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Goodbye, Armistice Zones

Scopique September 18, 2020

In Star Citizen, CIG has instituted “armistice zones” around important places where players spawn or otherwise visit for mission, trading, or mining purposes. These places include Port Olisar (the original spawn point for the game), stations in various orbits, several outposts on…

Core Game Development Platform

Scopique September 15, 2020

You may remember a while back I had posted a lot about an online game platform called Crayta. For a while, I was really into Crayta, learning Lua again and hopefully creating useful widgets that I and other aspiring game developers could…

We’ve Lost More Than Just a Band We Didn’t Know We Had

Scopique September 14, 2020

I wanted to talk a little about this documentary that I found yesterday. It’s about a rock band called Halyx, created by Disney in the early 80’s, featured at it’s California park for a single summer engagement, and then never heard from…

Well, I’m Done!

Scopique September 2, 2020

You are looking at the new High King of Ireland! Granddad would be so proud! But let’s back up a bit. Being a pre-teen ruler isn’t easy since everyone sees you as a pushover. Remember that childhood bully, Cobflaith? She was still…

Don’t Mess With a Five Year Old

Scopique September 2, 2020

Let me tell you a tale of The Comeback Kid. First, I apologize for the lack of story-relevant visuals. I never remember to take screenshots, and considering how this scenario played out, I wasn’t anticipating it being anything other than a complete…

Control

Scopique September 1, 2020

I’ve been harassing people on Twitter about Control, but since I have now completed the base game (main story mission), I have to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence with a final blog post. Although it’s a shooter, the setting is more akin to…

I am So Confused Right Now – New World

Scopique August 26, 2020

Amazon’s New World is a game that’s already seen some pretty significant ups and downs. Originally many people thought it was an oPvP game. Then it was considered a kind of 50/50 PvE/PvP split. Now it seems that it’s more 75/25 in…

MMOs

Scopique August 19, 2020

The massive multiplayer online roleplaying game genre — MMORPG to us old guard, or MMOs to the slightly less old guard, or World of Warcraft to the kids — is alive and well. It’s also dormant. It’s also dead. Like almost anything,…

Developer Confidential: I Just Started Caring About Interfaces

Scopique August 17, 2020

I have a confession: I am not that good of a developer. I have a very high level understanding about how applications work for the most part, specializing in the types of applications I am asked to create for my job. As…

The Anvil Carrack as a Commodity Mule

Scopique August 10, 2020

Now that Star Citizen’s 3.10 update has hit, a lot of folks are hoping to leave the horrors of 3.9 behind them and get back into the game. Enforzer and I logged on and partied up to take advantage of the new…