Shelter dev.update 08/18/2010

I made the new HUD optional so that Shelter takes up less screen space in a window for development purposes...

Other than that and a few internal tweaks, nothing.

In the past two weeks I've been given two projects to write in a horrendous language called PERL. I just handed in the first one to my manager, for which no doubt I'll receive a beating tomorrow during code review.

Shelter is written in C (core game), Pascal (dialogue/quest compiler), and SSL (Shelter Scripting Language, which makes for most of the active content).

I have decades of experience in building complex things, an abstract skill that has little to do with programming languages, yet lack of which makes projects of this magnitude fail.

I am not one of those "programmer" types. I don't make beautiful code, and I can't hold 5 languages in my head. I can barely hold ONE at a time, and it takes me effort to switch.

Being forced to work with PERL pretty much renders me 98% useless when I come home and try to work on my so-called "hobby".

A "hobby". What a riot. Normal people have hobbies. Y'know, collecting stamps, or kicking homeless into traffic.

Shelter is far beyond a "hobby". No sane person would keep at it. It is an obsession. I debug parts of it in my sleep.

 
Comments (1)
Kip reaching fore that rainbow :)
1 Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:48
Mr. T
Да дружище, как бы мне хотелось похвататься заннием хоть какого-нибудь языка програмирования, максимум к чему я смогу перйти это Action Scrip 3.0 а от туда МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ к java, но всей душой за вашим Титаническим турдом.

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