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zonBackgammon almost finished

June 3, 2008 at 12:17 | In info, zonBackgammon | No Comments

Yesterday I found some time to code something. As I’m also with other projects I had little time to continue with the Backgammon game.

I have finally develop all the GUI drawing. There are only missing the controls to end turn and start a new game.

The computer AI is also finished but there are some problems with memory management that I’m trying to solve before releasing the app. I hope I have time to finish it before next week.

zonBackgammon delay

May 30, 2008 at 11:06 | In info, zonBackgammon | No Comments

After promising a release date for today, I have to say that I can’t achieve it.

The main problem has been that I’m between jobs. This week I’ve been having job interviews and now I have a few days to finish all the paper work in order to untie from the company. I hope to continue the work early next week.

zonBackgammon advances

May 28, 2008 at 10:07 | In info, zonBackgammon | 3 Comments

Yesterday I had some time to spare with the code and I have finish the graphic interface, with pieces movement and all the underlying logic. This should seem easy in other environments (flash for example) but in cocoa it took me a whole afternoon.

As for the rest of the application, the only thing remaining is the machine AI. I have it finished in java and I’ll port it to cocoa as soon as I have time.

Here is an screenshot of the current state of the app.

As always is simple. If I can I’ll add some texture to the board color, but don’t look for it as is not a needed thing.

Next App is zonBackgammon

May 27, 2008 at 10:18 | In info | 2 Comments

Well, keeping my original name nomenclature, next application will be a Backgammon game. This is due to a number of facts. The more important one is that I’m experimenting with Core Image so I’m trying to have all the base knowledge that I can. Also I wanted to make some application with basic AI and I thought backgammon has all this things: drag and drop graphics, AI and some graphics.

I started it’s development yesterday, so I hope I will release the first version on friday at the very latest, but I think I’ll have it by wednesday.

Hope you like it.

PD: As always, if you think of any software missing for OS X or windows, I’ll be glad to develop it.

New Info

April 30, 2008 at 12:58 | In info | No Comments

Well, after a few months in stop things seem to be rolling again. As a sign of this, a new version of zonViewer is almost developed. The application has been redone to use Document-Based design and use CoreImage to work with images. This way, now is posible to develop effects and other things.

The release should be out by next week. A basic one, with the same functions as the previous but more stable. If everything works the way I think, I should be able to implement effects in a few weeks as now I’m again busy.

Also a few more apps are in develop. You will see when they are out.

Well, siu next week.