Shaving my Yak

Browsing through github projects in C/C++ Trying to find ways to link up the goblin_camp project with more automated testers, I started looking around the Readme.md files of other C/C++ projects in github. From neovim, I found AppVeyor, and although I have not yet set it up, it promises to supplement Travis CI with Windows test builds. I also found Coverity Scan, which might be a way for us to scan the large, preexisting code and fix goblin_camp. Then, from Cataclysm-DDA, I found Bounty Source . The icon had a dollar figures on it, so I assumed it was some sort of funnily-named fund raising site. It was, but with a twist. Show Me The Money Apparently, this site is designed to help the project by having people put down money into a pot to fix certain issues listed in Github. Some of the issues were very popular: enough people contributed to the pot of 250 dollars. I would also imagine those are tough ones. I found myself a less-popular, 4 year-old issue of 15 dollars . I am mor...

Digging through the dirt My fascination with the Goblin Camp, and by extension Dwarf Fortress, continues. One of the first thing the team did was to implement the initial setup of Travis CI to the repository: I made the issue and linked the account for it, and Robert figured out the configuration file and got it to do something. Our plan is to use this to tell us when, in fact, the game compiles properly. It is spamming me now that the build isn't working, but one day, it is going to show me a green light. The next task was to dust off the 7-year old libraries and implement spanking new ones, starting from Boost. So first, I researched on how boost is included into the repository. There seems to be largely three ways to go about it: system-wide installation, copying over the full source code, and using modular source code. First, just to see if it would work, I replaced the old /vendor/boost folder with the most up-to-date version of full boost. It did not work. Well, it co...

Brief Introduction of the Dwarf Fortress The Dwarf Fortress is a well-established, closed-source, free game that has been continuously developed since 2006. It has inspired some of the most famous games, such as Minecraft. It is considered a rouge-like game, and it chiefly relies on ASCII characters to represent various parts of the game, although there had been many successful efforts to add more advanced graphics to make the game look more attractive. Despite the modest-looking graphics, the game is packed with many features including highly complex physics emulation (liquid and solid), path-finding of multiple characters based on various personal needs, and comprehensive mechanical construct emulation. Curiosity that is about the kill the Cat The game is closed source, so how it is designed and scaled is unknown to the public. That said, it seems to be a public understanding that the game, despite having many moving parts, is created to be a single-threaded program as was th...