Happy Sunday, kids!

We are playtesting our first game, the team-based PvP shooter codenamed Project Cadiz, and the gameplay has been fast and furious!

If you’re just here for the video game violence, skip to here.

If you want to know more about the development process and Old Glory Studios, read on…

In this dispatch:

• SOPs

  • You Down With FPP?

• Status Report

  • The Lead Faucet

• Old Glory Recommends

  • Quantum Game Jam

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_SOPs

You Down With FPP?

A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our friends who’ve been helping with playtesting our first playable prototype. It’s been so much fun, and your suggestions have all been great.

To those not in the know, a “first playable prototype” (FPP) is the first version of a video game that you can actually play. None of the assets are complete. Sometimes, the game is just an mannequin running around an environment made up of white boxes:

We delivered the FPP for Project Cadiz at the beginning of August, and the next step for us will be our vertical slice. A vertical slice should represent a slice of our game, from somewhere in the middle, and it will have most of the features of the final game. It’s a bit of an ambitious timeline, but our goal is to get there in the Spring.

After an FPP comes the Alpha version, which would be like a complete rough draft of the game. Then, the Beta version, which is more refined and ready to test by many more users.

We plan on completing the Beta version of Project Cadiz by the end of 2025.

_{Status Report}

The Lead Faucet

I recommend watching in HD and turning the volume WAY up.

_{Old Glory Recommends}

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Quantum Game Jam

The Laguna College of Art + Design, CalTech, and Quantum Realm Games are collaborating to host their first-ever Quantum Game Jam.

The idea is to use video games as a platform to test and showcase the possibilities of quantum computing. The intro reel below seems to promise a game engine that “approximates” quantum computing.

Quantum Realm Games has released a game called Quantum Chess to Early Access. I haven’t played it yet, but when you move a piece, due to superposition, it can exist on more than one space.

The video game possibilities of quantum computing are kind of mind-blowing, and they completely dwarf the dog and pony show that is natural language processing, i.e. ChatGPT plug-ins.

We are headed back to the grindstone to bring you more digital mayhem! See you in a couple weeks.

—Lewis Manalo, Executive Producer

Stay dangerous!

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