Malthea Development Blog

So in my last post (I think) I said that I would work on the trading system, and I did. Since that post, I’ve cut the layout into pieces, assembled those pieces online, plugged in a bit of code for the password confirmation, went into the database and set up all the appropriate tables for trades and trade history. I haven’t really put the trade completion down on the progress page yet, but expect it to jump soon.

In the mean time, I think Haruka has been working on designing the way the map tiles will look, and how the NPCs will appear (I don’t want to give away too much at this point). It’s looking pretty exciting though! Right now we’re trying to get some more work commissioned from the artists working on it, and I can’t wait to show everyone!

In other news, Haru and I have been tossing the idea around about changing the way the layout looks right now. I think there are some serious improvements to be made, and I think that we can do them without having to change too much of the site coding around like we had to in the past. From past experiences, we built our latest version of the code with enough flexibility to change the layout around without having to edit too many files.
Haru has been neglecting her blog too often! Go and make comments there to cheer her up!
http://www.malthea.com/haru/

Hey, everybody!

How have you been? I’ve been great! I’m still working on cutting the items..  (ITNEVERENDSITNEVERENDSKILLMENOWWWWW)

Today my goal is to cut 100 items add the recolors aaaaand make all the thumbnails for them! Then FINALLY add them into the site and put them on my test avatar! .. 100 a day is a good goal, right.. RIGHT?! … orz ;; With the added recolors.. That’s at least 400-600 items cut today max..
There needs to be a robot to do this, or something. I get all the horrible jobs!!

Well, this is Haruka signing out.. UNTIL NEXT TIME ON .. What show is this? Oh, nevermind. Poet knows, go ask him!

So the site was down for a few hours… and in fact, the way the internet works, it may still be down for some users around the world. What we did over the last few days was move over all of our domains to a new server, so hopefully this will speed things up and make sure that the site stays up longer. One of the key benefits is that if the site ever did go down for any reason at all, we have the ability to quickly switch everyone over to a temporary page rather than everyone seeing a “Page cannot be displayed” message.

Sorry for making people believe the site was going to be opening, but believe me… when that happens, you’ll know it!
This is still a really good upgrade though.

Is it costing us more? Yes… Is it harder to manage? A little… Is it better for all of our members? Definitely! That’s what makes it worth it.

Stay Tuned~~

…*Cough*

Hey~ long time no see, people! I am just making a quick post to let everyone know that progress is being made around the site. Poet finished making the memberlist secure, and it is much, much prettier now from what I saw! The search function works great..for the uh, six members on the forum. Haha.

Anyway, other than that.. I’ve been slowly cutting the clothes and will be adding them onto the site soonish, it’s very tedious and I have learned the hard way to do this as it comes along instead of waiting until hundreds of items are needed. I have also been making tiny insignificant icons for the site, but honestly it isn’t even worth mentioning.

And finally, we are waiting on the final, official art for the front page for when we go live. It will be great, I am sure of it!

OKAY! Have a great night everyone, and remember to keep your hands out of the sugar!

So the homepage is done, the problems I was having before have all been fixed (as of last night), and I thought I would give a little update on what we’ll all be working on next.

Well Haru and I have come up with some pretty interesting ideas for games over the development period, but none as exciting as this adventure game idea we’re both hashing out right now. It will hopefully bring an innovative approach to online gaming, and give something to everyone to keep you occupied. Here’s a hint…. no Adobe Flash involved.

So now I’m going to try to work on the map events for quests, etc.. should be neat! Have to get some sprites made up, but I think Haru was going to take care of that.

Also want to get the trading system working. I have PSD files all over the place being worked on and sliced and coded.. I need to sort through it all and get something online to get it out of the red on the progress page.

After the trading system is worked on, I think I’ll go back to working on profiles and quests. =P Lots to do!