{"id":439,"date":"2019-02-15T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T22:19:44","slug":"struggling-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/struggling-a-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling a bit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m spending time here and there working on Codex Magnus but I&#8217;m honestly struggling a little.  One issue is that I&#8217;ve started playing <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"DDO (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/ddo.com\" target=\"_blank\">DDO<\/a> again and that&#8217;s a major waste of time (of which I don&#8217;t have much) but more than that I am having trouble deciding how to move forward.  There&#8217;s not much to the game as it is so you would think that picking a feature to add would be simple, but for some reason it&#8217;s not.  It&#8217;s like everything that&#8217;s left to do is so big that I&#8217;m having a difficult time figuring out how to break each piece into manageable chunks.  Here is a partial list of things that are left to implement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Battle system<\/li><li>Inventory system<\/li><li>Dialog boxes<\/li><li>State management system<\/li><li>Save\/load games<\/li><li>Dynamically loading\/unloading map chunks<\/li><li>Map ports (for interior locations or moving from one major area to another)<\/li><li>Lots and lots and lots of art<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are even more things I&#8217;ve left off this list but that&#8217;s plenty.  When I look at an item like &#8220;Battle system&#8221; it&#8217;s difficult to imagine how to create a very first step, much less a finished product.  Plus I&#8217;m still fighting with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Phaser (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/phaser.io\" target=\"_blank\">Phaser<\/a> a pretty good bit.  I still believe it&#8217;s just my lack of experience with real software development but looking through the examples for Phaser 3 and going through the documentation can feel like falling into a black hole.  Specifically, I&#8217;m trying to figure out the plugin system.  The Phaser documentation says it&#8217;s really powerful and useful, but so far it&#8217;s been mostly a headache for me.  I&#8217;ll keep plugging away, but it&#8217;s frustrating how slow the process is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a new version ready to go but have been lazy about releasing it.  I&#8217;ll really try to do that this weekend, and maybe doing so will get my motivation back to where it needs to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending time here and there working on Codex Magnus but I&#8217;m honestly struggling a little. One issue is that I&#8217;ve started playing DDO again and that&#8217;s a major waste of time (of which I don&#8217;t have much) but more than that I am having trouble deciding how to move forward. There&#8217;s not much to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning-and-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}