Flik : News

Febuaray, 21st 2001
Well, soon I will try to open the new site, but till then, bare with me. I'm a busy guy when I want to be.
Well, I'm not that busy right now, I've just been working on a new battlesystem for sphere. Its a complex way to try and make the complex task simplier and better.
Well, I don't have that much else to report. A new link from Trout, though. :)

Febuaray, 16th 2001
It would appear that I seem I'm slowly moving away from this website design, to:- this one, I'm updating both the 'temp' and this one right now, but soon I'll redefine the 'temp' design and introduce it completely.
Why am I taking so long to make my new design? Well, lack of time, energy, etc... Plus I want it to be good. :D

Febuaray, 14th 2001
V-day!! Ack! The masses go mad buying cards/flowers/chocolates... Idiots! This day is no-more romantic than the last. :)
*shrugs*, I'd probably say something nicer about valentines day if I had a girlfriend. :D But I don't so erm, ha!?
Progess made: (if there is such a thing as progess for me nowadays, hehe...) Waiting for new release still, but learning stuff none the less, like the === operater... :D
E.g. if i == 4, i is either "4" or 4. However with the ===... if i === 4, i is definatly 4. :D
It compares types aswell, since JavaScript kindly converts them for you most of the time. :)
Thats about it, happy sphere-ing!

Febuaray, 13th 2001
Ack! Everyone is starting to make #sphere stats... my idiotisy is becoming more apparent to the general population, and such and such. Oh well, Aegis made me update this page. I have no real update because I'm lazy. Just ask any of my teachers, they'll tell you. Well, I'm kind of in next release limbo. If such a thing exists.
Well, I'm still alive... and someone reminded me that its valentines day torromow, geeshe... Someone send me a card! I'm desperate! ;) Well, not really, ha!
I could write more, but it'd be as lame as what I've written so far, so I'll stop.

Febuaray, 08th 2001
Okay, firstly, take a look at:- temp [link removed] and tell me what you think of the website prototype...
Secondly, here is an image:

This is a sprite I'm drawing, opinions???

Febuaray, 05th 2001
Yes, I'm still alive. :D

Febuaray, 02nd 2001
Err, its a new month already?! Geeze, oh well, money money money, I've got a two day job for torromow. Wish me luck. If I get fired, I can get home to do some coding by lunchtime. :D

Janurary, 29th 2001
I'm going insane, I had a weird dream where I was a vampire and I can't for the life of me figure out a good way to make a DHTML website. :(

Janurary, 26th 2001
New links aplenty. ;)

Janurary, 21th 2001
New link!!!

Janurary, 20th 2001
Geeze, oh well, I've reverted back to my old background. I really want to reopen this site (not that I'm closing it) with a brand new design.
I'm just bored of this current design, it demotivates my moviation, hehe; Yep...

Janurary, 16th 2001
Haha, photoshop is cool! :)
Anyway, at computer studies today, I started a smoketest for turbo pascal, just like the game Aegis made, I asked the teacher about making dynamic arrays with pointers...
Lol, half an hour or so later, he decided it was possible. I was asking him how though, not whether it was possible or not. :p
Its a good thing there's a help file with turbo pascal, otherwize I wouldn't have a clue. :D
Anyway, I got the new sphere release, yes, with networking! Cool. :p
But I'm too thick, and offline too much, to be able to get used to using it. :p
Hmm, so many things are different in this newer version of sphere... So my tutorials are now obsolete. :(
But that means I have to make more. Anyone know the best way of learning coding?
(I seemed to not have a clue for ages... but lots of examples and help got me through the basics...) Is that how you'd like tutorials to be done?
Do I make good tutorials or not? Tell me:- vascy@hotmail.com
Well, enough rambling, but I'm gonna redesign this website soon, so send me some website design ideas... I'm gonna need them. :)

Janurary, 15th 2001
I'm doing maths homework right now, but Sphere has networking now... If my maths teacher wasn't evil I'd use Sphere for hours. :p
But instead, I have to do maths homework, dang. Well I better get to it.
Sphere has networking! :D
But no-one is good enough to use it yet. :(
I'll have to write a document on it if and when I understand it. :)

Janurary, 07th 2001
I'm working on an animation object so that I can make a cooler battlesystem... :)
Its difficult for me to do in the way I want it... Maybe I should get kepler... Aegis' coding mentor to help me. ;)

Janurary, 04th 2001
Aegis has added image.rotateBlit() or something which sounds good. :)

December, 30th 2000
Long time no-update... :D Well I still have no real update made. ;p
Eugene has released a preview of a sphere IDE program, for scripting I think. ^^
Its nice, but not nessasillarilly great... I'll see about suggesting improvements for it, but check it out yourself.

December, 23rd 2000
Neato, the calculator thing for sphere actually kinda works. :)
Now all there is left to do is to continue adding to it. Which I don't know if I can be bothered to do yet. So if anyone wants to develop it themselves, go ahead.
Oh well, thats about it. Cya later.

December, 22nd 2000
I spent a while today seeing about creating a calculator thing in sphere... o_O
Its easily done, however I made it much to complex and tried to script everything in it, including graphics and etc...
So damn you Wild-Tiger for putting that silly idea in my head. :D Anyhow, its here... calc.zip [link removed] if you want to see it.
I've got my own cheque book now. ^^
I want to write a cheque to myself for £100,000,000 and if the cheque bounces, I'll sue myself for billions. :)

December, 21st 2000
Damn, alcohol is evil.

December, 18th 2000
Hmmm, I'm not sure but I think I might of only updated this website on my PC yesterday... o_O
I think I might of uploaded the new file but it seems so long ago that I don't remember.
Oh and about the Sphere Documentation project that seems to be happening, I wrote a quick arrays document and DRosen is writing a Window Styles document.
So what with Future boy's Math object tutorial we might have something kinda good to offer, we just need more people from the world of sphere to help it get going.
Just write a document about whatever your good at in sphere, but be prepared to change it 'cause Aegis might just redesign sphere.
That is the main reason for lack of docs, sphere isn't done, so please bare with it. :)

December, 17th 2000
It looks like there's gonna be a Sphere documentation project...
Looks like I'm the main person organizing it though. ^^ I've been thinking, we need some clever search string methods...
So that the help system works online/offline, etc. It seems likely that we'll use HTML and not one of the microsoft help file formats but hey...
E-mail me:- vascy@hotmail.com ... with details of what you can do, if you want to help; so far I have Fenix, DRosen and Space Dragon helping, I just need to give them something to write about...

December, 16th 2000
Hmmm, do you like the informational self-counter? o_O
Its got upto 21 on my PC already just testing and stuff. :)
Well, gotta go, cya later people!

December, 15th 2000
:(
But on a lighter note, I worked out cookies and my battlesystem can have 'planned' battles! :D
I gave up on my battlesystem for quite a long time, because I tried to make it look pretty and failed...

December, 12th 2000
Only so so many days left til christmas day ^_^ Can't wait... Anyway, I added two more pictures to my drawings page, if you wish to check them out.
One is a mouse and one is a sphere title screen thing-e! :)
Anyhow, you can tell my the drawings that I feel much better today, none of that blood and swords stuff, just plain kinda duller stuff.
Hmmm, maybe drawing whilst being angry is a good thing?
Also, I moved the drawings link onto the new misc page. So check that out too, it isn't much, but I just want to fill some space. :)

December, 11th 2000
Check the fun page, I put some links to other pages on there... Pascal and drawings I've made basically, you might find it fun and stuff, but I don't really care if you don't.
Anyhow, I gave out cards that I made customly for my friends, and it didn't go so well... :( See what you think of the cards... here.
And personally I don't think that making cards yourself is being 'cheap' because of how long it takes, lets take the minimum wage at £3.20p an hour and times that by 6... (6 hours being the minimum time it took, it probably took longer, like 10 hours in total...)
£3.20p * 6 = £19.20p. So I would of earnt £19.20p if I had worked instead of making cards... And I gave cards to a total of 15 people, so £19.20p / 15 = £1.28p. Meaning each card cost me £1.28p.
"Cheap" eh? I don't think so!!!
Btw, the very last drawing on that page is what I did after I handed the cards out... So I went from christmassy to death by the sword :D

December, 10th 2000
:) I've been making my own custom christmas cards ^_^ All one of a kind...
I'll sell them to some card making company and make lots of money shall I?
Anyhow, I hear Darklich has made some map selection tools for copying and pasting of tiles, which is great... You can make one house, copy and paste it a couple of times and magically you have an instant village... ^^

December, 8th 2000
Check out Fenix's website for two new demo-ie games. ^_^
Me like but ain't good at them :) Anyhow, another week as passed and Aegis is thinking about net-working code for sphere...
If you have any ideas how this would work, e-mail me or Aegis cause it would help us alot. :) Thanx anyhow...

December, 1st 2000
Heh, I didn't get an advent calender :( Dang it. :)
Oh well, I haven't updated in a while but I haven't done much recently I've just been thinking ^^
LordBlazer got banned from #sphere due to complaining about anything and everything. I got banned at one point too..... :( And got my OPs taken away. :/

Novemeber, 26th 2000
I changed Aegisknight's link to the new http://www.aegisknight.org/ and I've tried making some intro images for the sphere contest...
But Delmoi has just made his two images too good, I haven't got a chance in hell. ;)

Novemeber, 25th 2000
I haven't actually done anything recently...
I'm sorry its just me being lazy, I should of done something but I do have a life you know.
Okay, so I don't have a life, I'm just kinda upset recently.

Novemeber, 20th 2000
Yesterday night I rearranged the functions and objects and variables in my battle.js source code, so that they were more logical...
Which should hopefully make it easier to maintain, and read. ^_^
Hmmm, battlesysteming from now on will just be cool things o_O I can't wait! ;)

Novemeber, 19th 2000
Oh well, I've got a huge todo list for my battlesystem....
I think its pretty good so I'll make potions work and release it...
Well, potions kinda work, they increase the target's health by 50%, which is kinda unrefined.
However, its kinda funky, you just put the function of the item in the item object and there'll be some kinda battle = true variable aswell...
Spells got coded into it aswell, they act almost exactly the same as items...
Check the downloads page, for the newest version of Legend-of-now...

Novemeber, 18th 2000
I've worked on my battlesystem a bit more, I made items kinda work and I'm working on magic.
I want to make baddies have three different types of attacks, attack, items and spells. So I've got that to do aswell.
And I'm gonna try and make it so that items or spells that are still 'in effect' do thier stuff, every turn.

Novemeber, 17th 2000
Should have items working by this weekend. ^^
And posion type attacks I guess...

Novemeber, 16th 2000
Woo hoo, I'm one step closer to making items, and after that, a shop to buy items. :)
Anyhow, there's another fun challenge, try it...

November, 15th 2000
Geeze, I couldn't update for 10 days because redrival was making full updates for their servers. ^O_o^
Anyhow, while I was unable to update, it snowed. ^^ And I wrote a new tutorial, this one involves user defined objects, arrays and random number generating.
I hope you like it. That and the new fun section, its kinda there cause Fenix said about my one day page transition, which I disliked and deleted.
But In that one day I made a challenges section, for people to improve their coding skills, or just for the hell of it burn some time.
Here's a good place to burn time though, server:- irc.esper.net port:- 5555 channels #sphere and #flik.
Yeah, I made a channel in my name, kinda neat. :)
Well just get an IRC client and go there using the commands:-
/server irc.esper.net
/join #sphere
Yep. Thats it, nothing to it.
Anyway, my new tutorial is the third tutorial on my files page, check it out.

November, 05th 2000
Woo hoo, Alu just opened a new sphere website. :) Check my links for his address.
Pretty cool though, actually...

November, 05th 2000
Geeze, I wasted alot of time today...
But nevermind.

November, 04th 2000
God damn it! E-mail everyone, tell me what you want in this website at vascy@hotmail.com.
I need some opinions, comments, advice.

November, 03rd 2000
Sigh, thats what I get for trying something different, a waste of time...
Lucky I still had this website design saved though as it didn't take much to just revert back to it. :) I'm doing well with my battlesystem though, its cool.
Anyhow, if anyone wants to read old and out of date news for this site, you now can, just scroll down to the bottom of this page. :p
Soon I start work on revamping the info page, maybe cutting it into several different pages, but maybe not...

October, 29th 2000
Ugh, I can't get my menu system to go on and off screen very well, which sucks, but hey...
Anyhow, I posted another screenshot of the battlesystem, and I'd just like to say its kinda functional, I need to tweak the random battles though.

October, 28th 2000
I fixed my battlesystem, now dragons are more likely than crows and blobs, but it still has that darn bug! :/
I can't get it to look pretty either, :)

October, 27th 2000
I went all the way into town today and just brought food, ^_^ What a pointless waste of time that was...
Anyhow, my battlesystem has come to pretty much a complete stand still, which sucks as I can't fix it. :/

October, 26th 2000
Check out:- Nibbles [link broken] by Praetor. :)
Its a fun worm game, in which I got a high score of 7. =)

October, 25th 2000
I grew a spine and used it today, I quit my job as in walked out.
Work sucks so why bother eh?

October, 24th 2000
Ouch, my back still hurts from Mondays day at work, :/
Anyhow I refined my battlesystem so that it only has the odd bug, but generally works. :)

October, 23rd 2000
Ugh hard day at work today, and I screwed up my battlesystem so that it gives me an 'Not A Number' bug...
And I'm currently trying to quit my job, :P

October, 22nd 2000
My battlesystem attack menu is now fully functional, :)
Play play :) enjoy...

October, 22nd 2000
Okay check my files page for a new version of Legend-of-now :)
Play play :) enjoy...

October, 21st 2000
First update with this new design, ^_^
Btw, another sphere community memeber. :)

October, 20th 2000
Hi, this a design I made, please say if you like it. :)

October, 19th 2000
Heh... I tried to add a pointer to the menu object but so far I've just got customizable colors to work.

October, 18th 2000
Cool, you can now make menu's that can go up and down, left and right, like the Ultimate menu method. :)

Try it, http://www.redrival.com/flik/files/legend-of-now.zip

October, 18th 2000
Cool, I just finished my menu object's goHorizontal method. :)
Now all I want to do is the last top secret ultimate menu method. =)

October, 17th 2000
Dude, I just cut my menu object from 215 lines of script down to 106 lines, :)
All thanks to arrays.
Anyhow, I'm still making my IDE for sphere documentation, which I plan to host at on this site, but it will be able to work just as easily offline.
@_@

October, 16th 2000
I'm currently trying to make an IDE for all the tutorials I'm going to make, so it makes it easier for everyone using them.
It shouldn't be too complex I hope. IDE as in HTML though, :)

October, 16th 2000
Ugh, I couldn't think of anything to update with today, I suppose this is what I get for updating 3 times yesterday, :)
When all of a sudden, May gave me a demo game that I played yesterday and thought I could update the old image of May's demo, so I did.
^_*