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Septopus

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Olympia, Wa

Unsettled World, the working title for my most overly-ambitious project yet.  Here I shall blog all of the resultant madness.

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Septopus
October 17, 2018
More Progress with Design and Project Organization

Instead of one big ugly image, this time I'll give you lots of smaller ugly ones.

I added a new main branch to the old Mind Map, this one describes how the actual servers will be configured.  This is a general overview of course, I'm building for a single (Physical/Virtual) server insta…

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Septopus
October 16, 2018
Organizing this Unsettled World

So, I've been thinking hard about this little project of mine and I came to the conclusion that I'll never finish it if I don't get some things in order around here.  I'm not talking about smelly code either.  That's a constant cleanup task in my world.  NO, I'm talking about Project Management …

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Septopus
October 12, 2018
A Decent String Slinger.. No, not THAT GUY!.. its just a c# UDP server.

Okay, with some help over on the Network & MultiPlayer Forum I've reigned in some of the code smell in my UDP Socket Class.

This is the wheel that turns each of my game servers, nearly everything else is game specific logic.

I'm sharing it in it's entirety here for your use however y…

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Septopus
October 11, 2018
Stateless Frustrations Frustratingly Stated (Handling Improperly Disconnected UDP Clients?)

So, after weeks of strange and seemingly intermittent/coincidental UDP server crashes(Receive Thread Halt/Un-catchable Exception) and the ensuing frustration that that causes when you aren't even trying to work on the server itself.  I sat down and spent a day trying to figure out the problem.. …

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Septopus
October 07, 2018
Procedural Landscape or how to Shatter a Planet!  (with actual code examples)

I've spent the last few days coding in my Economy Server, I've almost completed the functionality of Banking! 

So, it's truly time for a rewind about something entirely different to clear my head.

Here's an edit…

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Septopus
October 04, 2018
A Story of Some Servers and Their Game.

Unsettled World, makes a great title I think, but without a server, it's just a terribly lonely place indeed.

I've written many servers over the years and clients to go with them, and in lots of different languages(never before for games).  However,I've never been one to hang onto the proper…

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Septopus
October 03, 2018
How and Why my world Turns.

Continuing my rewind for Unsettled World:

Time to give some detail on the foundations of my game environment.  The planet I've created and how it mechanically works within Unity.

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Septopus
October 02, 2018
Inception, or How I Lost My Mind.

Well, this is the first post for a project I've been working on for a few months already. 

So, let me rewind a bit....

A few months back I started toying with the idea of making a game with an actual spheroid planet as the core of the environment.  Yay Unity and Blender!!  A few weeks of…

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