It just occurred to me (not strictly true but we’ll let that go) that I may not get the current version of Galaxia finished. This time it really would be a shame since the code in it is actually quite good. So I’ve come with an idea I would like feedback on (which will be an achievement considering the attention this site gets).

I might open up Galaxia at least partially. Nothing fancy like a public CVS, but the generated documentation complete with annotated source listings. This will obviously impact security of the game once it’s available to play but it might be worth it since it opens up lots of possibilities:

• People actually writing stuff for Galaxia. There are lots of places people could write little bits of stuff for me that aren’t hard to do but do take time.
• The very fact that people will be able to see the code will make me write it better and clearer and with better documentation.
• If people are interested I might finally write a tutorial on some MPOG-writing-in-PHP topic which I’ve wanted to do for ages.

Anyway if I by any chance you are reading this and are interested (of course you’re reading this) post a reply…

I thought I’d finished on Galaxia for tonight… But I came up with stars:

Instead of adding truly useful stuff to Galaxia I decided to added a nice cool feature.

The interface will use two maps (so you can look at two places at once). The disadvantage is you need your display set to 1024x768 for it to work properly but that would have been true anyway since there is still the control frame to display under the map that I haven’t done yet.

You can now build colony ships and transfer ships between facilities. The next thing to do is to allow orders to be chained so one is done after another. That way ships can be transfered from the shipyard to the launchpad automatically after being made (as well as lots of other cool things).

Of course the big thing to do is add users to the game since everything I write now needs to be slightly different depending on object ownership.

Read that in a Mario voice, it works better :S

Anyway, Oliver gave me a section on here, which is cool. I’m just admiring the very cool software it is powered by, all these smooth curves and clean lines - very nice!

OrbWars is great by the way. And if Oliver will continue writing bits of it it will become the best! mwuhahahaha!

-Ryan

Apparently Julia sent me a message on the 9th and another on the 10th. Neither arrived until this morning…

It’s now been a week (well in 5 hours it will be) since I saw Julia. After we spent 4 weeks and a day almost never apart (not including my occasional trip to Pizza Hut). The worst part is being unable to contact her.

Someone once said I didn’t mention Julia enough on here…

Well I’m really not sure what else to say :oP

Galaxia Reborn is coming along well. It displays the same in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The reason I keep posting updates about Galaxia here by the way is so at some point I can tell Galaxia players that this exists and then they’ll read it to stay updated.

The new version of Galaxia will be called Galaxia Reborn.

Things done:

• Map display, including:
  • Resizable/rescalable grid
  • Planetary terrain
  • Planet surfaces wrap
  • Inside colonies (and other structres)
• Basic object info
• Ship movement, in realtime

I’ll post some screenshots in my next entry.

Cool. I’m now hosting my new blog . The old stuff is available at http://www.livejournal.com/~galaxiaguy

I have far more space and bandwidth on my server than I need… if anyone is interested in it in exchange for some nice linkage (or something else; I’d rather you not pay since I definitely won’t guarantee service in any way) let me know at galaxiaguy@hotmail.com.

I have PHP and MySQL.. is there anything more people really want these days?