Vertex Rim

Winter Wanderings Coming out of hibernation.

What I've been up to during my hibernation months:

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November Month Review Progress is progress, even when it's small.

An update!

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Starting Again Getting back into the groove after being derailed is tough, but necessary.

Back on my grind after a rough month at my day job.

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August Month Review Second month review!

Interested in how the plates are spinning? I wrote up a review:

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Week 10: Two Troubles for the Price of One A disaster for every occasion.

Fleshing out the disasters with two more cosmic calamities!

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Week 9: Take a Look at These Hands Going from hovering items to held items is a big leap.

Animation and hull repair, oh my.

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Field Notes: Shaders Are Spells I done handcuffed lightning. And put thunder in jail.

A quick post about how it feels to program graphics.

(The observant among you will note the new domain name!)

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Week 8: Celebrating Chaos Space is dangerous. Or it will be when I'm done with it.

Lightning and Asteroids, oh my!

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Field Notes: Productivity Tools How I do what I do.

If you wanna peek behind the process of how I create, take a look at my most recent blog.

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Week 7: Game Loop Finally, Running Late knows if you're running late.

Small improvements, one week at a time.

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Cybernoir in São Paulo While you've been watching me build a comedic space repair simulator, I've also quietly been working on something entirely different. That something is Piece of Work—a cybernoir TTRPG that's been cook...

Now for a change of pace: my still-in-development RPG Piece of Work.

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Week 6: Turning Knobs I spent way too long building wheel controls for tuning the engine. But they work now!

Made a virtual engine using the new screen interface from last week. Formative, but fun.

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Week 5: Ship's Computer Creating a diegetic computer console was a pain, but also really fun.

Screens within screens. This week I made the ship's main computer come to life, and I learned a ton. vertex-rim.ghost.io/week-5-ships...

Field Notes: Interfaces And Decoupling Preventing spaghetti from day one.

Some technical notes on abstract interfaces in Unreal: vertex-rim.ghost.io/field-notes-...

Month Review: Projects Be Projecting First month review!

Where can you get in a month? Apparently one early alpha build, two published RPGS, and a rough draft of a third. More project news on the blog.

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Week 4: Power to the People Everything is more interesting in the dark.

This week's progress was electrifying. No wait *checks notes* I mean electrical.

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Chocolatier & Campfire Stories I've done a decent amount of TTRPGs in the last decade or so. Recently, I've had an opportunity to breathe back into life a number of short tabletop games from my very distant past, and I've been lovi...

My second tabletop game, Chocolatier, is now live on itch. It's been great getting to revisit these older documents and give them a glow up. Read about them both here: vertex-rim.ghost.io/choco/

Week 3: Building Life Support Building new mechanics is my favorite part of the process.

Grinding so hard, I didn't post this yesterday, but I have a post now talking about the oxygen system I built in Running Late. Still formative, but exciting progress!

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Late night jam session working on projects - another soon to be released TTRPG blast from the past, and new assets on Running Late. Just me, some mac 'n cheese, and a bunch of art.

Week 2: Let There Be Lights I spent six hours developing an interaction framework... to turn off a light.

Week 2's devlog is about building the interaction system for ship systems. And I might have accidentally punched a hole through space and time. vertex-rim.ghost.io/week-2-let-t...

Campfire Stories by Vertex Rim A storytelling game of searching for Sasquatch

My first published product under the Vertex Rim label is live! Campfire Stories is a tabletop RPG about cryptid hunters searching for Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest. Free/pay-what-you-want at vertexrim.itch.io/campfire-sto....

Breathing life into an old game. I actually love seeing the evolution of my design skills in full color.

I think it's my designer soul, but I always try to make my blueprint graphs look elegant. But I might just be giving myself time to process what I need to do next by straightening connections😂

Is there any more iconic screenshot in open source?

Week 1: Building the Ship It's time to move from vague idea to actual implementation, and consume a lot of diet coke on the way.

Week 1 progress: Converting a sketch to a blocked out cabin, here at vertex-rim.ghost.io/week-1-build...

Just finished the blockout of the ship cabin for Running Late.

Week 0: Foundations and First Assets New beginnings are a mixed bag. They can be equal parts terrifying and terrific, a jumble of emotions. But here I am, shouting into the void with a voice that carries my entire being.

Week 0 blog post is live. Turns out starting a game studio involves a lot of paperwork and wittering about asset store purchases. But hey, at least I have a logo now and a game concept that's definitely within scope. For now. vertex-rim.ghost.io/week-0-found...