I did start work on MonoGame RPG Tutorial 19 this afternoon. I did not finish it, however. Lectures kept me busy this evening. So did working on my Psibernetic Games web site, more on that later. I have a busy schedule tomorrow but I should be able to find the time to finish it. The tutorial is on skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next on the tutorial radar is finishing tutorial 19 in Eyes of the Dragon. After that, will be tutorial 20. I might take a break at that point and work on something different. I’ve been planning on doing the two animation tutorials for a while now. Once the MonoGame tutorial is done I am going to use it in a tutorial on collision detect with animated sprites that are scaled and rotated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My primary focus is still on the Psibernetic Games website. While I was testing in production environment I came across an issue I didn’t like. I didn’t like the way images were loading. Line by line down the image as the data was being read from the server. While there is a lazy loading option in React, being a scholar and a lady, I decided to write my own. I am familiar with preloading images but React is still new to me. After some research and testing I came up with a loader that I like. It places a blurred image using a thumbnail encoded as a URL first then places the loaded image afterwards. It looks and works great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quintessential Duels did get some attention today. I swear it is beginning to feel like a neglected puppy with how little attention it has received lately. I can almost picture it starting up at me with big brown puppy dog eyes. Refactoring is on my mind. What I need to change to keep the core alive but add in the new features. I will need to do some database work, which I’ve already started. I will also have to do some image manipulation. That will be tedious but I don’t see an automated way to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things are going well both for the blog and my other projects. My website is basically done from a coding point of view, which is awesome. Quintessential Duels, though neglected, is also in a good spot. So, all in all I can’t complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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