In practice, pretty much all planets in most Space Operas are effectively just a single town, that only gets visited to have dealings with one single group.

Having just half a dozen worlds makes it much more feasible to develop actual societies with internal dynamics instead of just one faction, and of course ecosystems outside the main settlement.
But it's still enough to have plenty of regular space travel and let the spaceships have a prominent presence.

It's the perfect middle ground.

As tempting as it is to create a big Space Opera galaxy with a map covering a hundred named systems, several rival power blocks, and their interstallar politics and history, having comfortably settled into just six planets that are concerned entirely on their own local issues for #IridiumMoons has been showing so many benefits for the #worldbuilding.

Taking this idea from StarCraft and Coriolis was one of the best things that I nabbed from other space settings.

Surely someone must have recreated the Half-Life software rendering water effect as a shader in Godot.
With how my environment textures now look, I need this!!

#godot #godotengine #IridiumMoons #gamedev #shaders #retrogames #HalfLife

What are some classic sci-fi movies set fully or in parts in IN THE FUTURISTIC PAST!? 😆

2001: 2001
Back to the Future II: 2015
Rollerball: 2018
Akira: 2019
Blade Runner: 2019

Ghost in the Shell and The Terminator are almost there in 2029.

#scifi #movies

As somewhat of a hobby historian of 90s videogames, I am also curious:

What games for home computers and consoles from the 80s are now considered to be the big and important classics?

I know about the ones that turned into long running series that continued to be big in the 90s. But very little about the ones that didn't.
What do you consider to be the must knowns?

#retrogames #retrogaming #80sgames #videogames #VideoGameHistory

Outside of Win/DOS, Amiga, and the Nintendo, Sega, and Sony consoles, which systems had the best catalog of games that made them worth having in the 80s and 90s?

From 1990 an onward, there seem to be very few famous games that were originally developed for those other systems rather than being ports.

#retrogames #retrogaming #retroconsoles #90sGames

PowerSlave was released 30 years ago on 19th September 1996 for the Sega Saturn.

#1996InVideoGames #90sGames #VideoGameHistory #retrogames #PowerSlave #Sega #SegaSaturn

The last three weeks driving to work through little villages on small back roads have been giving me ideas to model some aspects of the retro-futuristic alien planets of #IridiumMoons on the landscape and villages out Southeastern Schleswig-Holstein.

Which is the most unexotic place I can possibly think of that has nothing interesting to look at, and the game levels surely won't look anything like it. But there are subtle feelings and aesthetics about it that probably a local can see.

I am now absolutely convinced that people on Mastodon were overwhelmingly PC kids in the 90s rather than console kids.

Even obscure niche PC games like Crusader get more engagement on their posts than big console releases like Crash Bandicoot, Mario 64, and Harvest Moon.
😁

#retrogames #retrogaming #90sgames

Crusader: No Regret was released 30 years ago on 12th September 1996.

#1996InVideoGames #90sGames #VideoGameHistory #videogames #DOSgames #Crusader

Cyberpunk perfectly described the world of today 40 years ago.

Because while technological changes are impossible to predict, capitalists have always been behaving the same way.

#cyberpunk #futurism #capitalism

I want to read some books again.

Does anyone have recommendations for fantastical swashbuckling space adventures?

I know of Barsoom and Star Wars novels. Anything that's good and fun?

#scifi #spaceopera

The complete 3D map of Metal Gear Solid is surprisingly simple. Aside from the two buildings that have three floors connected by elevators, it's basically a straight line, which helps a lot with avoiding players getting lost with all the repeated backtracking.

But with the way the game progresses, it feels a lot more complex and larger.

#MetalGearSolid #MetalGear #MGS #retrogames #PS1 #LevelDesign

Is there any wrong in the world for which the primary cause isn't billionaires?

#capitalism #fascism #techbros

Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how amazing the box art for X-Wing was?

At a time when most game boxes where some kind of black, grey, brown, or green, X-Wing went: Purple! 🟪

And it works! It looks amazing. Not at all tacky or garrish.

#StarWars #X-Wing #retrogames #SpaceSim #GameArt

Thinking about my most important #12Games and made this.
And accidentally turned this into a "tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are". 😄

#retrogames #90sGames #videogames

#Godot has been around for 12 years now, but I think I've only become really aware of it and learned about specific games made in it relatively recently.

I've been wondering, which were the first "full size" commercial Godot games that got mainstream attention by people not involved in or following indie game development, and when was that?

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Alright, send out four applications to temp agencies that all need several forklift drivers right now. (And there's even more just in my city, but I think applying to more is overkill.)
Which took 20 minutes to find and complete.
Which I could have done at any point during the last few months.

Even when you're not hyperactive or inattentive, ADHD can seriously mess with you. 😅

Is there some kind of open-source game console that is currently in production, has the hardware power of a PS1 or N64, and that people can make their own games for and share on the internet?

I think that would be my ideal platform.

#videogames #gamedev #retrogaming

#ADHD status:

Instead of my ADHD subconscious making my consciousness not think about the obligation I urgently have to do (months ago!), it's now my consciousness trying to convince my subconscious to let me keep pushing it off for just one more day.

That's progress! 😄👍