How Far Are We Willing to Go? Simulation in Star Citizen
Scopique
October 13, 2021
I’ve been trying to log in an stay connected to the public test universe for Star Citizen’s 31.5…
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Scopique
October 13, 2021
Note Taking With Technology
I’m one of those weird people who really…
CitizenCon 2951 – Life in the ‘Verse
This year, Star Citizen’s annual convention CitizenCon was…
React – Simple Search, Results, and Sortable Header
Although it’s now considered bad form to use…
New World – Queue Queue Blues
It’s the kind of problem a service game…
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Note Taking With Technology
Scopique
October 12, 2021
I’m one of those weird people who really like stationary: pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, the whole nine yards.…
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
I’m only beating this horse in order to…
Quick Takes – Microsoft PowerToys
I’m following up my previous post by a…
Games! Games! Games!
How Much Is a Voice Worth?
Friends, I am having trouble writing this post, which means if you see it, it’s probably…
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…
Motion Graphics and Video
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…
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…
Development
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…
React and Colyseus – Node-Mans Land
I suck at puns. Node is a Javascript server. Out of the box it does nothing,…
React and Colyseus – The Boring Preamble
Before I get to the code-y parts, I want to discuss a bit about the limitations…
React and Colysus – The Journey Begins
Once more, into the breach. My other project has been put “on hold”, which is to…