February 12, 2009
Lost Focus Part II
Posted in About Dragonlings, metaplace at 5:31 am by chooseareality
The game is still slowly progressing. I have so many other projects that it is hard to keep focused on this one. What happens in Metaplace is it is really easy to see someones world and it sets me off on things I would like to try.
One day I am making an elevator prototype that will take players across areas from way point to way point. The next day they introduce height fields and I have the idea of making a game with boulders rolling down hills. (That one is pretty fun too!)
It is great to be able to test out ideas so quickly. Most are working base prototypes in only a few hours and if I make something I really like I can just make it slightly better before it is a playable level. Nothing has been able to really get my full attention as the really fun game I want to spend the time to polish on, but it is only a matter of time since I get faster each day.
Screen shots should follow soon.
October 9, 2008
I have a bad feeling….
Posted in metaplace at 11:36 pm by chooseareality
At some point today I lost contact with the metaplace servers. It is a sad thing, because I think they are still up and running just fine since I have RSS feeds arriving in my google reader. This could mean that something is wrong with the dns path that travels from my town to their town. I fear that it could also mean that my employer has somehow blocked access to that site or some other silly security change.
I am beyond annoyed and really hope that is all that it is. Phuck! Guess I better quit WAR if this keeps up so I have time to do metaplace, because I really don’t have time to do both if I lose my lunch development time here at work.
I am probably overreacting and it is just a glitch in the cloud, but I am worried about it none the less.
