Palpable Tension
Scopique
July 20, 2021
I’m just writing to report that I am still mired in that weird space between not caring much…
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Scopique
July 20, 2021
The First 25% of Crowfall
After a successful Kickstarter and years of post-MMO-Kickstarter…
React and Colyseus – Custom React Hooks
I will start by giving props to the…
Win Some, Lose Some, Win Some More
OK so back when I started learning React,…
Star Traders: Frontiers
Left to my own devices, I would write…
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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!
Palpable Tension
I’m just writing to report that I am still mired in that weird space between not…
The First 25% of Crowfall
After a successful Kickstarter and years of post-MMO-Kickstarter development, Crowfall, the “throne-war simulator” has finally launched.…
Star Traders: Frontiers
Left to my own devices, I would write a wall of text. When I know that…
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…
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
React and Colyseus – Custom React Hooks
I will start by giving props to the site useHooks.com, which has afforded me the absolute…
Win Some, Lose Some, Win Some More
OK so back when I started learning React, I was facing an up hill battle. Despite…
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…