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!
IAE 2950 #StarCitizen
The Intergalactic Aerospace Expo (IAE) is an end-of-year event that CIG puts on to sell more…
Wanting Everything I am Paying For – Xbox Series and Game Pass Ultimate
I hate to open this way, but I feel that I must establish a baseline by…
Interstellar Rift – Starter Ship Management
Permission to Come Aboard After we started the new game in the station, we need to…
Interstellar Rift – A New Game and Station Services
The first order of business in a new game of Interstellar Rift is to choose a…
Interstellar Rift – Overview Series
I’m going to be switching things up going forward here on the ol’ Internet shingle, starting…
Death of a Spaceman Addresses the Wrong Problem
Last week’s Star Citizen’s “Calling All Devs” video chatted with Richard Tyrer of the core gameplay…
Motion Graphics and Video
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…
Embedded Timepiece
Continuing my love of tracking, I had watched a tutorial video that covered a lot of…
Mocha CC and Planar Tracking
Even though I got into After Effects to make widgets for live streaming, that idea has…
Development
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.…
Kitbash3D for Cool Cinematographic and Video Game Models
Mindstrike put me on to a site called Kitbash3d. Kitbashing is the practice of taking parts…
WomBot: Feature Full!
A lot has happened since the last WomBot post on [checks notes]…huh. A few days ago.…
WomBot: Twitch Go-Live Notifications
One major feature of CouchBot that the Wombattery Community server is missing is the “go live”…
WomBot: A Discord Bot for Wombats
My personal Star Citizen focused Discord bot had reached a point where I wasn’t sure what…