AdventureCo – Boldly Going
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January 14, 2021
Last night we had our “session -1” to hash out a few pre-session 0 things. We hadn’t formally…
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January 14, 2021
Once More Once More Once More Into The Breach – AdventureCo(tm) Reborn
AdventureCo(tm) Brand Adventuring Company is like Menudo —…
Surface Tension – The Search For A New Desk
Everything is cyclical, especially for me, and this…
How It Should Have Been – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077, and the Mash-Up I Want to See
For the longest time I’d been shying away…
Raccoon Lagoon VR
Several Wombats received the gift of an Oculus…
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MMOs
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August 19, 2020
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
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June 22, 2020
I’m only beating this horse in order to remain relevant in the moment but I had my say…
Quick Takes – Microsoft PowerToys
I’m following up my previous post by a…
Stories of Days Gone By
Back in junior high, before computers were as…
Games! Games! Games!
Space Games With Friends
This post brought to you by @4robertanderson, @pasmith, @mindstrike, and @dusty_monk. As 4robertanderson pointed out on…
Stellar Tactics – Final Impressions
I thought it would be fitting to book-end this series of posts with a “final impressions”…
Stellar Tactics – Drones, Scanning, and Factions
I believe that I’m down to the last three systems that bear mentioning in Stellar Tactics,…
Stellar Tactics – FTL, Mining, and the Galactic Economy
Last night I completed the story mission that had sent me out to obtain a faster…
Astrox Imperium Revisited
I feel that I need to issue a follow-up to my initial impression of Astrox Imperium.…
Stellar Tactics
After my post on Astrox Imperium was published, I got a Tweet from The Uncanny @Dusty_Monk.…
Motion Graphics and Video
Kind of a Real Project
To date one of my two biggest hurdles in learning motion graphics and CGVFX has been…
Garage Door
Now, Sometimes these things that I make I make because I had a really, really quick…
From Orbit to Street Level
My sister-in-law had created a video for each of her sons when they graduated from high…
VFX Goals: That D&D Commercial
Depending on your age, this commercial might not fire on any cylinders aside from how oddly…
YouTube Summer Camps
On the surface level, this seems like the kind of zeitgeisty opportunistic cash-grab we’ve come to…
Video & VFX Sites of Note
I had a teacher whose name I cannot remember, but who said that “the next best…
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,…