D-1 (probably)

So, D-Day is almost upon us. I'm now on week 7 of my maybe slightly optistic 4 week schedule. I've back tracked my work and from my reconning I'm actually just starting week 5. This takes into account all the things that got in the way of doing a full days work. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself!

My dear and beloved car was sold last week. I need some money in order to live jobless for a while and the car had to go. Instead I've got a healthy bank balance which I'm trying not to spend. I nearly gave in to temptation and bought a Mac Book, with the logic that I'd get more work done when I'm with my lady at the weekends and away from my Mac Mini. Just before I clicked the add to basket button I tried the latest iAtkos Hackintosh disk on my Acer laptop and to my supprise it worked flawlessly! Sound, network, wirless etc etc. This saved me £800 on the Mac Book and did mean I got a few extra hours of work done at the weekend.

I was down to 3 bugs earlier until I actually gave it a good bashing and now I'm back up to 6. I would have had them done tonight if I hadn't been so stupid. I've spent the last 3 hours working on the one font bug. I'm getting artifacts on the characters when displaying fonts from my automatically generated bitmap font. I don't understand why. I checked and double checked all of the generation and drawing code and put in a load of debug. I finally gave up at 1am and built a test version and downloaded it to my phone to give it a quick play in bed. It is at this point i've noticed the fonts are displaying fine on iPhone. It's yet another bug of the emulator and I've spent the last 3 hours chasing an emulator bug. Grrrrrr!

Anyhoo, I'll finish up in the morning and hopefully not find any more bugs!

Night all.

Wherever I lay my hat

Well the 1 day move went well. However the following 4 days didn't. Day 1 was taken up with the move. Day 2 I managed an hours work before heading from new home to old home to sell the old car and do some cleaning. Day 3 and 4 was spent cleaning, decorating. Day 5 was a wash out too.

So, you may have guess I didn't make my 1st of Feb deadline. Monday this week was also a wash out as I had people viewing the other car I have for sale and I had a party to go to for a 5 year old. So, I've effectively lost a week's work. Not to worry though, things are going well this week and I'm hoping to have a finished version by Friday. This of course may be again scuppered by tickets I have to Britain's Got Telent live auditions tomorrow in Birmingham. Hmmm, who knew being unemployed could take up so much of your time!

I've finally managed to build a test version and got it out to a couple of people yesterday. I'll try and build another version today and get it out to all of the testers. The remainder of the work is making it pretty. Adding fades between screens, putting the movies and backdrops in and adding all the little bits that make it a bit more dynamic. Mr S has got the movie playback working well and it's going in between the levels in story mode. We've also created a font for the menu's that works a lot better than the original attempt.

The new office is working out well, and only 2 steps from getting out of bed to sitting at my desk. It reminds me of the old days of working from my bedroom. The internet is all connected and my server is back up and running.

So, if I'm going to get it finished in a day and a half I'd better get back to it!