Not a very productive week

I am still hacking away at the random missions generator, but my weekend saw me being fairly busy, so I didn't get much done. I had to "rollback" a feature (involving not having 2 exits in one room) because RAGS is not very stable, and it crashed a little too often (probably when it had to reroll a result that was already taken a few too many times). A friend of mine was kind enough to show me a way to obtain the same results I wanted using javascript, but I am already too deep into this, and I might have to scrap too much to use it, so I don't think I'll make the switch, even though I am definitely going to keep it in mind for the future.

Maybe I should focus on the non-random stuff I might still need to add to the game, and go back to this later on, or save it for a 1.1 version or something like that. RAGS is proving kind of hostile for this type of systems, I think, so I might have to get back to it with a fresh mind, instead of bashing my head too hard and risk not getting much done. Another alternative would be to lessen the randomness further, and use a few tricks to make it look different enough during each playthrough.

Anyway, those are just speculations, I'll probably tell you what really happened next week. :p

By the way, since the posts here inevitably languish from time to time, if you ever have questions about certain design choices, feel free to ask in the comments, maybe I can expand in the next post about my reasoning for doing this or that. See ya next week! ^_^