I haven’t written here for a while, not for the lack of will or giving at least a genuine if feeble effort. I’ve become stuck posting anything by the trap of it…
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Burnout
After several months of near constant stressing about work deadlines & topsy-turvy project schedules, I finally came to terms with the fact that I had burnout. Recently I’ve had a growing sense…
Vacuous Social Data Sharing
It’s the not so secret, dirty secret of our modern lives. We live in a golden age of free services that make our lives interconnected on levels that our ancestors couldn’t even fathom.…
My Shout – App Idea
With everyone working from home a lot more these days, especially in the face of a global pandemic with self isolation in effect in most place still, it becomes tricky to make…
Embracing the Procedural
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve had a chance to update regarding Galliventurer. After playing around a fair bit with backends and trying a number of different nosql databases, one of…
Our Robot Overlords
Artificial intelligence is often touted as the future demise of the human race. We’ve all heard it, the robots will either wipe us out or rule us with an iron fist, the…
Introductory Scene – The Lore of Galliventurer
* muttering accompanied by beeps/electric signal noises * “Huh, how’d you get here? Just when I’d finally resigned myself to floating aimlessly through the endless void of spa- woah hold up, you’re…
Lists on lists on lists
It’s alive!! Well the very infantile functional proof of concept for the idea that is the procedural generation for the universe of Galliventurer is alive. Above is the result of a single…
Game Realism – Should it Matter?
Something I’ve been battling with recently when contemplating the procedural universe generation for Galliventurer. How realistic should the properties of celestial objects be? In the real world/universe, star’s are visible colours because…
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…