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!
CitizenCon 2952 – Ship Combat Changes
If you’ve ever played a space sim of old, or maybe even a space sim of…
CitizenCon 2952 – 10 Years, Pyro, and Underground Facilities
In keeping with tradition, here’s my breakdown of this year’s CitizenCon 2952. I assume I’ve been…
Steam’s Next Fest October 2022 Demopalooza
If there’s one thing I would love to see the gaming world return to, it would…
Terra Invicta Addednum
Late last night after my post on Terra Invicta I was poking around the game trying…
Dynamic Item Properties
I’ve had a time, I’ll tell you wut. My original category system got broken out into…
Star Citizen Wishlist – Homesteads
Housing is a sore subject in MMO circles because too few games actually implement it despite…
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
Godot – This is Where We Die: User Interfaces
Now for the hard part: best practices, specifically concerning user interfaces. With Godot's system of scenes…
Godot – Spaceship Acceleration and Deceleration
My basic approach to getting my spaceship movement feeling a bit less artificial by adding a…
SSDD – Trying out Godot Game Engine
It's that time of year when I cycle back to an abandoned project. This time, I'm…
Docker Networking Solved (For Now)
Thanks to the helpful folks of the Fediverse, I came to my senses and have revised…
Halp! Docker Networking
Frustrated developer seeks knowledgeable input on a really stupid problem that's probably not that difficult, but…
Hosting from Home – Battle of the Wikis
I have succeeded in my attempt to connect my home server to the wider world. I…