Checksum Arcanius

Today, I played a game on Concurr for the first time in a long time.

I have learned so much through this process, and there’s still a lot more to build, but it’s good to have the basics back in place.

Stuff that works really well:

• Chat
• Move submission and cancellation
• Clicking on map
• Manual Tics

Short-term TODO list:

• Lots of bugfixes
• Get countdown clock setup again
• Spawn tic daemon from main

Medium-term goals include:

• Generalize the chat server long polling to send any type of game update
• Following from above, more client-side rendering in general
• Don’t assign home planets until game starts (instead of game join)
• Stabilize colors by game join order (or selection process?)
• List players in the game

Long-term goals:

• Chat in lobby
• Change all planets to have orbits instead of the current fixed map setup
• Game fast-forward (if all players agree)
• Game ending win condition

Given the limitations noted above, is anyone interested in a game? Let me know and we can set something up.

We really need to get over ourselves and this stupid war on performance-enhancing drugs.

I lay on the cot staring up at the sickly pallor of the light-pollution hanging over Palo Alto. Off to my right, movement catches my eye. A rat is running along the telephone wire. That’s all that’s up at this hour: the rats and me. One the harbinger of disease, the other the diseased.