GoodNewsJim’s Life Journal – Starfighter General

Yo, this is a blog, there are many like it, but this is my blog. This page will fall down in the pages, but I’ll update it still. This is for my own personal reference. I’m getting tons of stuff done.

1/19/2022, Grandmother died last year, family got mean about inheritance, kicked me out, moved to a place with black mold, got tons of health problems, but fought through it and now getting things done. Still in student loan debt in mid 40s, after going to Carnegie Mellon because they suggested I could do disease research if I graduated, but no doors were opened so I got big into game dev. Last year was the craziest year I ever had, and crazier than I heard anyone experience, but at least I didn’t get cancer or something terminal. If I would have written down all the difficult twists and turns I experienced last year, it’d take a year. Lets just say I’m more reliant on God now, and I’m getting things done.

I’m in a 4 games in 4 months challenge. Last month was Throne and Crown on steam ported. This month is Starfighter General MOBA to test the networking. Next month is a table top virtual RPG and custom rule set. Month after that is for a Make a Wish Kid to say he made a video game with me, a Pokemon Go competitor that I designed 9 years before Pokemon Go was even a thing.

This month, I have helped consult with Ebay and realized that even BIG tech doesn’t know how to do UI, so I made a playlist on my youtube called “That UI GUY” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUuWwVCnc4&list=PLOQ-J23AJUfR-P3cgpL8XFtem6aOzd7Ao It will be updated often, cuz Big tech is blind to proper design.

I wrote an automated macro to download all assets on UNITY.

I put a patch out on Starfighter General 2 days ago. A patch is coming out today baring IRL hospital emergencies.

This patch will have music. :)

I’m consulting with Google on how to make their absolutely atrocious 0/10 Google Ads website user friendly soon.

Today I photo touched an old photo of my grandmother, will put it in an old wooden window frame after printing at Staples.

I just got over covid since the 4th. What is funny is my health conditions from last year went away when I got covid, so covid made me healthier, lol. Anyway, just starting a blog, ignore it if you want.

1/20/22 Music patch out yesterday, pretty awesome, today Putz at MOBA.

1/24/22 Able to get in store, finalizing single player part of MOBA, had ideas for next month devs.

2) Networking that pushes the envelope where no networking has gone before. People laugh at this like it is impossible to innovate, but I marketed it to Midway in 2003, and they laughed too. Meanwhile it was working in house as a Tekken style(3d fighter) MMO with part of what today is known as rollback code. Midway’s manager was mocking what is today’s standard thinking rollback and such was impossible. Infinite action players same zone, limit only by video card and other hardware, networking ain’t a limiting thing anymore.

4) First MMO designed for late game. Everyone enjoys mmos until power capped and then get bored.
There is no power cap to begin with(just a log log logarithmic progression), but there are many many many other end game design elements to make it so want to keep playing end game! The grind is there, but better and more fun things are around too! You can build up a super big fleet and it get destroyed to pieces and you start over again. You have a power floor level that you can’t go below so you’re always building permanent power, but temporary spikes of power surges and galactic dominance for fleeting moments give a rush. The larger the fleet, the larger the fleeting moment.

8) PVP bounty system. Everyone can PVP at all times. Stakes are low if your ship explodes. If you get attacked without declaring aggressive mode or an opponent to duel, the aggressor gets a bounty on their head in accordance with the damage dealt to you. If this bounty gets high enough, and they get caught, they will be put in jail. When they log on for the next few hours or days, their character can play only in jail, and visitors come see him and such. Enjoy roleplaying being a prison inmate, or just use a different crew member on your account. Developing many crew members is a thing for when you fly capital ships.

10) Omnipotent roleplay: Earn your right into a a movie anime by great roleplay! Live game masters in about 6-12 months after the content updates roll through. We bias people with Founder’s RP tokens some and good manner role players who stay in character(we have chat logs and even game logs). This promotes good role play even when not live GMing. Who doesn’t want to bring their friends to a movie and surprise em with their own character in it? So stay in character for a better game! https://www.starfightergeneral.com/live-role-play/

Punky-Pulpy action, Levels, stats, skills, talents, items, fleet amassing, and great apocalyptic space plots, trippy Lewis Carrol level Mad Hatter humor along the way. It’s really weird to see how this synergizes from a game design standpoint. Players naturally want to level up and power up… That’s the twink min maxer in all of us. So when humor, plots, intrigue, or NPCs getting your blood boiling to action vs them happens, you get stoked, rewarded, happy and tossed off your axis. Then when resolved, you look back and get serious about powering up. The core of a RPG gamer is always powering up, it is something we can’t get rid of, but the core of a game designer is to get you out of a spreadsheet mindset temporarily… And then you appreciate both more. So tacky humor, along serious pulp action and serious leveling up game mechanics… It is like a symphony of fun.