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daerr over to help me eat pizza and brainstorm about Volity. But jmac, it was a Thursday night! You promised yourself not to think about Volity on the three "ITA days" you have scheduled every week! Ah, you are almost correct. I refuse to think about the business known as Volity Games between Wednesday and Friday, in exchange for ignoring ITA on the other days. But the open Volity project is fair game!
And it's been months since I have thought about the actual game technology, so consumed have I been with launching the moneymaking part of the business. As innovative as that is, working on it is still far more similar to any other sort of "e-commerce" (spew) web programming than anything that even remotely has to do with games.
Furthermore, as I have written, that's lonely work right now. I'm the only person putting a significant amount of effort into core Volity development these days and it's depressing. I hunger for a sense of parallel work again, and of leading something good. So, I shall aim to give the volity.org crank a few good turns and see if it can't keep itself going for a while.
There is a plan now, and it will take a little while to set up, but it will be Good and You Will Like It, and it will be fun for me in the meantime. The first thing that must occur is my grokkage of sXBL (spew, but only on that awful eTLA). WIth this, I shall sketch out the beginnings of something Volity's needed for years: a library for easier UI development. It won't be super-general: it will focus on 52-deck card games, inspired by how Clubhouse Games on the Nintendo DS does various things. But it will be elegant, reusable, and (I hope) popular and ultimately inspirational to others.
Once I have a skeletal version complete I shall turn to the community and encourage direct input, also setting up Subversion repositories and other goodies that we've already learned to take advantage of.
I'm really excited about this! And that means it will actually get done! It will be a good thing to work on during my four weekly "Volity days" when I am tired of slogging through payment system code (which I must also keep foremost in mind, yes).
daerr over to help me eat pizza and brainstorm about Volity. But jmac, it was a Thursday night! You promised yourself not to think about Volity on the three "ITA days" you have scheduled every week! Ah, you are almost correct. I refuse to think about the business known as Volity Games between Wednesday and Friday, in exchange for ignoring ITA on the other days. But the open Volity project is fair game!And it's been months since I have thought about the actual game technology, so consumed have I been with launching the moneymaking part of the business. As innovative as that is, working on it is still far more similar to any other sort of "e-commerce" (spew) web programming than anything that even remotely has to do with games.
Furthermore, as I have written, that's lonely work right now. I'm the only person putting a significant amount of effort into core Volity development these days and it's depressing. I hunger for a sense of parallel work again, and of leading something good. So, I shall aim to give the volity.org crank a few good turns and see if it can't keep itself going for a while.
There is a plan now, and it will take a little while to set up, but it will be Good and You Will Like It, and it will be fun for me in the meantime. The first thing that must occur is my grokkage of sXBL (spew, but only on that awful eTLA). WIth this, I shall sketch out the beginnings of something Volity's needed for years: a library for easier UI development. It won't be super-general: it will focus on 52-deck card games, inspired by how Clubhouse Games on the Nintendo DS does various things. But it will be elegant, reusable, and (I hope) popular and ultimately inspirational to others.
Once I have a skeletal version complete I shall turn to the community and encourage direct input, also setting up Subversion repositories and other goodies that we've already learned to take advantage of.
I'm really excited about this! And that means it will actually get done! It will be a good thing to work on during my four weekly "Volity days" when I am tired of slogging through payment system code (which I must also keep foremost in mind, yes).