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Joseph Hewitt
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Apr 16
Dungeon Monkey Campaign Idea
As I’ve mentioned before, Dungeon Monkey Eternal was created to help me learn Python and to try out some new systems that I hope to include in a new GearHead game. Unfortunately, because DME creates short static adventures rather than a large dynamic world, it isn’t really a good test for some of those systems. …
Apr 13
The Cavalier Code
Obviously, when you have a large number of people walking around in colossal death machines, you’re going to need a few ground rules. The Cavalier’s Code is an honor system followed by cavaliers. It regulates many aspects of the job such as combat and employment. There are several local variants, such as the Crihna Rede …
Apr 09
Young Joe is lucky I don’t have a time machine
Going through the mission scripts, I found something so weird and bad that I can’t believe it hasn’t been noticed before. Apparently at some point in time I decided that faction missions shouldn’t scale by the PC’s renown; instead, each faction has an independent difficulty counter that increases each time the faction loads a new …
Apr 07
Standardizing Missions
One problem in GH1 is that there is no rhyme or reason to the mission rewards. The cash prizes and other bonuses don’t strongly correlate with the risks and requirements of the job. As I’ve said before, I was just making things up as I went along. Here’s what I think should be the new …
Apr 05
Being a Cavalier
Cavaliers are the wandering adventurers of the GearHead universe. The only things you need to join their ranks are a mecha and a blatant disregard for your own personal safety. Being a cavalier is more than simply being a pilot; it is a way of life, a statement of personal freedom, and quite often a …
Apr 04
GearHead 1 v1.300
I’ve just uploaded a new release of GH1 to GitHub. This one overhauls the SDL interface, updates the gender and romance options, allows skill training to be purchased for lancemates, and fixes a whole lot of bugs. Precompiled binaries for Linux and Windows are available; unfortunately, I don’t currently have access to a Mac. Detailed …
Apr 01
New Release Soon
I’m getting ready to make a new release of GearHead-1. The graphics changes seem to be working, but there are a couple of issues I’m hoping to iron out this weekend. Also, I’m pretty sure that there are going to be some problems that just slipped through my fingers, since you can’t really switch up …
Mar 29
Kettel Industries
The town of Gyori is nominally part of the Federated Territories, but the real power in charge is Kettel Industries. This company has divisions for everything from real estate to toothpaste. It is the wealthiest corporation on Earth, and consequently one of the wealthiest in the solar system. Tybog Kettel was a warlord in the …
Mar 28
Water and Stats
I did some work on the new interface today. The PC info box to the left of the message console now displays character stats, mecha movemode, and status conditions. Also, I’ve been playing around with seamless animated water tiles. I’m still not entirely happy with this version but it’s less bad than the first few …