Andrew Sayman

Work

I have a job now with a company called Intercept Technologies. They make the PCB software Pantheon and Mozaix. It's a fun job. Pays the bills. Unfortunately, it's so distracting from these free pursuits.

Crack-Attack

We have a new active developer! His name is Bj0rn. He apparently also works on The Mana World. Overall I've been pleased with how active he is and the good bit of knowledge he brings from working on other projects, even at the infrastructure level. I've always felt in the dark while maintaining crack-attack because it is really the first project I ever tried to do this with.

Not to long ago, he apologized for being another potentially inactive developer. In my mind, this is okay. Since we're all too busy to work on it all of the time, at the very least all of the effort should be put in one place.

The 1.1.15 release is on hold because an ENet upgrade broke x86-64 again.

Taunts and Sound

Some time ago, when the sound patches were first introduced, Webb and I were joking about adding sounds for combo levels. This eventually evolved into actually having the AI player throw out taunts a la DDR.

This was put mostly on the back-burner until some friends of mine suddenly became excited at the idea of recording their voices. Long story short: I'm getting people to record taunts and such for crack-attack. Hopefully they'll be funny and add some immersion to the game.

Ruby on Rails

Railsvine has been accepted at sourceforge. I have yet to upload anything because I'm working on putting in the license headers. When that's done, it will be there for the world to see!

I'm also getting specs from the head coordinator of OWbN as to what he would need to use this as an organization wide database.

In that same vein, I think I've volunteered myself to redo the council pages in Ruby on Rails. I think that I take on too much.