Editorial – Scopique's

Space Games With Friends

Scopique May 26, 2020

This post brought to you by @4robertanderson, @pasmith, @mindstrike, and @dusty_monk. As 4robertanderson pointed out on Twitter, there’s a whole lot of co-op games in almost every genre except space-faring sci-fi. We’re drowning in high fantasy MMOs and running to stay ahead…

Our Opinions Matter: Consumers and Corporate Bickering

Scopique March 5, 2020

I agree 100% with Bel’s point, and also on how hard it is to talk about this — or certain aspects of this — without devolving into an angry rant. This dust-up between Nvidia and certain dev/pubs — playing out in a…

Stories of Days Gone By

Scopique February 7, 2020

Back in junior high, before computers were as ubiquitous as they are now, I took a class about how to use them. Yes, kids, there was a time when people had to be taught how to use a computer. I mean, I…

To Some of the Games I’ve Loved Before

Scopique January 23, 2020

What got me thinking about this? Oh! Yeah, I saw some folks talking about Fractured today, which is an MMO that I had heard of but know nothing about. The same can be said for Ashes of Creation, and a few others…

Cancel Culture in TV & Streaming

Scopique January 17, 2020

I woke up this morning thinking about Travelers. I loved Travelers. It was an amazingly well constructed story about people from the future sent back into the past in order to nudge events that would hopefully result in a different outcome…eh…in the…

Creativity

Scopique December 13, 2019

I had originally written a totally different post, but while out getting lunch I was conversing with my most ardent fan (myself) and realized that in pursuing this topic out loud, I wanted to take a different approach. Creating is a calling.…

This is Not a Retrospective

Scopique December 13, 2019

We (almost) made it around the Sun once more. I don’t do retrospectives mainly because my memory is absolute crap and I don’t have any idea what happened yesterday nevermind what happened 6 months ago or 10 years ago, but here’s a…

The DV Rebel’s Guide For People With Ambition But Not A Lot Of Money

Scopique December 5, 2019

In yet another case of starting something, I’ve picked up “The DV Rebel’s Guide” An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap” from Amazon last week. In this book, former ILM artist and co-founder of the VFX company The…

Tis’ The Season

Scopique November 11, 2019

There are two ways of looking at the Holiday Season: the first is how the season approaches us and the second is how we approach it. Most of the “it’s too early!” ire, I believe, is because of the mental calculus that…

Developer Blues

Scopique October 30, 2019

I am really the last person you’d want doling out development advice, trust me. I have been “doing development” for about 20 years now, but the thing about doing development is that you’ll never be good enough unless you have a natural…