Here are some of my coding projects:
You can find more projects of mine on BOLT80, my coding portfolio.
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I post articles infrequently on The Stochastic Game, my personal blog. Here are the most recent entries:
When Brindlewood Bay came out it seemed to become an immediate darling of my TTRPG circles. Being a fan of both the Cthulhu Mythos and TV series like Murder She Wrote, Columbo, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and more, I figured that “old ladies investigating murders that lead into cosmic horror” sounded totally like my jam! […]
So I figured I would post an update that is part of the actual developer diary I had on the UE5 Gameplay Cameras, in case someone out there only followed that category of posts: I was part of the mass layoffs that saw Epic Games get rid of almost a quarter of their employees this […]
The old ElfQuest boxed set got the recent “revival” treatment by Chaosium’s excellent “Nostalgia Department” (aka the ever wonderful Chaosium president Rick Meints). After quite a successful Kickstarter campaign, the box was finally delivered this week to most backers. Since I’ve got nothing better to do this week-end, let’s take a quick look, and compare […]
This is another article in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system. The Gameplay Cameras (GPC) plugin currently still has the “experimental” status, but the plan is to upgrade it to “beta” for UE 5.8. This means I have to clean up a few mistakes I made with some of the early designs. […]
Oh hey, look at the time! Another post in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system, and a whole release went by that I haven’t posted anything about. Oh well, let’s see if I can pick the pace back up later. In the meantime, here are some notes and highlights for the Gameplay […]
These past few years I’ve been catching up on a lot of classic roleplaying games that I’ve never played before, despite having several decades of play behind me. One of those was Traveller, so I was happy to finally run that with my Friday game! We ran about 15 sessions, across four scenarios, plus the […]
This is the eighth post in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system. Since the UE 5.6 release has just gone out, I figured I would write a little bit about what to expect if you’re using the early UE 5.5 Gameplay Cameras experimental plugin. While the GPC plugin is still flagged “experimental” […]
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Favourite video-game end music? Sure, Portal’s “Still Alive” is in everybody’s Top 3 (and mine too) but years before that, the amazing Homeworld ended with 9 minutes of brilliant epic prog-rock, courtesy of YES… my introduction to this legendary band’s discography. Love it.
The last of the Harn kingdom books is out on Kickstarter! This is Evael, home to the Sindarin, aka the elves of Harn who (plot twist) used to be great allies of the dwarves, and that gives a funny in-world reason for having fairytale-looking castles there!
Since I received various messages about it, when I said the other day that RuneQuest is the “worst system to play in Glorantha”, I meant “worst design among the officially published Gloranthan games”. You can surely have very fun RQ games (I did). Do I need to write a “system matters” post?
My thoughts go to that house in my neighbourhood that, every morning for the past week, when I walk past it with the dog around 8AM, has a woodpecker perched on it, pecking happily and LOUDLY at the side wall.
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