We are still only programmer art, but as of now the game works the way it is supposed to – including automatically trying to detect and fix any problems that come up along the way.

Anyway, we are ready for some more beta testers. If you want in, you’ll already know where to send the email. If you don’t, don’t worry — we will have an open beta for it soon enough.

I’m feeling rather disappointed in the slow dev speed of this project. I obviously need to crack down and put in a bit more quality development time each day. Sigh.

The first thing I did was rip out my old code and implement twisted. I forced the threadedselectreactor to play nice in my code, but nothing happened when I made network calls. No errors, no connections, no feedback. The twisted reactor is working correctly, adding and processing events as it should, but nothing happens. I’m sure I did something wrong, but I couldn’t figure out what it was.

However, something good came from this! Working with twisted made me realize how foolish I had been with my code. Now I’ve created a network class and moved all the threading there with a simple callback system. It is much MUCH cleaner and a dream to work with compared to the ugly crap I had before. I haven’t fully changed the code over yet, but I’m so much happier about it already that I felt the need to put it down here.

Another lesson to be learned — sometimes your reinvented wheel kicks ass.

Let this be a lesson to you – no project is too small to do ‘right’.

Not much change in the screenshot department — the latest changes have all gone into making the game multiplayer over the internet.