I figured I’d put together a list of the main features I need to finish for A Game of Snails. If anything, it’ll help me gather my thoughts and track my progress better as well as helping me figure out what to work on next. What I should be doing is compiling specs properly for this, but I’ve been too preoccupied with actually working on the thing to keep up with the documentation. Not to mention this game has been in my head for so long (7 years, but arguably longer) and I’ve thought and rethought pretty much every single one of these so much that I feel like I know what it needs to be inside and out. Let’s hope I don’t get lost.

I figured I’d put together a list of the main features I need to finish for A Game of Snails. If anything, it’ll help me gather my thoughts and track my progress better as well as helping me figure out what to work on next. What I should be doing is compiling specs properly for this, but I’ve been too preoccupied with actually working on the thing to keep up with the documentation. Not to mention this game has been in my head for so long (7 years, but arguably longer) and I’ve thought and rethought pretty much every single one of these so much that I feel like I know what it needs to be inside and out. Let’s hope I don’t get lost.

This is going to be  two-part post about both A Game of Snails and running (and Sweden!)

A Game of Snails

I took a few days off of A Game of Snails, but it’s coming along pretty nicely overall. The last week has been set on setting up the database. You can now save users and snails to the database, load a player’s snails when they log in, etc. Up next I just need to start saving a player’s snail jars (players can buy more jars with virtual currency  to be able to house more snails). The most daunting upcoming task will be migrating the server to a proper host and setting the whole thing up in a live environment.

This is going to be  two-part post about both A Game of Snails and running (and Sweden!)

A Game of Snails

I took a few days off of A Game of Snails, but it’s coming along pretty nicely overall. The last week has been set on setting up the database. You can now save users and snails to the database, load a player’s snails when they log in, etc. Up next I just need to start saving a player’s snail jars (players can buy more jars with virtual currency  to be able to house more snails). The most daunting upcoming task will be migrating the server to a proper host and setting the whole thing up in a live environment.

I feel almost guilty when I post non game or tech-related posts to this blog because I know the majority of people who come here tend to do so for the game/Impact/JS posts. However, this is a personal site and I do more than sit at a keyboard all day, so posts about running, Sweden, travel, etc are going to happen. Running and exercise is probably the category that’ll be popping up the most (after games) over the next few months as Stockholm warms up and I restart my training. If you want to subscribe specifically to the game dev category and ignore everything else, it can be found here.