Fomorian Arrival: Chapter 1

In pre-WW1 Ireland, a quarantine centre for orcs receives two new possible inmates.

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Halo Mod Review: The HAVOC Mod

I play a lot of Halo mods, and one of the best out there is the HAVOC mod. In short: it's hard, but fun!

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Remittance Witch Is Now Available!

Purchase links for my first novella in a new fantasy/Western setting.

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Four Months of Software Licensing Hell

Slightly sweary rant on the worst thing I ever had to do as a software engineer: manually auditing and confirming the licences of 2500+ npm packages.

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Comment on Parsing arbitrary JSON in Godot.NET by Aceade

I messed up while casting, and didn't realise until later. I've fixed it, and now it works correctly.

Turret Baffler: Steam capsule images

Draft Steam capsule images for an upcoming first-person shooter in Godot.

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Parsing arbitrary JSON in Godot.NET

A problem I ran into while developing a game in Godot/C#: how to parse arbitrary JSON that I'm loading from disk.

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Turret Baffler: A New Demo

Changelog for version 0.3 of Turret Baffler, a Godot first-person stealth shooter. UI/UX improvements, new levels, and other fixes.

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Plans For 2025: WTF Is Coming?

2025 begins on a Wednesday. So, WTF am I doing next year?

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My First HOI 4 Mod: Irish Unit Names

The real-time strategy game Hearts of Iron 4 applies English names to Irish units. So here's a mod that adds Irish Gaelic names (or tries, anyway).

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Remittance Witch: Rune Build Process

If magic was as painful to work with as npm install or anything else in software development...

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Comment on Re-releasing Tales From A Fomorian Detention Centre by Where Did Our Supplies Go? - Aceade's Tales

[…] muse has struck me again with a story involving Diarmuid and Siobhán. This is a loose sequel to What Next?, set a couple of years later, and I’m considering turning this into the start of a spy […]

Comment on The Dwarven Tea Machine by Worldbuilding Wednesday: Connacht Trading Security -

[…] At this point, they started investing in firms like Harland and Wolff, early electrical engineering firms or arms manufacturers like Vickers and IKEA. Yes, I am swapping IKEA and Bofors in this universe, purely because I find it funny. One of their main subsidiaries is Hiberno-Tech, which make home appliances like a certain tea machine. […]

Comment on Connacht Disaster Zone: Impact on the world by Worldbuilding Wednesdays: Dwarven Infantry - Aceade's Tales

[…] throughout Europe. I’ve covered this before in one blog post, but I’m considering talking about this while filling in a map of […]

Comment on Unforeseen Consequences by Connacht Disaster Zone: Impact on the world

[…] However, WW1 hasn’t happened yet, and in 1917 Britain is still the predominant naval power of the world. While they regard west Connacht as a sideshow, other powers consider it a potentially useful distraction – chief among them being the Kingdom of Scandinavia. That comes up in a couple of stories in Spycrabs & Warbirds, along with the currently standalone story Unforeseen Consequences. […]

Comment on Remittance Witch Chapter 2 (or 3) by Witches and Cowboy Warlocks: Remittance Witch Characters

[…] first appearance is in what was chapter 2. What’s changed is that she isn’t another apprentice for von Clief – instead, […]

Comment on Serpentoid Site Scouts by Aceade

In reply to <a href="https://aceade.net/2021/07/18/serpentoid-site-scouts/comment-page-1/#comment-16">Tiago Mendes</a>. Thanks! I hadn't intended them to be anything more than one-off characters for this piece, but I might bring them back later.

Comment on Serpentoid Site Scouts by Tiago Mendes

Hi I think you write really well keep at it! Will we see more of Kerigoo and Debraa?

Comment on Breakable weapons in video games by Aceade

In reply to <a href="https://aceade.net/2015/02/02/breakable-weapons-in-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-2">Sergey Yakovlev</a>. Unfortunately, I've never played Day Z. Just one of the many I need to consider some time :) More to the point, I'd say those tools would need to be tweaked, but they should degrade for the sake of consistency. How quickly do the ranged weapons fall apart?

Comment on Breakable weapons in video games by Sergey Yakovlev

Have you ever played DayZ, my friend? You ruin your tools so fast there. Interesting thing is that most of them could be fixed if not completely ruined. But man, hand axe getting ruined from chopping couple woods? It is designed to cut many trees, they live for decades in real life.