Preface It was my birthday yesterday! But it was a workday, so I couldn’t hung out with my friends. Instead I met up with my friends today. The agenda was simple: Attempt tempest tape mod on an one year old Rexus Legionnaire MX9 that I had laying around. Open up my laptop to do some deep cleaning Have dinner (this part is not interesting so I won’t say anything about this) Part 1: Tempest tape mod epic failure For those who are not in the know about what tempest tape mod is, it is applying masking / non sticky tape to the back part of your keyboard’s PCB to dampen the sound....

In one of my previous posts, I decided to go on a game development journey. The model used for the spaceship was a model that I got from this site, which has low poly models from Poly by Google (Poly by Google was closed as of 30 June 2021, but the site I used has an archive). As I progressed on, I wanted to make my own 3D models because it might be a valuable skill, and I didn’t want to depend on free assets....

Congratulations! You’ve survived another week at work or school/university, hooray! What do you want to do on the weekend? Here are some common answers that I could think of: I want to sleep, so that I can be at full energy by Monday. I want to hang out with my school/university/work friends, go to somewhere we can chat, have fun, etc. I want to play games, either alone or with friends....

On the 20th of March this year, I bought a bundle from Humble Bundle, called the “Stand with Ukraine Bundle”. It included many games, including Back 4 Blood, Satisfactory, Starbound, and many more. The bundle also contained other software and courses. One of the courses was this course, about 3D game development in Unity. I had some interest in game development, so I decided to follow along the course. The result was this game that I uploaded to their site....

Multiplayer So me and a couple of my friends wanted to play Starbound together. Hosting a server using your own machine or simply joining via steam is a viable option, but none of our connections were stable enough. If I hosted, sometimes packet loss would cause everyone to disconnect from the server (including myself, even though I was hosting the server). With that in mind, we decided to find a dedicated VPS to run the starbound server....