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?

Galaxia Reborn will be plain HTML through a browser. A step back technologically but it is for the best I assure you.

I’ve been working on keeping the game as graphical as possible still though:

gr_space.gif gr_earth.gif gr_colony.gif

Things to notice:

• Multiple planets (and any other objects for that matter) scale nicely when in the same sector.
• The coords on the planet wrap.
• The grid is a different scale when inside structures (this can be set to anything in theory; players may be able to alter is as a zoom feature.
• No scrolling arrows inside a structure; they are limited size and son’t wrap.

The crazy smilie is a wink.

And in a change to tonights advertised post of ‘Galaxia’ I’ll post a link to a picture of me dancing.

The picture was taken at the Inter Varsity Dancesport Championships by Laurie Young (his blog), the Imperial College team photographer. The girl was my dance partner for the year who it just occurred to me it might not be polite to name. Hmm… I’ve just realised I’ve already named her in another post.

Google and WWE employees have this problem with what they can and can’t post in blogs. They lose jobs though. Although I have no desire to annoy my dance partner any more than I might have previously…

Galaxia

Things done:

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

I’ll post some screenshots in my next entry.