This weekend, a couple of friends traveled halfway across the country for a visit. These friends are the ones who invited my wife and I to play Pathfinders, our first IRL RPG adventure! We play remotely, including our son and daughter, who join us by taking a break from their college lives. One of the […]
Read more...I have big ambitions. Most of my projects are large with many moving parts. Whether it is a game engine for simulating tabletop games, or writing a novel or collection short stories, such enormous projects can feel overwhelming. I know I can only focus on the small pieces, one at a time. Sometimes, those little […]
Read more...As both a bit of coding practice and preparing for future personal coding challenges, I had constructed a few mini-games over the last few months. Mini-games, like Code Breaker, a tic-tac-toe game, and other code-practicing projects. As I work towards making the Pegamoose Games site more useful and entertaining, I have decide to share these […]
Read more...Recently, on social media, people posted nine books without explanation of why their selected titles were a good way to get to know that person. I took it steps further by not only listing nine books, but why these nine books are relevant to me. Apart from books, I thought I should also do a […]
Read more...These days, when it comes to social media, I am most active on BlueSky. Two types of posts captured my attention, and got that idea hamster wheel in my mind a-churnin’. The first were posts triggered by a recent feature added to BlueSky—DMs. People complaining about dealing with lewdness in their DM inbox. The other […]
Read more...With the spring semesters wrapping up and flowing into the summer break, our Pathfinder group has started up again now that schedules are freer. In our first session back, our son joined our merry band of adventurers, which brought back my early days of exploring D&D. I do not remember exactly when I first learned […]
Read more...I may be a gamer, but I do not follow sports. However, a couple of recent headlines caught my eye. One was about politicians and blocking transgendered people from participating in campus sports. The other was about pay inequality between men and women athletes. These stories got me thinking…Why aren’t their more professional co-ed sports? […]
Read more...Over the past few weeks, I presented myself with challenges motivating me to work through various coding hurdles for Peggy (Tabletop Game Engine). I have a fourth challenge dealing with additional CRUD for a game’s data objects. I set that one aside and considered another challenge (#5) exploring multi-faced game pieces (dice and cards). I […]
Read more...Today, I will be talking about roadmapping. Tomorrow, I will be discussing how to refold the roadmaps. Joking aside, roadmaps are a crucial tool for working on projects of any size. Of the companies where I have worked, those that used well-crafted roadmaps often succeeded more than those that those that neglected their roadmap. I […]
Read more...A requirement for big projects is dividing the work into manageable chunks. I learned that lesson at an early age when told to go clean my pigsty room and had no idea where to start. When it comes to Peggy, the game engine has so many chunks, I struggle with starting points. Each time I consider starting on […]
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