Progress Log

Posted by Astryl on March 11, 2013, 4:45 a.m.

OK. Another Exile related blog. Skip it if you want.

Now, as you may or may not know (or care), I use GIT to keep track of the work I do on Exile, and obviously for version control.

I need to keep track of what I do, because given the …

Looking back

Posted by Astryl on March 8, 2013, 4:17 a.m.

Warning: Wall of text.

During my usual 2AM or so argument with myself about the benefits of going to bed at least some time during the AM hours versus continued consciousness via caffeine, I saw an old picture of what Exile originally was. This one, specifically:

Yes. Exile was 8 …

Some new ideas

Posted by Astryl on March 2, 2013, 8 a.m.

Yesterday, a competition began on GameJolt. And as you know, I'm a sucker for competitions.

But I can say with certainty that I'm failing this one, majorly. The theme is "Chaos", and I really can't see myself rushing to complete the idea I had.

Anyway, during my competition related brainstorming, …

New chiptune: Monolith

Posted by Astryl on Feb. 28, 2013, 5:34 a.m.

Right, I mentioned that I would upload something soon. So here we go.

https://soundcloud.com/mega1992/monolith-fixed

Couple of notes on this one.

> Fixed that derp up

> This was done at 300BPM, which allows me to fit in more sounds/articulations on

a track.

Comment if you want.

As an aside, I …

'Unlimited' internet...

Posted by Astryl on Feb. 25, 2013, 3:44 a.m.

Last month, our national ISP announced their plan to put all entry-level and higher broadband connections onto a 'soft cap' system.

This basically gives us 10GB of full-speed internet, and once that's gone, we have 'prioritized' internet access. Meaning that priority is given to the people who haven't used up …

Some updates

Posted by Astryl on Feb. 22, 2013, 10:14 a.m.

I've had a busy week. And by that, I don't mean I've been sitting around on my PC through 80% of my day.

I actually had three jobs this week. And by 'job', I mean a client requesting my services. My services being IT related stuff, like fixing computers, kicking …

Setting up the SFML 2 Release candidate

Posted by Astryl on Jan. 31, 2013, 3:45 a.m.

Copy-pasted from here.

Anybody who has been spying on me thanks to Twitter, Facebook or whatever other communistsocialist media sites I happen to be on might have seen something I posted about accidentally deleting my SFML folder…

So I used this unfortunate accident as a convenient excuse …

Haven't blogged in a while

Posted by Astryl on Jan. 25, 2013, 4 a.m.

Hey, I managed to not drop an ellipsis at the end of the blog title!

So, I haven't blogged in a while. It gets difficult to write blogs when the only things you want to write about are of non-general interest. Because be honest, how many of you want to …

Ludum Dare Followup...

Posted by Astryl on Jan. 8, 2013, 8:15 a.m.

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My first Ludum Dare, and I ranked 30th overall :D

Results page is here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=top&cat=Overall

Not posting on front-page because short blog is short-ish. So have a dancing Ferret:

New years blog

Posted by Astryl on Jan. 7, 2013, 1:54 a.m.

Happy New Years, everybody!

I kinda missed the fact that the year on my PC rolled over to 2013. Screw timekeeping.

My resolutions are unimportant, because we all know that you tend to fail them anyway.

I went on a little trip on Saturday down to Cape Town, and spent …