Dammit, Jim
Scopique
May 29, 2023
My blog posts are like whiskey: never rely on the first sip to solidify your opinion of the…
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Scopique
May 29, 2023
Star Trek: Resurgence – Neither the Trek Game We Need Nor the One We Deserve
We are severely lacking in Star Trek games…
The Dark and Whining Road – Hold Up
After actually _tying_ the 3.19 patch, I have…
The Dark And Winding Road – Star Citizen 3.19
3.19 has arrived, but I'm going to sit…
Goodbye, Jarilo-VI: Honkai Star Rail
After a brief flirtation with burn-out, I found…
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Competition is Only Good When its Good – Microsoft Loop
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April 8, 2023
I did a pass through Microsoft Loop, a digital note-taking service. A pass-through was all I needed, though,…
The Revenge of Dedicated Space
Scopique
November 7, 2022
Reviewing my posts here at Scopique HQ I realized that the last post I had posted about my…
Social Diaspora
As a GenX’er, I’m young enough to be…
Dedicated Space – The Sequel
Here’s the unadulterated result of a spasm of…
Games! Games! Games!
Designing a Fleet
I have never been sure what kind of fleet I've wanted, so it's been in flux…
Update on My Wall of Text on Star Citizen
A follow-up to last week's post. I had a revelation this weekend that put last week's…
My Wall of Text on Star Citizen, March 2023
With the release of 3.18, the state of the game, and the way I feel CIG…
Ixion – First Impressions
Ixion is a claustrophobic city-builder set in space during a time of humanity's greatest crisis. Solve…
CitizenCon 2952 Wrap, and Other Interesting Things Discovered?
I am calling my coverage of CitizenCon 2095 done and done at this point. All of…
CitizenCon 2952 – Resource Management
Highly detailed ships. “Real time” flight. Body-part level medical gameplay. Hundreds of armor pieces. Hundreds of…
Motion Graphics and Video
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You know, when it’s been long enough between posts that many low-level topics are vying for…
All Aboard the Battle Bus! A Return to 3D Modeling
Guess what? Yeah, I’m back to doing the 3D modeling thing. Oddly enough, out of all…
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,…
Development
Godot – A New Game Dawns
The latest update on my magnum opus (for the nth time). Good news! Things are working…
Godot – Universe Construction Set
Now that I have my basic "Big Bang" translated from legacy code to GDScript, I am…
Godot – The Nested Resource Shuffle
Nested resources are a pain when you don't know how to use nested resources. Thankfully, where…
Godot – Gather ‘Round The Resource Tree
I have a working example of Godot's custom resources, attached to my earlier movement and minimap…
Godot – Questions Answered
I have spent the past three weeks slowly searching for information that goes beyond the glut…
Godot – Stream of Consciousness Plan of Attack
Brain-dump: rather that run the game directly from runtime-created data store, would Godot allow me to…