So its been a few weeks since my last post. I mentioned before I have started a new job so I’m slowly transitioning into working out how to schedule my freetime. Work on rQuest has slowed as I’ve spent the last couple of weekends doing some research for work in order to better get up to speed in that area.

I did get some coding done today which was great, I added some wordwrapping capabilities to my SFML extended string class. Now I know what must feel like to be working on browser text rendering or even word processing software AKA the killer app of the late 80s. Text is such a fundamental part of computing that we often take much of it for granted - That is until we have to write our own text controls.

I spent the other half of the day evaluating tools for project management. This is the first time I plan on working with anyone other than myself so tools to assist in this area will be a vital part of development cycle.

I’ll probably use Google Docs to share information and specification sheets amongst team members. Documents can be made public or you can make them viewable by invite only. So I can store all my design documents and required asset lists there.

I signed up for a free account with Acunote - A project tracking tool which is based around the idea of doing short sprints. (If you are familiar with the Scrum process, Acunote is a Scrum-based project tracker.)

I like having to-do lists as I don’t have to try remember where I was up to when I sit down to do some work. The nice thing about sprints is that you can filter by “Assigned to user”. That way you can make your to-do list not seem so daunting by leaving jobs unassigned until you are ready to tackle more work.

I also installed Mantis a free php based bug-tracking tool. Mantis probably won’t get too much use until later on. But I might start testing it out with Caverns of Underkeep - There are a couple of bugs in that game that could probably do with fixing and I’d like to get it out of Beta sometime this year