{"id":1365,"date":"2011-07-27T17:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2011-07-27T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T16:13:46","slug":"some-of-todays-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/07\/27\/some-of-todays-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of todays achievements!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An edited list of stuff I checked off my list today:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Added the &#8216;100,000 copies sold&#8217; text to the <a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/gratuitousspacebattles\/\">GSB website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Implemented the new menu\/GUI (non-battle) music for GTB.<\/li>\n<li>Carried out a major rethink and rebalancing of the way weapons work in GTB, with some research, and a lot of code changes.<\/li>\n<li>Changed the way the AI accrues supplies in &#8216;classic&#8217; TD mode. It now gets them over time just like the player.<\/li>\n<li>Implemented new green grassy textures.<\/li>\n<li>Checked the performance of the new AI code.<\/li>\n<li>Changed all weapons so there are more shots, doing less damage per shot, and longer durations for beam lasers.<\/li>\n<li>Added a new, obvious drop-unit effect to show when the AI has placed a new turret.<\/li>\n<li>Made fog of war an option, at least for me when I&#8217;m debugging, and probably for singleplayer too.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug where the AI kept trying to put new troops on top of existing ones in a trench.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug where the AI never replaced destroyed turrets.<\/li>\n<li>Managed to not get sidetracked into finishing off the ships for the GSB &#8216;parasites&#8217; expansion :D<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not bad for the first day back after holidays.\u00a0 I also riskily (some might say) threw some of my savings at the stock market buying shares in renishaw, a company I&#8217;ve bought and sold before, whose profits just jumped, and yet the share price dived 10%. That looked like a buying opportunity to my eyes. Fun fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An edited list of stuff I checked off my list today: Added the &#8216;100,000 copies sold&#8217; text to the GSB website. Implemented the new menu\/GUI (non-battle) music for GTB. Carried out a major rethink and rebalancing of the way weapons work in GTB, with some research, and a lot of code changes. Changed the way<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Some of todays achievements!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/07\/27\/some-of-todays-achievements\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-space-battles","category-gratuitous-tank-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}