A friend of mine on Ubuntu Touch reached out to me the other day about one of the older apps that I maintain. It's called Ambient, which is a simple app that plays background noise for a set period of time. Apparently, my friend uses it every night to help …
After several weeks of toying with it, I have finally completed my click of NesJs for Ubuntu Touch. Now, when I say that in the geek community, they typically think by NesJs, that I mean the really big NesJs library [3] that was written in typescript and is used in …
After months of trial and error, grinding and chipping away at it, and generally slow but steady work, CitySim is done! That's right, I've released version 1.0 and published it on the OpenStore[2]! Ubuntu Touch users can now download and play my simple city simulation game.
I did …
Never a dull moment for CitySim! I was blessed to be able to get lots of work done on it today, as I had a little extra free time. The two major things I accomplished were fixing the sound, and getting it ready for translations. The sound was relatively easy …
With only the audio left to work on, I decided it was time to start beta testing the game. I put it on the UBports forum[2] so others with Ubuntu Touch phones could try it out. Unfortunately, I didn't get much traction there. I also posted it on the …
As I mentioned before, we are getting down to the last few items left to complete CitySim. Last post I talked about creating disasters and mayhem in CitySim, and that means the big ticket items left were working on audio and building scenarios. I did make a few adjustments to …
Well, at least a virtual one! I just finnished adding disasters to CitySim, and that was pretty challenging, but also really fun! The disasters that are available are:
Each one of them brings what I hope are unique challenges to the …
I think that I am beginning to hate JSON. Or maybe it is just really hard to parse it in JavaScript and C++. But when I look at examples online, parsing JSON looks very easy and straight forward. So I guess the problem is just me. Either way, despite the …
So much has happened on CitySim development, that I hardly know where to start with this post! I've not only found myself with some spare time to work on the game, but also the blessing of good progress. That good progress is not because of any skill on my part …
You may recall from my last post, that I boasted about how simple it would be to implement some sort of fire hazard system, where random buildings would burn down, if you didn't have enough fire departments to protect your town. I believe my exact words were:
face a random …