Posts made by bengrue

• Almost done with the transaction email work for vrpg
• Captured video fo Sully’s Attract Mode and Second Trailer

It’s been an annoying few weeks for me, but here’s some stuff I’ve done:

• Spent way too much time learning about the horrible state of sending email in these hellish after-times
• Set up a new mailing list and ported all the mails over from the old service
• Updated https://breadbros.com/ with links to wishlist Sully and to join the mailing list
• Updated the site with more videos and put the videos higher up and added calls to action for wishlisting
• Collected all of the pre-orders into a list finally (This… was a 10-year outsatnding task)
• Collecting new screenshots and videos to start actually making some noise

So. That’s… me.

Edit: oh, I also almost fixed the account verification/recovery stuff but that’s all tied into “wow it sucks these days.” So that’s… still in progress

Fixed and verified.

Apologies again for the broken account verification emails (if you got one)

Actually - crap - jumped the gun there.

If you received a account verification email: sorry, thoise links won’t work. Been dealing with all sorts of sysadmin stuff all day and I made an error.

Fix pending…

Hey-ho… you can now validate your email and/or recover your account!

Kinda important things for a website. Sorry for the downtime y’all.

@Robin wonderful!

And I added some buttons to the bottom of the main page!

Of note: the “V” is a link to the (very barebones) VERGE Repo.

Today’s gruedorf: I spent like 10 damned hours figuring out what was wrong with the nodebb install ;_;

(an upgrade made it so it was no longer upgrading to HTTP2 to stream in the js/css. The web was a mistake.)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D31SGqZV-9o

Breaditor UI Progress!

@bengrue Update: I think I fixed the website in the hackiest way possible.

I neither know why nodebb stopped serving the its critical js/css files, nor do I particularly care after spending way too long fixing them by stapling them into place.

Internet.
Of.
Shit.

Build automation tasks continue!

Did you know that github no longer provides free branch protection for private repos? It’s true!

Just $44/year for everyone who’s a collaborator if you want this useful feature!

…so if you got an email saying you were disconnected from one of my projects this week: I still love you.

What have I been doing this week?

I’ve been turning my beefy windows machine into an automated build machine!

And boy is it frustrating!

https://github.com/ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd/issues/63

Whee.

Okay, okay, okay. I’ve been losing Gruedorf since the end of August. I promise I’ve been busy though:

I mean, October was a little light but LOOK at all those COMMITS!

Anyways, can’t talk about all that. Let’s see, what have I done?

Since the last update I’ve:

• Worked with Ustor to debug some pipeline issues building the Sully Demo
• Recruited Demo Beta Testers
• Set up infrastructure for testing feedback
• Done a bunch of legal stuff for the company
• Recruited an illustrator to work on the marketing assets for Sully

Wow, did you know there’s tons of stuff to game making that ISNT making games? I hate it!

Out of professional courtesy I won’t post WIPs of the marketing art. It’ll be done soon! :3

Today’s update!

In the last two weeks I’ve:

• Fixed some bugs in Breaditor
• Been working on a event-driven C++ UI system
• Been learning unique_ptr<> for the first time to deal with fixing ownership/lifetime issues for said UI system!
• Lost 5 lbs (idk does that count?)

What have I been doing lately?

Making a custom C++ UI system for the current game project!

Basically bringing the concepts of Sully’s C#-based McGrender engine that Ustor and I have developed over the years and making it work in a C++ SDL2 context.

It’s going surprisingly well, but I’m annoyed I’ll have to make a drop down menu >: (

Also, although I can be a good graphic designer, there’s a difference between can and will.

I chose to stay “no”.

This week in Things I Can Talk About:

…I made a webapp for tracking whose turn it is for cleaning the litterbox in my house?

Look, I’m still playing catchup on tasks from all the setbacks from the server work and housework. I’m just about getting done with professional work and games work may continue apace shortly.

AND MOST OF THAT IS SECRET STILL

OKay, and now https://repo.verge-rpg.com is publically available to anyone logged into this forum!

A very rudimentary version of the VERGE Repository is now available at:

https://repo.verge-rpg.com/

(Note: you’ll need to be logged in to this forum to gain access.)

Also I fixed a css issue with the site theme that’s been bugging me!