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  • 2009
    • February
      • Development Status Update
        02/25/09
        Tonight progress was made in the setup phase of the game. Logic for selecting a player and placing that player into a target hex was added.

        Next steps are to clean up player selection code and to perform error checking on where a player can be placed (i.e. a home team player cannot be pla

      • Development Update
        02/24/09
        Not a terribly big night, but a few updates were made and a couple of changes were added.

        * Added support for Home and Away team sprites
        * Added support for sprites with different sizes (so they won't overlap each other in the bench/infirmary)
        * Changed the way the Bench/In

      • Team Support Update
        02/21/09
        Team and player support was added tonight, starting with the gnome team as a test case. A screenshot of the six man gnome team standing on their primitive bench is available if you're curious.

        So tonight saw:

        *Improvements to player support
        *Player and team loading fr

      • Development Update
        02/20/09
        This evening there is no client update. However, a quick summary of progress made:

        An menu bar has been added across the top of the client, allowing users to set up game rules, change settings, etc. Once the game is underway most menu items will be disabled to prevent the rules from being

      • Elfball Client Update
        02/19/09
        Ok, I implemented the dice rolling and drawing tonight. That means that when a player action returns from the action handler, you'll be able to see the results appear on the screen.

        You can test this right now. It is very basic at the moment and it doesn't draw them entirely cor

      • New Pitch Test Build Available
        02/17/09
        There is a new pitch build available for testing. New commands are:

        Press "a" to remove all overlays
        Use the mousewheel to zoom in and out.

        The pane containing the GUI elements has been overlaid with a wood texture temporarily as a test. Feel free to resize the w

      • Pitch Update
        02/17/09
        Based on the feedback given from the pitch test build the pitch has been updated. At this point the pitch is effectively done, minus changes made for cosmetic impact later.

        Progress made today:

        * Implemented Mouse Wheel Zoom
        * Created configurable buffer
        * Code fixes

      • Pitch Test Build Available
        02/16/09
        The Elfball Pitch Test Build is available. You can get the Pitch Test Build now and provide feedback on how quickly the client draws the screen, start up issues, or other things that I'd like to nip in the bud as soon as possible.

        You must have an up-to-date java runtime environment

      • Update from last night
        02/13/09
        Added:

        * Support for mouse events (move, clicking buttons, etc)
        * Helper Functions to work with hexagons on the pitch (needed later when players are introduced)
        * Support of keyboard keystrokes

        Using all of the above we're just about ready for creating teams/play

      • Planned Elfball.net Software Products
        02/12/09
        Elfball.net roadmap

        Elfball.net is the container for three separate software products:

        * Flop - The Elfball.net Java client
        o This is the client for both playing and observing games
        o Receives events from Momentum
        o Sends player

      • Pitch Progress Update
        02/12/09
        Not a big night for the pitch appearance, but a big night for behind-the-scenes code

        - All hexes are now correctly identified as in-bounds, out-of-bounds, passable, face-off, goal, rover setup, guard setup, or midpoint.
        - All visual elements are zoomable, instead of just the hexes
      • Pitch progress to date
        02/11/09
        So far the following has been implemented on the map:

        - Customizable field textures
        - Clipping view displaying only playing field hexes
        - White boundary line and center line drawn in
        - Goal, center, goalkeeper and widezone hexes marked as such

        The related link wi

      • Elfball.net Developer Blog Open for Business
        02/11/09
        News and updates will be posted here. Additionally, the roadmap for the product will be located on this site as well.