{"id":157,"date":"2021-08-09T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/?p=157"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:20:09","slug":"weekly-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/2021\/08\/09\/weekly-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Breaking down the project. It looks like this <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Play the game<br>First make sure I know how to do basic navigation, the look around for text to give TTS<br><\/li><li>Find text in code<br>Lots of techniques here, but from time to time I still end up having to print everywhere \ud83d\ude00 <br><\/li><li>Decide on the best way to give TTS<br>Text can appear at multiple places. Where should I put it to maximize simplicity? What if there&#8217;s no where suitable?<br> <\/li><li>Deal with problems<br>All sorts. <br>For example, the reason I failed to find text in Dragon History last week, was because I didn&#8217;t open the right file. (I looked at <code>dragons<\/code> instead of <code>draci<\/code> ). It&#8217;s a particularly easy cause, not common (Definitely not!!!), but should explain my point.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Which part is most difficult? I think all four parts listed could be the most difficult. It really depends on the game.<br>(Yes, for CGE, the task wasn&#8217;t complicated. The most difficult part for me was to learn to use the left click)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the break down for observable tasks. There is more to the full picture <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychologically, there are two challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Deciding what is acceptable<br>Although I&#8217;m not the one that decides the criteria of acceptance, it&#8217;s still up to me to decide when is the time to commit.<br>So a lot of times I have something that is working, but not satisfying. Then I work on it but have no progress.<\/li><li>Showing up everyday<br>I figured that the best way to avoid not showing up consecutively 2 days, is to show up everyday, so that I wouldn&#8217;t have to remember which day did I show up.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These two challenges are closely related. Showing up is easier when I expect progress.<br>However, I would tell myself that whether it&#8217;s hard or easy, it&#8217;s only going to be finished if I start working<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, quite true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>My job this week consists of two parts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One is to give TTS to games I am relatively new to (Supernova, Dragon History, Beneath A Steal Sky)<br>One is to look at the games I have worked on for 1-2 months and open PRs for them (DW, SCI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some updates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dreamweb (DW)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ready for review<br>(Last Week&#8217;s Status: I\u2019m hoping to wrap-up and make it ready for review in a day or two.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laura Bow 2 (LB2)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 &#8220;Ready&#8221; to open PR<br>(Last Week&#8217;s Status: I\u2019m hoping to test again and open the PR with Castle of Dr. Brain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Castle of Dr. Brain (DB)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 &#8220;Ready&#8221; to open PR<br>(Last Week&#8217;s Status: I\u2019m hoping to fix a TTS problem and then open the PR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I was hoping I could do that before going to sleep, until I remembered that I have complicated branch issues that I forgot to solve. I&#8217;ll make it a priority tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission Supernova, Dragon History, BASS <\/strong>\u2013 Progess. You don&#8217;t want the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the weekend, I actually learned how to host a WordPress site. From buying a domain to installing themes etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes me really appreciate having this blog right out of the box without hassle \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking down the project. It looks like this Play the gameFirst make sure I know how to do basic navigation, the look around for text to give TTS Find text in codeLots of techniques here, but from time to time I still end up having to print everywhere \ud83d\ude00 Decide on the best way to &#8230; <a title=\"Weekly Blogging\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/2021\/08\/09\/weekly-blogging\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/twan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}