And then there was...

More work and less time to dedicate to my personal side projects. At the moment I'm working on bug fixes for the custom CMS system I've been working on for my work over on http://www.eyeofthevortexonline.com needless to say it's been a great ride so far. But I'm still looking for any contract work that may come my way on Guru.com and other places like it. If you know any good freelance contract places like Guru. Let me know.

Good Luck. You never know when you'll need it most.

Still working Hard...

Well... I know I haven't updated in a good bit. I do have to say I've been working recently on jPlayer which is a fantastic HTML/CSS ui based player with NO visable flash. Oh and HTML5 support for those who don't have Flash, but have HTML support.

I highly recommend this player for anyone's next audio / music website when Flash just isn't a great option.

Updates and New Stuff!

Alright, I found a techinical bug in my original dice Parser, so I went and fixed that.
get the new on off my mediafire (here)

Also, in PHP, I took it on myself (with help from my friend Neuromancer at MDV forums) and built the ShadowRun Dice Parser (which uses my Standard Notation Parser as a fundimental base) so you can play with that (here)

Apparently plans are in the works to building our own PHP/Javascript RPG game and a Shadow Run Character Generator in PHP/Javascript.

Keep on keeping on - by all means.

Building a RPG Game in PHP

Alright, I'm going to already admit some initial defeat on my theories for a PHP RPG game. I wanted to have an inventory system simular to Diablo II, but since PHP doesn't have good pointers (outside of the internal array) it would be very hard to create a inventory system simular. So I'm opting for a eaiser FF style list and stacking system.

Right now I'm just working theory and have not written any code.

Dice Roller by MZ

Over the last week or so I decided to put together a dice roller and standard dice notation parser in PHP, it's very basic right now, but it's also a great little program that you can put into almost any other system that uses PHP. I'm effectively done with this part of it and I'm going to work on a ShadowRun Dice Roller based on this one and then maybe work on a PHPBB3 Dice Roller from this as well.

Current Feature list for 1.0 (Completed and Ready for Download)
4 Math Modifiers of your choice (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)Modifiers are applied as they are written in notationKeep High and Low function (keep is defaulted to high)Compare and Threshold (Threshold only counts the number of die that return true)Average of Rolls before Modifiers (with rounding options of up, down, and normal)Fudge Results rolling option (FUDGE works on a -x...+x scale instead of a 0 or 1... +x scale)a rolling option to add modifiers directly to die instead of the total (this doesn't throw off Average)Almost any time you can put a static number, you may put a dice rollKeep High is k# or kh#, while Keep Low is kl#, you can have both keeps in a dice notation.
Compare use the greater than, less than, or equal to symbols. Less than and greater than or equal to act like less/greater than or equal to.

How to Use in most basic form.
$dice = new Dice();
$dice ->parseDice("StringOfDiceNotation");
$dice->printDice();

I would give examples of Standard Notation, but for some odd reason Blogger doesn't like the some of the symbols used in it...

For those who wish to download this dice roller for your own testing by all means. Download MZ's Dice Roller (5.51kb) Mediafire

Comments are Welcomed and hopefully they can give me ideas for my dice roller and maybe give me some help on any bugs you find (I hope you don't find any!)