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Still unsure if I should keep going with this. It is kind of fun but really limited. I think the next step is to add a butt-tonne of content and a questing system. I can see how that will work but it's a lot of work to do and I don't want to sink any more time if it's just not fun.

I'd appreciate some more feedback on whether some of the concerns you had on how fun it is to move the Cloudship around and shoot etc. Is it still a pain in the arse?

Download the release here.

Thanks again, chaps!

A big, big thank you for all the feedback. I've taken it all on board and I think the vast majority have made it either into the next big release or the ideas backlog. I've started with the most important thing: it's a bastard to drive. While it's a bastard to drive then everything else: fighting, exploring and collecting Flotsam is a pain in the arse. Get it right or go home.

Since I updated to Unity 2018.2, my buildings no longer behave.

I'm beyond fucking upset. I have no idea how to solve this problem.

I need your help; your subjective opinion - is it fun? Can it be more fun with more work? Is it bankrupt? Is the core mechanic ideas worth pursuing?

If enough of you think it is, then I'll keep going. If not, then I'll park it and move on.

DOWNLOAD HERE unzip and run the Cloudship exe.

Paletton

I love playing with colours. It's half the reason that rebranding always took too long! Paletton is a hand colour tool that has a great feature showing complementary with luminosity values too.

Still trying to get exciting by doing and learning new things...

Blender Tutorials by Blender Guru

Dave Keating, my mentor in the Cybernetics Department would always so that before doing artificial intelligence, we should strive for artificial stupidity. After all, he would argue, we can't agree what intelligence really looks like but we can agree on stupidity!

A clutch of links and things I've found that I like. You might like too.

Minecraft builds of McNoodlor

Charming, tight and each well constructed. Such as:

This update felt like I have done a whole load of stuff but really, I've learnt a load of stuff. I put a new menu, which I won't dwell on. It's just a nice new picture. None of it has been brain-taxing like sodding building placement was. Here's the video:

Throughout my career, I have found myself repeating the following mantra:

Don't build an engine in an engine. Use the engine.

If you need a way to have a flexible schema in SQL, implement SQL CREATE/INSERT COLUMN etc. If you need a series of page that follow one after another then use ASP.NET with HTML hyperlinks, don't build another engine inside it.