Goodbye, My Friends (I Mean the MMO)
Scopique
June 10, 2021
A long time ago, I had a friend named Bob. Like me, Bob was a gamer, and like…
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Scopique
June 10, 2021
Slipways
Slipways is not a 4X game, despite what…
Project Galaxy – A New Dawn
I have no idea what to call these…
React and Colyseus – A Simple Client
Behold! My new game! If only it were…
React and Colyseus – State
State is what the server knows about your…
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MMOs
Scopique
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
Scopique
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!
Slipways
Slipways is not a 4X game, despite what it might seem when you look at screenshots.…
Star Citizen – A Bounty-ful Harvest
For all of the time I have been playing in the Star Citizen Alpha, actual space-based…
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…
Motion Graphics and Video
Grab Bag for the Week of Christmas 2020
Container Ship Work on the new space ship is coming along. I’m not going to add…
A New Hope – Building Unglamorous Space Ships
Thanks to the first episode of the fifth season of The Expanse, I remember that in…
The Good, The Bad, and The Rest of It
I got it in my head to make a space ship of some kind, and I…
Back in the Saddle Of Sorts
Although I often bemoan my ability to stick with a project or a discipline (aptly named,…
Meteor Strike
I forget why I wanted to make a meteor strike effect. Maybe because I thought it…
Sci-Fi Walls
Before I throw myself completely off the cliff into bottomless waters, I wanted to segue into…
Development
Project Galaxy – A New Dawn
I have no idea what to call these projects. I’ve spent over a decade working under…
React and Colyseus – A Simple Client
Behold! My new game! If only it were that easy. What you see above is a…
React and Colyseus – State
State is what the server knows about your game world at any given time. In Colyseus…
React and Colyseus – Setting Up A Server
When I say “setting up a server”, I’m overreaching here; I’m not an expert on any…
React and Colyseus – Node-Mans Land
I suck at puns. Node is a Javascript server. Out of the box it does nothing,…
React and Colyseus – The Boring Preamble
Before I get to the code-y parts, I want to discuss a bit about the limitations…