23/07/2021
After trying several different Python libraries I’ve recently come across the Godot Engine Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code. I started working through a training…
23/07/2021
I received this for free on PSN July 2021, and the line up of games didn’t impress me much; perhaps one of the weakest months I’ve seen for me personally. So A Plague Tale: Innocence, a stealth horror title with a linear story… not really my cup of tea. I’ve not managed to complete other triple titles of this genre as I get bored (The Last of US, I’m looking…
Read the Original Post Some time ago I played the mobile iOS port of Hyper Light Drifter. I had some issues with the smaller screen size of my mobile device, but I thought the game itself was a beautifully designed and animated story portraying struggle, loss, loneliness, and desperation. Abylight Studios, the publishers of Hyper Light Drifter on Switch and on mobile devices, do an incredible job of keeping their…
21/05/2021
My gaming rig is pretty much defunct, I’ve given up hope of pipmping it out this time & have finally made the move to play Elite Dangerous on Playstation :o) Tempted by the PS5 SSD and the launch of Odyssey… plus I really enjoyed having a game that I could play while watching movies. So here I am, fresh in the black, flying around in a Sidewinder! I’ve opted to…
08/05/2021
Yesterday I wrote an extensive post on one pf PSN’s free games this month (May 21) Wreckfest… I also tried to update my websites php version, & OS This however failed, and I had to resort to a backup before sleep. However today is a new day, OS updated… not sure about php version; but eh, everything is working… for now 🙂 I’ll one day soon re-write my review of…
24/03/2021
This weekend I picked up Dishonoured 2 on the PS4 for 7 bucks… even though the bargain price it might be a game that doesn’t stay long in my recent played list as I returned it for a refund / swap last time. So while installing D2, this time on the PS5, I read that the DLC had to be claimed by the 11/11/2018… bugger Then while loading I found…
This song composed by GPT-2, trained on The Beetles back catalogue lyrics, inspired by the opening lines of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? This feels like there could be 2 songs here, but I’m leaving them together in recognition of the different sections of Bohemian Rhapsody 🙂 Really impressed with how this generates a chorus. you wake up in a daze. What have…
08/03/2021
After a couple of conversations with different mates over the weekend I was motivated to dust off my old GPT-2 scripts and play a little more. Libraries have changed in the near 2 years since I fist dabbled, but by tweaking the requirements I managed to get the AI creative juices flowing again. Finally I made my way to bed last night, treating myself to one last search before bed…
12/02/2021
Cyberpunk 2077 crashes were a pain, it meant reload time in a close to seamless open World As a big fan of the original paper based RPG as a teen, no surprise that I enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 I started writing this post on the 11th Jan, it’s now a month and a big quality patch later I’ve finished off nearly every one of the side quests, completed just about every…
15/11/2020
And I was so stoked to pick up a PS5 on launch day, all down to a favour from a friend, as I’d not considered acquiring one until 2 days before 🙂 First impressions of PS5 * it’s huge, like PC size * it’s glaring white, and has what seems like a fragile flexy covering * it’s fast, at eveything * it’s quiet, I’ve been use to the PS4 fan…
02/11/2020
Games I’ve been playing post lockdown: * Ghost of Tsushima – the multiplayer options are varied and deep – I screwed up my saves while scoring Platinum, so I can’t start NG+ until I complete it again * Start Wars Squadrons – returned this to EA Games within a week – lack of depth, really underwhelming * Doom Eternal – so tough – not played a game that gets my…
02/11/2020
There’s been a long history of some bots trying to access this blog by trying to access the root & admin accounts & guessing the password, not sure why? This has caused frequent lock outs & even messing up the back end database, preventing the site from loading. It’s not been a real big issue as I’ve simply restored the backup, simples 🙂 The last solution that I’ve applied seems…
14/09/2020
I’ve been having a on and off issues with my PS4 ejecting disks while playing, and even from standby. It’s been little of an issue, although in-turn it has been a catalyst to me pulling the power cord from the rear of the console to keep it powered down. This in turn has lead to the screen that I’m sure you all know well, warning that closing of the console…
29/08/2020
My son has completed all of Paw Patrol: On a Roll, picking up all pup treats, dissed there’s no platinum trophy! This as increased his interest in other games. He’s quite fond of Farm Simulator, and driving tractors into water, then walking around as his chosen avatar. This motivated me to introduce him to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Disovery, he’s now parkouring, galloping, and sailing around ancient Greece. I’m really impressed…
29/08/2020
#GhostOfTsushima meep pic.twitter.com/vp11pdoR7Q — Cobra Kai Yoga (@DataAugmented) August 29, 2020 Finished the main story of Ghost of Tsushima last night; great story, combat & open World adventure… it was cheap too for a new title; not sure if that was to encourage people to buy due to Covid, or that the console is coming to the end of its lifespan, or maybe the studio isn’t gouging as much profit…
11/08/2020
I never much recognise the improvements that are rolled out with WordPress releases, but this one it truly useful; plugins now have the option to auto update 🙂 This closes a potential security hole, although guess there’s also the chance that any updates could break a site :p Good news on the day NZ enters lockdown again, let’s see how long this lasts this time!
02/08/2020
I came across a model that intrigued me enough to trial last night, a machine learning model that speed runs through Super Mario Brothers, cool eh? Here’s the git uvipen/Super-mario-bros-PPO-pytorch Introduction Here is my python source code for training an agent to play super mario bros. By using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm introduced in the paper Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms paper. Talking about performance, my PPO-trained agent could complete…
31/07/2020
Yesterday morning my Son was watching a stream on his ipad of someone playing a Mario game on the Switch. We chatted about it, I’ve introduced him to it in the past, with little interest on his part. Then he requested that we play Mario! I’ve been waiting for this day! 🙂 Now don’t get me wrong, he does enjoy games… although usually watching me play; saying this the only…
31/07/2020
2020 has been a crazy year, and we’re only just over 6 months through this ride! Excited to see what the rest of the year brings with NZ, US elections and referendums… & Cyberpunk 2077; did I let slip how much I’m looking forward to it? 🙂 To tide me over until then I’ve another AAA title that I tried not to build up prior to launch, but I’m now…
14/06/2020
Not sure why I haven’t got around to writing any shell commands / scripts in the past… here’s my first Bash :p Here’s an alias to check which country my VPN is connected to in 3 steps: ifconfig.me call to set IP address to a variable shows the IP address checks the IP variable on whois truncates the output to the ‘address’ output to see location alias whoami=’todays_ip=$(curl ifconfig.me) &&…