The font used is Cooper Black. Size 120 pt, and it’s rendered sharply.
It might not look like it to the untrained eye but I was in a big hurry. I spent two and a half hours I could have been writing working on this in Photoshop so I was cutting corners with that in the back of my mind. I really should have set aside a full day to work on one of these.
That said, I think it’s great for a first attempt. I’m going to look for time and ways to improve it and make a few alternate versions, but for now I just needed some visuals to keep me motivated while I work, as well as a graphic I could replace the text link to the story with. I’m planning to do this for all my stories, including experiments like Fleeing Victory.
It wasn’t all good since we don’t quite have a solid approach to this ever-shifting META, but we at least have certain maps and ship combos figured out.
I really wasn’t expecting to be playing the GK and the Kremlin on a regular basis, but here we are.
I can’t seem to kick my old habit of immediately going back to normal view after taking a shot. I’m too used to being under torpedo attack, I guess. I can avoid it consciously but free look just doesn’t cross my mind naturally.
There was also progress on Proxima today. I’ll be focusing almost entirely on that tomorrow while looking into possible topics for that second article. There’s not a lot of time left for the water paths on the map so I’ll write that one off in a few days if I can’t think of anything else.
I finally found this track! Fat Saw 1and 2 by Savva Dudin
I’ve been wondering what this song NoZoupForYou uses on his youtube videos was for over a year. I even asked him about it once but his comment sections are usually flooded with things related to the actual video. Go figure.
I knew I’d bump into it eventually, though. Just had to be patient.
Just a brief post. I broke one of my rules playing Space Engineers yesterday. It’s a personal rule so I’ll spare you the details, but since I like accountability, I decided to delete the entire ship (Admiral Hipper) I was working on and start again from scratch. Thankfully, even when you screw something up–especially then–you learn or reinforce something important, even if you have to start over. So it’s not so bad.
That’s one of several reasons I didn’t post yesterday. I was in a hurry to get the new foundations in place and lost track of the time. Once it was late, I decided I would just post twice today and try to keep it interesting.
Right now my top priority is the Proxima chapter, so I’ll try to figure out what else to give a mention later today, probably after Clan Battles.
There was a little more progress on the Chronicles of Proxima chapter today, but it’s going be at least several more days before the end is in sight.
I also need to poke around for inspiration for that second article. There’s still time to come up with something, so I won’t worry just yet.
The water paths on the map, though, I have no idea. I might just finish as much as I can the extremely tedious way. Looking back on it, that might have been worth it. My goal was to make the water paths, but I’m under no obligation to keep them. Anything and everything can be redone later. Worst case scenario this is just a really involved practice run.
I wish I’d thought of that sooner.
Anyway, I think that’s about it until the holidays wrap up.
