Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Byond Directory Icons, Evil Buses, Color & Google Forum Ads!



I've added a small and large icon for the game's listing in the byond directory. Perhaps that'll bring in some more play-testers.

I will continue to focus on coding for property acquisition, the voting system and player customizing.

I've added some color (as per Mayor Delamore's request) to the chat system. There's a bug that cause the bus to chase whoever "waits for bus" at the bus stop instead of just approaching and stopping. I've disable the bus spawn, though "waiting for the bus" will still take you to one of two large empty fields and then back downtown. The apartment rent code is almost working right.

I've also added google ads to the in-game forum. Nothing like the possibility of making a dent in my debt to encourage me to really work on Citizen.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Time Issues Ironed Out

So, I've figured out why Kunark's Calender library was crashing. Just needed to update the Byond DreamMaker client. A bug persists that offsets the year to nearly 500 years in the future. I'll toy with that problem another night.

And apologies for the serious downtime on the server. Should be smoother sailing from here...

[EDIT] I have figured out what was offsetting the time so much. The game speed was set to 72 times faster than normal.