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.…
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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…
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…
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…
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…