Game design: East vs West and narratives
One of the most interesting parts of the game industry is the unique approaches that Eastern developers have when compared to Western developers, and the effect that has on the narrative style of a...
View ArticleGame Design: Target Audience
Welcome to week two! Last week I touched on Narrative and talked a little about how a distinct sense of identity benefits a game. While there’s still a great deal of information to cover on that...
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Random Scribbles
Most of the week I had some stuff in mind to talk about in terms of just hobby stuff, but Friday a huge chunk of my plan came crashing down and left me terribly depressed. As a result, I just didn’t...
View ArticleStaying Creative
After having to get up early, I took a looong nap after getting home. This is probably one of the first blogs I’ve written in years where I’ve actually gotten a decent amount of sleep! Downside is...
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My code works, I have no idea why.
So, I almost missed blogging this week because I’ve been working on a proof of concept engine. Put a 8 hour gap between these two images and you pretty much have my Sunday: This isn’t entirely true....
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Unexpected Visits and upgrades
Well, as expected, something is always going to go strange whenever I need to manage my time. This time, instead of my foe being the traditional suspect “work” or the now more prevalent foe “myself”,...
View ArticleProductive to Mehhh… in 60 seconds.
So… around last friday I started to feel a bit sickish. Last sunday I felt sick enough I ended up sleeping 12~13 hours. This past week I’ve just been completely out of sorts as the flu does a number...
View ArticlePlanning a Disaster Recovery
Well, February was a lost cause for me, between the flu and three emergencies that came in that required me and not the old man. I fell behind on everything, and ended up in emergency “I put out...
View ArticleRandom vs Luck: A Goal inspired by nethack
(And the template I was using didn’t have bullets. amazing. I think this one might be a better choice.) Life is going better. It’s got some up and down, but I’m back to coding. This has me back to...
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The April Fool(ishness!)
Well, last weekend was a bit of a mess for me, and it took me a while to get my mood out of the gutter for how bad I felt. Truth be told, I’m still kind of muddled, but I’m no longer in so much pain...
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Hydroponics? Go Fish.
Whee… late again. I need to start writing these a few days in advance w/ delayed publish. My family finally made it out the door a week ago on their 5 month RV vacation, leaving me to house-sit by...
View ArticleIntermittent Part Failure
It’s been a reasonably bad week, but I’m really not wanting to vent about the work-related things that went wrong, so instead I’ll ramble about my computer a bit. Parts failing intermittently are the...
View ArticleFTVcraft, CNC Milling, illness, and so on.
Well, it’s been a little while. Since I’m sort of drawing a blank on what I’ve mentioned here vs what I’ve mentioned in the “What are you doing?” thread, I’m living out the misadventure filled life of...
View ArticleOdd thoughts on writing
The last few weeks I’ve been pondering and scheming ideas for the upcoming Camp NaNoWriMo, wanting to try to get something ready for that, and I’ve come to some odd observations thanks to some general...
View ArticleThe Road Ahead
Well, it’s been a while since I posted here. A long while. There’s a mess of reasons for that, some of which I’d like to rant about but shouldn’t, and some I don’t want to rant about but probably...
View ArticleOver… already…. what?
Going on the sixth or so week of my time away from home, I’ve learned a few things, attended a family reunion, removed my first tick, gotten a few HTML/JS projects started and half finished, finished a...
View Article“I’m going to cast Raise Blog!”
I have left this blog idle for far, far too long. So, what do I plan to do with this place? For now, I think I’m just going to go back to random once a week posting. Nothing extremely premeditated,...
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