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KTFBot for Discord – Vengeance Tracker for your Online Group

Scopique May 9, 2022

A few days ago I was playing Star Citizen and in the middle of a “bunker delivery” mission. For these, I have to travel to a planetary location, infiltrate an underground bunker, and find three crates. While there, I need to help…

After The Big Bang – Editing A Galaxy

Scopique April 29, 2022

I finished up the fast and loose galaxy editor v.0.0.1 this morning. It’s certainly not glamourous, but it’s functional, and that’s what modern development is supposed to be, right? Make it work, refine it. Make it work, refine it…ad nauseum. FlexLayout The…

React +- Firebase: Data Storage

Scopique April 28, 2022

Right now, I am still working on the data management app. Currently, it runs a server as a Node app to serve the endpoints and connects to a Dockerized SQLServer instance via the mssql library using Tedium under the hood. I had…

Squirrel! Testing PlayCanvas

Scopique April 24, 2022

One of the benefits of having attended the JS Game Developers Conference was that I learned a bit about a bunch of game engines written in or designed for use with Javascript. Although I hadn’t intended Project Galaxy to use a graphical…

Brute Force, But With More Finesse

Scopique April 22, 2022

I received this insightful Tweet from the always insightful @tipadeknife in response to my previous post: I wasn’t aware (although I am not surprised) that rogue-like design is practically a discipline in and of itself. There’s a lot of knowledge out there…

Brute Forcing Connections

Scopique April 22, 2022

The last task in “phase one” of my galaxy generation process is to create links between the sectors. Sectors are generated by taking a max X and max Y value and creating a “sector” at that grid location. Each [x,y] value has…

React and…The Kitchen Sink?

Scopique April 20, 2022

Strap in, folks, this is going to be a wild ride. Not really. It’s more development talk, so it’s about as wild as a walk in the park, which this project is turning out not to be. I have mentioned that a…

What? Why!? WPF

Scopique April 19, 2022

I am at the point in my Project Galaxy development that I need to have said galaxy generated so I can start building against it. I have done this many, many times in the past, so I have it down to almost…

React and Colyseus – Message Handlers Revisited

Scopique April 18, 2022

This is a follow-up to the previous post regarding my attempts to centralize a React app connection to a Colyseus game server. Earlier I had come up with what I had thought was a great way to manage a connection between a…

React and Firebase – Authentication Blues

Scopique April 18, 2022

Sometimes the easiest stuff takes me 10 times longer to implement than it would for pretty much any other developer out there. Exhibit A: authentication with Google’s Firebase. I have probably written about this before, but regardless I’ll provide a crash course…