
Read more...Thought I was ready to graduate from Easy mode on Rock Band drums… and I am, on “Creep” and “Say It Ain’t So”. Anything else utterly kicks my ass.
It’s really tough for Diana and me to line up time to play together. Last night was the first time in a week, and will likely be the last until the weekend.
Read more...Rock Band...
We ordered ourselves the full Rock Band set for our anniversary… Diana’s sitting here positioning her tattoos in the character editor as I write.
There’s just something eerie about watching a tattoo slide around on someone’s skin…
Read more...Cubes...
My toy office, now with copy center and Annoying Co-Worker Who Can’t See I’m Wearing Headphones(tm)!
