Pencilgun

07/11/2025

A little WindQuest trivia 7-10-2025:
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The WindQuest station currently have 77 individual sections that can be restored and fully customized.

07/09/2025

A little WindQuest trivia 7-8-2025:
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The two main programs I am scripting the game in is Blender for 3D modeling and the Unreal Engine for the game engine. Each script that I work in has to be backed up periodically for obvious reasons. What I typically do is give each new backed up script a version number. This is common practice and the reason why you do this and not save over the same script file over and over is because something can go wrong as you work along and the script can corrupt which means it may not open at all, or it may open in a broken state. To protect yourself from this anomaly, you give each backup a new version number. So, you would start with script_v01 and then back that up as script_v01. Next time you do a backup save, you save it as script_v02 ... and so on.
In that way you always have another version to fall back on in case something happens to the current version.
As you climb with the version numbers, it's not necessary to keep all the versions so you start deleting the ones you started with. So, let's say you reach script_v100 then you delete script_v01 - script_v89.
So, you keep 10 current.
Right now, my Blender script version stands at: 1321 and
my Unreal Engine script version stands at: 866.

07/09/2025

WindQuest development update 07-08-2025:
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A major milestone has been reached. I just finished the construction of the station all the from roughly two thirds up all the way down to the very bottom.
Next step is to add a story / lore element at the very bottom floor of the station and then after that I am jumping all the way up to start finishing the top part of the station.
After I complete the construction of the entire station, I will do a "beauty pass" where I add in layers of debris the inhabitants left behind, sound effects for moving and working parts of the station and last but not least the side quests. Right now, I have outlines for 72 side quests, but I will probably narrow that down to a selected few and maybe add the rest with DLC.
Getting there :-)

07/08/2025