Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Bank Boxes and Bugs

Last weekend, my lead programmer finished implementing bank boxes. I kept saying how most RPG's have bank boxes.  For those who do not know about what that means, let me explain.  Characters in computer role playing games often have an inventory where they carry stuff they might need in the course of the game.  That can end up being a lot of items with no real way to organize them.  In addition, in some games, items can be lost upon death or stolen.  Characters may also have a weight or item limit for what they can carry around.  Bank boxes allow characters to put items in them for later usage.  In between adventures, the character can visit the bank box to deposit or take out items.  This bank box can be only accessed in certain usually safe locations, such as towns.  The rest of the time thesse tiesm are not accessable.
Most multi-player online roleplaying games of any size have this feature, so I knew that wograld should have it as well.

I tested the bank boxes and I have not found any bugs with the feature so far.  Unfortunately, I found another serious bug that will have to be fixed before we can even consider a permanent multi-player server.  That is, if you disconnect the client a certain common way, the server will crash.  I have told him to fix that.