What The Hell Happened To Crowfall?
Scopique
September 23, 2021
This is kind of a “part two” to my previous post, “Wrong Eggs in Wrong Baskets” because that…
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Scopique
September 23, 2021
Wrong Eggs In Wrong Baskets
I don’t really MMO any more. I used…
Thoughts on Docker
It’s been a few days since I started…
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You know, when it’s been long enough between…
Squealin’ Over Healin’
I don’t usually like to require someone read…
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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
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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 – Boldly Going
Last night we had our “session -1” to hash out a few pre-session 0 things. We…
Once More Once More Once More Into The Breach – AdventureCo(tm) Reborn
AdventureCo(tm) Brand Adventuring Company is like Menudo — same name, whole new line up of people…
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…
Motion Graphics and Video
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)…
Swim Lane
When the weather is nice during the work week I will head outside for a quick…
Enter the Wombat – Drop-in Logo Intro
Here’s my first project featuring Trapcode Particular. I think it came out OK overall. We have…
Choosing Expensive Hobbies
Little did I know when I started down the road of motion graphics and VFX that…
Virtual Screen – Take 1
Here’s a quick test. I’ve traditionally used the chroma key when live streaming, putting the screen…
Development
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…
Securely Insecure in the Knowledge
Thanks to the quarantine, I’ve watched dozens of videos on 3D modeling with Blender, and despite…
Temporary Set-Ups and WomBot in the Wild
It’s Like Moving In All Over Again Monday nights are our usual get-together nights around here.…