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edapiieaway | 3 years ago | on: The Modern Gamer's Guide to Running Morrowind

Ahh, Morrowind. A conworld so good that the community effort put into modernizing it may have eclipsed the amount of work put into creating it in the first place. The OpenMW project is extremely impressive.

I was going to say something like, "you owe it to yourself to play this game." But my parent's generation said the same thing to me about CRPGs like Planescape: Torment, and as a working adult, I never had the time to figure out their convoluted gameplay systems.

So more realistically, give Morrowind to your children. Figure out how to install it, get a character to Balmora to make sure it doesn't crash every 5 minutes, and let them go nuts.

Vvardenfell is a strange land which rewards curiosity, and it doesn't have any ads.

edapiieaway | 3 years ago | on: Foundations of Game Engine Development

The hard part is the editor.

You can make a nice 3D renderer, learn shaders, bring in a physics library, make a bunch of models and textures, write a lighting system, add a system of animation, make an actor/AI system, create 2D UI helpers for menus/HUDs, work out a file format for storing and loading state...

...And then realize that it's very difficult to create a detailed world when you can't see it and manipulate it in realtime. D'oh.

edapiieaway | 3 years ago | on: My Unholy Battle with a Rock64

Streaming is a huge weakness of the Pi platform. It seems like the big sites change their DRM every few months, and everything stops working.

A couple of years ago, I could happily use a Pi400 as a streaming box for my TV. Today, it's only good for playing videos off of an external drive with stock Raspbian. This was one big reason why I cancelled my Netflix subscription.

In fairness though, I seriously doubt that other SBCs have better streaming support. Is there a project like OpenWRT for HDMI sticks like Roku, Fire TV, etc?