Finally! Here comes the fun! I stumbled over an amazing design decision that combos with billions of star systems: Random Events. It was from an old game I had called "Absurdity Trail" which was like an educational game we all played in highschool, and random events happen every so often... But they border on insanity levels of weirdness. Starfighter General will have these random events... They tie in with the questing system and an old game for C64 who I talked with the maker in using some of his tropes. It also used random events.
So random events every so often like 'aliens attack', 'ship to loot', 'anomoly', distress signal, a mutant wants to trade, 'space pirates demand booty', worm holes, a giant sloth that appears and never stops chasing you, or even advancing the quests!
Random events + Randomized universe + Static places that raise the events quality and zones that give different random events + items to find better events + items to protect you from events + rare locations in the galaxy + diminishing returns to encourage exploring instead of camping one nook of the galaxy =AWESOME! This will be a SuperNova of Fun! I want this in asap. It may go in tomorrow, some random events then we keep adding events. Multiplayer even MMO with infinite players is boring unless this is in, so we're doing this now. Expect a patch ASAP. Unlike cannonized Space games, tv series,and movies,anything is possible here... The dimensions of untold realities coalesce, there is a sanity bar, and sometimes losing sanity unlocks funny play styles... No game has ever been like Starfighter General,and will any game ever be like it again... This is designed by a man who has 150,000 hours dedicated to gaming,design,coding... #1 world a bunch of video games... I'm in this for fun, not money, I'm an artist first and foremost, ready to show you games you never saw before or ever dreamed of.
Dimensional Alignment VI: Merchinile Prep OUT! Next PATCH THE BIG ONE!!!!
Forget this patch.
Yes, you can enter the dimensional portal in the command center and shoot asteroids sell the iron and make money. It's kinda cool, its not great, but kinda cool. NEXT PATCH IS BIG! And when I say BIG! I MEAN BIG BIG BIG! The multiplayer code is going in. This is research level world class multiplayer code the world never saw before, hence research.
To give you a clue of how high tech this is, in 2004 I had rollback code, co-discovered, a big 2d fighter company made fun of rollback code! And rollback is used in all fighters now... That said... The real kicker is not rollback... I make networking FASTER THAN log(n) packets. Most networking is n * n or n^2. I'm faster than n in terms of less packets, Its below log(n). What does this mean? It means infinite action players in one zone. It means you can have many satellite ships that fight along side you like capital ships, interceptors, bombers. Expect the biggest star battles in video game history, over 8000 ships in one zone at 60 FPS, action oriented combat!!! Yeah, this is big. It's probably going to be the future of UNITY's Networking code. People who know my code say its easily worth close to 1 billion dollars. Well, that's how big it is... Prepare to play something the world has never experienced... It's going to be huge. I'm putting no time table on multiplayer, but 2 weeks minimum, 6 weeks average might be the expected next patch. Once that's in, we be just pouring MMO content in: Inventory/Systems/quests/storyline/Galactic Space opera and of course live RPG which the best of we hope will be in movies in theatres. Get your character and your actions in a movie, start powering up your base in Starfighter General now.
Pray for me!
Galactic News Network Now has AI Graphics 3000 ish
The news ticker at the bottom will constantly be getting more news items every patch.
Now it displays a fun or funny AI with the news item, and there many pictures per news item, sometimes over 200 to choose from randomly! This is to not get ya bored, but maybe stoked to see the next fat dolphin, or the next derpy looking guy with coffee that fried his brain. Its fun, funny and I needed to put it in, but it was mainly just to get addressables tech working.
Long story short, Addressables has about 5-6 bug you have to work on to get em to work. UNITY says these bugs do not exist, but other users say they do. I've seen em(cost me 500 hours of development time this year literally), didn't know if I could work around em, but now I know I can use these for the long haul.
Since Addressables tech in, it opens many doors for the future.
Next two patches, exciting stuff:
VII) BUY/SELL/ROB of space stations and other actions like DOCK/Hail/Scan/ETC
VIII) Full Scale multiplayer code in. I have the most advanced multiplayer code on Earth, been sitting since 2004. I tried to sell it to a 2d fighter and they said it was impossible, despite I actively playing it with friends in an inhouse 3d fighter world MMO. Now all the 2 fighters use the rollback component I codiscovered. Long story short, multiplayer battles in Starfighter General will be bigger than any space game ever, and action oriented combat as well. You could have everyone on Earth play in one action zone, and you're limited only by GPU and other hardware... Let that sink in, you're about to experience something no one ever has experienced ever and its just a boring core tech, not the awesome story, plot, game mechanics or live role play that can change ANYTHING In the game, like you're truely living in a acive Space Opera.
Bonus: Don't forget the best live role play will go in movies. So pick up a founder's medallion or two while they're still for sale because they'll never be for sale ever again, and you can sell/trade them if you want: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/658480/browse/?filter=all Any virtual goods purchase literally help me develop the game more effective as I do not struggle with day to day expenses and get more code in. If you like the game, or want the game to get better and have more than enough to get by, consider it. Founders Medallions, they can help your character get in the actual movie theater.
MMO in the next few weeks likely! Multiplayer code CEMENTED & OPTIMIZED
Turns out... I don't just have the best multiplayer code on Earth that supports infinite players in the same zone, limited only by graphics card and memory etc... But also Unity3d is looking to buy out the best multiplayer code they can find. This multiplayer code is beyond awesome. It has basic security standard to everyone's knowledge, ways of just watching the video to see what changed in the game for security game masters to root out who hacked what, and player policing, so the security has worked in many games, nothing new here. It doesn't just do infinite players same zone, it also is cross platform Steam/Android/Iphone/ipad/Mac/Linux/Windows/Xbox/PSx/Nintendo/potatoes....
It's funny... I'm probably gonna get bought out like no other because I have two MAJOR IN DEMAND multiplayer TECHS by Two major players: Steam/Valve who approached cross play with Android/Iphone/Steam with Steamdeck after Apple/Android denied em a deal.... Why didn't steam just set up their own cross platform unifier like I did? Steam, you can buy me out, people can link their android/iphone with their steam account with my server. So when they're on the bus, they access their steam account. I have possible right now.
So Steam/Valve would want to buy me some techs of mine.
But Unity is DYING to get out of the box MMO/RTS/FPS/action code, and I've had it sitting around since 2004. I tried selling it to 'a gory 2d fighter company' and their hiring manager called me an insulting names on the phone explaining how the roll back code in every fighter was IMPOSSIBLE. Lets ignore the unprofessionalism of Midway at this point, just focus on I independently discovered/researched rollback code... And know the MMO code has research techs are way way better than that!
So since I'm in demand and the reason people aren't beating on my door with giant bats made of dollar bills is that they're in disbelief, time to execute to that point ASAP.
Guys, gals, Three patches coming.
Tomorrow/Tonight: GNN ticker gets graphics and some more news items A few days: Buy sell at stations. 2 weeks after that (or less I hope): FULL Basic MMORPG functionality in. OH YEAH It's ON BABY!
PS, sorry for not two updates last week and only one update, I have 2 bank accounts and a total of 1 cent in each of them, I ran out of food and my place had no water + my car would not start. So I had to get family to pick me up and help em out with odd jobs while they fed me and got me some water. I have a gamer friend who knows me as the Greatest Video Gamer of All time, 150,000 hours gaming/coding/design who believes in me and dropped me a few bucks to keep going on! Reminds me of that Will Smith movie where the homeless guy finally gets a chance, that's my life... And it's weird since I've excelled at Computer Programming with a CS degree from Carnegie Mellon started coding at 3.... Why would a guy like me never get a chance? Why would when I do make games on my own Big Tech takes my work and doesn't pay royalties. I'm not broke by choice. I'm actually one of the world's greatest talents in game develop, I think it may be due to discrimination against me believing in the God of Love which Big Tech culture is against...
Either way, we're gonna make it! In my mid 40s, student loans, barely any change to scrape by, no running water, no kickstarter, no crowdsource, and one or more of the following three things happens soon:
1) Steam/Valve buys my server tech that connects Steam accounts to Android/Iphone accounts like they wanted.
2) Unity buys my secure multiplayer code, the best multiplayer code on Earth.
3) We just start playing a really fun MMORPG.
Take care guys, it's about to be awesome, founders medallions are no longer going to be for sale soon once we start taking in revenue and will never be able to bought ever again, though you can sell/trade them... Some trading cards are now going for over 10,000$... Now imagine a token which helps your chances of being in live role play which can get you in the movie theatres.
,Jim
Dimensional Imaginatron: Patch V
Patch V: The Dimensional Imaginatron
Your crew has discovered a weird anomaly, the weirdest yet most realest...
It terms out by harnessing a wisp of a dimension fleeting by, they're able to have harvest echos of the Creator. Researchers being uncreative, just built it into the lab at the Research Facility.
You as the player will be able to do two things here:
1) You can customize your own Planet oribitary zone, Asteroid Zone, Industrial zone, wildlife zone, aero nebula, or aqua nebula, aka, make your own reality in space that others can play in.
2) You can make your own items.
There is a caveat, these zones are like prayers, they don't always get approved, but they always are heard and seen.
In addition, Patch V will have Character Creation and buy/sell/rob/hail/scan features.
Patch VI we expect to be fully Massively Multiplayer. So the next 100-200 hours of dev look boss. Pray for me, and I could always use a couple bucks from virt goods purchases, I literally have less than 2$ in my name. Just happy to have a good family support network.
This Patch, comedic/lore ticker tape of the Galactic News Network and advertisers.
Next patch, Buy/Sell/Rob/Forge/Other actions at stations and character creation (EST 2-4 days)
Patch after that: Full Scale MMO multiplayer in! Est (4-7 days after Buy/Sell/Rob patch in)
Development is at a rapid pace now!
Thank you so much for the bro or soul sista who bought a 10$ virtual item this week. I haven't made money in months since I went free to play, this encouraged my spirits to fight harder to make this game better! I've been making games for 30 years and people have loved my games, but I haven't been able to ever make any money. Its rough living in a place without water, but you helped the fight by supporting the smallest of small indie devs! Smallest in fiances, largest in culture/potential.
Dev full steam again!
Dev full steam again! WOO! This is great. I finally have a place I can code and not get sick. The last 1.7 years have been a difficult time since my Gran passed. Normally when a terrible event happens, everyone helps out, but it was inheritance squabbles of the most ugly kind. I got kicked around place to place, some of which were entirely unsanitary to the point where I couldn't code for more than an hour before I got sick.
I finally finally have a place I can code, and I will nonstop!
Yesterday there was a crash. I restored accounts 2 days before. If you were affected let me know in reply to this.
I want a patch out today with a Galactic News Network ticker, and picking up iron.
Next patch will be character Creation/selling of iron/forging of iron and robbing of places that buy iron from you, lol.
Patch after that Networked MMO, so we're looking at a networked MMO in a week if everything goes well.
Pray things go well, and expect a patch soon!
Galactic News Network will be entertaining, I promise. Or funny at least.
1) Chat box in 2) Tech to make patches faster in 3) Asteroid shooting needs fixed some for Patch Iv 4) Next patch Galactic News Network ticker
Dimensional Fragmentation Patch III Chat Box
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.
Starfighter General Dev Status: Climbing Next Plateau
Hello,
I wanted to do 1-3 updates a week on Starfighter General, but tech difficulties snared my progress for a bit.
#1: Unity is giving me all kinds of headaches, but I hope they diverge from their CEO's philosophy of glitz and glam and go back to stability which made Unity famous.
#2: Steam got rid of the upload pipe I'm used to. It tripped me up at the wrong time, but I'm on track again.
So, some tech difficulties had me stumble right when I was sick of tech difficulties.
I reeled it in, and chat windows and Galactic News Network ticker tapes are going on.
I still want to get to a tech stability where we crank 1-2 or more patches a week! Also my real life house is getting some final stage remodeling and life loose ends, you know how it goes. Thanks for your support of Starfighter General, trying to go MMO as fast as life will allow.
So random events every so often like 'aliens attack', 'ship to loot', 'anomoly', distress signal, a mutant wants to trade, 'space pirates demand booty', worm holes, a giant sloth that appears and never stops chasing you, or even advancing the quests!
