Author: Aaron
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Galliventurer – Dreaming of a Universe
n. Galliventurer – one who adventures whilst gallivanting. We have a name. A compound of the words gallivanter & adventurer it fits the game quite nicely. It will also be the name of the player’s ship (though, you may be able to have many ships throughout the game). Also trying something a little different for…
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Random Generation That’s Not So Random
While I do want the Galliventurer universe to be procedurally & randomly generated, I don’t want it to be truly random. There needs to be a modicum of probability involved. Some weighting so that some things are rarer than others. After all we can have too many diamond covered planets or uranium based suns –…
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Documenting My Lack of Documentation
This is a public shaming. No quarter will be given, no merciful anonymity or private repo’s will suffice to hide my transgressions. I wrote a large complex recursive piece of functionality that was all but absent of documentation! At the time everything seemed so simple, so straight forward. I thought anyone on my team could…
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Frontier Explorer
I’ve been thinking about, tinkering with and procrastinating over making a game for years. I have untold gigs worth of Unity projects clogging up, not only my desktop & laptop hard drives, but also our network storage drives! I sat down to do some serious thinking at the start of this decade and realised, the…
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