These are all entries bearing the tag announcement.
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Egg of P'an Ku
My latest project, which has been in development intermittently for a couple of months at this point, is being released today. Called Egg of P'an Ku, it is a virtual tabletop application for playing Legend of the Five Rings online against other people.
There have been other applications like this for L5R. Unfortunately, they are all old and unsupported, and with somewhat lacking interfaces and capabilities. Furthermore, their developers seem to mostly have dropped off the face of the earth. Egg of P'an Ku is intended to remedy this. It has a sleek interface with native look through wxWidgets, supports an arbitrary number of players, and is cheatproof—only the server has perfect information about the game state. To prevent it from becoming orphaned, it is free/open source software. It is portable (once a few details have been taken care of), written in Python.
For more information, screenshots and downloads, visit the Egg of P'an Ku website.
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The Thesis Log
Monkeyblah has a new section, which may not be all that interesting to most of you. As some of you know, I am currently writing my Master's thesis in computer science at Chalmers University of Technology, on the topic of Computer-generated video game narratives.
Well, as it turns out, my discipline isn't the greatest in the world, a woe well-known to anyone who's been a student for any length of time. Work is simply not getting done at the pace I need it to. Taking a cue from my good friend Jolle, I've decided to keep a log of my daily activities on the thesis, and that's what the new section is for. In reality, it's just a listing of posts bearing the thesis-log tag, but it's good enough. Posts bearing this tag are not shown on the front page or in date listings; you have to look for the tag specifically to see any such entries.
The purpose of this log is twofold; for one, to document my work, but more importantly to keep me motivated. Public visibility and accountability makes for a powerful motivator. For the rest of you, hey, maybe it'll interest some of you.
Edit: Here's the first entry, for today.
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Software upgrades: RSS, Trackback, Captcha
Posted on July 18 2007 — announcement, monkeyblah — 0 comments
Just added a few more trinkets to the site so it looks more like a civilized site and not so... ghetto.
In particular, there's an RSS feed on the right along with an element in the page header, as well as Trackback capability. I also fiddled with the captcha functionality and replaced the font, and fancied up some parts of the sidebar.
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We're Back In Business
Posted on July 11 2007 — announcement, monkeyblah — 7 comments
Guess who's risen from the dead? That's right, yours truly is back in the saddle, mixing metaphors like it's nobody's business and ready to shake things up once more. Did you miss me? Of course you did.