ITT I suck at Guitar Hero (and PHP)
Okay, I guess it's about time for another cherrypie update, especially since the site should be ready and up to the public by the end of the week, hopefully around Sunday night. I've revamped most of the site already, and thanks to beta testers (Rhonlore and sanchny being the most active), we've been getting the site ready for primetime.
Biggest improvement since last time?
Yes, that's right, more blatant ripping off of VJ Army. It's about as much of a ripoff of VJA as KongaNavy was a ripoff of Pop'n Navy back in the day. Except KongaNavy was broken and terrible. This, I like to consider, isn't. (Except it's CPU-intensive, which I'm working on.)
Battle of the Bands II was a complete recode of the old Battle of the Bands page because the old one sucked and only worked on Hard scores. It's not made fully accessible for the moment because ever since I started working on it: site started timing out, SQL died off, and the server became unbearably slow, so I'm waiting to see what's causing it before making it available to everyone via the link. (people with access to the URL, battleofthebands-new.php)
This is slightly less ripoffy, because it somewhat copies DDRecall's score entry screen if it was on Guitar Hero and had a sidebar. As you may have noticed, there's a basic implementation of tier sorting that took forever to code (just a whole afternoon) which sanchny requested and got. It sorts the tiers in the correct order, but not the songs in the correct order because it'd be incredibly hard to do given the shared charts. Alphabetical in each tier is fine for now. Also, a deletion function was added. I'd like to eventually add date sort, and maybe percentage sort.
What is there left to do? Mostly security and bug fixes for the time being, although I'd like to give a little touch-up to both the View Song page containing the score ranking, as well as maybe the actual form for adding a score. It could add a little more infomation or a nicer design. Both of those were put together quickly, and the View Song page wasn't much of a big deal when there were like 2 scores a song.
There are a few minor features I want to add, like defaults for Add Score and maybe showing/hiding difficulties on a user page, but those are minor, since I really do want the site to be gamma'd by the end of the week, therefore making the site public for registrations. Oh, and maybe after that, beat some scores, because I'm about as bad on GH as I am in PHP.
And it's true. Coffee boosts productivity. I haven't had coffee more than two or three times since school ended up until I decided to code again, drank coffee, and coded for hours on end. It's the miracle cure!
Battle of the Bands II was a complete recode of the old Battle of the Bands page because the old one sucked and only worked on Hard scores. It's not made fully accessible for the moment because ever since I started working on it: site started timing out, SQL died off, and the server became unbearably slow, so I'm waiting to see what's causing it before making it available to everyone via the link. (people with access to the URL, battleofthebands-new.php)
This is slightly less ripoffy, because it somewhat copies DDRecall's score entry screen if it was on Guitar Hero and had a sidebar. As you may have noticed, there's a basic implementation of tier sorting that took forever to code (just a whole afternoon) which sanchny requested and got. It sorts the tiers in the correct order, but not the songs in the correct order because it'd be incredibly hard to do given the shared charts. Alphabetical in each tier is fine for now. Also, a deletion function was added. I'd like to eventually add date sort, and maybe percentage sort.
What is there left to do? Mostly security and bug fixes for the time being, although I'd like to give a little touch-up to both the View Song page containing the score ranking, as well as maybe the actual form for adding a score. It could add a little more infomation or a nicer design. Both of those were put together quickly, and the View Song page wasn't much of a big deal when there were like 2 scores a song.
There are a few minor features I want to add, like defaults for Add Score and maybe showing/hiding difficulties on a user page, but those are minor, since I really do want the site to be gamma'd by the end of the week, therefore making the site public for registrations. Oh, and maybe after that, beat some scores, because I'm about as bad on GH as I am in PHP.
And it's true. Coffee boosts productivity. I haven't had coffee more than two or three times since school ended up until I decided to code again, drank coffee, and coded for hours on end. It's the miracle cure!
