I know it has been a few months since I have posted or said anything. That is because of me getting married and going on a honeymoon. So I have had very little time to work on any of my projects. My time has started to free up again so I can work on things I want to work on. IE this game and my mud server. So this week I have had the time to sit down and work on this project once again.

I have started by redoing the client. I’m redoing the login and connection code. It was very sloppy and ugly. I basically making the “connector” a stand-alone class. So you can drop this class into a project and set a few variables and it will connect and provide a couple methods that will allow you to retrieve and send data to it. So if I or someone else wanted to write a client for it you take this class and all the login and connection are dealt with. And then the new client just has to talk to the “module” and all the coder has to do is take that info and display it how they want. This is a major future proofing for me so I wont have to do as much work to add the graphic client.

With this rewrite also allows me to rewrite how new characters are built. Right now it is handle in a horrible way. Sometimes it will keep you logged in, somethings it will kick you out, and it will decide after it kicks you if it’s a valid player file. Which then the new player never knows it was a bad player file. Now that I have improved my skills in java, I want to redo this section pretty badly.

Till next time…