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Friday, March 7th, 2025
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| 4:03a | The Spell of Mastery Progress Had to review the unit action scheduling mechanics once more. Previously I had autonomous units. These allowed player to avoid giving explicit order, all while maintaining the rogue-like scheduling, implemented on top of Final Fantasy Tactics CT100 system. But putting units into autonomous mode is a bit tedious. So now the game unpauses when player picked unit gets order. The autonomous thing now just enables the unit's AI, so it can build or mine on its own, while the game is still turn-based. Also, implemented crystal resource, Units mine crystal as long as they are adjacent, not engaged with enemy and have "miner" ability. I found it far easier to just slap crystal as is instead of breaking it into tileset. And it looks nicer, being less uniform. The effort programming larger scale tiles is worth it. Generally now I'm trying to streamling everything, scale down and make the game playable again, at least without the world map for now. Hopefully I wont have to redesign anything anymore. Because the game started as a chess clone, where units were define by their movement, and the board was 8x8. But then I began scrapping mechanics one after another, hoping to find something more compelling, presenting larger scale adventure. But I knew nothing about game design, so it took ages. Game design is far more complex than programming or art.  Early version looked like following:  Current Mood:  accomplished |
| 6:37p | Lillian Alling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_A Eastern European immigrant to the United States, who in the 1920s attempted a return by foot to her homeland. Her four-year-long journey started in New York, and went westward across Canada, then north through British Columbia, the Yukon, and then west again through Alaska. Whether she successfully crossed the Bering Strait to Russia is unknown. One of the earliest articles recounting her journey, published in a 1943 issue of The Beaver, simply stated Alling "could not stand the loneliness and the nostalgia any longer ... Siberia was her objective. Once there, among her own people, it would be easy to arrange passage from Vladivostok to her beloved steppes. She could almost hear the deep-toned laughs of the peasants at the market place and the tinkle of the music for the dance."[4]: 15 According to a 1949 article in Coronet, Alling had been sent by her family to the United States in the 1920s to check if they could find a safe refuge there following the Russian Revolution; she began her journey upon hearing that her family had been jailed.[5]: 60–61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilli During a job interview a Russian producer of pornographic films tells Lillian he cannot hire her because she overstayed her visa, besides she does not speak English. He suggests Russia is the new Land of Opportunities and advises her to go back to her home country. After Lillian finds a map of North America in an empty weekend home, her endeavor gradually takes shape. She seems determined to walk across the North American continent and to reach Russia via the Bering Strait.  Current Mood:  amused |
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