How Far Are We Willing to Go? Simulation in Star Citizen
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October 13, 2021
I’ve been trying to log in an stay connected to the public test universe for Star Citizen’s 31.5…
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Scopique
October 13, 2021
Note Taking With Technology
I’m one of those weird people who really…
CitizenCon 2951 – Life in the ‘Verse
This year, Star Citizen’s annual convention CitizenCon was…
React – Simple Search, Results, and Sortable Header
Although it’s now considered bad form to use…
New World – Queue Queue Blues
It’s the kind of problem a service game…
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Note Taking With Technology
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I’m one of those weird people who really like stationary: pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, the whole nine yards.…
MMOs
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The massive multiplayer online roleplaying game genre — MMORPG to us old guard, or MMOs to the slightly…
A Beaten Horse – Mixer, Facebook Gaming, and A Shrinking Market
I’m only beating this horse in order to…
Quick Takes – Microsoft PowerToys
I’m following up my previous post by a…
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Star Dynasties – You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me!
Back in mid March I wrote up my initial impressions of Star Dynasties, an Early access…
Guilded – Roles and Permissions
After my original post on the difficulties of switching from Discord to Guilded, I decided that…
Evil Genius 2 – Evil Harder
I really like building games. Back when my wife and I were dating we would play…
Guilded – Are We REALLY Doing This Again?
I could sit here and recount my feelings on the rumor that Microsoft is thinking about…
Star Dynasties – Every Family Has That One Relative
I have had Star Dynasties on my Steam wishlist for a while now, and it has…
AdventureCo – The Continuing Mission
Last night AdventureCo met online and discussed our next move. It was agreed that we would…
Motion Graphics and Video
The Colonial Viper Mk II
I ain’t calling it “done”, but for the most part, this first-pass 3D model of the…
My First Model
After watching a series of videos on CGCookie.com in which the expert artist took concept art…
Messy
I’m writing this mere minutes after my previous post, because while the topics are related, they…
Securely Insecure in the Knowledge
Thanks to the quarantine, I’ve watched dozens of videos on 3D modeling with Blender, and despite…
Texturing with Substance Painter
Here’s the “final” version of the TARDIS, designed in Blender. It’s made more or less from…
No, It’s The Same Size On The Inside
I had completed a Blender model of my own design, and it was painful. I think…
Development
Intensity Versus Patience
Last night I was sitting around, looking through my Steam and Epic libraries for the 15th…
React – What a Long Strange Trip, etc.
I thought everything would be sunshine and roses when I discovered Firebase and Firestore and a…
React – Adventure Outliner Main Layout and Horizontal Scroller
Hot on the heels of today’s post about what a pain in the ass React can…
React – Getting Turned Around By React’s Component Nature
I have waxed poetic about React here at Chez Scopique, but I’m here now to tell…
Adventure Outliner – Authentication and Portraits
Man, sometimes things are way more difficult than they should be. Exhibit A: “dropping in” Firebase…
Adventure Outliner – Registration
This is now an actual, “working” website. Working is in quotes because A) it’s not a…