Goodbye, My Friends (I Mean the MMO)
Scopique
June 10, 2021
A long time ago, I had a friend named Bob. Like me, Bob was a gamer, and like…
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Scopique
June 10, 2021
Slipways
Slipways is not a 4X game, despite what…
Project Galaxy – A New Dawn
I have no idea what to call these…
React and Colyseus – A Simple Client
Behold! My new game! If only it were…
React and Colyseus – State
State is what the server knows about your…
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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!
Surface Tension – The Search For A New Desk
Everything is cyclical, especially for me, and this time around I’m back to thinking about desks.…
How It Should Have Been – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077, and the Mash-Up I Want to See
For the longest time I’d been shying away from open world games because I have been…
Raccoon Lagoon VR
Several Wombats received the gift of an Oculus 2 this Christmas this year, and there was…
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 Dawn for Night City -Cyberpunk 2077
Seven years after it’s initial reveal in 2013, Cyberpunk 2077 has finally arrived on PC, current,…
Grab bag for…What day is it?
I don’t know why I ended up here. I had opened several browser windows and apparently…
Motion Graphics and Video
Kitbash3D for Cool Cinematographic and Video Game Models
Mindstrike put me on to a site called Kitbash3d. Kitbashing is the practice of taking parts…
Exploding Windows Revisited
I don’t normally re-do my video projects, usually because I’m lazy and often times because my…
Exploding Windows
Explosions are impractical effects for small movie makers and hobbyists like me who need to learn…
Element 3D for After Effects
Rounding out 2019 I spent some collected money on one of my long-term wishlist items, Element…
Streaming Alerts for the Holidays
I’m still plugging away at a use for Trapcode Particular, and seeing as how we’re sliding…
Web Animations with Lottie, Bodymovin, and After Effects
If there is one boat I miss not having sailed upon, it’s the Adobe (né, Macromedia)…
Development
More Interfaces: A Possible Way Forward
After my post last night, I got a brief introduction into how I might consider creating…
Interfaces Again: Separation of Concerns and Dependency Injection
We interrupt this usual flow of entertainment posts to bring you a special PSA. We take…
Discord Sucks, Adapt or Die, and Learning is Going To Hell
I’ve been trying to learn about the Core game platform for the past week. I’ve spawned…
Core Game Development Platform
You may remember a while back I had posted a lot about an online game platform…
Developer Confidential: I Just Started Caring About Interfaces
I have a confession: I am not that good of a developer. I have a very…
The Satisfyingly Unsatisfactory Approach of Planning It All Out First
I don’t know why, but I was struck with a bit of inspiration while kicking back…