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...
Uh ... yeah, I'm not sure why I started making this yesterday. I'll do 'inspired' builds, but I never attempt actual replicas. For some perspective, this is sixteen hours of work crammed into about a day and a half. It took me a year to get the Admiral Hipper slapped...
One of the most annoying things about fleshing out these World War II inspired factions is that there isn't enough territory in the setting to go around. I mean we've got America, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, etcetera. There are only a handful of habitable worlds,...
The thumbnails for the Admiral Hipper, Cosmo Messer F2, and the KM-3s missile are finished. A bit rushed but they all look decent enough, especially the F2. Have a look. I also squished the frames a little to give the subjects more screen space. Once again, I think...
It's pretty much finished. Unfortunately there are still some workshop related things I need to do and I don't quite have enough time for all of that tonight. Hopefully I'll have it sorted by tomorrow or sometime in the middle of the week, but if not, next weekend at...
That’s today. It’s nice to have a birthday that almost everyone celebrates on. It also makes it a good deadline for certain projects. Somehow the motivation is greater.
Four chapters down and three to go. Only one chapter’s had any editing done but I’ll get around to all of them when I can. I’m just glad I’ve been able to keep the pace up four months in a row. At the rate we’re going, I’ll be done with LGT as March is wrapping up. It’s a bit stressful that it nearly always comes down to the wire like this, but you can’t argue with 12,500~ words in a little over two days.
As usual, the song portion nearly killed me. Since I didn’t even start on the song until today and it’s my birthday, I decided to base the Proxima song on one of my favorite real songs. If you want to know what the melody and timing for this one is, just listen to a karaoke or instrumental version of Torn (Natalie Imbruglia cover). At some point I want to make karaoke videos of the LGT songs, but there’s a small problem. The Armor and Mirror songs weren’t based on real pieces. I’ll have to make something for those from scratch. I know how to do that but I’m busy, so it’s going to be a while.
A helpful and informative blog has to start somewhere, right? Well I’ll be trying this out for a while. I’m not going to add these to my monthly goals. I’m getting a bit faster with my nonfiction writing, now, so I’m just going to cram one of these out in a couple of hours any time I get an idea for a new one. Maybe we’ll have 100 by this time next year or maybe just a few. We’ll see. I’ve got way bigger priorities starting tomorrow.
I’m not kidding, 2022 is going to be busy.
I don’t have time to finish the water paths for the map, so that’s a bust. I also won’t be adding map goals to my monthlies going forward. I think that’s just something I have to handle all at once like I used to back when this was just a world building tool. At this point, the way the map looks is way too important to me for hard deadlines. I don’t even have my process completely figured out yet. Better to let the inspiration come when it’s ready and focus on other things in the meantime.
All other goals met:
I’ll decide what the January set’s going to be tomorrow. I’m running on caffeine and fumes right now so it’s not the best time to be making decisions.
This is my last post for 2021. Here’s to next year, and I hope anyone reading has a good one.
And some parting advice:
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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