TIL: Learn to Code in C++ by Developing Your First Game (Section 4, Lectures 120-124)

It’s been a busy week for me! I finished a play-through of Final Fantasy Tactics War of The Lions last week. It’s my first time through that particular version of the game (though I have to admit logging hundreds of hours into the PS1 version back in the 90’s). Play it, if you can. It’s one of the best games of all time IMO. I also have finished up my first ever play-through of Endless Legend. T’was an alright game… but I didn’t enjoy as much as the Civ series.

With the Steam Summer sale in gear, I’ve been using Steam Idle Master to start farming my backlog for Steam trading cards. I figure I may as well build up my Steam Wallet and see if I can’t get a game or two added to my backlog. That sad… sad… ever growing backlog. So far I’ve got $8 into my account and have only managed to buy a single game (Material Girl [Don’t judge me. Don’t you dare judge me.]). I have not gotten around to playing it yet. Not sure what year it will be before I do.

Anyways, I’ve been slowly working through my gaming backlog this year, and I’ve currently got 8 more titles left on my to-do list for the year! I’m not 100% sure what I’ll tackle next… but it might be Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. For now though, I’m going to stick with the tutorials this particular blog post is supposed to be about, getting back into a regular bouldering regime, reading through The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design, developing an upcoming Houdini curriculum I intend on unleashing to you this year and (of course) practicing both French and Japanese. Busy, busy, busy.

And now for my notes… Read More >

TIL: Learn to Code in C++ by Developing Your First Game (Section 4, Lectures 115-119)

Wowzers! I haven’t touched Unreal Engine since the end of 2016! That’s… that’s actually a little sad. I enjoy UE4 quite a bit! So let’s get back into this.

Now… just to avoid any confusion here. The last one of these Today I Learned posts I made was for Section 4, Lectures 105-109. Logic dictates that the next one (ie: this one) should start at lecture 110… but the course has seemingly added 5 additional videos at some point during the past 5(!!) months. So that said, let’s jump in at 115. Read More >

The Vagabond Gamecast is on Hiatus!

Well, well, well! It looks like a certain member of the Gamecast just couldn’t help but create more life! And as we all know, in order to create one life, another must come to an end.

We hope to resume in the future, but Matt’s gonna be a busy little beaver for an undetermined amount of time… so to all our faithful listeners… thanks for all the fish!

Oh, and congrats, Matt!

TVG: 1.23 – The Best Games (Sorted By Console) Pt. 2

Surprise! It’s part 2 of our little tour through our favorite games on gaming consoles of times past. We’ll (roughly) follow the chronological ordering for these systems right up into the present through this series.

After a bit of chatting about recently gaming (including Rockman X 1 and 2 for Matt, and Final Fantasy Tactics and A King’s Tale for Stephen) these brothers hop into some game listin’ and discussing…

This week we run through the 32-bit / CD age and end with a brief touch on the Gameboy Color. Obviously, it’s mega important that you check the details inside! Read More >

The Vagabond Gamecast is a podcast by Stephen Tucker and Matthew Langille that covers gaming from the perspective of nomadic parents.
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TVG: 1.22 – The Best Games (Sorted By Console) Pt. 1

Alrighty-roo true believers, welcome to the multi-part “Best Games” series of Vagabond Gamecasts! Matt and Steve are going to be sitting down for the next little while and catching up on just what their favourite games were on each console.

Let’s be honest here… our two heroes are in their early 30’s which means that they practically missed out on the first two console generations. For this reason, we’re going to be skipping ahead straight to the Third Generation and even then we’re going to be skipping a lot of the consoles as we go.

So in this week, we’ll look at the Third and Fourth Generation of consoles. Our top quintesential titles? Click the Read More button to quickly skim or, obviously, listen to the podcast! Read More >

The Vagabond Gamecast is a podcast by Stephen Tucker and Matthew Langille that covers gaming from the perspective of nomadic parents.
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