Welcome Back Dear Friends to Dragon Engine

Hello. C J here. I’m back and I’m going to catch everyone up on Dragon Engine progress before I do anything else. It’s going well. I’ve jumped between coding engines twice now. One was to the very well built Android app GDevelop. The engine mostly specializes in pixel games so it didn’t have some of the functionality I need to make the character models. I then jumped again to Godot. This free desktop program looks, feels and runs beautiful. I’ve got a screenshot of a pre-Alpha development build to show here.

The character is a placeholder but the 3D terrain tile is a custom made hand modelled asset. I added the collision myself as well. Imagine how good it will look when I add in a skybox. I’ve realized I need to make wall tiles half as wide as the edges of the ground tiles but otherwise they align perfectly. I need grass next and then hand modelled trees. My one rule is to never put anything ever on a diagonal. Knowing how computers think it’s in exact X Y and Z coordinates and right angles. Spheres are fine but I’ve learned I cripple loading times if I have even an extra 5 decree turn on a landscape item.

Also the pixel capabilities of GDevelop have got me thinking about making a top down pixel based game. I have far too many ideas for Dragon Engine to put them all in one game so I’m splitting off the project into it and a new top down pixel game I’ve named Monad. It will contain all of my ideas for making a digital museum to display real life art, base building with resource gathering and also all my favourite old retro era games in the genre that I grew up with. I’ll have posts about Monad more soon.

C J Mcpherson

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Let's All Be Friends, No Really - Part Two

Hello. C J here. I’ve updated my plans to make a Discord server for everyone here and on Facebook. Making a Discord server to my knowledge costs money. However, making a Facebook group does not. I’ve made a few of those over the years as well for various reasons. I’m going to look into this soon and then add the links here and in the menus here as well. I’m certain a Facebook group is what we need. I’m planning a number of chats within the group. So far my current plans are as follows. Art and Artwork Health and Wellness Food and Baking Magic and Spirituality Writing and Software NSFW I’m planning a private group but if I can get it open entry without a form or sign up page or anything. As for rules I’m going to reuse some from past of these I’ve done. Everyone is Welcome Be Polite Advertising is Allowed Follow the Content Ratings The Facebook group will take some planning but not any actual effort to build. It’s that simple. Thanks. C J Mcpherson

Chocolate and Barbecue Sauce and Truffles Oh My

Hello. C J here. I've got two new recipes for everyone today. I meant to type up a third but for the life of me I can't find the paper index card I wrote it down on. I will have to make it again and post it later once I double check I have the right proportions. I know what's in it but the proportions are done by taste. It's for Asian style ginger baked beans as part of my Asian-barbecue book I'm working on. The book might actually end up being cards for the card game because the recipes are so simple they fit in that format. That makes my job easier. Here's our two recipes for today. The first is a new Asian style barbecue sauce I invented from scratch. This isn't based on an existing sauce. It's the product of a lot of planning and research. It's great. The second recipe is for my final draft scratch made dark chocolate. This stuff is good. I still have some of the batch I made three days ago on hand. It's too tasty to eat. There will be a mil...

Four New Recipes for January

Hello. C J here. I've got four new recipes for everyone here. We have everything from Chinese chicken to homemade hot apple cider. Enjoy. The Emperor’s Potatoes Here we have the first food item I ever finished designing for Food of the World – Carthia. I tried three combinations of traditional Asian ingredients and pasta under the assumption that I was doing Italian-Chinese food for the book. I could not for the life of me get any of them to be exciting. They were fine. I don’t eat fine. I got bored of the pasta thing and then thought to myself, ‘what happens if I swap the pasta for another starch? What about a potato?’ It worked. Really well. It worked so well I named them The Emperor’s Potatoes. They’re mashed potatoes and I left the skins on because I like vitamins and then that got me thinking about the traditional medicinal food of Ancient China, ginger. Could I put ginger in a potato dish and have it work? Yes. I can. That surprised me. Be warned, these are almost dangerousl...

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