ReactJS – Custom Hooks for Searching
Scopique
July 29, 2021
Most of what I do in my day job involves searching data. As I work for a data-focused…
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Scopique
July 29, 2021
Palpable Tension
I’m just writing to report that I am…
The First 25% of Crowfall
After a successful Kickstarter and years of post-MMO-Kickstarter…
React and Colyseus – Custom React Hooks
I will start by giving props to the…
Win Some, Lose Some, Win Some More
OK so back when I started learning React,…
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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!
Guilded – Roles and Permissions
After my original post on the difficulties of switching from Discord to Guilded, I decided that…
Evil Genius 2 – Evil Harder
I really like building games. Back when my wife and I were dating we would play…
Guilded – Are We REALLY Doing This Again?
I could sit here and recount my feelings on the rumor that Microsoft is thinking about…
Star Dynasties – Every Family Has That One Relative
I have had Star Dynasties on my Steam wishlist for a while now, and it has…
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…
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
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…
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…