Utopia Classic Developers Update (April 8th)
Latest Utopia Classic news from Brian and Sean. Comments and feedback here please :)
Hi,
Wednesday blog post time. We don’t have anything exciting to report at the moment. We expect to complete the core game logic today, meaning that all the original Delphi game code will now be ported and rewritten. The remaining tasks are:
- To add auxiliary site features such as the kingdom forum, rankings and so on. These features are pretty conventional, and we hope to fly though them with the help of some third party components.
- Testing, testing, testing. Although there’s a bunch of aspects to the site that are readily testable, a lot of the game code is going to be tricky to verify. The problem is that it’s hard to empirically measure the exact behavior of all the mathematical legacy code, because of the number of permutations of the many inputs into those calculations.
We’re glad so many of you enjoyed the interview last week. Obviously, we weren’t able to answer everything yet, but will do more interviews in the future. All will become clear in time.
So, sit tight - we’re still alive despite the occasional flame (thanks flame-proof pants) - and the game is on its way.
Sean and Brian