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I use the free Unity personal edition for all games and comics
You only get one shot at the life you are living...
Don't let it go to waste
Have some fun every day
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Coding
Many of the games have downloadable Projects.
These Projects have all code in the Assets\Scripts directory.
Each Script is a C# file, and usually a single Class.
Since I am the only employee, saving time is number one.
All the code is C#, but written as if it were Assembler.
This means Global public static variables, no inheritance, no properties.
Good: This is much simpler and faster
Bad and Ugly: There is NO protection for the code.
If you think you are changing a Global variable
but are actually changing another
the resulting problems will have no logic to them
extremely difficult to find...
Solution:
Be careful and accurate.
Or rewrite it so Microsoft will accept it
C and C RR
A 2D game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
Run a Train from Mound House to Keeler and return
Go up and down Montgomery Pass...
Caution
This is an extremely slow moving game
Please be aware, that while playing the game...
3 Players have fallen into Catatonic States.
13 Players have died of Old Age.
This is not a Joke !
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I recommend you use Unity 2022.3.21f1
Monica and Hank
A few months back, my washing machine finally expired...
I bought a Black and Decker 3 cuft from Amazon.
It was delivered in a great big cardboard box.
She was quite attractive, with her rounded corners and sloping top.
Her control panel was really nice, and the glass top just plain elegant.
Naturally I named her Monica.
Clearly, she had intelligence.
She knew when the spin was getting out of control and never allowed it.
All her actions are intermittent for efficiency.
Beautiful, smart and efficient... Wow !
A foot away sits Hank, an older gas dryer.
He is very manly, with his square corners and simple control panel.
His intelligence is constrained to turning the heat on and off, and shutting down.
But, like any decent dryer, Hank has needs...
I soon realized that these 2 were the Hallmark Channel formula couple.
The woman is 300 times smarter than the man, and the man is manly and well civilized.
Clearly, something was bound to happen.
Last week, the lights were flickering on and off.
I realized that the couple were both plugged into the same outlet.
Could they be communicating ?
Is that even possible ?
Last night I found out.
The lights started going on and off for several seconds and then slowly recovered.
When I checked the power cords, they were both too Hot to Touch !
My God !
What does the progeny of a washer and dryer even look like ?
Do I even have room ?
The trials of a homeowner never stop...
AI PCs
Back in the olden days there was one computer with many terminals.
All the computing happened in the computer.
Then the PC came along, putting some computing in the PC.
After a decades long arms race, PCs have topped out.
My 5 year old PC will easily do what I want.
Fortunately, we all urgently need AI, which is computer hungry.
AI is now Machine Learning, whcih has inputs, outputs and parameters.
The parameters control what comes out of the outputs.
The arms race is the number of parameters.
Microsofts smallest AI has 3 billion parameters.
Jeez, only 3 billion, that's just plain puny !
Right now the computing is done in the cloud at Azure datacenters.
The new AI PCs can do small AI models locally.
Naturally, we will be able to buy more powerful AI PCs in the future.
Thank God for AI...
CoPilot Studio
Watched Satya Nadella give the keynote at Build 2024.
If he was wearing alien clothes and stepped out of a spaceship,
no one would doubt he was from an older, more advanced race !
However, he made a few mistakes, proving humanus...
Visual Studio is a very powerful development system for code.
The new CoPilot Studio is one level above code.
You write a description of what you want to do.
CoPilot Studio writes the code.
Wow...
This means you have to learn to write accurate descriptions.
Great, another new language to learn.
Life moves on...
May in the Owens Valley
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Cretaceous
A 3D game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
You are a unidentified, unamed human living with the dinos
Find your mate and perpetuate the species
At least until the KT Extinction of 66
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Because this game is principally commercial content,
I can't distribute the Project
Dancer
A 3D game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
You are a dancer who can do 11 Dances.
You will visit 11 Dancers, each doing one of the 11 Dances.
Do the same Dance within 5 sec, and do all 11 to win.
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I recommend you use Unity 2022.3.7f1
Microsoft "News"
aka Microsoft Start
Rule #1 You can not believe anything you read
Rule #2 Everything is paid - some stuff stays on for months
My breakdown:
20% Possible news
20% created news - about even left and right
20% Ads - targeted if possible
20% Information - like "Most dangerous city in US"
10% Infomercials
10% Celebrity info - like "Tom Sellecks longtime partner"
Do I read it everyday ?
Absolutely.
I like to stay informed...
Mermaid and Flipper
and the Dolphin Killers
A Comic for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend you use Unity 2020.3.29f1
You will need to click a couple of Skips
November in the Owens Valley
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Unity Versions
I used 2020.3.29 LTS for most Unity games
Recently I switched to 2022.3.7 LTS
I made exactly the same 2D Project in both.
2022.3.7 project: 9600 files, 920 MB
2020.3.29 project: 5600 files, 115 MB
The game Fun Run below uses Procedural Worlds Gaia
The 2022.3.7 project: 33500 files, 21.6 GB
Looks incredible though...
Fun Run
A 3D non-game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
Just run around some different Worlds and have some fun
Plenty of exercise for a couple of fingers !
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Because this game is principally commercial content,
I can't distribute the Project
Comic
Lone Robot and Slug
"Just another day at the office"
For Windows Desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend you use Unity 2022.3.7f1
Hoarding
If you hoard all the same stuff, you are a Collecter
This is generally considered good
There are TV shows about you
Nevertheless
You are a Hoarder
If you hoard all kinds of stuff, you are a Hoarder
This is the definition of Hoarder
This is generally considered bad
There are nasty TV shows about you
If you hoard Money and Assets, you are an Investor
This is generally considered the goal of life
There are fawning TV shows about you
Nevertheless
You are a Hoarder
Some people never have enough of what they want
Every Day
I wrote the melody and Lyrics for this song.
Everything you hear was generated by the PC, including the vocals.
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Robot Nation
We've had it with Humans...
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Take the Center
A 2D turn-based game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend that you use Unity 2020.3.29f1
Computer Music
Every note of this song was created and played by a PC.
There is no editing of any kind, just type and volume of Instruments.
I used inexpensive programs with AI pre-dating Machine Learning and Chat-GPT
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Proof
Using the latest Differentially Inverted Trumpian Logic (DITL)
I have been able to prove conclusively that
A Ding Dong a day keeps the Doctor away !
Ocean Ages
A 3D game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
Discover ocean animals from all ages, no hunting, no killing.
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I recommend that you use Unity 2020.3.29f1
Human MultiTasking
Can Humans MultiTask? Absolutely.
My neighbor sits on her porch, watching her 4 rugrats.
She is talking on her phone and making a shopping list.
She is thinking if a frontal lobotomy whould improve her husband.
Her total attention is divided in multiple pieces.
She has variable timing and variable division of attention.
The kids take little attention, the phone a lot.
The shopping list little, her husband...
if there is an unusual sight or sound, the kids get all attention.
Her division of attention is constantly moving as needed.
This is vastly more sophisticated than any computer I know.
Computers have the overwhelming advantage of monumental speed.
Good for them...
Good Time
Gonna have a Good Time...
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Thinking of Humans
Circle Polka
Go'n round in circles, that is what we do...
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Ordovician Angst
A 2D TopDown game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend that you use Unity 2020.3.29f1
I Don't Know Why
A song about then and now
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Whaling Ship Down
A 2D TopDown game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend that you use Unity 2020.3.29f1
Go'n Up Go'n Down
A song about...
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Death Match
A 3D Isometric game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I didn't do it
A song about the bad things
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Steampunk Flyer
A 2D game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend that you use Unity 2020.3.29f1
Fun
A song about the good things
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A ah E
A finds a home
A 1 minute video about early humans
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Comic
A ah E 2
A finds E
for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend that you use Unity 2022.3.7f1
Walk'n
A song about...
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Carson & Colorado RR
A 3D game for Windows desktop, 1920 x 1080 or better
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I recommend that you use Unity 2020.3.15f2
Up and Down
A 1 minute song...
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