(samuel clemens reference)

so, what happened?

in short, a family member became very ill and i had to spend some time taking care of them.  between this and work i had little free time for anything, much less something that takes as much mental energy as writing code.  which is just as well, since (upon returning to the project) the code was a fair mess.  i'm going to be simplifying how the program handles it's base behavior (from about 15 different ways, with different behaviors for things like saving, loading, etc) to three (combat, input, and output).  most of the old event text is still usable, though, so that shouldn't be too bad.

also overhauling how characters are stored.  i don't like having a the 150-odd disparate integers saved as hard and fast data points.  hard coded character limits are bad, m'kay, something that i noticed later on when i felt the need to go back and add things like facial hair, pregnancy, and lactation support.  so, everything is going to be handled for a (relatively) simple system of objects; the 'entity' (a character) now has 'organs' (things like limbs), meaning that the list can be expanded or contracted easily.  this means that, instead of having to code eight extra sets of penis data for the people that want nine dongs, you just need to add a penis-type organ however many times.  there's a method for handling text output as far as what organ shows up where; i don't think i'm going to bother trying to make locations exclusive (so if you want fifteen cocks growing out of your forehead, go ahead).

naturally, though...  this entails a significant rewrite of how characters report, change, and save their physical data.  all the same, for those interested,

http://www.livestream.com/uldegoagogo
(streamed noon till 2; probably more later)
8 pm: streaming again (ended at 9:30)


(and for those wondering, yes, they got better)