Slowing Down

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I know it may not seem like it, but I've been really cranking out code for my text adventure. However that's going to have to slow down for a little bit. I have a lot of other work on my plate at the moment so the whole 2 month plan is gonna be modified. I mean if I actually do find time to finish it in 2 months or less, I will, but right now I can't, so maybe 3 or 4 months.
Blah blah blah, college.

Game Engine (and minor, but cool news)

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So the big announcement is that I plan on selling my game engine upon my game's completion. Obviously I don't expect many buyers (if any), or a large price. After all, it is C++, which isn't exactly difficult to program. The idea behind selling the engine is to save people a lot of time coding. This also requires me to constantly revamp the code to be more legible and efficient as I work. I will also accept commissions for anyone who wants their own text adventure but may not know programming or have the time for all the coding required. Commissions will cost more than the engine, but neither will be anywhere near expensive. I acknowledge that I'm not a professional, so I won't charge like one.

The other news is that music might soon be included. I mentioned in an older post that the final release might come with an original soundtrack of sorts. I might be fulfilling that reality sooner than expected.

Fixes, Expansions, and Requests

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So in the last version of the game I had rewritten all the code and gave everything a new layout to make it look nicer. This was mostly because when I looked at the old copy of the code I had no idea where I left off, where to keep writing, and where the bugs were. The process of rewriting the code took longer than I wanted between updates and I thought I got 400 page views, so I released the new game half complete. Examining the tree was not an option and several other choices cut the experience short.

Perspective On: Internet Speeds

So I realized I didn't test my wifi internet speed at our new house. So I just tested it. 18.72 mbps download and 1.4 mbps upload. A second test clocks it at 21.49 mbps down and 1.47 mbps up.
So, pretty amazing download but super crappy upload. After all, out of the entire United States Michigan has some of the most reliable and realistically priced internet.
I do use AT&T and this is about 5 mbps faster download than our old house. Now this is a connection I can definitely work a lot with, HOWEVER I still have strong feelings in the big data imbalance here in America. Affordable fiber should definitely be a thing (come on Google Fiber).

Spammed

UPDATE: I cannot block these sites. My plan was to block them then try reset the page views and just cope with the lost count of actual page views and start from scratch, but that isn't going to work. Apparently they slow down or stop as you gain a legitimate viewer base and as Google tracks down and blocks these sites individually. If anything this gives me more motivation to try and get more legitimate viewers, so these inflated numbers will stop screwing so much with my blog.

So I just took a good look at the statistics for my blog, and noticed something interesting.

The top traffic sources were from a site called vampirestat.com. I looked into the situation and it turns out they are a site that spams blogs with page views so the owners of the blogs notice an unusually high amount of traffic stemming from that site, tricking the owner into going to their site, increasing their own page views. As a result the owner gets super inflated page views. There are several other sites which also use this technique, further increasing the difficulty to get an accurate page view count. I'm looking into how to block these sites.

I decided to look into the complete list of referrals and get a more accurate count for myself. It looks like I have