{"author_name":"Shades","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1333865220,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"59660","p_author":"Shades","p_authorkey":"10949","p_urlkey":"95412","p_title":"Small Victory!","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1333865220","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10949","us_name":"Shades","us_username":"gurglor","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

Day One of Andrew’ s Eight Days of Game Design has ended in success! I thought about focusing on graphics today, but for the sake of other projects the first thing I need to figure out in FreeBASIC is networking. So, it made more sense to start with sockets.<\/p>\n

I had to work off and on in between other tasks, and a lot of that time was spent reading and generally feeling like I wouldn’t get anywhere at all with it today. Most of the remainder was spent scratching my head wondering why the example worked but my modification wouldn’t compile and run… but after a bit of code voodoo and a lot of head scratching, I wound up with a bare bones (but working) TCP\/IP socket server that will accept and snark at<\/del> communicate with multiple clients. Yep. Typical day in the life for a programmer.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how useful this will be for the Ludum Dare, but it’s a huge step toward making that MUD codebase I’ve been wanting to build. I’ll have to add a lot to the mix in order to make it useful, but it’s a good start. I’m calling that a win for today.<\/p>\n

Cheers! \":)\"<\/p>","time":"April 8th, 2012 1:07 am","title":"Small Victory!"}