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Dynamic Item Properties

Scopique September 28, 2022

I’ve had a time, I’ll tell you wut. My original category system got broken out into a classification and category system, with a classification being a top level and the category being a subset, which meant I had to go back and…

Cataloging a Star System

Scopique September 27, 2022

This post is really more for my own edification than anything else. I’ve been spending many hours these past few days trying to get this community site database and API working, with limited front-end support as a “proof of concept” that I…

Promises of Recursion

Scopique September 23, 2022

OK I am about to slam my head through a wall. I am writing this post in the hopes that someone can help me out before I have to resort to — *sigh* — Stack Overflow. Background I am working on a…

Getting Back to my Roots

Scopique July 8, 2022

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve worked on a website for myself, and when I say “a long, long time” I mean “actually had a roadmap to follow”, and when I say “for myself” I mean “not for my day…

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…