It’s hard to believe it’s already been five months. I often think about it and at times it seems very daunting to think about having this responsibility for the rest of your life but then I think of how quickly this time went by and I feel much more at ease. See, one thing everybody tells you and you won’t really listen to until you’re a few months in is it will pass....
Quick disclaimer here, I’ve been playing EVE Online on again, off again for almost 20 years and I tried to recruit so many people over the years with little success, so this post was born out of frustration especially considering the recent craze in extraction shooter and persistent world type video games. Here’s the thing: why are people who enjoy the risk and reward mechanics in games like Escape from Tarkov and the likes of them not willing to try EVE Online?...
Hornswoggles, it’s been yonks since the last time I wrote here. Not like I didn’t have anything to write about, I was just too busy to actually take the time and write posts I consider written well enough to be published here. I’ll summarize a few key things that happened trying to keep a chronological order. First off, probably the most drastic change, I was made redundant last December. The whole process took a huge toll on me and I’m not really allowed to discuss any of it as we’ve ultimately signed a settlement so I’ll just leave it at that but I managed to find a new job in reasonable amount of time and I joined my new position in early February....
Oh boy this is a doozy! I’ve been looking forward to this game since it was announced, I really liked Battlerite and the Royale version of it despite I was not good at all in neither of them but the presentation and the atmosphere was just always really cool and fun, naturally I was curious what they did with the survival genre. To be honest the choice of the genre combined with the whole vampire setting was a bit awkward or at least unconventional at first but I like the mythology and also survival games that are heavily reliant on gathering and crafting, however the sheer amount of these games makes one hesitant to spend any money on them because it’s easy to pick a shit game....
I’ve been working quite a lot on my project called Phaseball, which is a baseball simulation program based on W. M. Akers’s Deadball. The texts aren’t too colorful but this is just an example log of a game I simulated. I’m planning to handle the game reports/logs in a similar way but also want to figure out a way to create a graphical representation and play-by-play options. Anyway, this is a Sprint Training game I simulated for my Baseball Association of Irish Labour Unions fantasy league....