If demonstrations could change anything they would have made them illegal. The people gathering in the streets of that city cried and screamed, and pumped their firsts into the air, thinking such a show would actually change the minds of those overseeing their lives back on Earth. But they wouldn’t care. They didn’t care for the masses that starved under …
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State of the Game #237: The Big Bad Garage
I feel like I have been here before, tackling the garage UI and functionality, making everyone’s lives better. I believe this is version 4 or 5 of the garage, but it’s a HUGE part of the game. The first task has been actually dismantling the current UI system. It was a tangled mess of mixed code, a giant 4,000 line …
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The Captain and the Rebel
That would be the last attempt to resolve that crisis before they arrived. Of course, they would come and unleash their terrifying destructive power on the colony. Although it had been him to send the distress signal, Captain Idris Layeni still felt that he needed to disarm the situation. Give it one last, desperate, try. Others would have believed …
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State of the Game #236: Another screen finished!
I have finished the pregame lobby! The new lobby is functionally better, is designed with the future in mind, and I feel looks pretty nice as well! And now, the next big undertaking is the Garage. As I get to each screen, the design gets easier and easier, as there is a larger pool of assets to reference. The difficult …
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The Epitome of Waste
The battle was still raging. The white plumes of missiles and rockets arched across the skies, as the warheads ascended and then crashed onto their targets. The golden treads of tracer rounds cut through the air, as the shells flew straight and true. The staccato sound of gunfire and explosions echoed through the hills in a crescendo of fire and …
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State of the Game #235: The value of progress
Wow, it’s been a very busy week! I have been spending a lot of time this week getting things ready for other people, as this week marks the first time there are 3 people other than myself working on MAV. I am still continuing to work as well, of course, but at a bit of a reduced pace as I …
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Evening News
Good evening. This is Travis Bailey, and welcome to the Evening News. We’ll start with the ongoing crisis in Luanda. The clashes between rioters and security forces started one week ago, after the depletion of the stocks of flour and vegetables in stores. There is still no plan to replenish these stocks, as the food situation in the sub-equatorial …
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State of the Game #234: Back to work with a change of pace
I’m back from vacation! It was a very lovely trip, we went and saw many parts of the south west and west coast of the US. Of course, I couldn’t stop working entirely, but without my developer desktop, I was a bit limited in what I could do. So, I started working on an end to end solution for linking …