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August Month Review

Second month review!

A view of the interior of the spaceship cabin, in full disaster mode. There are several holes in the ship venting air, the seats are on fire, and lightning is visible outside the canopy.

Week 10: Two Troubles for the Price of One

A disaster for every occasion.

The fusebox of the ship, opened, flashlight shining. Of note is the new hand model in the lower right corner of the screen, gripping a spare fuse.

Week 9: Take a Look at These Hands

Going from hovering items to held items is a big leap.

A screen capture from the UI Material Lab example project in Unreal that shows of several material effects for Unreal Motion Graphics.

Field Notes: Shaders Are Spells

I done handcuffed lightning. And put thunder in jail.

Cabin interior. On the left wall and ceiling are holes that seem to be letting in or out some gas. Through the front glass we can see electricity arcing around the ship. Things are not fine.

Week 8: Celebrating Chaos

Space is dangerous. Or it will be when I'm done with it.

A blank "create new post" UI within ghost.io for creating new blog posts. I stare at this screen a lot more than I'd like.

Field Notes: Productivity Tools

How I do what I do.

End-of-game screen showing the message "You Lost" with the explaination under it "You ran out of oxygen and were rescued by emergency services."

Week 7: Game Loop

Finally, Running Late knows if you're running late.

A stylized picture of Sao Paulo with the title Piece of Work in the upper left. Under the title is the subtitle *unemployed need not apply.

Cybernoir in São Paulo

While you've been watching me build a comedic space repair simulator, I've also quietly been working on something entirely different. That something is Piece of Work—a cybernoir TTRPG that's been cooking for over a decade and is finally getting the attention it deserves.

A sketched engine tuning system: The pipes eventually lead to two engines, one labeled primary and the other labeled secondary. Therea are several magnetic coils surrounding the pipes.

Week 6: Turning Knobs

I spent way too long building wheel controls for tuning the engine. But they work now!

The navigation console showing various screen effects, including a glassy reflective sheen, a green tint, and a nearly imperceptible curve.

Field Notes: Making In-World Screens

Making a terminal is trickier than it looks.

Designer view of ship console menu mid-edit. It reads: Current Course, Current Hazard, Systems; under Systems there's Oxygen, Power, Engines.

Week 5: Ship's Computer

Creating a diegetic computer console was a pain, but also really fun.

A partial excerpt of the Game Instance code in the visual programming language Blueprints in UE5.

Field Notes: Interfaces And Decoupling

Preventing spaghetti from day one.

A blank calendar at an artistic angle, with a close-up on the right edge of the calendar, but with months of pages visible tucked behind.

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July Month Review: Projects Be Projecting

First month review!

An image of the ship cabin with all the lights off, but with a flashlight shining on the wall, illuminating a small circle in the middle. Small enough to make you wish for more.

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Week 4: Power to the People

Everything is more interesting in the dark.

Chocolatier & Campfire Stories

Chocolatier & Campfire Stories

Two great TTRPGs available now on Itch.

The main character holding the filter for an oxygen tank, pictured in the background, with orange outline showing where the filter should go.

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Week 3: Building Life Support

Building new mechanics is my favorite part of the process.

An orange outline of the space where an air filter WOULD be, if there were an air filter there, which there is not.

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Field Notes: Call of the Void

Outlines, translucent materials, and buried settings.

Control panel that controls the lights in the cabin, currently hovered over by the user so that a strong orange outline appears around the panel.

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Week 2: Let There Be Lights

I spent six hours developing an interaction framework... to turn off a light.

A picture of a new blender project, showing the default cube, camera, and light. Something we all learn to instantly delete when starting Blender.

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Field Notes: Modifying Assets

Buy or build is a false dichotomy. Modifying assets is an easy way to get exactly what you need.

A picture of the layout of a spaceship cabin, sketched on a Remarkable table, with inidications for where each ship subsystem should go.

Week 1: Building the Ship

It's time to move from vague idea to actual implementation, and consume a lot of diet coke on the way.

Image of blank level in Unreal Engine, no lights or objects, just black void.

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Week 0: Foundations and First Assets

Starting a new business means a lot of prep and even more paperwork.

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