I'm a day late on this one but I kind of just crashed yesterday right after work. I'm thinking of flipping my sleep schedule around to accommodate that post-work fatigue I'm always getting. It would also help me get more writing done. I don't know why, but I'm much,...
I've got a lot of my mind right now, not least of which being tomorrow. More on that in this post. What I think is really important right now is keeping what momentum I've got going and make sure I've got things lined up for this Spring. My Four Candidates I've got...
I'm spent. Nothing else is getting done today, and believe me, I tried. My mind is just spent after yesterday. Results for November: LGT: Emancipating Blade 1st Draft FV#s 7-12 Zavodia Map: Finish base terrain Aeon Economic Research Frame Ops Main Outline Artorius...
I can't believe how much I've hammered out in one sitting, granted, I've been at this all day and my eyes hurt. I should have Emancipating Blade finished relatively early tomorrow. I'm working on the final scene and the song, and those tend to wrap up nearly in the...
Fleeing Victory With Fleeing Victory #12 up that's one of my goals for this month finished. December is going to be a quick and light month for me writing-wise, but I don't want to take more than a month off from writing these short stories. Instead, what I'll do for...
I'm not even close to recharged, but it was good to take a break after that faceoff with my own project deadlines. I won't be working on anything major for another day or two, but I'll put a new set of deadlines up to keep the pace going. Note: Anything that says...
I’ve been so preoccupied with ironing out things for Frame Ops that I haven’t been able to come up with anything for today’s post. You know what that means ….
(As usual, I’ll be experimenting with the blogging format for readability, as well)
Frame Ops is a series in the Aeon setting centered around an E-sports community and the Battle Network, the gaming conglomerate that manages it all. The game Frame Ops is a fast paced mech shooter at its core, but ‘Battlenet’ went all cash-eyed and turned the game into a full blown E-sport with colossal commercial interests and at least two different leagues for the players. The whole series is based in the Jovian Sphere.
The Jovian Sphere consists of all the territories around Jupiter, out to 1 AU from the planet itself. The Jovian League controls most of it, but that control diminishes the farther out you go from the settled regions. It’s like a combination of the old Wild West and the Pacific Ocean.
As for what’s keeping me busy up in the mental workshop, it’s mainly the economics of both the setting as a whole, and the internal economics Battlenet’s system. Frame Ops isn’t just an E-sport for the times, it’s a new world created in cyberspace to facilitate all sorts of outlandish business models.
While Frame Ops is mainly about the gamers and their adventures, Battlenet’s activities, and those of the major companies are always carrying on in the background. This has a rippling effect throughout the various stories, affecting pretty much everyone who’s anyone. That’s why it’s important for me to understand the process, even if it barely amounts to background noise in any given story.
Besides, at some point, once I find a good way to do it, I will be focusing on Battlenet’s people, too.
I am working on Frame Ops’ ‘Odyssey related stories when I can, but I’d also like to do some smaller stories about characters that won’t get much attention otherwise. That will also help me out with ironing out the lore before things get too muddled.
Fleeing Victory’s format is working for me so far, so I’m thinking of using the same format for that kind of content.
Anyway, there’ll be more news on this when I’ve got more to share.
2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
This is a general update and not project specific. To start, I've been pretty sick the last couple of weeks. That nuked almost every end-of-the-year plan and goal I had for 2023, including the Yamato project. Even as I write this, I'm only just 'recovering.' There's...
Okay so the Cosmo Messers aren't 100% compatible with the Yamato, so I wanted to modify one to be close to spec. I somehow wound up making a full-blown Cosmo Falcon. There I go, makin' replicas again I also did some side by side comparisons on an old request and Good...
Oh my goodness ... well, things may have slowed down exponentially compared to the first 24 hours of working on this thing, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been major progress. Check this out. The exterior is nearly finished (minus coloring) The catapults work...
M.A.S.S. Builder - What’s Next 0.11.0 - Steam NewsFirst of all, before anything else, we must announce that we’re shifting our development engine to Unreal Engine 5 for the next version. Now now, we must ask that you don’t panic and assume the game is going into a...
Project Wingman - BETA BRANCH UPDATE #1: Platform Update 2.0 - Steam NewsProject Wingman Beta Branch Major Update This is big news, but it didn't show up in my feed until well over a week ago. Toss in how busy I am and I'm only now getting around to writing about it....
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