Sonarman
06-16-06, 08:02 AM
Looks like the ship is about to dock at Storm Eagle Studios.
Here's a post from Norm Koger lead developer on Distant Guns at the strategy zone online forums:
"Soon? I think so.
Well, I can tell you what I've been doing...
In the last two weeks or so, I have only spent about 5 hours on the game itself. Little things, mostly. I fixed a bug in the logic that returns from battles to the campaign game, rewrote the shadow code when it became apparent that breaking up the ship models into smaller sub assemblies to support damage geometry also broke up the original shadow logic, did a minor speed optimization today...
Most of my time recently has been spent in helping set up the merchant side of the business and making sure that copy protection is as friendly as possible. I spent about a day's worth of effort troubleshooting a bug on one tester's machine that actually doesn't affect the release version of the game (long story, having to do a side effect of changes to the game that only affect folks with installations older than December of last year - I wanted to be sure I understood the issue to make sure it couldn't pop up again in the future)
The game itself is basically finished. The holdup right now is actually on the credit card processing / sales server end, and those issues are being cleared as quickly as possible.
__________________
But now in my dreams,
besides the sounds one always hears at sea,
I hear the mutter of distant guns,
which call and call to me...
Imtarfa, 1917 "
Here's a post from Norm Koger lead developer on Distant Guns at the strategy zone online forums:
"Soon? I think so.
Well, I can tell you what I've been doing...
In the last two weeks or so, I have only spent about 5 hours on the game itself. Little things, mostly. I fixed a bug in the logic that returns from battles to the campaign game, rewrote the shadow code when it became apparent that breaking up the ship models into smaller sub assemblies to support damage geometry also broke up the original shadow logic, did a minor speed optimization today...
Most of my time recently has been spent in helping set up the merchant side of the business and making sure that copy protection is as friendly as possible. I spent about a day's worth of effort troubleshooting a bug on one tester's machine that actually doesn't affect the release version of the game (long story, having to do a side effect of changes to the game that only affect folks with installations older than December of last year - I wanted to be sure I understood the issue to make sure it couldn't pop up again in the future)
The game itself is basically finished. The holdup right now is actually on the credit card processing / sales server end, and those issues are being cleared as quickly as possible.
__________________
But now in my dreams,
besides the sounds one always hears at sea,
I hear the mutter of distant guns,
which call and call to me...
Imtarfa, 1917 "