What are you working on?

Not gaming related, but it does involve a canvas object! I'm working on a visual diagram tool for SDN networks. Normally most SDN tools (Azure, NSX, AWSs VPC, Openstack Neutron) require that you use sluggish GUIs to piece together a network topology. I figured I could write a tool that could give a more visual aspect to the designing of ones virtual network similar to what a Network Engineer would use in SolarWinds, or Visio. Going even further, diagrams designed in my tool could be used to deploy networks for several backend apis providing an agnostic interface to the engineer.

The project is still in it's early phases, but so far I got the bedrock of my UI code written (JQuery/AJAX/HTML mostly, 10 years behind the 600 Javascript frameworks, I know :D) and a backend flask server where I'm putting all the python needfuls. So far I got the project to progressively piece together JSON blobs as the user drags/drops the elements from builder UI to construct their network, and, did I mention, LDAP INTEGRATION, oh yes, we got RBAC.

Unfortunately still not _very much_ to show off but my alpha UI, and some purty sprites I modeled up in Blender

Sounds interesting/useful!

At work... I'm basically the whole QA team (and programmer; and sysadmin; and database mantainer; and web designer and... ).

Maybe you mean in the would-be-spare time! I'm starting to work on a... well that's the problem, nobody knows what that's supposed to be in the end. For the time being I'm just setting up the demostration with a couple Pis, Omegas and a few Digi Zigbee shields so I guess we can call it some sort of wannabe-smart IoT system. The real goal for the time being is to get to the funding.

I was positively impressed I found (good?) use for some of the junk I've accumulated over the years.

World domination.

Again.


L. Spiro

I am developing an Oculus Rift game with free roaming mechanics.

I am developing a "nausea free" locomotion system which will enable an open world game shooter game. ( Far Cry X play style ).

Of course, since this is a hobby game, it will all be low poly graphics, and no epic story.

Still the prototype is already really fun to play!

On 10/9/2018 at 2:10 PM, L. Spiro said:

World domination.

You too....damn, this complicates things...

I'm mainly working on this these days:

This is a webcomic that will hopefully someday become a game, but right now, I'm mostly focusing on the art side of things.

Note to beginners: the above was not rendered in a game (real time) engine. This was rendered in Arnold.

On 10/11/2018 at 7:31 PM, SillyCow said:

I am developing a "nausea free" locomotion system

I think a lot of VR devs wrestle with that one a bit, I recall @slayemin writing a bit about it at one point! If you come up with an interesting solution and want to share we'd love to feature an article on it!

22 hours ago, deltaKshatriya said:

This is a webcomic

Anything available yet, or still too early?

On 10/10/2018 at 5:10 AM, L. Spiro said:

World domination.

I for one welcome my new L.Spiro overlord.

World domination, and a manga outside of your job must be keeping you pretty busy!

I'm working on wavesim, a tool for simulating acoustics in static meshes. Realistic sounding environments are grossly overlooked, even in the most modern AAA games, where the state of the art is to slap some crude reverb filters into the environment. This tool will take a static scene as an input, perform a physically accurate wave simulation, and synthesize a lattice of digital filters which can be applied back to reproduce accurate acoustic behaviour in realtime. This eliminates the laborious job of having to manually assign reverb filters and yields far better-sounding results.

Currently, I'm working on an algorithm for efficiently decomposing a scene into rectangular domains. Unlike most acoustic wave simulators which typically use Finite Difference methods (FDTD), the algorithm used in this project abuses the well known analytical solution of the wave equation in rectangular domains, enabling error free propagation within the domain. This means the accuracy of the results at worst will be equal to those of an FDTD simulation, and at best be error free.

As great as this sounds, development is slow and I don't really have much to show yet. I think the biggest challenge will be to support domains of different densities, which will allow you to simulate what it would sound like e.g. if you're listening to a sound originating on land while being under water.

On 10/13/2018 at 2:39 PM, jbadams said:

Anything available yet, or still too early?

Just that promo pic Hopefully soon I'll have the last of my assets ready for at least an opening sequence. I'm focusing mostly on the art and really taking my time on it, so it's been taking more time than expected. Many have already seen my posts for critique which have some of the assets I'm using.

On 10/13/2018 at 2:39 PM, jbadams said:

I for one welcome my new L.Spiro overlord.

Ugh, too many of us are competing for world domination on GDNet, this is complicating my own plans...

On 10/15/2018 at 8:52 AM, deltaKshatriya said:

Ugh, too many of us are competing for world domination on GDNet, this is complicating my own plans...

If I get to rule the world, you will get a little dog basket bed. With your name on it!!!!

On 10/13/2018 at 2:39 PM, jbadams said:

and a manga outside of your job must be keeping you pretty busy!

I forgot the manga.

So yes I am working on this manga. Takes place in the future, Japan. Can't give too many details, but here are some teasings.

(Right-to-left reading.)

The panels will read roughly:
Top row: She is walking, minding her own business. A flash catches her attention in the 2nd row.
Middle row: Everyone is surrounding her, taking her picture. Then suddenly they all stop and go on about their businesses.
Bottom row: She falls. "What? How could this-? Why me? How??" She pulls out her phone. A man answers. "Hi honey. Are you crying? What happened?" Satomi replies, "I've been snapped."
First panel (upper right) needs to be redone as this takes place in the future on a very changed Earth.

The lovely young woman minding her own business after her shift at the hospital is Satomi.

Her husband:

Hospital guard:

The friendliest non-suspicious janitor you ever saw:

If there is a hero to this story obviously this guy either is or is not that hero. Obviously.

Also working on a superhero web comic:

L. Spiro

19 hours ago, L. Spiro said:

If I get to rule the world, you will get a little dog basket bed. With your name on it!!!!

Well then. If I rule the world, then I'll make sure you get a larger dog basket bed with your name on it, since I'm going to be 2% more generous as a world ruler!

19 hours ago, L. Spiro said:

Also working on a superhero web comic:

We really do have similar aims....this is eerie.

Though to be fair, my web comic isn't super hero and it's mostly CG

Here's a teaser of my comic btw:

I'm still exploring ClipStudio art so I can draw my original characters digitally.

I'm creating placeholder assets to help nail down mechanics for my game, after which time I'll hand off the spritesheet to a competent artist.

On 10/22/2018 at 9:52 AM, deltaKshatriya said:

Here's a teaser of my comic btw:

You forgot to tell me all the details about the plot. Go ahead, I have my notebook.

Muhu- muhu- MUHUHAHAHAHAHAAA!
Mu- mu- muhuHAHAHAHAHAA. Mu- mu- mwahahahahahaaaaaa!!! MWAHAHAHAAmu-mu-MWAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!


L. Spiro

On 10/19/2018 at 4:31 AM, L. Spiro said:

If I get to rule the world, you will get a little dog basket bed. With your name on it!!!!

I forgot the manga.

So yes I am working on this manga. Takes place in the future, Japan. Can't give too many details, but here are some teasings.

(Right-to-left reading.)

The panels will read roughly:
Top row: She is walking, minding her own business. A flash catches her attention in the 2nd row.
Middle row: Everyone is surrounding her, taking her picture. Then suddenly they all stop and go on about their businesses.
Bottom row: She falls. "What? How could this-? Why me? How??" She pulls out her phone. A man answers. "Hi honey. Are you crying? What happened?" Satomi replies, "I've been snapped."
First panel (upper right) needs to be redone as this takes place in the future on a very changed Earth.

The lovely young woman minding her own business after her shift at the hospital is Satomi.

Her husband:

Hospital guard:

The friendliest non-suspicious janitor you ever saw:

If there is a hero to this story obviously this guy either is or is not that hero. Obviously.

Also working on a superhero web comic:

L. Spiro

I love your character designs.

On 10/23/2018 at 4:53 PM, L. Spiro said:

You forgot to tell me all the details about the plot. Go ahead, I have my notebook.

You mean for my comic, Ghosts '58? That's an awfully large amount of laughing for someone taking notes....but ok.

The comic is actually in the same universe a novel I'm writing is set in. It's a fictional world, where about half of the world is shrouded in a barrier, separating the area designated by the Gods as Narkha (Hell), but the civilization has largely forgotten if the Gods themselves were real or not, and only really has religious beliefs. I don't want to write the whole plot here of course, wouldn't be any fun if I did, now would it . The comic itself is set in a World War 1/2-esque conflict and follows a fighter squadron known as the Ghosts. It's like Inglorious Basterds meets Band of Brothers, so the concept of Inglorious Basterds with the tone of Band of Brothers.

The novel dives far more into the world building itself.

My main focus is an Android game, which I am eager to share but because I eventually plan to release it on Google Play at some point...I'm wondering if its a better idea to keep it underwraps until its done...

In other news, I've been working on a new site( see my signature below ) dedicated to Megadrive programming with SGDK, intended to be a companion to the Github wiki tutorials. Although my time spent in SGDK was ultimately rewarding, it was very difficult due to the lack of tutorials and so I thought others may benefit with more material to work with.

Also included on the site are tabletop gaming projects, most notable is my attempt to recreate the old classic "Space Crusade" game by MB games and GW - which is purely for fun. I'm playing around with the idea of using tablets and smart phones where the event card deck could be a phone app, and the mission progress stuff can be recorded and displayed on a tablet.

Oh. Gaming wise I am on my first run of MegaMan X2 on the SNES - the gauntlet has been thrown down in challenge! The bosses are s*** heads of the highest order, but I can lay claim to defeating Violen on my first try. Much better game than I first thought it was.

Spiro - love the manga work!

On 10/18/2018 at 2:31 PM, L. Spiro said:

If there is a hero to this story obviously this guy either is or is not that hero. Obviously.

He's the Hero