Well, the interview is over. Hope it went well.

I'm going to be interviewed about my game Little Wars tomorrow, so I thought I'd spruce it up a bit. What do you all think? Does it look DOS enough?

Last night's stream was frankly incredible. So many new Ultima lovers showed up! I think this was my favorite part.

Well, I was having the best stream I've ever had, at least 30 viewers, lots of talking about Ultima VII Revisited and how it came to be...and then my computer crashed. I knew that the swapfile was too small but I figured it'd be okay. It wasn't. I apologize to everyone.

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Bethesda, Object Persistence, and Gary Gygax youtu.be/8VFya2Dx3Vw

Why is Object Persistence so Important to Bethesda?

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From my stream last night: we finally get flowing water animations in, thanks to Wudan07!

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Welcome to ViridianGames! Why must objects persist?

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One thing I've discovered doing research for my video is that Cyberpunk 2077 has pretty good object persistence...even though it kind of doesn't need it? V can carry an immense amount, and there's only one simple crafting system in the game, so hoarding isn't necessary.

Okay, I was letting other things distract me from Little Wars, but no more! I was thinking that it might be fun to let the player make their castles out of individual blocks, and allow catapults to knock around those blocks. What do you think? Fun or too juvenile?

Testing the AI by watching it play against itself.

Remember how in the original Civilization you couldn't see your civilization's borders, so you didn't know which squares you could see enemies on and which ones you couldn't? Let's fix that!

I know I'm getting sidetracked but I'm now fascinated with pulling resources from older games and seeing what I can do with them. Here's a ship viewer from Wing Commander that I made in about four hours:

It's Monday, so it's time for my weekly reminder that I am a skilled game programmer who specializes in implementing gameplay systems, writing tools and creating user interface systems and I'd be happy to put those skills to work on your project!

So last night on the Ultima VII Revisited stream, I took the cooldown off Iolo's crossbow for testing purposes and this happened.

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Okay, I hate these less.

I made sprites for Little Wars and I was not happy with them. I thought, "Why can't I get them to look like people from The Settlers?" And the answer is that Settlers are actually constructed from multiple layers based on what they are doing and what direction they are going.

New archers and swordsmen for Little Wars. I spent a lot of time on them and frankly, I hate them. I should not be allowed to do art.

Little Wars: Arrows are now physical objects that bounce off things!

Good morning! I am Anthony Salter, game programmer, and if you need to get stuff done, I'm your guy. I've worked on everything from indie to AAA, from small teams to huge projects. Looking for permanent or contract work in a remote setting!

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Me: "Time to create a store page for Little Wars!" Steam: "Please upload a title page and logo!" Me: "Crap."

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How will you defend your little kingdom in Little Wars without a castle?

Little Wars work continues! Did someone order a turn-based strategy game with real-time combat like Warhammer: Dark Omen? I hope so, because that's what's for dinner!

Progress on Little Wars! The Steam page should be up as soon as my identity is verified.

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Archers in formation! Little Wars is getting closer!