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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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