So stations you’ll be able to buy/rob from like ol Legacy of the Ancients, my favorite game of all time back when Electronic Arts was a good gaming company. I talked with the author on Linkedin before Linkedin banned me for saying the inclusion movement in corporations does not include Christians, we’re excluded. I’m in the works of a lawsuit for that one, but I may not go through, courts suck.
Patch V hopes:
Patch VI & beyond hopes
Apologies, my place has no water and the floor was straight toxic so I couldn’t dev much. Some MMOS get tons of funding. I get the opposite, barely able to scrape by, health conditons, 2 bankaccounts combined less than 5$, no water at this place, some family oppositional to my existence despite being kind to them all my life, you name it. I have the opposite of funding, lolz! Yet my game will be MMO SOON, maybe within just a few weeks.
I made a stupid little party game called: Fart Knight.
It’s 8 v 8 like Super Mario Bros, score a point by passing the enemy’s start.
You have a button to jump and a button to fart. You start with 3 farts. You get replenished when you score a point.
Farting boosts you rapidly forward & anyone right behind you dies from the stench.
You can push a few beans around, but too many and they stall.
Pushing beans is risky because they can turn and fart on you if they have one left.
It’s dumb, fun, and you can expand it.
Comes with .exe and also Unity Project so you can play with it.
Requires a gamepad like XBOX360 or XBOXONE or PSx etc
Download Fart Knight from James Sager Video Game Monastery
So check it, first off, excuse why the patch took so long. I want to be belting these out 2-4 a week, 1 minimum.
My aunt’s cancer took a turn for the worse, she’s sick having issues walking so I strived hard to make battlemon, an ARPG game designed 9 years before the popular ARPG in parks one done by a major video game franchise. Mine allowed you not just to collect battlemon, but to have actual custom quests in each and every park I write one. They’re like an outdoor escape room, or like a dungeon crawl RPG in each park… Let me explain further…
So when I was like 5 about 40ish years ago, my cousin and I loooved Atari2600 games. Most of my fam did the “Wrap em in gift wrap” for birthdays and Christmas… This looming box was enough to jazz my cousin and I. We saw the box. Nothing else was shaped like an Atari2600 box. So when Christmas was like 3 weeks away, we knew we were getting Atari2600 games, how many, but which one!?! This looming knowledge of an incoming video game made us really appreciate the holidays, when we were born and the birth of God on Earth. We also were able to judge the passing of time as fleeting since Christmas came around pretty fast amazingly enough… Which is even more reason to be good with God, since the only thing that really matters on Earth is humanity loving one another. With all the hate and greed in the world with wars, gang violence, fear being pushed, etc ,I wish people would just chill out and be kind to their fellow bros and soul sistas. Life ain’t what you get, it is what you give.
Anyway, a wrapped up Atari2600 game where it was at! It would jazz us for weeks. However Aunt Linda did one better. Instead of just giving us a gift she’d give us a note which would lead us to a clue. “Look behind your Uncle’s portrait.” There would be another note to another clue,”Inside the dryer is a clue.” And there would be a clue inside the dryer. Eventually we’d be led to the present! It wasn’t always an Atari2600 game, but they knew us as really huge gamers trying to practice to go pro. They knew we played Atari2600 more than anyone around just so we could practice. They knew Atari2600 games were boring, so having more selection helped us not be bored! It was glorious and we were right, pro gaming and video games were the future! I’m so happy for my family’s support, America’s prosperity in the 80s, and God having me born in that era. I know so much about the foundation of video games being there at the very start and I wish to share my museum historian level knowledge on video game with the world.
Well I wanted to get a quest in a park to honor her before things get really bad, so I pushed www.crystalfighter.com/battlemon forward. She thanked me, and now we move forward more on Starfighter General. Also I have fun things to do in parks now!
Starfighter Status:
1) Basic Chat box in
2) Fighting with UNITY to get addressables in, you should be able to harvest asteroids for iron, you cannot at this juncture.
3) Next patch will be exciting, Galactic News Network ticker with funny comments like:
GNN: Drone Strike on Jupiter’s Moon IO! Drones are demanding equal pay to humans.
GNN: I.R.Stupid is still at large.This criminal genius stole Pear Corp’s Prototype Warp Tecnology and formatted the hard drives and installed video games.
GNN: PearCore Corp; Warp Researchers are unable to get much research done.They’re busy being addicted to the video games that I.R. Stupid installed. I.R. Stupid is too smart for us.
GNN: Remember, androids are people too. Don’t hurt their feelings.
GNN: Remember, cyborgs are only a fraction of a person, they’re part cold dead machine parts.
It’s a dystopic future punk with lots of laughs, yet serious grudge matches vs criminals and exploration and discovery of anomalies… Nothing quite like this that you ever saw… Everyone I showed this RPG said it was the BEST RPG OF ALL TIME, just getting around to publishing it. Pray for me and this game.
,Crazyjim known as a modern renaissance developer with 150,000 hours experience, bucking the trend of video games for profit and establishing the case of video games for art and fun firstly.
I started making video games because I wanted to make money and play a game no one ever made before. When the money didn’t come, I found out the pursuit of the art form itself was better than anything money could buy me. Video games are the ultimate art form, using all artistic endeavors man has ever devised and coalescences them into an ultimate symphony. You need painting, drawings, sculpting, music composed, musical notes, writing plots, gripping emotion, architectural alignment, societies with government, presented in a way to impact the audience. On top of the classical respected arts, you have to know how the brain works to reward it cerebrally, animation, action paced reflex situations, puzzles, and more. No other art form demands of all the other art forms and then still needs more. One could say video games are the ultimate art form, case in point: Flappy Bird.
;)
I mused about my art form because it’s totally disrespected, yet is deeper than all that came before… This prompt came from my search from the one composer who said a quote I was looking for akin to,”I’m thrusting a spear into the void no one’s entered, not looking this way or that for inspiration.” If anyone knows that composer or quote, I’d be happy. I wanted to make a secondary quote off it something like,”I’m analyzing the thrown spears of all composers, feeling how close to the target I believe they got, and then averaging their finding where the target is.”
I ended up finding a inspirational quote list from famous composers and saw I have much in common with them just because I pour my heart and soul into my art: https://racheltaylorgeier.org/2017/04/15/75-inspirational-composer-quotes/
Quotes that resonated with me:
Georg Frideric Handel: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.”
Musing: Shows like Rawhide/Rifleman/Cheyenne were not just cowboy shows, they taught a moral to do the right thing at the right time… So people who watched em were better. Today’s shows teach selfishness and exploitation of your fellow man so are trash.
Bela Bartok: “Competitions are for horses, not artists.”
Musing: Get by and get art done. The rat race is for rats.
Franz Liszt: “Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Musing: This really should be the destiny of all, but many pursuing the wrong thing catch it.
George Gershwin: “I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”
Musing: In this bustling life, you can get see things you wouldn’t if not pressed into it.
Gustav Holst: “Music, being identical with heaven, isn’t a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It’s a condition of eternity.”
Musing: An artist mind is always creating, everywhere they go, they’re there, but their mind is not always also there.
Joseph Haydn: “There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”
Musing: The hivemind is a terrible thing to mind. Do your own thing, and if you draw too much inspiration, you’ll end up tracing someone else’s work which leads us to the one everyone heard before: Igor Stravinsky: “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
Frederick Delius: “There is only one real happiness in life and that is the happiness of creating.”
Musing: I explained this in my opener. I wanted to make video games for money. Now I make them for the sake of making them, money does come, but I’ve been ripped off by giant corporations more often than not. Doesn’t Google, Apple, Kongregate, MTV, Amazon, Twitch have enough money yet? Do they need to rip off small developers too?
“Well I didn’t get rich by writing a bunch of checks” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
I’ll start to close with two quotes that basically say I should get back to crafting my art:
J.S. Bach: “I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”
Johannes Brahms: “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” (And with this, I’ll be industriously pushing my craft forward today)
And close with:
Toru Takemitsu: “Music is a form of prayer.”
Please pray for me. God bless, I’m gonna start my day,
Jim
Revolutionary is a term too overused. Feel like a Renaissance artist. Must have tool to stay competitive.
DOWNLOAD: https://starfightergeneral.com/binarycanary/RanoParticulo.zip
This is not just revolutionary…
This is not just fun…
This is freaking awesome! And anyone who wants to learn Unity can use it!
It makes particle effects better than on the UNITY ASSET Store often! And it takes no up front training!
Anyone can make special effects, even 3 year olds and elderly grandmothers. I had someone never use unity before and he was doing great in minutes! Even young kids could get educated on particle effects and UNITY with this!
I’m a modern starving artist, literally, getting over malnutrition issues after catastrophe after catastrophe since my Gran died. Right now I can’t get water at my place. People drop Electronic Arts 60$ at a time knowing they’ll be scammed, but I’m true and for the soul of the game, know if you help me out, you’ll get better games sooner, and maybe more cool apps like this. So consider dropping me a couple bucks oppon donation style:
Look, free, hyped, and a guarantee of your money back if you don’t like(you paid free). Expect to be awestruck:
Requires Unity to Run and Have Fun
We’ve all been there, a vending machine takes our change, so we fight the machine… But a machine has nothing to lose, and we can lose more than our change. PSA: Really don’t rock vending machines in real life, they kill people each year.
In Intergalactic Bounty Hunter, one of the first missions has a dark alley way of vending machines, and they becon you in. Before you know it, they close the escape and beat you up. You wake near naked with your inventory stolen. If you go back to the dark alley, you see the vending machines have your stuff inside them for sale. Role Playing Game moment: What do you do?
Starfighter General is based on the unpublished masterpiece Intergalactic Bounty Hunter (IGBH) the RPG play tested for over 10,000 hours, near universally regarded as the best pencil and paper RPG anyone ever played. I’m not making this up. I’ve never had a way to monetize selling a Pencil and Paper RPG, and I’m struggling still to put food on the table after a series of quite unbelievable catastrophes. Hey, it’s actually cool being known as a literal starving artist tho, it has street cred and people think it’s cool… Cuz it is… If you don’t have much help, and you’re livin on a prayer, then hey, you’re already there. You already won if you have faith that love has power… Don’t hate, not even electronics, for if the Vending Machines don’t get you, the Vending Machine Sympathizers might!
Would you like to know more? https://www.starfightergeneral.com/2022/04/people-for-ethical-treatment-of-electronics/
Hello,
You might be thinking Creative AI in the future is making the Galactic News Network as scifi. Sorry to disappoint you, but Creative AI TODAY is helping us make the Galactic News Network!
There is a thing known as Dall-E which takes writing prompts you type in and gives you graphics. We were using it figuring we could make graphical presentation when the GNN ticker tape rolls across the bottom of the screen. And that worked phenomenally. Some of the things in graphics gave us new ideas for Starfighter General itself, modern AI had glimpses of being creative?
Then a random idea happened: What if we piped in a random sentence maker into Dall-E? It would give us random images we could look at and have our creativity sparked. At first I thought of getting all words in the dictionary, sorting em by noun, adverb, adjective, verb, etc.. Then I realized we could just word salad into it… Then I figured I’d bias my video game, so the plan became to push all my design documents in.
The algorithm we used is simple: Copy all my web page, all my design documents, parse em, filter out nonsense, and then make sentences 2-6 words long, which we can then write out to a .txt file in a format that a macro script can pipe it into DALLE. It took less than 3 hours and is phenomenal. It is everything we hoped for, and already got us creative new ideas like Monoliths and stuff. Watch the full video here:
Example of AI generated GNN ticker tape coming in two patches:
PSA: Harvesting power from Electric Eels is illegal universe wide. It’s the only thing we can agree on! Come on! Be humane, and we don’t want the Electric Eels rising up against us.
It says that on ticker tape and gives one image
In Starfighter General, you cannot turn off Autocorrect in chat.
Luckily Autocorrect hardly ever works.
Unluckily it is controlled by a malicious AI to embarrass you maximally.
This AI is controlled by live Game Masters. They pick and choose to change a word in what you say to make funny things being said.
In game players with advanced computing skill can tell when something has been autocorrected.
In game players with advanced computing skill can tell what it used to be.
So you’ll be able to tell what was said if enough people collaborate, or other people can make up lies about things not autocorrected. It’s not just funny, you can make a truth network of who knows stuff and who doesn’t.
I’m still having technical difficulties due to this new CEO of UNITY messing up and wanting things flashy.
THE EA CEO made the mistake of disabling core functionality which forced us to use experimental packages which they tell you are not always functional… So consciously this EA CEO is forcing us to use things that crash all the time. I love UNITY. It is far more advanced than Unreal for advanced coders… Its just stability should be #1. The EA CEO in charge of UNITY makes comments that sound like he is addicted to hookers and cocaine with things he says and sexual harassment allegations. It’s bad when your software’s CEO is a extremely likely literal crack head… But you know how it is, a great ship can be made less by a bad captain and still be better than a good ship. UNITY is better than anything out there… for now… Lets see how much more damage this guy does.
Until I get over the technical difficulty of UNITY bugs, I’ll make smaller updates. My next update aims to put a chat box in. Then the update after that a Galactic News Network ticker tape.
CAPTAINS VLOG 7/9/22 PATCH III PLANS
PERSONNEL ADDING
Got a new dev Wilbert Sweet. He makes awesome models and knows how to present effect of SFX that grip you. He’s a perfect addition. He’s world class and knows I’m world class, so this is great. Nice guy it seems too. Friendships are more important than money any day.
One of my old devs is taking a break and dropped me the Chat window tech before vacation: Steve Reynolds is a really really really awesome dude, nice and friendly and works like a truck!
BATTLE ESCALATION CHAT LOG
I like it, our missle flow will start like this. Here’s our battle escalation. We start with plasma bolts.But then you can siege bases with bombers who have to fly in a straight line for X seconds to fire a long range shot of course if interceptors are out they get the bombers.That’s #1 level.Make sense? The best fortress in the game can be bombed to nothing without interceptors.And bombers generally lose vs interceptors 1v1.So if you send a t1 bomber vs a t1 agile or assault or ram or shield ship, t1 bomber loses unless pilot good.The idea is to start, you need to get AIR-SPAce.I’d call it space space but makes no sense .space dominance to bomb
what about battleships? either with ai controled turrets, or point in a direction, and your turrets slowly move to meet the cursor,
Battleships are SLOW and cumbersome t1. They help affect the battle.But are dodgeable.Here’s the list of em. https://www.starfightergeneral.com/2022/05/capital-ships/Capital Ships | Starfighter General .These are all designed for Game Mechanic effect.They’re not just stats on a nice graphic, I’m a top dawg at game mechanics like you are at graphics.T1 Capital ships are there to make the battle tricky for interceptors and maybe siege a bit, but are very very very costly to assemble.And when stuff gets destroyed in the Prime Dimension , it is destroyed for good, but everyone can pick up the scrap and try and remake it to some degree. So you don’t always want to bring your big investment around. Okay, so you see bomber vs fortress, vs space control.Now the first missiles will lock on or fire straight. An we’ll have aggressively good ECM
hmmm
where if you press a button JUST before it hits you, you eject a large chunk of synthetic polymer at itf course you’re limitedYou sentor if you have an advanced shieldYou sentYou can actually eject your shield towards the missile and your shield systems regenerate it.Why I choose this system is that in previous space games I played, you’d see 20v20 battles and one side would fire a zillion homing missiles, GAME OVER! Since the ecm targetted the missile individually.We are using a more AOE ECM so if they spam a bunch of missiles at once, you counter em all at once.Missiles won’t be added for few, but we want em balanced, maybe even to the point of evasive dodging.After that core balance in, I want robotech missles which deal less damage, but hit more often and to more clustered aoe targets, like discouraging PHALANX formations.I’m gonna post our convo to the website, since it will be good for readers to know.
hmm.. first things first. im gonna make some proper ships for you. 
Wilbert
sounds good
Yup, and if you can make consoles.Like look down and see a display IE like the video you sent
you meen UI?
We have UI.Just no cocpits
ohh you want that cockpit view for the fighters?
3d cocpits we could slap ui onto the model would be cool
okie
Yah, we have 72 different fighter models playable now in game.You don’t need that many cockpits maybe just one for agile/assault/shield/ram/bomber
Hello,
Due to the massive tech headaches of Unity then Steam, and my aunt’s cancer getting worse, I pushed www.crystalfighter.com/battlemon forward a lot. It’s almost in a good place. I want my Aunt Linda playing it before she gets worse.
Once Battlemon is in a good place in a day or two, I can full effort Starfighter General. I’ll be working on both MMO and Clash side of Starfighter General. I have some workers looking to do some small tasks on it too. Things look good, just give me a moment to not be patching 2-3 times a week.
