Gaming, Software Development, VR & General Blogging
For this version I have begun giving the other players some AI, however it’s very basic for now. For the AI player, if he detects that the ball is available he will run towards it. Once he collects it he will make a pass to you. I have also added the player velocity to the …
For this version I have added something that was in the original Football Superstars game – Space Passing. This allowed you to target a team mate and use the spacebar to pass the ball directly to his feet, even if he was running. To get this to work you have to resort to some mathematics. …
For this version, I loaded the Mixamo football character into Blender and created some new football kit textures for him using Gimp. I also created a goalkeeper version and gave him a goalkeeping idle animation taken from Mixamo. I now have two teams on the pitch. None of them have been programmed to do anything …
Football Superstars was a third-person football MMO which largely flew under the radar, which is a shame for such an excellent and unique football game. It ran continuously from around 2008 – 2020, undergoing a change of ownership around 2014. It is easily my most played game ever with Steam showing around 6000 hours of …
I thought I’d lost this diary forever, but thanks to the Web Archive I’ve managed to recover most of it. Some of the images and files are gone, but I’ve put back what I managed to recover from the archives. Also, some of the old links no longer exist, but I’ve changed them to point …
Another blog I thought I’d lost forever but managed to recover using the Wayback Machine Web Archive. I built this arcade machine from scratch back in 2003. Unfortunately, I no longer have any of the pictures of the work in progress but I still have a few of the finished product! Sadly, this cabinet no …
I finally finished my MAME cabinet in summer 2005; two and a half years in total! Actually, it was great fun building it and I would recommend anyone who enjoys MAME to have a go! It really does enhance the arcade experience. To sum up the final construction: I bought a nice quality MAME logo …
My Marquee retainer arrived from Happ Controls. I’m not quite sure how to fix it on yet, but until I get my marquee sign made I’m not going to worry about it too much. I also ordered some spare buttons and a replacement switch for one of my joysticks as one of them had lost the …
I bought some Plexiglass the other day from B&Q. After making some careful measurements I marked out the required shapes on the Plexiglass using a felt-tip pen. I knew that cutting this stuff without breaking it was going to be a challenge, but it had to be done! Fortunately, I only need straight edges so …
After much web searching and thinking about what to use as a bezel I eventually decided to make my own. I based my design on the tutorial from Dens Gameroom. However, since I didn’t have an existing bezel that I could use as a template, I drew my own design based on the pictures shown. I …