Independent Game Developer
https://dyingsungame.com/
Previously: Pandemic Studios, Bungie, Theorycraft Games
Mike Tipul
I've interviewed the team responsible for my favorite Arcane Dimensions map Terror Fuma. If you always wanted to know how this iconic map was created and what inspired it, you can now read all about it right here: www.map-center.com/threads/arca...
basins
Departing for Thrax.
Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.
Souls does similar sorts of Utility-AI, but theirs is all done via Lua scripting where they're managing goals/tasks depending on light logic.
It's a little messier since you're writing functions for each branch is annoying but the power is greater. ~524 individual AI scripts!
The State Tree engineering in Unreal 5 is kind of crazy. Being able to pipe data around to any parameter or task input/output/context seems really hard to do. Really powerful stuff.
A Thief remaster is on the way from Nightdive. 👀
'Battle Milk' is now stuck in my head, as a concept, forever.
William Hawkins (1895-1990)
American Artist
Ralph McQuarrie working on a Cloud City matte painting:
🐰 Myandra sez: 🐰Impeach the lunatic MF'er NOW! GOP are greedy.
The Spaceshipper 🚀
Project Zomboid players are dismayed because the exploit for 'battle milk' just got patched out.
You mix 51% water with whiskey and milk. The whiskey combats the stress debuff, milk provides raw calories/weight maintenance and the water quotient is just enough to trigger the auto drink mechanic.
