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Project Started:	7th February, 2007	Last Update:	15th December, 2009
Project Owner:	Dr. James MD	Project Members:	MrPineapple
Project Type:	Platform	Project Progress:
More Info:	http://satansam.co.uk/tormishire	Faves:	78

Posted 14th May 09, by Dr. James MD

I'm posting another BECAUSE I CAN.

There's a tremendous comedy from 2000-2003 called Black Books and if you haven't already seen it - get it. It's like £9.99 on Play.com for all 3 series and there's a line from series 3 that sums up my state of mind yesterday;

"I can feel my brain falling away, like bits of wet cake"

I've rekajiggled the save data structure. Upped the global values from 313 to 513, even though I hadn't hit the limit I'd rather give myself the room now. So what does that mean? More one off events, like flooding something or hitting a button or selling your most beloved daughter to the boss bad guy so he doesn't demolish your house but he later rekindles his love of eclectic jazz musician Steven Jay Morris which reverts the whole offspring trade thing. I've also added encryption to the save file.
But the brain melting came from shifting old values. The game saved values 1-301, the other 12 values were generated within the game and not saved. So I had to go through the initial menu, the pause menu and the whole jock off engine itself picking out events 302-313 and moving them to 502-513. Which then brought up some overlapping but thankfully less important values. Oh me oh my!
And yes... It's possible to store many many global values in one and use a parser to split them up, I've done the same for strings but values need quick access at all times, and they're easier to organise this way.

So the moral of the story is to think on, give yourself room to breath with global values because they may one day save your life. And then to top it all off I finished off writing my sound article which just needs proof reading and that.

Also the final Lost just downloaded so cheerio.

Posted by Asholay

14th May, 2009

Oh yeah... a double-bubble season finale of Lost!!

Posted by Ski

14th May, 2009

Black Books is such a student thing.

Posted by Dr. James MD

14th May, 2009

Well, no its not but if you don't know the direction of Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan and Nira Park's work then I guess you could come stumbling to that conclusion.

Posted by Del Duio

14th May, 2009

Hmmm, I think I'm only up to 16 global values but I did use a global array that's supposed to go to 400 when full. Better too much room than not enough, I agree.

And was Tormishire off the projects page the other day? I tried to find it but it was MIA, weird.

Posted by Dr. James MD

14th May, 2009

Until yesterday I hadn't updated it for 3-4 weeks so it dropped off the face of the earth for a bit.

Posted by AndyUK

14th May, 2009

It would make life nice and easy to keep everything in global values instead of picking out values from all over the place like I usually do.
It gets a bit confusing when something doesn't work because you're accidentally messing about alterable value 5 on the wrong object and wonder why it wont do anything, lol.

Posted by MrPineapple

14th May, 2009