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Star Trek Lavatorials

There’s one thing you never see on star trek. Episodes of voyager and enterprise may hint at them, but the toilet is never shown. Some may question wether these space age people even have the need to relieve themselves of waste products, but alas! I have the answer!!!

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Artwork Blog

Microgramma Bold Extended

Some of you may be wondering what font that is at the top of the page in the darkstars banner. Some of you may have seen the battle hub logo and its various variations

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AI Spring

Lua & AIs Solution 2: Extreme Generics

In solution number 1 I set out a modular system that would require the involvement of content developers, but would provide a meaningful structured way for AIs and content to coexist in a lua world. Now I’m about to throw that out the window by presenting solution number 2.

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AI Spring

AAI does not learn

AAI doesn’t learn. Yet this is its main selling point. Its totally counter intuitive to the end user trying to understand the AI, and it cheapens the many marvels of AAI considerably. As a result the learning capacity of AAI and expectations are vastly inflated in the end users mind, and the capacity of the […]

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Blog Spring

Fnordias new TV

For a few hours now, the spring website has been down. Attempts to connect are met with network timeout errors. Users can join a temporary lobby server at springlobby.info:8200 running under aegis’ new uberserver. You can find smoths FGJL forums on the links page.

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AI NTai Spring

Lua & AIs Solution 1: Extension Modules

There is an issue in the spring AI scene right now regarding the onslaught of lua Game mechanics and the disconnect between those new rules and the AIs. AIs are unable to play the new game mechanics because they are unaware of their existence.

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Artwork Realtime Strategy Spring

Third Generation Spring Logo

They have arrived, 33MB of Photoshop and PNG images, spring engine banners, icons, all in higher quality renders, crisper sunbursts, and cleaner lines.

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Artwork Spring

Spring Logo MkII

A while ago I posted a set of concept spring logos I termed ‘The Orange Logo’, and mentioned that I intended to revamp the red logo. I had some ideas and some qualms with the original red logo I devised for the spring icons, namely the blurry un-clearness of the sun logo itself. I also […]