I know it’s a little late for a June status report. I have a number of small updates to give and it’s easier to just put them all together on one post. On my agenda for today is the resurgence of COVID-19, a site upgrade, the planned re-opening of the baseball season, and the Steam…
Over the course of this week, and possibly into next week, I will be performing a series of site changes that are likely to bring Worlds of Nations offline for extended periods of time. If you need access to any of the files or scripts during the outage, place a comment on this post or…
I would be remiss if I didn’t take some time to actually talk about the ongoing pandemic. For today’s update, I want to take a moment and let you all know why my updates have been spotty for the past three months and how much longer I expect this to continue. I had a suspicion…
May sees a return to normalcy but a significant increase in my real-life workload. The focus of this late May update will be on the impact the pandemic has on things for the past few months. I will specifically be focusing on the state of the website, the status of the EDCE tournament, and some…
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve connected to the outside world. The initial panic and urgency as the world shut down has subsided. In its place is an acceptance of what a steady state looks like for the foreseeable future. With it will return a resemblance of normalcy to my own life as it…
Not 20 days ago I had a completely different update in mind for March. I was going to post on Friday the 13th, the first back to back updates on unique days in one year. I had plans to do some new modding while also exploring some creative ideas I had. This week, the world…
I was able to make some good progress this week on some improvements to the Modern Units Database as well as the script drawing the Random Earth Map. I’m hoping to get some of these updates posted this weekend. In the event I don’t, here is a quick update for this Leap Day. First, let’s…
Starting in 2001 NASA began releasing public, detailed imagery allowing modelers to recreate the Earth in high resolution. The project was dubbed Blue Marble in reference to Earth’s appearance from space. This set represents an attempt to bring that imagery to Empire Deluxe through a full enhancement of the original terrain graphics. It is available…
You may have noticed many of my screenshots over the past year feature a darker tile set than the original EDCE graphics. I completed about 80% of this set early last year before I stopped working on it to focus on MUD. With the alpha release out of the way, I’m picking up right where…
It has been a year since I laid the foundation for a new UDB in EDCE. I dabbled a bit with the Falklands map set to get a feel for if this would work and I got positive feedback from that experience. It was this time last year I truly committed to starting this set…
