Weekend Milestone: TWO Games Completed!
Scopique
November 18, 2019
With the “found money” from the sale of my father’s house, my wife and I decided that it…
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Scopique
November 18, 2019
Web Animations with Lottie, Bodymovin, and After Effects
If there is one boat I miss not…
The DSJI Osmo Pocket
I have this really stupid idea in my…
Tis’ The Season
There are two ways of looking at the…
Cascading Dropdowns with React
Cascading dropdowns is a popular paradigm, especially when…
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Hobbies
Scopique
October 10, 2019
Hobbies are the things we do when we’re not doing the things we must do. They are electives…
Question: Should I Be Using Hashtags?
Scopique
October 10, 2019
Here’s something I’ve been struggling with. As the two readers who usually visit this site know (and I…
A Parent’s Retrospective
Last Thursday we dropped our daughter off for…
Cintique 16
Look, I have absolutely no business owning a…
Games! Games! Games!
Cynicism, Hype, and the Space In Between
Boilerplate: I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist. I just talk a lot and people get…
No Man’s Sky – Beyond
It’s here! The latest update to one of the most maligned games in the past five…
Some Plans
Hey guys, what’s up, it’s me ya’ boy Scopique and I promise I will never ever…
Fence Sitter
I keep getting emails from the MMO sandbox-slash-builder Dual Universe and every time I get an…
Laundering Pledges for a Ballista in Star Citizen
Yesterday I was reading updates in the Nova Intergalactic Discord for Star Citizen and I saw…
A Weekend with Star Citizen 3.6
This past weekend, CIG released alpha patch 3.6 to the PU (public universe) which brought with…
Motion Graphics and Video
Video & VFX Sites of Note
I had a teacher whose name I cannot remember, but who said that “the next best…
Hold Your Fire
Well, this works, but it’s certainly not going to win any awards. I was looking through…
A Mograph/VFX Wishlist
Even from where I sit in my amateur chair there is a few “add on” packages…
Merrimack 360 Logo
Depending where I’m coming from and where I’m going to, I might pass a newly renovated…
Guild Wars 2 Hero Card
I don’t know why I got the urge to make something like this; It’s kind of…
Exploding Through the Screen
Technically this effect isn’t anything spectacular. It uses no fancy tricks, everything is stock, yet I…
Development
Big Data
My universe generation efforts have reached the point where I have to start concerning myself with…
Where Do We Go From Here?
I am now at a point where, aside from the obvious need for a new coat…
Station Population
Now that the Game Maker 2 fever has broken, it’s time to get back to the…
An Illogical Conclusion
Good news, readers! I think I’m pretty much done with Game Maker 2 for the time…
Making That Window
Update: I realized after posting that my first potential solution was wrong, so I have added…
A Room With No View
After having gotten the bulk of my current universe generation code ported to Game Maker 2,…