I’ve been messing about with creating VR toys in Unity 5 for Cardboard (or Plastic as I now have 😉 ). It’s really good fun building something in Blender, hoiking it over to Unity, then wombling around it in VR. Lots and lots of fun to be had. I was thinking about writing up my […]
I’ve just read a post on the (I’m assuming official, it’s official right?) Elite: Dangerous reddit decrying the grindy nature of the game. The odd thing about it though is that they missed out PowerPlay almost entirely in their analysis. The key to their argument was that they wanted bigger ships, but some of them […]
Ladies and gentlemen, I like playing with myself. Now, hold on, don’t get carried away. I mean to say that in a battle between unregulated multiplayer gaming and single player gaming, single player wins hands down, or at least it does for me. It’s a matter of control. As a gamer, I play to unwind, […]
We’ve all been down the road to turmoil town at least once. The road is familiar, with all the same sights and sounds every time you hurtle unstoppably down it. There’s Friday’s early surge in undermining just off the junction, followed by Sunday’s “Ewah still isn’t fortified guys!!!” a little further down the way, and […]
Using an arduino, or rather a pair of arduinos for reasons I’ll describe a little later, and a TFT screen, I was able to build up a little prototype 2D map device. It renders the local star systems in 1980’s monochrome style, updating automatically as you hop between systems. Firstly, the biggest struggle was getting […]