We’re launching the GPT Store to help you find useful and popular custom versions of ChatGPT.
You can bet I’m going to get in on this. I’ve actually already made more than half a dozen custom GPTs just testing concepts and also building a few helpers for my own personal use. Based on that experience, I’d say getting some kind of business started on the GPT store is more than doable if you’re persistent enough.
Unfortunately that does mean I have to play catch up for a little while. I was aware the GPT store was opening this week, but I haven’t had the time I’d like to prepare. I’m still building another website specifically for GPT powered apps, but I’m considering using the Praedian Records main site for that purpose if it starts looking better suited to that. After all, since this blog is on a subdomain, the main site has been struggling to justify its existence for a while now.
This might be the niche I was looking for. We’re about to find out one way or another.
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 projects and aspirations and just learn to live and breath those things. After all, my kind of work doesn’t have to be boring and my personal deadlines don’t have to be stressful. All of that can just be … me.
For now the focus is going to be LGT and the Yamato project, but there are plenty of other things I’m working on between those sessions. Any big or noteworthy updates will be posted here like always.
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 no way I’m going to have anything ready in time for my birthday or even early January. With just the Yamato I’ve already lost more than 100 hours of potential work time and that could have at least given me a comfortable January release window.
With that said, I’m going to just keep working and see where I wind up by early February. Initially I was going to post a Phase 1 version of the Yamato just to give the people who are excited about it something to play around with, but after some thought, that’s way too risky in terms of me actually finishing the project.
Yamato
The 5.0 carousel design is finished and it’s just barely stable enough to be used on the Yamato. Unfortunately it’s not compatible with the Cosmo Falcon I made due to some incredibly tight spacing between the platforms. That means I’ll need smaller, fully modded versions of the planes in order to pair them with the Yamato. I’ll post pictures of that in the next dedicated Yamato update post.
There’s also the ventral hatches. They’ve both been installed, but they still have to be programmed to open and close. With those in place, Yamato’s only missing about eight of the planned subgrids I initially planned for. They might not all get added, and even the ones I install might get removed from the final version, so it’s going to be very touch and go to keep the ship stable.
Lydia’s Golden Treasury
Just like with the Yamato project, I couldn’t get much done on this front. I’ve got the last three chapters of the story outlined, but need to find a way to get them written.
AI Articles
I haven’t been able to work on these like I wanted either, but I’m almost thankful for that since my views on the topic are changing (still in favor). I’ll try to squeeze in posts for this when I can, but the Yamato and LGT are my top priorities right now.
Welcome back to another WIP post, this week introducing a new Bullet Shooter that is on another spectrum of shooters. Please welcome the Pile Bunker! PIle Bunker is a MELEE Bullet Shooter, having one chargeable bullet, you. This is a weapon that took a long time to get it to work, being vastly different from other shooters, requiring us weeks to design, craft, and finding solutions for w
Words … I can’t even.
Just embrace the visuals for a minute.
A lot of people–myself included–are wondering if VD picked this idea up from a certain recently released mech shooter. Even if that’s not the case, this in your face weapon is a welcome addition. I’m absolutely going to be using this one when 0.11.0 is finished.
M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP: 0.11.0 New Energy Shooter Model Preview – Steam News
Welcome back to another weekly WIP update. It’s a short one this week, featuring some weapon parts of the upcoming new shooter PRISM. We designed these things to look like they’re particle accelerators or energy charging machineries but we’ll also throw in the simple parts for you all to freely customize it as well. We’ll be back next week to show more!
What more can be said, really? The more customization options we get, the better.
