Archives November 2007
Productively Networking (almost) (A few bugs fixed in olpcgames)
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Either no-one has ever used olpcgames.mesh or they have all fixed a number of broken pieces individually. I fixed one show-stopping bug today that would have meant no activity could properly track the users in the channel.
Anyway, I *think* I'm going down the right path for the networking. Will see as I get the ...
What does it take to be "part" of the OLPC project? (On predatory perceptions and porting...)
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Had a very interesting conversation this morning with a volunteer out in the field (which is to say, in a developing nation) about the opinion being observed that Intel's Classmate is just as much a part of the OLPC project as the XO. There's a perception among those observers that the joining of the board[1] ...
Need to get Develop Developing (Get Productive out the door first I suppose...)
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My OLPC priorities at the moment:
* get Productive finished
* use what we've learned from Productive to fix OLPCGames
* get Develop development restarted, produce at least a simple, straight forward IDE similar to SciTE built, tested and delivered
* find people to work on porting to EEE and Classmate
* find people to ...
Productive Integration Under Way (Longish day of refactoring...)
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Got the rendering test code refactored into a set of widgets and then moved those widgets to the UI screen where they are supposed to live. Got all that done and then realised that the demo simulation doesn't work under the olpcgames wrapper because the pygame timer doesn't fire into the wrapped olpcgame queue. Sigh. ...
We have a Productive Project (Git tree and everything...)
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Productive now has an official, public source archive. The spike test for graphics and simulation is available in spikes/spike_render.py for those who want to start playing.
I've been playing with some scaling tests... will need to do some work there to make larger maps usable, both for the UI (for moving units long distances) ...
The cold hard world of Productive (Starvation and death states added)
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Just dropped in Miguel's updated graphics for the starving and dead states for the characters. Poor little characters now "suffer" (deflate) and die (turn to bones) if you don't take care of them properly.
You want to create a battle-hardened army and take over the world? You better have the productive capacity to feed all ...
A Productive few hours (Little bits and pieces...)
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Got the game-state pack/restore code working. That should let us build a situation-editing tool so that teachers can build situations for students to solve. It's also useful for being able to walk away from a game and pick it up, of course.
Added a quick-and-dirty overview map implementation to the spike test. Need to get ...
Quick-porting Applications via AUFS (Spike test of a sort...)
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Tried a bit of a spike test today. The idea is to try to make it easier to port an X11 application to the XO by using an overlay FS to capture what an installation does and then annotating the results with information to let Sugar launch the overlay.
Basic pattern is as follows:
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What's in a Map (A square by any other name would play as sweet)
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Working on some refactoring today around the saving/restoring/initialising code for Productive. I'm trying to keep the "Map" class fairly generic, so that teachers and students can write more interesting map types later on. Part of that is deciding which parts of the setup are configurable in the map.
If we make every little setting configurable ...
Actually Kind of Fun (Even without the movement rules)
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Been working on the simulation code for Productive. Interesting thing is, even without the movement rules (all movements are instant right now) the game play almost works. That is, you can take over someone else's unit, you can build the cities, have to manage your resources, etceteras.
Doing something wrong with the scrolling code in ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.