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Split Lines

Scopique May 2, 2019

I had been trying to come up with a concept for a stinger for my Twitch/Mixer channel and had seen one that was in use by my friend Pixel_One for her channel. It two panels that came together in the center, followed…

Flying Logos

Scopique May 2, 2019

The flying logos video is used as my outro video on my Twitch/Mixer channel. The gist is that I wanted to a video that represented my “variety streamer” status (i.e. I don’t broadcast just one game most of the time), so I…

Game Icon Morph

Scopique May 2, 2019

I got the idea for this animation when watching a video for the XSplit live streaming software. In this video which talked about recent updates, they featured an animation which had several different icons morphing around the screen. This version isn’t as…

Glass Pass

Scopique May 2, 2019

We have a TV in our office breakroom, and while getting coffee I was watching the news. In between the stories, they have a stinger which features a bunch of semi-transparent elements moving at different speeds over a stylistic background, while the…

Watching Wombat: Saving Setting

Scopique March 6, 2019

XML is dead; long live XML! Or, rather…let’s not. XML was always a silly format that mirrored HTML too closely and XML parsing was such a pain in the ass, so that while it was the king of portable formats for quite…

Watching Wombat: Securing the Lobby

Scopique March 4, 2019

Discord bot development commences. The first order of business is to tackle the most straightforward task which I am calling the “lobby”. We have this system working on The Wombattery server right now through the application of other bots, which I explained…

Welcoming Our Bot Overlords

Scopique February 28, 2019

Even though I have pretty much given up streaming, I am still active in promotion of our group’s participants and in the administration of our streaming community Discord, the Wombattery. I’ve written about our server before in terms of what we had…

Streaming Audio

Scopique January 3, 2019

For us novice-to-intermediate-level streamers, nothing is worse than being told during the stream that our audio sucks. Sometimes we end up talking for 15 minutes and no one can hear us over the game audio, or maybe we can’t find that happy…

A Fleet of my Own

Scopique November 29, 2018

By the time this post sees the light of day, the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo will be winding down, and it’ll be back to business as usual in the Star Citizen universe. Seeing as how this was the first “usable” expo that I…

Size and Effectiveness in Space Combat

Scopique October 18, 2018

Seeing as how we have yet to actually experience combat in space, the best analog that humanity has come up with for how spaceships would duke it out is naval combat. Like sailing the seas, flying around in space doesn’t give us…