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Simulated Creature AI
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Simulated Creature AI

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Is it ethical to code fear of god into a simulated being? Nobody knows, so we made some tuna salad sandwiches and just did it.

Smacking Things for Stuff (Harvesting)
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Smacking Things for Stuff (Harvesting)

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We’re not re-inventing the wheel with harvesting. It’s your familiar progressions of approaching an object, seeing if the harvest option appears...

Granola Bars, Bleeding
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Granola Bars, Bleeding

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*Psst* Over here. No, here, in the Fizzberry shrub. Ah, there you are. Chay ho.

Lasers, Combat, and a Cowboy Hat
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Lasers, Combat, and a Cowboy Hat

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Chay ho, lilith-heads. What a momentous day, for we may now glimpse into shooting and destroying — which challenges us with some existential questions.

Printing Stuff and Smashing Into It
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Printing Stuff and Smashing Into It

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We have created an all-purpose printer meant for creating/materializing survival items of all kinds.

Hello Glondosus
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Hello Glondosus

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Chay ho, cosmic fellow. Jun and I decided to start modeling again. It’s okay if that excites you, because we definitely think it’s sexy having to...

New Year, Less Polys
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New Year, Less Polys

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We’re going low-poly. Whoa, pump the anti-grav brakes — why the sudden change? Several reasons: low-poly renders a bit more smoothly, meshes with...

Surfing, Skiing, Running
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Surfing, Skiing, Running

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Chay ho, folks. Sit down, enjoy this free space drink, and let me tell you all about how we protoyped our planetary movement.

Alien Gates and First Tastes
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Alien Gates and First Tastes

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Chay ho, space hunks. We’ve been working on that sweet, sweet launch screen, fine-tuning ship flight dynamics/sensitivities, and just filling out content...

Rings, Pizza Hut, Easy Gel, Tweaking
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Rings, Pizza Hut, Easy Gel, Tweaking

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Things are starting to fall together — this is a good sensation (vibe). Soon we’ll be breaking though the crust, and eating this pizza backwards.

We made your favorite galactic gas depot!
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We made your favorite galactic gas depot!

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Mugalo dudes. We took a little detour from coding and what not and drove along the gamedev scenic route this weekend.

A robot is in your spaceship — chat with it! (tell it your secrets)
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A robot is in your spaceship — chat with it! (tell it your secrets)

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This chatbot, called C.A.M, is be the basis for your spaceship’s communications system. It’ll be an informational swiss army knife as it defines names...

Navigation Mode
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Navigation Mode

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Welcome to yellow bogey nation. Yellow bogeys are simple floating space devices that collect weather and time data. As satellite experts will tell you...

The Moop-Light Cruise
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The Moop-Light Cruise

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Mugalo, space horses. I don’t want to prance around the manor too much: the most interesting thing in this post is this video. Please enjoy this Moop...

Jundows, Solar Systems, and a Short Story by Jim Parx
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Jundows, Solar Systems, and a Short Story by Jim Parx

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Mayobread (hey guys), here’s an update on the game. This is going to be a weird post. I’ve created a loading screen for a spaceship operating system...

Movement, Mining, Chopping, Finally
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Movement, Mining, Chopping, Finally

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Lemoosum (hello partner, the world is our possum). About 4 weeks ago, I set a minor goal to “just chop one tree down and get a freaking log”.The world...

Inventory, Robocop, Inventory
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Inventory, Robocop, Inventory

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Gopezum (I have something to say). Yea, so we got the inventory working, created a bunch of items, developed some character math systems, and built a...

Philadelphia (Hello), Chuck Mangione, Trees, Rocks, Lighting, Weather, Day-Night Cycles
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Philadelphia (Hello), Chuck Mangione, Trees, Rocks, Lighting, Weather, Day-Night Cycles

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I moved to the great city of Philadelphia. I also picked up a few classics at the record shop. But mostly, I wanted to make a jungle planet.

Portal Os, Niche Legends, Couch in the Torpedo Tubes
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Portal Os, Niche Legends, Couch in the Torpedo Tubes

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Hey, Mugalo. The Portal Os allows you to control (hijack the minds) of a handful of characters living within our galaxy. Because of this, we thought it...

Moving Units, Pathfinding Algorithm, Pablo Cruise
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Moving Units, Pathfinding Algorithm, Pablo Cruise

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Finally, we can move the golden whistle-lizard. Also -- spherical maps exist. When you land on a planet, the gameplay turns into a combination of real-time...

Mugalo (Hello) Cadets. Plip!
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Mugalo (Hello) Cadets. Plip!

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Mugalo (hello) cadets. Plip! (At ease, finish your yogurt with fruit at the bottom, it is time for the debriefing of our most recent developments.)

Corporate Announcement
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Corporate Announcement

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Here at Jun and Pate, we celebrate Good Eezma (corporate buzzword in 3218). Therefore, we are taking first-person flight simulation to the next level...

Heck Yeah, Good Ole Planets and Cosmos Cowboys
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Heck Yeah, Good Ole Planets and Cosmos Cowboys

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Chay Ho, friends. Remsa Tholdor (Our space-time is synchronized.) A couple ‘o weeks ago I posted about working on a country song for the in-game radio...

Autopilot, flight controls, game science, and navballs
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Autopilot, flight controls, game science, and navballs

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I don’t want to make it sound like we don’t do scientific research (um. we go on wikipedia) (and try to stay within the bounds of “realism”...

Wild Pythons Playing Together (a.k.a. UI Design)
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Wild Pythons Playing Together (a.k.a. UI Design)

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Chay ho (hello), moon dwellers. Bonsino (I love your hair). Here are some updates regarding week 10 of our game-science adventure.

Commercials, Nachos, and Suburban Days
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Commercials, Nachos, and Suburban Days

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Next on the horizon for me? Finishing the list of planets and making a “dueling whistlers” song. Hehe. I hope it’ll be as fun as it sounds dumb.

Only 1201 Years Until The “Real” Fun Starts
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Only 1201 Years Until The “Real” Fun Starts

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Mugalo (hello) and welcome to 2017. There’s an old saying in car circles, “if you can see it coming, you can’t stop it.” — or as described in...

In 3D, the Star Map looks like a Rigatoni Noodle
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In 3D, the Star Map looks like a Rigatoni Noodle

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From a geometry view, our galaxy resembles a 3D arch that’s about 40-60 degrees in arc-length and more obviously: looks like a curved rigatoni noodle.

Hester Galvagi, Yellow Bogies, and Space Pastels
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Hester Galvagi, Yellow Bogies, and Space Pastels

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This is a jubilant Christmas time. Despite a reckless cookie deluge, we have made some progress with the game.

Punch It, Horse Boy
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Punch It, Horse Boy

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Okay so we decided to work on parts of the gameplay. AS horse brothers, we are taking this step together. We will begin crafting \ tweaking & play-testing...