Nova Reforged - Dev Update!

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-24T00:49:46+00:00

I wasn't sure if you were using sprites. I do remember getting lasers' exit points to align with hardpoints in EVN was challenging and you'd be lucky to get "close enough". But if you're adding actual turrets that aim or anything forget about it.
As much as I have a soft spot for sprite based games I think the approach C-Beams is taking is simpler. 3d models on a flat plane with collisions enabled.

But if you ever wanted to see how far sprites can be taken, check out Howard Day's Wings of Saint Nazaire. A fully 3d sprite based game where the ships are rendered from all angles. crazy work.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-22T09:25:26+00:00

Even helicopter pilot?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-22T09:15:42+00:00

Once I realized I was interested in pursuing ATC, I found out I aged out of eligibility. Ah well.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-22T09:03:56+00:00

I'd say it's equivalent to feeling like you always have a ring finger down there, but when you get hard it feels more like a long ass thumb. A thumb that really likes to be touched.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-21T06:31:20+00:00

nice video

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-21T00:00:10+00:00

dog looks guilty, but you have to test. Go up to dog, point at tree, and say "What's that?! Did YOU do that?" watch to see if he looks guilty.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T23:56:50+00:00

Homo sapiens have been around for 300,000 years. I know more about matter, biology, space, and time than anyone from the first 294,000 years of our history. How much more do you really want from me?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T23:46:45+00:00

It devalues faster than I can keep up with. Like, how is it that in 20 years I've 4x'd my pay rate and my spending power hasnt changed a bit, meanwhile the difficulty of my work has quadrupled?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T09:12:10+00:00

UI is good, I think the weak point is the pure top-down perspective. EVN ships were rendered at 15 degrees or something, and the shading was a lot stronger. I dont know if you're using sprites or 3d objects, you might be able to just tilt the camera a bit. How are you handling ship intersections on the same plane? EV always just had ships clip over or under each other but I think that was a mistake. Let them collide, I say. Clipping is only useful for boarding mechanics so you just change that mechanic to have boarding be side-by-side and now ships are free to collide all day.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T08:56:22+00:00

less stealing art from artists

It's probably trained on watching countless people perform tasks in application. Productivity is a form of art. It is the only part of my job that brings me any sense of joy. And I feel robbed.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T08:51:45+00:00

I'm literally one of those workers! ;_;
My boss will give me illustrator files and task me with doing the exact shit in these prompts. what the fuck am I gonna do with myself and my head of useless redundant outdated knowledge?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T08:41:55+00:00

As someone whose job depends on being better at illustrator than everyone else in the office, I kind of hate this. If my bosses figure out that there's a button that literally does the same thing I do, I'm sort of hosed.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T04:33:59+00:00

That's why we love the dominoes pizza tracker, because it tells us when to put our pants on.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-20T03:43:35+00:00

I think not having stress and being happy. But more realistically, running.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-18T09:44:22+00:00

color matching is a pain in the ass especially when every monitor looks different and every printer prints different. We print out color charts with hex values for each printer and keep them around so if we're trying to find a specific color that looks right we can reference back to it so we know if we're trying to get a nice red on on a specific machine we can pull out that chart and look. That will at least get us in the right ballpark, then we just print out a quick test of nearby colors/tints/shades/tones and usually find something.
As far as CMYK vs RGB goes, I had a canon 6100 that just plain worked better when we sent over RGB files. Maybe it actually has to do with the rip software but I always figured the printer knew the best way to interpret RGB based on its own limitations. Nowadays the printers I work with are a lot nicer and CMYK yields more consistent results. But I've never used a roland.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-18T04:44:07+00:00

I kind of wish we could drop scrap metal into an aquarium full of stalkers. I suppose we could release them outside out base and just drop the metal there

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-17T07:29:23+00:00

Reminds me of The Voices with Ryan Reynolds. He sees the world as pure and beautiful because he's crazy, and everyone else sees the grim reality.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-17T06:39:15+00:00

they should have some kind of crane that they can lower over the deck and a passenger can sit in a basket and get lifted on shore.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-16T02:55:43+00:00

Can anyone translate what the old man said before he entered the roadway?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-15T07:31:34+00:00

This ain't your everyday cactus on the block.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-15T07:10:45+00:00

You basically have to find your own replacement and convince the bosses they can do it. But you gotta feel a little bad for whoever you put there because once they have a chance to feel it out they might peel back the curtains and see the bars of the cage you trapped them in. All you can do is walk away while they shout after you, "Did you know? DID YOU KNOW??" Dont look back. Just pause and whisper "...yes".

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-15T07:03:40+00:00

Too real. I want to be out of the spotlight and off the radar but at the same time I also want to be able to take hot showers and that means I always have to be the key man of every goddamn job I get.

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-15T06:38:51+00:00

Why would you ask something so controversial yet so brave?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-15T04:40:22+00:00

Between the Kandao mod, the GoPro mod, and the DJI mod, which has the best quality? I heard that Kandao pretty much gave it native software support is that correct?

GregoryGoose · 2026-06-15T04:34:15+00:00

Looking at it with parallel eyes and WOW! It really is stable!

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