Cogmind is now in its 9th year of continuous development, so as usual let’s take a look at the past year of progress in yet another annual review!

Although most of the feature progress I share is in the form of animated gifs, there are a handful of static PNGs as well which I’ve compiled into another collage for a visual overview of 2021:

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Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and Twitter (larger size here).

Hourly recording of dev work continues as usual, and the trajectory is similar to last year with more time put towards coding and work on the game itself as opposed to community-facing marketing-type stuff (an angle made easier by the lack of public releases, but we’ll get to that later :P). I’ve been a lot less interested in getting the word out and would rather

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Early this year Cogmind celebrated its 10th anniversary since it was first released as a 7DRL, and as the year comes to a close it’s once again time for an annual review to take a quick look at where we’ve been, and where we’re going!

First here’s our yearly dev collage showing off in visual form some of the progress and work since our last review, version 2022!

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Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here).

While lots of cool things have happened this year, I’m a bit disappointed that the past couple months were shattered by health and IRL issues (mostly repeated Covid interruptions), slowing what would’ve otherwise been an even more productive 2022. Technically I put in 7.5% more hours than the previous year, but the total fell 13.7% compared to 2020.

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Cumulative hours

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Fighting GamesPlease share your favourite martial arts online game with me and the reasons you prefer it by leaving your ideas in the comments capsule situated on the bottom of this hub.

Unlike different GTA-impressed games although the main target is available-to-hand combat and relies on a canopy system when the participant chooses to make use of a weapon (although I discovered it more pleasurable to always go for hand-to-hand because the management scheme actually shines if you use it). As the game is of the free-roam genre players can progress at their own pace via the storyline.

Mortal Kombat XL continues the grossly over-the-prime motion that has marked the collection. Fatalities are nonetheless gruesome and cringe-inducing, which is why playing it with a full stomach is not really useful. Bone-cracking Brutalities additionally return. Developer NetherRealm Studios additionally added interactive phases. For example, you’ll be able to choose up objects and …

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For years now I’ve been planning to eventually create a menu for accessing Cogmind’s lesser-used “special commands,” features not only requiring the keyboard, but even all assigned to Shift-Alt key combos. So these rarely needed (but still sometimes useful) features were already pretty clearly grouped together as a unit by their annoying modifier, but ideally they should be easier to trigger, not to mention also more readily available to mouse users.

I waited quite a while to implement this menu, mainly because I wanted to design and build it for a more stable and complete set of special commands, one that we couldn’t really be sure about until later in development (and sure enough these features have been gradually expanding and fluctuating over time, coming to a head in the current Beta 11). In the meantime it wasn’t an especially pressing issue because, again, these aren’t exactly commonly needed features,

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Last time I wrote about item variants and randomization in roguelikes, and how Cogmind is purely based on a large set of static items, but more recently I’ve been running an experiment to play with not-so-static items. The entire mechanic revolves around a single new utility: the Scrap Engine.

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A new utility is born.

The Scrap Engine operates like the Field Recycling Unit in that in addition to the normal inactive and active states it can also be cycled to COLLECT mode, during which it will “eat” items at the current location. These items are presumed to be disassembled and added to the Engine’s resources in order to be mixed with others and reassembled into new “constructs,” the name for a new category of randomized items. Instead of creating new ones it can also use these resources to modify existing constructs. Although in both cases the results are indeed based

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What is osrs gold? You see the term osrs gold more and more often when you look on the internet. Osrs gold stands for a virtual currency of an online game called Oldschool Runescape. In this game, you can collect osrs gold through various activities. You can use the skill Slayer to kill monsters, but also to do bosses and raids. In this way, you collect gold, but also valuable items that you can sell on the Grand Exchange. Collecting gold is complicated, yet very important for the progression of your account. You can use it to level up your skills and by means of high skill levels, everything goes a lot easier. Not everyone has time to collect gold, but it is still critical to have gold. So how do you get gold? In this article, we will elaborate on that, so you will know everything about it.…

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The Learn to Create Game Art in Blender 2022 Humble Bundle by GameDev.TV is now live. This contains several courses covering all aspects of learning to use the Blender 3D application. This includes low polygon 3D modelling, character creation, sculpting, environment design and more.

As with all Humble Bundles, it is organized into tiers:

1$ Tier

Blender Low Poly Landscapes Course

Finish IT Course

Mid Tier

Blender Visual Effects Course

Blender Low Poly Characters Course

25$ Tier

Complete Blender Creator Course

Blender Character Creator for Video Game Design Course

Blender Environment Artist Course

Create Anime Characters in Blender Course

Blender Dragon Sculpting Course

Blender Texture Painting Advanced Techniques Course

Pixel Art Characters Course

Assets – Blender Surface Texture Material Pack

As with all Humble Bundles, you decide how your funds are allocated between Humble, the publisher, charity and if you so choose (and thanks so much if you do!) to

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War GamesThere are far much less WWI video games than there are WWII and Vietnam video games. Flight simulation and level and click on are the principle World War I video games. The following list consists of the cream of the crop of WWI video games for a wide range of causes.

A really thrilling and humorous film. Was it attempting to be to be humorous, who is aware of, but it surely was. The pure stupidity of those characters was funny to me. The plot was really good, and really fascinating. I think a lot of people test it out. Must see, especially in case your in IT Still in my prime 5 favorite movies of all time. A timeless basic that discusses nuclear battle, and AI.

Based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert’s, the difference to the cinema was written and directed by David Lynch. Dune had many …

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Computer PartsRAM (Random Access Memory) is part of the primary reminiscence and act as a temporary storage, communicating together with your pc processor. It interacts with your laptop processor permitting it to multi process or run multiple programmes that runs on the similar time effectively. Your computer must have RAM to function. RAM is a type of flash memory and is faster than a tough drive memory as it takes much less time to search out and send out its stored data.

I had bought 4 computer systems and refurbished them. I bought an affordable $15 digital digicam for my adverts on craigslist. Finally I was prepared. I opened the doorways. I hadn’t planned for an indication, so I purchased a dry erase board, wrote on it,and stuck it on a chair. I was already making errors. Would I succeed or go down in flames? The first day went by with …

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Playing games is one of the popular activities to fill spare time. There are many types of game genres available, everyone has their own favorite game genre, be it action-adventure, role-playing, racing game, multiplayer online battle arena, and others.

Various Game Genres
So what are the divisions of the various game genres? The following are some types of popular game genres along with explanations, subgenres and examples of games according to genre.

Action

Action games have become one of the most popular game genres from the past until now. The hallmark of this game presents elements of action and action in the game. This game deals with shooting action, war, hitting each other and other reflex movements.

Action-Adventure

Action-adventure is a popular game genre that is widely played today. This game is a combination of action and adventure or adventure genres. In this genre, we will explore new places, collect …

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