.: Project Status: Active :.

.: Updates :.

.: 2012-05-17 17:33:52 - Side Story Update :. I uploaded Act 3 of Jae Aeten's side-story, check it out when you get a chance.

.: 2012-05-15 18:21:21 - Bit of an Overhaul :. Okay, spent some of my downtime today coding some additional functions for the console, including a Post Edit and Post Delete option, which required me to restructure the database a bit and reformat the way that posts are entered into it and stored in it. This was to ensure that the data called from the database, which could then be edited, would show up as plain text rather than being riddled with the HTML code that I was previously storing inside of it in the database.

That took a while, but I got it sorted out and it seems to be working fine, so hopefully I should be able to focus on story writing for a while before I decide to tackle less important functions like character entry and editing.

.: 2012-05-14 23:59:21 - More Story :. Added an extra act to the Prologue of Roun's personal storyline and put up the introduction for Chapter 7 of the main storyline. I'm working on a post editing function for the console, so once that's done I'll probably replicate the same functions to allow people to edit creatures on the biology page.

I should also be getting around to making the Character Entry page when I have time, but as that's the most tedious page to create, I've put it on the back burner so to speak. I don't imagine many people will be putting up characters without me looking over them and making necessary changes, in which case I can just do that stuff myself from the database for now.

.: 2012-05-10 23:48:38 - Personal Story Update :. Jump-started story writing today and got the first two Acts in the Prologue of Roun's personal story up; you can check them out on the Side Story Page.

I also did some bug fixing and some minor tweaks to the console, so if you noticed a typo here-or-there on certain pages then they may be no more (assuming I noticed what you noticed).

.: 2012-05-09 06:18:06 - Console Working :. Managed to piece together a console using my current knowledge of PHP (which isn't bad, I'm thinking) and Rae's old code from the R.E.Load 4.1 site. Unlike most of the other functions that I've utilised, I have to admit that I'm not 100% on top of the login system that I'm using... it's a bit of a 'copy pasta'... but it seems to be working splendidly.

Currently, I can add new posts and new creatures to the beastiary using the console. So that's an accomplishment.

.: 2012-05-01 18:12:28 - Finally Done :. Just finished adding all the characters to the database, leaving me with nothing to do but try (and fail) to code the console. Time to make all this stuff live and pull down the wordpress.com site.

.: 2012-04-30 23:46:48 - Adding Characters :. Didn't have as much free time today as I would have liked so adding characters was somewhat slow. In light of this, I tried to add a rather varied roster of characters to see just how everyone would stack-up under the new roster's Power Scaling system.

I still think the ratings could use a little bit of work, but for now everything seems to make sense, so I'm happy with that. I'll continue to add characters tomorrow and hopefully I'll have this site up by the end of the week.

.: 2012-04-27 23:55:32 - Populating Events :. Spent most of what free-time I had today populating the database with events, which will now be seperated into the primary storyliine, side arcs, random solo activities, random team activities and random face-offs.

I'm thinking about running this project--from here on out--kinda like a comic book company, in terms of maintaining the main storyline as well as a number of smaller, more focused storylines based on individual characters, teams, factions or groups. The idea is that this will all feed into the main storyline, but these side arcs will also be readable separately.

I have no idea where I'm gonna get the time for all of this, but if I'm gonna dream, might as well dream big.

.: 2012-04-26 23:44:35 - Shoulders of Giants :. Libra's Code has made the entire ordeal of figuring out how to do what I actually want to do extremely easy, since for the most part, all of the functions that I need are already right in front of me.

Given that, it has simply been a matter of replicating and modifying previously written code and using that to acheive what I need. So far I've managed to finish restructing the database and linking it to the roster, events, news and periodical pages. I've just got some cleaning up to do before I get around to dealing with the console.

Not looking forward to that...

.: 2012-04-24 23:34:03 - Roster Design :. Managed to pull together a roster that would be useful for this version of the project -- one that omits a lot of the useless stats that players of a game would maticulously track and one that simply summarises the characters full potential rather than their base state.