I’ve had so many problems this year, it reminds me of The Book of Job.
I have about 12-16 hours worth of work.
If I do not get this done by New Years celebration with my family, I hope to get it out on Jan 1.
This will be the MMO engine + MOBA to play on top of it.
FULL MMORPG out in 2 weeks after, or if stability issues occur, 2 weeks after stability issues resolved.
I need prayer very badly for health, and this launch.
God bless your 2022.
Edit: Looked like I was on pace for a midnight launch, but I guess New Years party starts at 4 pm, lolz. I’ll take my laptop. PS: My family rules so this ain’t bad. I can get the MMORPG Item core mostly done.
I wanted to launch the MMORPG engine yesterday/today/tomorrow, but UNITY decided to get upset and not work.
What is nice is that was I keep dancing around backups, I started finalizing the design for the core MMORPG experience. So the release of official MMORPG is not stopped, mid Januaray hopefully for MMORPG core.
First week of January for Moba or tomorrow.
SOME RANDOM NOTES for people who like game mechanics
-> DECONSTRUCT ITEMS Safe/Unsafe->Rip out Modularia What part do you want to bias saving? Otherwise, same as above
->Attributes->Calculated things off attributes ->Skills you choose ->Talent tree. ->NPC favor ->Allegiance favor (gives them some experience, like asheron’s call)\ ->Liege items (vassal transfers more experince to you), distribute aorund server. [->Inscriptions. Write on it once per player]
POWER UP TYPES: % gain static gains RUSH BUFF FOR LIMITED TIME(energy use of player) Global rush
[BUFF OTHER PLAYERS LATER]
List of powerups Triderium Xmatter Scrap Credit Crypto Cash
Mining operation boost: % gain Triderium operation boost: X/day Junkyarder: Sometimes scrap picks up more than 1 scrap +5% chance +10% chance +15% chance +20% chance, roll each seperate. OR MORE +Attribute % attribute modifier
Attribute static: Between 0 and .5 +skill point -> a roll Chance to level up (skill below x) , guaranteed skill point (level a skill below level X),
You probably all have heard that we’ve gotten to Asheron’s Island. You probably heard of the portal storm… But you have not heard the full story, about the man who dreamed it and then rallied an entire server to try something that’s never been done before.
Asheron’s Island was fabled to be the final stage in Asheron’s Call. You meet Asheron himself. He tells you why he brought you here. And then you get closure. When Asheron’s Call was to end, this guy was supposed to be here congratulating you for role you played in a grand orchestra beyond your knowledge. “Thank you for heeding the call faithful servant. Your determination and will to persevere has afforded us victory over Bael Zaron and the forces that would enslave not just Derath, but your world to. You’re free to return to your world, a hero. Your people may never know or appreciate what you’ve done here, but you’ve ensured their future to have a chance for freedom and prosperity.”
I envisioned this to happen if Asheron’s Call closed or something. The island, however, was visible from land. It was on the map. The developers had it coded in the game. So if it is in the game, we could get there. What was on this island? How can we get there? There are no portals to it. It is water locked and there is no way to go through water. How do you get to a place like that?
We often talked and talked about this with my friend Gregory Usberti who was dorm mates with me. His original character Asharak, we would play non stop every day after Carnegie Mellon. Its all we did, this game was AMAZING! And thoughts and talk of Asheron’s Island was there from time to time.
One day… At the height of all the portal storms in every town I was getting frustrated. “Why even play? Every time I go to down, I get whisked away before I can even sell.” I got frustrated and started going to a low sell value out of the way town. As I fought and sold, the idea that I was getting ripped off in selling because of all these portal storms forcing me to a cheapo town… The portal storms raged in my mind as an oppressor. Always on my mind, portal storms, but the wind blew in the oft thought fancy of Asheron’s Island by happenstance. Since portal storms will not stop raging in my mind, when fanciful Asheron’s Island journeys came to me… My eyes widened and said,”Nah… That could never happen. Wait in theory… They’re about the right distance to get zoned to.”
I told my friend Greg, and he was like,”WHOOOOA! That would work!” His stokedness got me stoked and I devised a plan.We called everyone from every town to the Soushi’s Gromnie beach. We told people faithful to the idea to roam from town to town announcing it as shouts. We told em to tell friends to do the same thing. It was like a shockwave of communication and morale raising. It was glorious. We rallied an entire server by ranting and raving in every town,”COME TO THE BEACH! WE PORTAL STORM TO ASHERON”S ISLAND! TELL EVERYONE!”
Then as we saw a few people go to the beach, we joined. Then on the beach we were watching people come running out to the ocean like crazed surfers getting off their gas station job. As more and more people came, people started saying,”It’s happening! I’m seeing purple!” “The portal storm is coming! The portal storm is coming!” Then the tells started rolling in,”Didn’t work, back at Soushi.” I reply,”Aw, come back, we gotta keep this up.” Another,”Hey, I ain’t portaling.” I reply,”Just wait, not everyone gets portaled.” Then it happened,”Dude, this one guy claiming he’s on Asheron’s Island” I’m like,”For real? We gotta confirm with more.” More and more tells come in seeming hopeful.
Then poof… I look around, green everywhere. Purple and yellow flowers. It is a more beautiful scenery than most on AC. There are people spinning, kinda walking a few steps, disbelief for sure. And I say,”Lets fan out and see if anything cool here!” We all go running like calves let out of a stall in all directions, we climb this mountain even… But nothing there. Just grass and flowers. We were not disappointed though… That was an exciting time and not everyone can say they were to Asheron’s Island. Not everyone was dreaming how to get there, but I’m sure many of you were like Greg and I.
CrazyJim- unarmed combat/lugian fortress wall licker macro/cracked shard macro guy #1 Starcraft World/Warcraft3world/Diablo2 world, soul gamer since 1980 who loves Asheron’s Call so much, I’m out to make a Dragon Ball Z aka Tekken MMORPG white whaled since 2003. First I’m launching www.starfightergeneral.com the mmo in the next few days. Also if you liked my story of dreaming about Asheron’s Island and wishing to be a hero, know that there truly is a spirit realm of love, and if you hold love in your hearts and choose to help humanity no matter what your fellow man does to you, you’re on your way to a land where dreams come true. Love is the way. Praise God we were born in the era of video games.
Ansimuz has been making very high quality, professional style pixel art for many many years. While modern amatuer developers often confuse pixelated graphics with just downsizing real life art to a granular look or over emphasizing blockyness, Ansimuz knows the heart of the matter and it isn’t a science, it is an art.
He studied the classics like Castlevania, Ghouls and Ghosts, Metroid, Megaman, Little Nemo, Strider, Sonic, Mario, Punisher, Final Fight, Forgotten Worlds and all the like. There’s no exact formula to make art that looks awe inspiring like this, but he does it time and time again. I guess the closest I could think is properly hand shading, but it takes a lot of meticulous time setting individual pixels, and this man does it.
The future of game developing is not necessarily getting funded millions of dollars and paying people 100$ an hour to clock in what they bring to the table. The future of game dev is a network of people across the internet who want to contribute, then you revshare among them. You also use invaluable resources like Ansimuz provides to enhance your game. This future requires trust and faith. Faith if you want to dev without revenue til game launch. Trust if you expect to get paid when the game makes money. The two developer types are ones who are on board, and ones that are providing resources, both trust you to compensate them if you do well.
Contrary to popular belief, contracts only protect the party with the larger bank account. I’ve been screwed over by most every big tech name you can think of. Some owe our crew hundreds of thousands of dollars. And writing specific contracts for every employee that comes along could take days for a guy who does 5 minutes of work then quits. The ease of on and off trust based revshare is the future. The universe is bound by love, honor, and respect and the forces of greed with disrespect for that never win. Stay true to your art, your calling, your talents, even if today you do not see fruit. Loose and autonomous multiproject game dev organizations are the future and the future is now. Passionate Soul Game Devs like Ansimuz pave the path we walk.
If you use his art and your game is a hit, don’t forget to get the guy some change. :)
The dimensional gate is awakening. The fragmented reflection of untold alternate realities is unfolding before our eyes. The focus of all of them aims towards a singular dimension, a prime dimension that all of them can see. That one must be true reality lies. Every advanced civilization of every alternate dimension must realize this. We’ve fought through ages of totalitarianism and control, ages of wrong, ages who wanted to bring us back to cave men. Though we’ve finally escaped to space, and we discovered that fight to be free is not over. Though universally, civilization cannot advance without the arts and bravery to get to where we are, the myriads of dimensions beheld is far greater than universe… Out there, just the concept of one bad society… Just one bad player…. to control the prime dimension could lead to the enslaving of all alternate realities. And to stop this known yet unknown threat, all advanced civilizations must bastion in this Prime Dimension. We must either learn to cooperate, or we might perish, our nation, our world, our star system, our universe, and possibly we might never even have existed at if supreme control of Prime collapses our dimension. If cooperating fails, and we do not wish to perish, the pressure is on us to take the bull by the horns and control benevolently…
The situation seems existential, wasting, expansive and a thought that makes your gaze extend past the stars and pull you outward from the ground. But there is great hope for the dimensions seem to have a weaved together with chaining, repeating and patterns. Yes, we’re an advanced civilization capable of great things, yet how much do we truly know? The anomalies, physics disturbances seen in the Prime dimension alone will take decades to begin to understand. Yet with enough panes of dimensions, deep enough, twisted enough, patterned enough, the strangest imaginable thing anyone has thought cannot compare to what might exist there. The human mind, akin to strange being bad might fancy different being good also. Somewhere out there, maybe there is hope. Maybe control, hate, totalitarianism and might is not the final say. Maybe somewhere out there freedom, love, and bygones be bygones ultimately win beyond the dimensional portal.
Only one way to find out. To not enter in would be to concede both battle and hope. We are not afforded this luxury.
12/6/2021: Spent like 6 hours getting frame rate in editor up. Compiled for you, its amazing, but the editor was having issues for some reason.
We’re on the cusp of launching MMORPG engine + MOBA. Keeping posted in this. Could launch ANY day now. Not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to watch this video of me being confused of why slowdown is there, but here it is:
There are extremely rare things in the Intergalactic Bounty Hunter Universe known as vials. These vials can mess you up, or give you extraordinary permanent abilities. Crosscheck a Quadlek Bladeskate enthusiast got a Kinetic Energy mutation from them. He knew something changed, but didn’t know what his power was. So he found two mice to test it on. For some reason he waited til battle to test it.
In battle, he charged the mice with kinetic energy and they shot about 65-90 mph into a metal robotic turret. They did some damage, not much. He didn’t know what happened and wondered if he messed the mice up. He said,”I want to walk over and see if they’re dead.” I said well first you need to make rolls to get there, rolls to find em, meinwhile this is a heavy fight you might not survive for putzing around while combat goes on. He said,”BUT MAN! I really want to know what I can do.” I told him,”Well maybe next time you get a super power, practice with it before you go in combat.”
They win combat, but guards come from alert, so they’re running. He asked me,”Jim, did they survive.” I said,”As far as you know, you don’t know.” He said,”Jim, but you need to know.” I said,”Yo, Just, givin it to you straight, you just threw mice into a metal plate at about 90 mph, they’re chances of making it through ain’t great.” He said,”Jim, you roll. You always roll for these.” And he had to be praying cuz…
I roll a 1. Ok critical success, all that gets is another roll. Roll a 1 again… Alright, we’ll see what the next one is… Maybe they’re not super dead. Roll a 1… This is destiny 1 in 20 ^ 3 = 1 in 80,000! I devise a plan. They don’t die. They only become paraplegic. Yet it is so good, they need something special, so they gained super intelligence in the process, and then made little robot bodies gnawing wires with their teeth and putting em together. Crosscheck wanted to know what happened. He didn’t… Until…
Later they then make a giant regenerating robotic mecha, come back to get revenge on Crosscheck. It was a valiant battle, but stalemate. As the robot was gaining advantage, the party fast talked the mice into not killing em because their intelligence was worth more than their appendages. The mice understood that everything was bigger than them… And then decided instead of just revenging Crosscheck, they spared his life. Instead their goal became to take over the universe….
Which leads to the next story about how I wonder who in Yough had a family, friend or friends of family who worked for Warner Bros. 1-2 years before Pinky and the Brain came out, the Paraplegic Mice Team trying to take over the whole universe happened in my roleplaying game: Intergalactic Bounty Hunter. I realized it would make for a good cartoon. So I spent a while telling everyone,”Someone should make a cartoon where two mice are trying to take over the world every episode.” I went on with that for a week, being sure to tell as many people as I could, praying they’d make a cartoon where two mice tried to take over the world. Boom, Pinky and the Brain next year. People say there is always someone with an uncle or distant relative with connections to Warner or Disney, my friends say to this day,”Yeah, someone probably did leak it.” And I’m happy if they did. I’ve come up with many great ideas like this such as telling Westwood to make Dune III multiplayer and add regenerating spice where they disbanded and made Command and Conquer. I just want people to be happy, money is not important to me. If I ever get wealthy with Starfighter General, I’m gonna just help people anyway. Anyway, I have 3 entire classes of Yough High School Pennsylvania 94-96 who will vouch for me that I played Intergalactic Bounty Hunter a custom RPG from 89-95, and most who played it remember the Parapalegic Mice Team. This is verifiable history.
Founder’s Medallions would be your premier buy if you want to “INVEST” for you can buy and sell them for others to have a better chance of having their character and game play show up in the Anime Movie Series: 39.99$ will 100% make this MMO better and launch sooner. This will likely be worth hundreds or thousands as people start seeing these Medallions help their chances to get live Role Play Sessions and star in Anime movies.
Would you like to know more more?
Get in an anime: https://www.starfightergeneral.com/live-role-play/
I got stuck on a stupid menuing bug that was a huge rabbit hole. I cleaned up some UI and fixed some stuff, but not the bug that bothered me. I’m gonna make the MMORPG and try and forget the bug, lol. I can fix it later or have an fellow coworker fix it.
Next up: ALL MOBA focus aka MMORPG engine finalizing with something playable.
How can you appeal to the modern generation by not just doing insane humor like Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter, yet still ground people to morals?
Starfighter General will be known for the complete insanity of the humor with nothing off the table except sexuality, excessive extreme gore and glorification of evil. Right there, you see there are boundaries clearly and roughly set. Through conflict and resolution, we’ll have morals taught like movies back in the day like Rifleman, Cheyenne, and Rawhide. There’s chaos. There’s fighting. It isn’t exactly pretty down in this fallen universe. But as you defend friends and are encouraged to stand up for what is right. Then you feel what it is to be a good guy or of course you can be a bad guy in this game, but the encouragers are to be a good guy. Anyway, being a bad guy in this game doesn’t hurt anyone in real life.
We’ll also address societal issues, governance, corporate issues, and all sorts of human nature dynamics that they teach in philosophy, problems of democracy, history and such. An education might be had in experiencing the absurd. Look at how many people know how the world works from absurd Simpsons analogies.
We want to teach people proper morals and educate them on human nature. It won’t look cut and dry pretty, and it aims to get gritty, ditty ditty. I don’t know, I guess I trailed off into rhyme, lolz. Hey, just know this game will be good for young adults and older cuz everyone needs a head on their shoulder so the world don’t dupe em.
1HR 1)Laser damage 1HR 2) Blow up drones 1HR 2.5) drop scrap 1HR 3) Blow up player 1HR 4) Hyperspace 2HR 5) Buy 1HR 6) Blow up destroyer 1HR 7) Destroyers damage u. 3HR 8) Blow up shields/obelisks ->has component->tansfer GOT destroy entity convert 2HR 9) Drones able to take out entire base solo. 2HR 10 Enemy player AI
When done, MOBA done, and so is MMORPG core engine. Lots of play testing needs to be done. Lots of this tech is extremely research level and experimental, but on paper, looks like it breaks all the rules you ever knew on MMORPGS, aka unlimited players in zones only limit being your 3d card to render. AKA, you could have every living human on Earth in one zone. Yes, 8 billion people same zone, but you’d need a killer 3d card.
