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SOAT update #42
Posted By: gremlinn, on host 204.210.31.190
Date: Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 00:53:28
In Reply To: SOAT update #41 posted by gremlinn on Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 00:00:22:

> 37 locations, 319150 bytes (8625 per location) [3/25/01]
> 54 loc, 438797 bytes (8126 pl) [4/08/01]
> 80 loc, 573649 bytes (7171 pl) [4/30/01]
> 95 loc, 794677 bytes (8365 pl) [5/21/01]
> 115 loc, 949191 bytes (8253 pl) [6/06/01]
> 132 loc, 1105293 bytes (8373 pl) [6/15/01]
> 145 loc, 1259378 bytes (8685 pl) [6/25/01]
> 152 loc, 1470894 bytes (9677 pl) [7/08/01]
> 155 loc, 1598537 bytes (10313 pl) [7/23/01]
> 158 loc, 1746880 bytes (11056 pl) [8/14/01]
> 166 loc, 1809922 bytes (10903 pl) [9/25/01]
> 179 loc, 2018080 bytes (11274 pl) [10/18/01]
> 209 loc, 2188235 bytes (10470 pl) [11/08/01]
> 220 loc, 2316166 bytes (10528 pl) [11/30/01]
> 285 loc, 2605419 bytes (9141 pl) [12/19/01]
> 296 loc, 2794886 bytes (9442 pl) [1/27/02]
> 301 loc, 2891546 bytes (9606 pl) [2/04/02]
> 304 loc, 3038874 bytes (9996 pl) [2/15/02]
> 309 loc, 3146158 bytes (10181 pl) [2/23/02]
> 311 loc, 3267399 bytes (10506 pl) [3/09/02]
> 311 loc, 3449854 bytes (11092 pl) [3/23/02]
> 318 loc, 3714958 bytes (11682 pl) [4/06/02]
> 330 loc, 3987346 bytes (12082 pl) [5/01/02]
> 412 loc, 5290126 bytes (12840 pl) [6/25/02]
> 417 loc, 5534723 bytes (13272 pl) [7/20/02]
> 445 loc, 5951946 bytes (13375 pl) [9/04/02]
> 451 loc, 6181927 bytes (13707 pl) [10/08/02]
> 451 loc, 6337773 bytes (14052 pl) [11/04/02]
> 454 loc, 6602028 bytes (14541 pl) [12/01/02]
> 456 loc, 6877294 bytes (15081 pl) [2/15/03]
> 459 loc, 6953122 bytes (15148 pl) [3/01/03]
> 460 loc, 7102484 bytes (15440 pl) [4/01/03]
> 460 loc, 7217654 bytes (15690 pl) [5/01/03]
> 463 loc, 7410958 bytes (16006 pl) [6/01/03]
> 464 loc, 7655714 bytes (16499 pl) [7/01/03]
> 464 loc, 8473865 bytes (18262 pl) [8/01/03]
> 464 loc, 8101358 bytes (17459 pl) [9/01/03]
> 464 loc, 8140964 bytes (17545 pl) [10/01/03]
> 465 loc, 8181632 bytes (17594 pl) [11/01/03]
> 486 loc, 8197166 bytes (16866 pl) [12/01/03]
> 486 loc, 8197166 bytes (16866 pl) [1/01/04]

Latest numbers: 485 locations, 8277377 bytes (17066 per location), 8889647 bytes total including the 8 auxiliary files and Windows formatting. 297907 lines of code.

I decided not to work on Project F for now (see previous post) because for some reason I got interested in working on SOAT again. I think I'll pick it up again after SOAT reaches the beta-testing stage. By then I'll probably have thought of more ideas for F anyway, so it will be easier.

This month, for SOAT, I spent about a week going back over my notes and reorganizing things, and then most of the rest of the time going back and filling in things which I had left out in places. A lot of these are what I call "security holes" -- ways that certain situations in the game could be escaped that shouldn't be there, ways to get to an area before you're supposed to be able to, ways to bypass certain puzzles, etc. Most of the time when I don't feel like patching one up right away, I just make a note to go back and do it later. Sometimes I postpone patching one up because it makes testing faster, and other times it's because I haven't yet decided how I want to handle the situation (it might involve a part of the story I haven't written yet, for example). I have a "to do" list that has over 800 of these things, and I managed to cross off somewhere between 100 and 200 of them in January, so that's good. Soon I'll go back to adding new material.

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