Feb 9, 2009

January Update

I paused feature development during January and instead spent some time moving to the latest version of Echo, called Echo3. The migration was not without some hassles, namely things which I meant to fix at some point anyway. There were a few new bugs with existing code. Echo3 didn't like the way I did a few things and that cost some time in debugging. I also had to re-create some components which I needed but do not yet exist in Echo3.

The migration not only allows me to use the latest and greatest beta release, but it greatly simplifies the development of custom components. I will need to create custom components for some of the future features such as the game map. I was weary to tackle the complicated API to develop new components in Echo2, this new releases promises to be much simpler.

Having said that, another major reason was the Character Generator Builder. The damn thing is pretty complex and I wanted some time to think about it before I coded too much. I am back to working on it again now.

2 comments:

Kilark said...

Hey man this sounds really cool are you going to be selling it?or what are you doing when your done?

Oroborous said...

The app will be free for the basic use, but will provide advanced features with a license. Details not available yet though, finishing off the app is the first priority.