Alex

@andyp1599 @UGLE_GrandLodge @jk_rowling Adjusted for inflation it costed around 70 million. At the moment there are around 150k members in England. If you were to take that estimation it would be around £500 a member. Most I know definitely don't have deep pockets (especially nowadays) but love what they do.

@UGLE_GrandLodge @jk_rowling Must have cost a few bob, have freemason’s got deep pockets then ?

Last night we had a dinner to celebrate the publication of The Hallmarked Man and if you’re reading it you’ll understand why this was the perfect venue: a genuine Masonic temple hidden away in the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street 1/2

@thesamparr No

It’s hard to have the best conversations on zoom. They happen irl. So Hampton’s going all in-person in London. Groups of 7-8 founders meeting monthly. I’ve been with my group for 3 years. They get the stuff no one else does. Totally life changing. Wanna join?

@cso4x @BittBurger @sama Damn, why do you have so much rage? Maybe go outside bro.

@letsbuildalex @BittBurger @sama LOL So fucking predictable. It's not a demo, you sperg. It's a clip of an unnamed model with zero details.

🤔

@cso4x @BittBurger @sama Damn. A local model can move my files? Stop the world. I think you're missing the point man - it's an awful demo.

@letsbuildalex @BittBurger @sama 36Gb. WIFI off (local). Agent that can act on your system - like moving files. Setting off conversations about the open source model they kept promising You may now sperg out about how model X could do this and [tails off into bored yawn because you missed the point again]

@cso4x @BittBurger @sama So what is the point here?

@BittBurger @sama Well done on missing the point

Started adding mobs to Homestead. Apparently they're incredibly aggro AND can attack through collisions. Impressive!

and yes it's a sheep can't you tell by the fact that its white?

I'm just gonna start doing a few updates on my game, homestead, then if someone is interested cool. Anyway, today I managed to break networking by adding periodical saving. This forcefully disconnected everyone after save. Great stuff.

@mxol1s1 About two years on and off :)

How long has your game been in development? Mine 6 months now 😭

Changed my chunk generation to use perlin noise rather than randomness. The result? A LOT of sheep... maybe too many?

Playing with world generation today. I moved away from complete randomness to perlin noise, which makes things feel slightly more "natural". Unless it's rocks, of course, then nothing is natural...

The latest addition to Homestead is sheep. Everything in Homestead in non-violent, so actions on animals and fauna are purely to yield non-violent resources. Shearing a sheep will yield wool, which no doubt will have it's uses...

Homestead reached my internal version 0.1 today. 0.1 means, admittedly, not a lot; crafting, storage, moving and interacting with the world. But it also paves the way for what should be pretty fast development from now on. For 0.2 I will focus on "fun". Stay tuned💐

Crafting in Homestead allows you to create objects from your environment to help you build and trade. Although there is progression, it's very much focused on creating for joy. Visually, Homested is very much in "building" phase, so it should be cleaner soon!

The game I'm building, Homestead, is there to provide you with a space to exist in, outside of your current world. It focuses entirely on building, with no purpose but to exist. It is calming and a beautiful canvas for you to express yourself in 💚🌲

This year, I promised myself to do more of the things I love and less of the things I don't. For 10 years, I have dreamt of building a game. I spent the last year, on and off, building the engine. I'm now starting to build that world and I can't wait to share it with you 💚