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I have one month to make an MMO: Intro

I have one month to make an MMO: Intro

I am moving jobs, and have taken time off to do some soul searching…by which I mean make an MMO.
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I have one month to make an MMO: END

I have one month to make an MMO: END

Unfortunately I have to close out my month a day early due to some unforseen car-related issues (ironically directly related to working on…
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 19

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 19

I’ve added item dropping, and a bit more inventory and interaction UI
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 18

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 18

I hope you enjoy this sad potato on the floor. It took me all day to make. I had to do some significant refactoring to do it.
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 17

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 17

I start work in the inventory system, and the database storage for the player’s inventory and the item library.
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I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 5

I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 5

An overview of the project so far, and discussion about the inventory system that’ll be added in Sprint 5
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 16

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 16

New indoor areas have been added, and cleaned up the full chunk unload system that allows the player to warp from one area to another
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 15

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 15

Finally got around to linking up the dialogue system, its parser, and the client dialogue display. I feel redeemed.
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 14

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 14

I add new character sprites, and depth sorting. Also found a missing feature in GameMaker
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 13

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 13

Taking a break from coding work, I spent the the day on adding some more interesting maps, and chatting to a couple of artists about art…
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Yuan Gao (Meseta)
I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 4

I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 4

Sprint 3 is the first sprint in which I’ve failed to achieve all of the goals. I reflect on what happen, and what technical debt is.
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 12

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 12

I complete the entity node’s handling of collisions and movement, allowing the MMO backend to move NPCs around the map and chase players
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 10

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 10

Progress on the Twine parser is slow, so I don’t have any fun screenshots to share. But you can read on to listen to me rant about git!
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 9

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 9

Well this is embarrassing. I was supposed to take a day off to rest, recover, and prepare for the next sprint; but worked 16 hours instead
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I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 3

I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 3

With movement and maps finished, the next sprint will be about NPCs and mobs. Being able to control their behaviour and giving them…
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 8

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 8

Players can now see each other moving around the map!
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 7

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 7

I get the chunk rendering working, and add tile-based collision checks
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I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 4

I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 4

Continuing my filler series, I share off my big screen, and my giant red ball.
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Yuan Gao (Meseta)
I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 3

I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 3

Some technical discussion about what I think an MMO server needs to be able to do. And what is an MMO anyway? 100 players? 1000? 10k?
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I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 2

I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 2

I share exactly how I can work for 12+ hours a day without getting sore, and staying healthy. Also see my freaky keyboards!
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I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 1

I have one month to make an MMO: but I’m on vacation 1

While I’m not working on the game, I’d like to share some thoughts on motivation and focus; introversion and recharging; and mental health
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 6

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 6

I add chunk loading to the game, and write a bootstrapping script that populates the Redis database with the world map
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 5

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 5

After a bumper 14 hour work day, all the tools for authoring maps using Tiled, and pushing chunks to the database is complete.
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I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 2

I have one month to make an MMO: Sprint 2

Having finished core network/backend infrastructure, Sprint 2 will be about movement and maps, and getting that data to and from the server
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 4

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 4

After a long 12 hour work day, I finish the login system and for the first time have all three pieces of the MMO come together
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I have one month to make an MMO: Day 3

I have one month to make an MMO: Day 3

I get to work on the Python side of the MMO, and I talk about why I chose Python, and why I chose Tornado/Asyncio for the job.
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