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Hey Folks! Slightly more productive today, as I started with a playtest, then moved on to fixing a few bugs.

My Release mode playtest went well for a little while, playing through some DMC encounters (complete with working map now!), then, moving back out into the wasteland for more scavenging. However, before too long, I started to notice that lag when opening any inventory screen

Hey Folks! Not a lot of progress today, as most of the day was consumed on a field trip to Valve's offices. They hosted another developer lunch, wherein they solicited feedback on their developer tools, the Steam store, launching games, etc. It was nice to get out and talk face-to-face with some other devs for a while. Not to mention educational, as we chatted about things like

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Ours was quite packed with action, from digging and lugging gravel around, to visiting culture fairs at the park. We were pretty exhausted by the end!

Back at the office, I am happy to report that I have finished the last of the items on my to-do list. All the bugs I know of have been solved, and the improvements I wanted to make (but were

Hey Folks! Another good day, today, as I managed to tackle a few trickier bugs, and narrow the open bug list to a few stragglers.

Yesterday's audio bug was eventually solved, but not before giving me a real bull ride. Music, and occasionally sound effects, were ignoring my volume settings. I thought I had it licked at first when I realized that I wasn't setting the SFX's

Hey Folks! Bit of a slog today, wading through some minor (yet difficult) fixes involving the help screen, audio, and graphics.

The help screen was more tedious than challenging, and mainly involved restoring the mouse-based tips to replace the touchscreen ones. A lot of that could just be reused, but it needed some tweaking, and each of the UIs needed the tips rearranged to fit.

Hey Folks! I finished my first playtest of the new desktop release build this morning. And for the most part, it went really well. I kept notes on some minor issues as they popped-up, and as I approached about 1.5 hours, I focused on getting into the DMC. And that's where I hit a snag.

It appears none of the DMC location buttons appear on the map for some reason. I've been

Hey Folks! I'm happy to report that whatever sickness had me yesterday seems to be losing today. Feeling much better. Just had to roll around in pain, shivering and sweating for a few hours. Works every time! :)

And to continue the good news, today was really productive. I mean really.

For one thing, the game now has logging. To an actual log.txt file. Not only when loading

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Ours was a good one, complete with a b-day party for the youngin', beautiful weather, and the SeaFair air show practically on top of our house. F-18 fly-bys are hella loud if you're trying to do something in the house, but a lot cooler if you're outside watching them.

I'm afraid I have some bad news for the new NEO

Hey Folks! I think(?) all of the major porting tasks are complete as of now. And what's left are a loose collection of non-gameplay stuff. We could be getting close!

A good chunk of today's work was getting the remaining UI stuff sorted out in each UI mode. The battle screen required some fixing in most non-Small UI modes. Odd positions and scaling for sprites. Stuff like that

Hey Folks! Today didn't feel very productive, even if a few tricky things got solved. I think the good news is that I can safely move on to new stuff tomorrow.

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