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I’ve been too busy to update the devlog recently but I have in fact posted new content to Bowmaster Winter Storm every Friday for the past few weeks. Go check it out if you haven’t taken a look lately.
www.lostvectors.com/winterstormbeta
I’ve had some recent major triumphs, some mini defeats and mini triumphs lately. In the not so distant past I had some issues with a memory leak in Winter Storm. After much investigation and some thrashing I decided it was time to do some much needed refactoring. At this time I still had no real idea where the cause of the leak was. Continue reading
www.lostvectors.com/winterstormbeta
There’s some cool new upgrades I added to help defend against those pesky elemental dragons. Introducing the fire and ice flak bomb upgrades. These work just like the regular flak bomb but now harness elemental damage which should prove useful against enemies weak to specific elemental attacks. Tip: Use fire flak bombs against ice dragons.
First of many weekly updates to Winter Storm has been posted. Go check it out: www.lostvectors.com/winterstormbeta
I released Bowmaster Winter Storm as Beta. I can’t believe it’s been over a year since I posted the last Alpha update. I’ve added a lot of cool features since the last Alpha post. Several of the features that I mentioned in previous devlogs are now present in the game…. Continue reading
Five years ago I was just about almost graduated with my undergraduate degree in Software Engineering. I was in dire need of some place to host all of my Flash content that no longer was going to be hosted for free on my school’s server. Continue reading
Yeah, so I’ve been working a lot and have been writing several devlogs but haven’t had a chance to post them until now. In short, I’ve been so busy working that I tend to use every last minute of the night performing "just one more test." I’m taking this short… Continue reading
This memory testing is quite the bug hunt. I’ve been testing between two computers and two browsers. I’ve been patting down every game object for illegal memory stashes. Offending code blocks are stripped and searched and sometimes even completely exterminated. Progress is being made little by little as I debug and optimize while innocent code is made to suffer inconvenient slow performing test operations.
So after doing some further tests I was able to pinpoint code that would result in memory leaks. The code itself looked harmless and functionally it worked.
I narrowed a leak to a “doSomething” function in my Util class. I knew it caused an error because when I turned the function into a no-op the leak went way. So I knew that something in that code was causing the leak. But just looking at it, it made no sense whatsoever why there was a leak.
Example original code:
I’m oh-so-close to posting a new update to Bowmaster Winter Storm (Alpha 0.0.1.9). I was so ready to start preparing the files for post and I blocked out an entire day to work on it. As I started working I discovered, much to my dismay, a memory leak! Dun dun dunnnnn!
