React and Colyseus – A Simple Client
Scopique
May 16, 2021
Behold! My new game! If only it were that easy. What you see above is a simple test…
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Scopique
May 16, 2021
React and Colyseus – State
State is what the server knows about your…
React and Colyseus – Setting Up A Server
When I say “setting up a server”, I’m…
React and Colyseus – Node-Mans Land
I suck at puns. Node is a Javascript…
React and Colyseus – The Boring Preamble
Before I get to the code-y parts, I…
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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!
AdventureCo – The Continuing Mission
Last night AdventureCo met online and discussed our next move. It was agreed that we would…
AdventureCo – SPF 10,000
Last week (actually, about three weeks ago), the Away Team had found themselves in a bit…
Adventure Outliner – Registration
This is now an actual, “working” website. Working is in quotes because A) it’s not a…
The (Latest) Project, Revealed
Usually when I get to the point where I give into the desire to talk about…
AdventureCo – Squishy Pancakes
GM’s Log, Stardate 98712.94. Angstrom Base has been compromised by what appears to be a newly…
Waiting for the Next Big Thing Might Not Be The Issue
I read an article at PCGamer entitled “I’m tired of waiting for the next big MMO”…
Motion Graphics and Video
Cyberdeck In The Home
As I threatened, I took my rendered cyberdeck and threw it into After Effects. Three times.…
Old Faithful: Shirow Networks RX7K Cyberdeck
This was the first design I had come up with a few years ago when I…
All Aboard the Oregon Trail
Here we have it. A fully-from-scratch model. I don’t know why I decided to try my…
Learning Curves: UVs
UV unwrapping is the precipitous drop after having finished my Viper model. In Blender, before preparing…
The Colonial Viper Mk II
I ain’t calling it “done”, but for the most part, this first-pass 3D model of the…
My First Model
After watching a series of videos on CGCookie.com in which the expert artist took concept art…
Development
Intensity Versus Patience
Last night I was sitting around, looking through my Steam and Epic libraries for the 15th…
React – What a Long Strange Trip, etc.
I thought everything would be sunshine and roses when I discovered Firebase and Firestore and a…
React – Adventure Outliner Main Layout and Horizontal Scroller
Hot on the heels of today’s post about what a pain in the ass React can…
React – Getting Turned Around By React’s Component Nature
I have waxed poetic about React here at Chez Scopique, but I’m here now to tell…
Adventure Outliner – Authentication and Portraits
Man, sometimes things are way more difficult than they should be. Exhibit A: “dropping in” Firebase…
Adventure Outliner – Registration
This is now an actual, “working” website. Working is in quotes because A) it’s not a…