It’s been multiple weeks since I last posted here, so I figured I should at least tell everyone what’s been going on. School has just finished a six-week period of one test after another, during which\u00a0time I took an unannounced break from coding due to lack of both free time and inspiration (the latter being unrelated to the testing). However, with that over, I plan to resume working on Shipyard, and I hope to have the combat update ready within the next few weeks. Most of the heavy lifting is done and all that’s really left is bugfixing and content generation (for example I still have a couple weapon projectile\/damage effects to finish up), so with any luck the rest should be smooth sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been multiple weeks since I last posted here, so I figured I should at least tell everyone what’s been going on. School has just finished a six-week period of one test after another, during which\u00a0time I took an unannounced break from coding due to lack of both free time and inspiration (the latter being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2,3,4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ieDM-2E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"http:\/\/brasswatchgames.com\/?p=76","url_meta":{"origin":164,"position":0},"title":"Shipyard Pre-Alpha 0.7.4 Released!","date":"February 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the last in the series of \"preparation\" updates for the big Combat Update. 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This is 100% optional but it motivates me to continue developing the game and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Game Development News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":655,"url":"http:\/\/brasswatchgames.com\/?p=655","url_meta":{"origin":164,"position":4},"title":"What Happened to Shipyard?","date":"May 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"You may have noticed that\u00a0this website hasn't been awfully active lately, with only\u00a0one\u00a0off-topic post in 2017\u00a0and none this year. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which being poor overall mental health sapping my motivation to take care of myself at a basic level, let alone develop\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs & Other"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54,"url":"http:\/\/brasswatchgames.com\/?p=54","url_meta":{"origin":164,"position":5},"title":"Shipyard: The Combat Update — Progress Report #2","date":"February 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"My schoolwork returned with a vengeance for the second semester, so I haven't had much time to work on Shipyard lately. Nonetheless, I have made\u00a0some progress. The caption basically says it all. 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