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 have completed an upgrade to the Random Map Generator. It’s available on EDIBLE or with the original REM link. This change replaces the previous version since the output has not changed and the maps are backward compatible. The main change was meant to improve the performance of the map generation process which was causing…
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…
The Random Earth Map generator is posted. You can access the latest version here or find it on EDIBLE along with its supporting unit set. This is not a final version and contains several bugs, but it works which is why I’ve posted it regardless of the issues. In my last update, I commented on…
This is the Random Earth Map (REM) Generator. This will randomly generate a map of Earth using data collected from NASA, USGS, and the United Nations. Each map contains approximately 100 randomly selected cities from the World GDP report with values greater than $1Bn. It also draws supplies from the world’s strategic reserves. All locations…
I completed the first full test run of the Earth Map generator. You may remember the beginning stages of this back in 2018 before shelving it for another project. Well, today I finished it off and successfully loaded the first full Earth map into EDCE with success. The screenshot attached to this post if the…
All last week, and especially this weekend I performed an end to end play testing of MUD. The results were “less than desirable” to put it mildly. Put more correctly, they were downright depressing and made me question the effort I put into my free time over the past month. Be warned, the rest of…
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…
