My metaverse game is done. I just have to test it. My aunt who now has cancer(why I rushed this) had a game we played 40 years ago. Instead of just giving me a gift like an atari2600 game, she’d give me a note. This note would explain how to get to another note”Behind the photograph of your Uncle Tony” or “Behind the dryer”. This would go on for a while, then we’d get our gift!

Fast forward to 9 years before Pokemon Go came out. I designed a game like Pokemon Go in parks where you fight monsters, get clues to treasure, or have to answer riddles, hot vs cold, and all sorts of crazy stuff with geo location… Then I sat it down and waited. See I know I could not win court cases about kids getting hurt outside, so I declined first movers so a legal team with big pockets could pave the presidents way… Otherwise it would be,”Jim, kids are getting run over because of your so called game, you pay fines and go to jail.”

Eventually my cousin who has special needs “Make a Wish Child”, who’s actually way cooler than me and isn’t slowed down by it much…. We talked,”Yo, you playin with Starwars toys(originals). Lets make a game like that, except we use your crayon art. You can tell your friends in school that you made a game.” We made it, I learned how to code server code, its like Hearthstone meets Pokemon Go, but wasn’t fully completed and I got distracted IRL by IRL distractions.

Recently my aunt’s cancer got worse so I knew I had to finish this! The quests go in one by one by me and people I trust. The first one I think will be around the suburbs of Pittsburgh tomorrow. It will be just text for starters, and I’ll add more possible nodes later: Combat/Quizz/treasure/unlockable only by key X/ unlockable only by variable Y/ kill z many enemies/etc/etc…

The game is Battlemon and I’ll post a comment of the link since some places don’t like em… The metaverse thing came in a few minutes ago, and will build. I’ll try and get an official patch to everyone on Android Playstore soon after my aunt alpha tests the new updates. You could be collecting Battlemon now in prep for big time, you keep em.

It’s out, and a Capital Ship Schematic can be gotten: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/658480/view/3335493590066141826

Yo, true story: When I owned a water bed, I slept near the frame. I put one arm up and one leg up on the padded frame. The rest of my body slid between the side and the water cushion. When I slept like that, I needed 2 hours less of sleep a night because I slept so good and I didn’t know why at first.

After University physics, I figured my arm and leg up on the frame took a good 1/5th of my body weight away from a downward force vector on my back. Also the snug cushion and sidewall took some weight from a central force vector. I’d imagine, my force vector of the weight of my body was at least 1/3 to 1/2 what it would be in a conventional bed.

Engineers have confirmed what I said is true… We as humans keep trying to make the latest and greatest thing based on new technology that comes out, but we have not filled in basic technology of the past. Read more of engineers chiming in: https://old.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/mjoeo5/the_science_of_a_soft_bed_frame/

Water beds fell out of fashion due to maintenance and messy spills, but may humanity learn the lesson from them on how to get a better sleep. I was going to post that in the future people slept in Snooze Canoes, aka simulating a squish the water bed had on both your sides as you lay in them, but made out of cushions instead of water bags… Then I remembered: In space, there is no gravity. Maybe people use em on the planets n stuff… Either way, maybe someone out there will try and make a Snooze Canoe. I think it just takes padding on your sides, a place to put your arm and leg up on and a nice place for your shoulder to rest in. The My Pillow Guy staff gave me Mike Lindell’s email, but I think they give everyone that to blow em off. I tried to convince the My Pillow Guy to make em, lol, but you could probably make em at home, and become a kachillionaire. Send me one, I’m older, I could use better sleep, lol. I’m serious on all this stuff.

Now for the fun:

I’m halfway through the Foundational Patch Item Drops. When you pick stuff up, it slides up the UI. I need to add a name tag, and we’re done for the next patch.

Galactic TV is more than just Running/Demolition Man/ Judge Dredd style dystopic Smash tv future… You’d be surprised what is in public domain. It will have ancient tv shows in public domain like The four episodes of the Three Stooges: Disorder in the Court, Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants and Malice in the Palace. Movies after 1926 as of 2022 are available too, so we’ll have Journey to the Moon references repopularized by the Smashing Pumpkins in their hit video: Tonight.

It will be cool, and the premise of Starfighter General will be to not knowing what to expect next, yet knowing how cool it is and how to react in character and as a player. We do not want you bored… So coming soon: All sorts of unpredictable cyber punk and ancient movies from Earth.

PS: Life just stopped being out of control. Pray that I can get into a rhythm of pushing updates again. Amen!

Yo bros and soul sistas, I gotta lay some carpet, furniturize and entertainment center up my place for company on the 4th. 5th on, boom, I want updates once or twice a week. Starfighter General entering leaves and growth phase, new features every week. We have the techs laying around! They’re just not assembled in the game.

Enjoy your fourth of july, try not to blow yourself up… Cuz then you can’t blow stuff up in Starfighter General. Lets get a star system sized explosion some day! Maybe we can make it an update for next July4, blow up a planet once a year. I dunno.

Look. I love Unity. I think Unity is great. People should buy stock in Unity. Unity needs to make sure the basics work at every update though.

Unity had two bugs they could fix:

1. Make IBufferElementData not need GenerateAuthoringComponent
2. Make sure the scriptable build pipeline can always make a windows executable.

I spent literally over 500 hours in the last year and a half just trying to get a .exe out of the editor. I love Dots/ECS. Unity has a huge present and huge future. It is way better than UE5. I would buy stonks if I had money especially since it had a panic sell off, best time to buy.

There’s a bug with addressables that is EASY to fix. What Unity does is not actually place the addressables with your standalone. You must MANUALLY copy it. It is dumb, and easy to fix.

I love the culture of shoot for the stars, but you need to do Unit Testing to make sure it compiles to windows/apple every time you change stuff before it comes out to us devs.

Expect a patch on Starfighter General once twice a week, starting after July 4th.

My Patch is Delayed again:

I don’t want to post this, but Unity has bugs that are preventing me from releasing the patch I wanted to release days ago. This has nothing to do with my code, or my ability, and I don’t post things like this unless I know for a fact a problem is not on my end. This is not the first time a product has abysmally failed, I saw the Pentium Bug live. My MMO I was working on in the 90s, went from 486 to a 586 and rounding errors meant I went from a working game to a game I had to fix things by testing ranges. I was told all my life that the computer was never wrong, but it was wrong then.

Unity has a major major major problem with it’s new “Scriptable Build Pipeline”. Unity is trying to get creative, fancy and overly complicated in how to build standalones. The problem is… It no longer does the absolute most basic case: Just building a Windows.exe out of the Editor version. No lie, I spent 500 absolutely wasted hours trying to get standalones made because of these Unity Bugs in the “Scriptable Build Pipeline”, it’s not all of the user’s fault, it is a complete and utter failure by Unity.

I’m encountering this problem again. I spent over 100 hours, yes 100 hours, just trying to get standalones working for you guys in the past two weeks. Unity has introduced several new bugs. I thought I was close to release today, but I am 10 hours into simply just making a standalone today and I’m exhausted. Unity has brought me to the brink of absolute human exhaustion because I want to get these patches out to you, but their software has so many errors. My code is immaculate. I’ve been coding & gaming non stop since 1981. My code works perfectly in the Editor. Somehow, Unity is unable to take the editor code and make it into a standalone .exe for you guys to play.

I’m going to beat this challenge. I’ll be patching… It’s just, I have no clue what is going through Unity’s CEO’s mind to think it is acceptable to make all these random experimental packages, yet throwing away very core functionality such as: Compile to a .exe standalone. It shouldn’t have taken me 5 extra minutes to do this, but it’s taken over 500 hours and counting… Despite these absurd challenges that face me from the bad decision making that tech leaders make, I will keep fighting on. I’m going to get you the MMO one patch at a time… It just happens that this patch is being delayed against my control.

It’s tough too, this patch coming up allows you to acquire a Capital Ship schematic to start researching and building the Gatlisk, the one with the gatling guns on front.

Please pray for me,
Jim

Other people who had this problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/h9oom1/having_trouble_with_unity_addressables/ That guy was two years ago… It hasn’t been fixed. Not being able to share you guys my game is like owning a yacht that can’t leave port.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/tzv8bf/addressableassets_dosnt_work/

My buddy working on UI on and off Steve Reynolds says he has a copy of the chat box.

We said we’d make it like World of Warcraft where the item you get shows in chat box, but we want to bling it on screen on pickup too! Lets see what we get done!

Dungeon Run got over 2.5 million plays on Shockwave. Its a game like Gauntlet 2 in the arcade.

We added random rares, a town to craft in, and it was way more awesome for Ipad, but Apple took issue with us and would not let us update. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dungeon-run-blackroost-keep/id936250643

It is like Gauntlet 2 meets Diablo 2, and I love all the guys I made it with: David Kurcina who I esteem as the #1 UI guy on the planet, he made MyVegas app who you knew they hired who they thought was the best. I made it with Jeff Nivens the guy who made the awesome art. I also made it with TJ Jones who got me into Flash/Air.

I believe a game like this would thrive on Steam/Valve since we’d be welcomed and PC has better controls than Ipad for the intense reflex oriented twitch combat we have in Dungeon Run. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dungeon-run-blackroost-keep/id936250643

There was a bug in Unity that caused me about 60 hours of headache. Undocumented, DOTS/ECS has transitioned form 2020 version to 2021. My items could not be dropped and picked up. Now they can! Woo!

I need to add the “chat window” in next. The Chat Window will alert you of events such as:

1. Picking up items
2. Players logging on and off
3. Global Chat

To curb abuse/spam, global chat will cost 1 Triderium per chat. This update likely will be tonight, but I am not sure. I am spending all day doing laundry and mowing grass for family.

Yo, Unity had a bug:

I fixed this bug by moving to an undocumented version of Unity that no longer has this bug. This bug caused me about 50 hours of downtime I could have been releasing updates. I want one out soon.

That said: I had a funny idea for a video game, but no time to do it: D20 Boy. You live the life of a highschool student, but every mundane action is determined by a D20 roll: Waking up, eating breakfast, taking a shower, brushing teeth, choosing clothes, getting them on, getting to the bus, social interactions, ability in school, ability to say comebacks, and your popularity might make you succeptable to bullies which you need to deal with… yes, D20. It would be like WIlly Beamish but Open ended. If you want to make any game I give ideas out for, go for, just tell me when it is done and let me know. If you want to drop me ph@t levvt if you get hyper successful, go for also.