Current status

Uhoh, I'm getting lazy again.

Ok so things have been really intense.  I blame Legion, the newest Xpac for WOW (World Of Warcraft).  Now I've been out of love for WOW for quite some time.  Draenor (the previous expansion) was like the final nail in the coffin, I thought. I thought wrong.

Legion I had NO hopes for; it was, at best to me a novelty.  A bad novelty by a failing franchise.  It is, however, a massive surprise.  It's done exceptionally well.  Class balance is superb.  Class feel is superb.  Class order halls - superb.  Daily quests are random and interesting - they scale as well.  Terrain is impressive and varied.  As a part time game dev, I see this stuff and take mental notes.  I've played more than my share of WOW.  I know what the previous expansions were.  They bored me to tears, in many cases.

I don't know what happened over there at Blizzard, but hell yeah.  That said, it's affected other things.  That and other life stuff like having to clean out my basement and ~8+ years of literal and figurative shit (chicken coop in the garage is gone, finally!).

I have done a few things though. I've written up my next installment on lighting in Game Guru but also have had a few other things hold my interest in no particular order:

• Master of Orion.  A classic.  I've been part of the early access stuff and watched it come along.  It's a great game, buy it :)
• A review will be forthcoming on Dagored's sci-fi kit.  Let's just say that I had a realization when watching the video after nearly a year of being on the fence and wham, instantly pressed 'buy now' when it clicked.  This is an AWESOME kit.  I'll try to get this done in the course of the week.
• A lighting write-up is nearly done.  I need to take screen shots though to supplement.  It will cover things like 'making a night level that looks like a night level', 'creating the illusion of distance with fog', 
• An epic shitstorm in the Star Citizen community.  Interesting to read and watch.  Especially from a gamedev/indy perspective.  I hate to say I was right to my close friends who heard me predict this happening years ago but - cheers, I was right

So there we go.
Incoming stuff.  Eventually.  If I ever stop playing wow (The ARMS WARRIOR CAMPAIGN IS FUCKING AMAZING ERMAGERD DROOOL) ...