IT BLENDS!
IT BLENDS. It is one thing to have code working with a database that’s only about 10 megabytes in size and has roughly 1500 characters and a whole ‘nother mess of worms to deal with a database that’s...
View ArticleNexus War Arts
My friend Scott is a bad-ass painter. He is the painter I wanted to be. He made a crap ton of bad ass paintings for me to use in Nexus War version 2.0 (launching soon at an intertron near you!). I used...
View ArticleStressing
So, today is (and has been, since Wednesday) the launch day for Nexus War Version 2.0. This was fraught with any number of complications: 1) While in the middle of the database migration script, my...
View Article“No Metadata Hell” HAHAHAHAHAH
So, now that Nexus Wars’ Straylight version has landed, and things have started to calm down, I have decided to begin thinking about the next level of optimizations and so forth. This means, really,...
View ArticleLate October Round-Up
ITEM! I love that it is almost November and the sun is still very bright and the weather is still very warm. Hot, even, lately: it is hitting the 80s up on the hill. So, even though it’s a week from...
View ArticleCHAOS CHAOS CHAOS Feeds Me For a Month
Today, via UPS, arrived a package for me in the mail. It was a large, styrofoam cooler sent from Omaha Steaks. It was a gift from one of the factions (clans/guilds) in my game. It had the following...
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ALL YOUR MEAT ARE BELONG TO ME
A while back, a bunch of Nexus War players sent me a bunch of food from Omaha steaks. It was delicious. And someone else is doing it again: The note says: IN AD 2009 BEEF WAS BEGINNING. WHAT HAPPEN?...
View ArticleA Thank You to my Players
The game I wrote so three years ago must shut down. This is the message I have written to my game’s players about it. Hello, my friends! About ten years ago, I adopted a cat. His name was Simon. He was...
View ArticlePulling the Plug
So, the month-long wind-down of my game has come to a close, and I’ll be shutting it off for good tomorrow night. The “end game” has been a fun thing for me and my testers/development team to handle....
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Use Adblockers
I’ve had some whiskey, and I’ve been thinkin’. So let’s talk about something dear to me. A couple years back, I wrote a “browser-based multiplayer roleplaying game” called Nexus War. Don’t go looking...
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