Author Archives: R. Ritnour

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The latest Briddarri warship came hot off the assembly line, and it looks good. It is a dreadnought that dwarfs the standard Briddarri ship of line. I mean dwarfs it! It also generated some good discussion about shading for the ship design GUI. Read More

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We got a first look at the preliminary Naplian ship model this last weekend. It looks appropriately wicked. Getting to the design was an agonizing process. Read More

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We launched an e-mail version of the original Takamo PBEM a few weeks ago. We decided to do this so that the members of the development team could experience the old game to gain a better understanding of the look and feel of Takamo. Read More

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The original Takamo was three dimensional with a mapping system based on a modified XYZ coordinate system. The galaxy was divided into a series of cubes called “Sectors”. There were 17,576 Sectors in the galaxy. Each Sector was further divided into Subsectors, over 400,000 of them each holding as many as five star systems and each star system could hold up to 9 planets. This galaxy was huge but the online version will be even bigger. Read more