#cosmoscope

any aspiring astrologers around here? I was surprised I couldn't find a 3D astrology sim app that suited my specifications so I set out on a quest to make the vision in my heart. I'm calling it COSMOSCOPE! It doesn't currently have all the extra bells and whistles but can provide all the info from the default settings of astro-seek.com (tropical zodiac, Western Placidus house system) - in fact if you have an account there with a database of natal charts, you can import them right into this program :D My goal is to make a comfortable 3D simulated space to analyze planetary positions in relation to each other, something both cozy and functional.

Coming soon to itch.io and maybe steam :3 It also features a heliocentric mode! Pls ignore blinking Chiron, it's being cheeky...

And then we hear the Plane of Magic is opposite that, and it's the wellspring of all magic. What does that even look like? Magic unfiltered by physics? Pure, abstract chaos?

But both of those planes' energies are filtered through the Ethereal Plane into the Prime Material Plane. So it's a combination of those (along with all the other planes) that exists there.

In this series, wizards are pretty common. E.g. a lot of people learn magic through study, specifically. What's pretty cool to me is... well, the ability to learn magic means it inherently conforms to some system of logic & is understandable with human thought. Which means... it's the filtering into the Material Plane that makes magic become a learnable thing in the first place!

[id: traditional drawing of a fake Empress tarot card of Maureen Miller from TAZ. She’s a humanoid androgynous robot who is mostly light grey. Her eyes are blank, and emit a white light - and her head is slightly tilted upward. Her right arm is stretched above her head, and she’s holding a disk in hand that has a yellow light. Her left hand holds a multicolored stone, and her chest holds a glowing yellow circuit. Behind Maureen are twelve round disks (aka the cosmoscope) implanted into a mettallic wall design. The disks are colored to be (in order) diamond, emerald, pearl, opal, sapphire, peridot, turquoise, amethyst, aquamarine, garnet, topaz, and ruby. End id]

Morphies Law is definitely worth following ⊟ 

I did not expect an indie developer to deliver a team-based shooter for the Switch with a concept as strange and compelling as Splatoon, but Swiss studio Cosmoscope has something here with Morphies Law:

“The basic law of the game is simple: Each weapon hit transfers mass from the victim's inflicted limb to the corresponding limb of the wielder of the weapon. As an immediate consequence, skilled players become tall and easy to hit, whereas beginners shrink until they become difficult targets. Highly skilled players may therefore play with casual players in the same match and both can enjoy the Game. Your skill will not be expressed by your kill-death-ratio, but by your body size. Different body sizes require different strategies. A player with tall legs can jump on buildings, small players can hide in tiny holes. The size of every limb has an impact on your abilities and properties. For example the behavior of your butt-rocket depends on the size of your lower body. A successful player adapts to his own body-size.”

I love the concept’s built-in way of scaling the difficulty for people who might not be great at shooters (people like me lol):

The “robot morphology driven 3D shooter” is slated to launch as a console exclusive for Switch this winter (a PC version is also in the works).