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[eclectocrat]

Ugggh, work has reared its ugly head. I am way late on my deadline. You may point and laugh.

Because we all signed up for this, it is my sad duty to mock you and question your worth as a human being. For shame, for shaaaaaame!

Seriously, you can do it! Put your mind into it! Go, go, go!

[thatshelby]

Time for me to pay the piper. I didn't achieve my goal of fixing collisions... 

[Xion]

Done!



(It looks better in motion, I promise)

[John Sandoval]

Finish working on my game's AI director by the end of today. There's two aspects to it- item spawning and enemy spawning. All of it must be scaled to how well the player is doing, both on their own, and compared to the other player (it's a competitive survival game).

Also, clean up my dorm... it's gettin' a bit messy here.

[tsameti]

I lost my Tablet USB/miniUSB cord, a large part of why I'm not meeting deadline.

Maybe I should do some writing in the meantime...

[Hangedman]

I am about to buried in end-of-semester assignments/tests, and I cannot progress on the RUINS level editor until I finish all 8 expanded tilesets. All I have left to do is to add a bunch of background objects to each one.

I need to finish at least 6/8, if not all 8, in the next week, by the 14th.
Just because I would anyway, and I want to try to push myself to do all 8, even with work and oncoming assignments.

[Martoon]

Okay, I've written a PHP script to at least partially automate making the table in the first post.  I have to add people's goals to a spreadsheet, save it in my Dropbox folder, and the script generates the code for the post.  I then copy and paste that into the post edit.  It's still a little tedious, but a hell of a lot easier than editing that table code each time.

[OddGoo]

Thanks for the initiative!

Goal:
Finish and Publish a Beta version of VITAEA, a game that has single-handedly obstructed not only the progress of my other projects, but my life as a whole.
This beta version includes some sprite bug fixing, dialogue and character adding, a little performance optimizing and other little things here and there.

Deadline:
12 hours from now (March 08, 12:05 PM ?)

[OddGoo]

Must... Sleep.. Food.. Life..

http://mintbox.me/temp/oddgoo/vitaea/WebPlayer.html

It went okay. Although I didnt meet my goals at 100%, I did more than expected from myself, it is indeed amazing how much performance some accountability can boost.

Again thanks! Tell me if you need any help managing or coming up with a more robust system (out of the forums, perhaps?) for doing this.

[Richard Kain]

Ooooo...I really like this idea. Accountability and deadlines always help to keep me motivated. I'll pitch in for this.

GOAL
2D textured Sprite rendering with animations, scaling, rotations, adjustable offset points, and camera scrolling

Deadline
The end of this work-week. Friday, March 11th.

I'm trying to code a rudimentary game framework using C# and OpenTK. I've gotten the basics for the objects down. And I have a camera system that initially seems to be working. But I need to get textured sprites in there. I've done a lot of the coding for a previous version of this framework, so I know its possible, I just need to roll up my sleeves and get through it.

[Martoon]

It went okay. Although I didnt meet my goals at 100%, I did more than expected from myself, it is indeed amazing how much performance some accountability can boost.

Not sure if you want to consider the goal met or not, but I went ahead and put Complete.  Let me know if you have some kinky desire to be punished, or something, and I can change it to Fail if you see fit.

Again thanks! Tell me if you need any help managing or coming up with a more robust system (out of the forums, perhaps?) for doing this.

Yeah, I originally had this idea some time back (maybe a year ago?), and I thought of it as a simple webpage with a database.  I thought I'd try it as a thread here, first.  Now that I have the thread going, I like the fact that it gets some exposure.  I'm afraid that as a separate webpage, it would tend to fizzle out and people wouldn't discover it.  I'd like to automate it some more, but I think I'll keep the way people submit goals as replies to the thread.  Then people can see the thread activity.  Maybe I could have a standard format people post their goals in, and it could automatically see those and modify the first post.

Right now, I think the next thing I'm going to do is change the spreadsheet to a Google docs spreadsheet and have it pull directly from that (instead of tab separated value file in my Dropbox).

[Pikmin259]

I WILL finish the first boss by March 10, 7:00 PM

<other personality>
But Chris! It's do hard!
</other personality>

DO NOT talk back to me.
Sorry, schizophrenia.

_{Just kidding}

[Xion]

new goal: complete pause menu.
deadline: march 31, end of day.

[John Sandoval]

ai director

is

done

[Pikmin259]

Yay! I finished, and added a special desperation move that hadn't planned on. :D