I began taking note of the bugs in Fallout: New Vegas as I encountered them. For the first few days of New Vegas I was in Vent with Mumbles and Josh, and we sort of acted like we were all playing on different shards of an MMO. We swapped gameplay tips (Josh has once again broken the game over his knee with melee) humorous anecdotes, and bug reports.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Fallout: New Vegas – Enter the Anthill”
I didn’t post about the project last week. You didn’t miss much. I needed to add non-visual stuff like camera controls, a debug log, play a bunch of minecraft and that sort of thing.
So now we have a hex grid based world.
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Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Project Hex Part 3 – Things Get Hilly”
At least they’re not rats. And there’s not ten of them.
So, Spoiler Warning didn’t start as promised. Here is what is going on:
I pitched the show to The Escapist. The other hosts consented, but this move was fully instigated by me. And I’m not going to dress this up: I did it because I was hoping we could turn the show into income. I’m still looking at my options re: employment, and still considering what I can do. Ideally, I’d like to continue doing all of the cool stuff I’m doing now: This website, the Escapist content, Spoiler Warning, my game development. If I have to take a job where I commute for forty-five minutes each way and sit in an office for nine hours, I won’t be able to do these things. I could very quickly take a job that would pay my bills at the expense of killing all the cool stuff we’ve got going here, and I would very much like to avoid that fate.
So I’ve got several small plans for trying to turn these hobbies into income, and this is one of them.
This pitch is a long shot. I get along really well with the staff at the Escapist, but Spoiler Warning would be a really odd fit with the other programming they have on the site. The style, content, and length are all very different from the other video content. Would the show fit into their current ad and video delivery system? Would the Escapist community even dig it? I don’t know. Maybe The Escapist will take us up on the offer. I certainly won’t take offense if they don’t. But I felt this was worth a shot.
We’ve sent them some content and it’s being reviewed now. I felt like it would be a pretty jerk move to pitch the show to them, then turn around and make the show live here without even giving them a chance to think it over, which is why I’m pushing the show back instead of launching it now.
So, it’s my fault. Sorry for the delay. Let’s give this pot a bit of time to simmer. I’ll furnish us with some other content to fill our Tuesdays and Thursdays until this plays out.
And the After After Curfew series comes to an end.
This is a double-sized comic, and I had more material still that I cut. Could’ve run this for a couple more strips at least. But I didn’t want to run this Halloween story halfway to Thanksgiving.
Good Halloween. My oldest daughter went as a princess. The second daughter went as a kitty. My son went as Batman. Again. This wa either the second or third year in a row he’s gone as Batman. He’s never even seen the movies. He just really likes Batman. I went as a guy who sat at home and played Starcraft II.
What was your costume?
The official Twenty Sided Minecraft server is up. For real this time. It’s been running for several days now, and has been full most of the time. Seems to be working well so far. The map updates daily at 5am EST.
Let me give you the tour….
Right at the entry point you’ll see the word TWENTY in water, sand and glass. It’s pretty slick. To the right of that you’ll see…
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That’s no moon!
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Postcards from Minecraft, Part 3”
You’ll need to watch this several times if you really want to see everything.
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These animations were made by one person, using keyframes. That means by hand, without using a motion capture studio. It’s all just timing and posing. I’ve done this kind of work before and it is far more art than science. I spent hours just making a very bland walk animation. It’s tough work and this guy has a talent for it.
Several people have said, “Valve should hire this guy!” True, I’m sure he could go to Valve and do fine work. But you know who really needs this? Like, a lot? Bethesda. This guy could work miracles at Bethesda.
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Would you have survived in the middle ages?
Here are four games that could have been much better with just a little more work.
Back in 1999, I rode the dot-com bubble. Got rich. Worked hard. Went crazy. Turned poor. It was fun.
My first REAL published book, about a guy who comes back from the dead due to a misunderstanding.
Imagine if the original Star Wars hadn't appeared in the 1970's, but instead was pitched to studios in 2006. How would that turn out?
So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
This series explores the troubled history of VR and the strange lawsuit between Zenimax publishing and Facebook.
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
I write a program to simulate different strategies in Starcraft 2, to see how they compare.
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