Read that in a Mario voice, it works better :S

Anyway, Oliver gave me a section on here, which is cool. I’m just admiring the very cool software it is powered by, all these smooth curves and clean lines - very nice!

OrbWars is great by the way. And if Oliver will continue writing bits of it it will become the best! mwuhahahaha!

-Ryan

Apparently Julia sent me a message on the 9th and another on the 10th. Neither arrived until this morning…

It’s now been a week (well in 5 hours it will be) since I saw Julia. After we spent 4 weeks and a day almost never apart (not including my occasional trip to Pizza Hut). The worst part is being unable to contact her.

Someone once said I didn’t mention Julia enough on here…

Well I’m really not sure what else to say :oP

Galaxia Reborn is coming along well. It displays the same in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The reason I keep posting updates about Galaxia here by the way is so at some point I can tell Galaxia players that this exists and then they’ll read it to stay updated.

The new version of Galaxia will be called Galaxia Reborn.

Things done:

• Map display, including:
  • Resizable/rescalable grid
  • Planetary terrain
  • Planet surfaces wrap
  • Inside colonies (and other structres)
• Basic object info
• Ship movement, in realtime

I’ll post some screenshots in my next entry.

Cool. I’m now hosting my new blog . The old stuff is available at http://www.livejournal.com/~galaxiaguy

I have far more space and bandwidth on my server than I need… if anyone is interested in it in exchange for some nice linkage (or something else; I’d rather you not pay since I definitely won’t guarantee service in any way) let me know at galaxiaguy@hotmail.com.

I have PHP and MySQL.. is there anything more people really want these days?

Galaxia Reborn will be plain HTML through a browser. A step back technologically but it is for the best I assure you.

I’ve been working on keeping the game as graphical as possible still though:

gr_space.gif gr_earth.gif gr_colony.gif

Things to notice:

• Multiple planets (and any other objects for that matter) scale nicely when in the same sector.
• The coords on the planet wrap.
• The grid is a different scale when inside structures (this can be set to anything in theory; players may be able to alter is as a zoom feature.
• No scrolling arrows inside a structure; they are limited size and son’t wrap.

The crazy smilie is a wink.

And in a change to tonights advertised post of ‘Galaxia’ I’ll post a link to a picture of me dancing.

The picture was taken at the Inter Varsity Dancesport Championships by Laurie Young (his blog), the Imperial College team photographer. The girl was my dance partner for the year who it just occurred to me it might not be polite to name. Hmm… I’ve just realised I’ve already named her in another post.

Google and WWE employees have this problem with what they can and can’t post in blogs. They lose jobs though. Although I have no desire to annoy my dance partner any more than I might have previously…

Galaxia

Things done:

• Map display, including:
  • Resizable/rescalable grid
  • Planetary terrain
  • Planet surfaces wrap
  • Inside colonies (and other structures)
• Basic object info
• Ship movement, in realtime

I’ll post some screenshots in my next entry.

I just haven’t had much time while Julia’s been here. Which is a shame considering everything that has happened that I could have talked about.

Whether I’ll talk about them later or not I don’t know, but notable events since my last entry include IVDC 2005, dinner at Zero Degrees, a weekend in Blackpool with two-day passes to the Pleasure Beach, a weekend at home and progress of sorts on Galaxia of sorts.

I was supposed to talk to Julia this morning. Unfortunately I overslept. And not just a little. I was supposed to be up at 7:00am (I had my alarm set for 6:45am) and I eventually woke at 10:42am. I went online on the off chance that she was still on to discover I was apparently supposed to be at another IVDC meeting today. So I got a shower and went straight there.

I was there all day until I left arriving just in time for the advanced ballroom class. Then…

The fire alarm has just gone off

…I practiced with Hanna for a while, had a break, and then had a lesson. Our Foxtrot is quite good actually. Bloody amazing considering Hanna started dancing Foxtrot last Saturday and has not danced any since.

And I’m too tired to continue…