Richard Bailey
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I am currently working on expanding my writing topics and exploring different areas and topics of writing. I have a personal history with a very severe form of treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.
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4 Top Tips for Beginner Indie Game Devs. Top Story - May 2018.
1. Narrow your scope. It can be very easy to get excited about making a game you think everyone will love and want to make this incredible, complex game. Unless you are creating a game with a group of people it can be very daunting to create a very complex game. Keeping the game simple with some choices for the player is what you want to do, to begin with for your first few games. When you start off your first game with the in-depth game you’ve always wanted to make and it becomes overwhelming, many people end up giving up and feel defeated. The whole experience becomes negative instead of fun and enjoyable.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
How Positive Emotions Can Be Life Changing
For a long time now negative emotions have been identified as necessary emotions; they help to initiate the "fight or flight" mode when in danger. The negative emotions we experience help us narrow in on the danger and then make a decision that is in our best interest based on the danger we are facing. If you are feeling depressed, you know you should take some actions such as watching a good comedy, having a visit with good positive friends, and other activities to lift the mood. If you feel you are in danger from a person or an animal, you know that you may need to flee or stand your ground to fight the situation. The negative emotions allow us to narrow our perceptions to the situation.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Motivation
Get Twitter Followers Fast and Free
Everybody wants to get more Twitter followers and preferably more followers fast. We are going to look at methods to increase the rate you get more followers. This is not going to include purchasing followers, as this could get you banned from Twitter, and most sites that offer purchased followers give followers that are fake, low quality or just bots.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Lifehack
Nine Great Tips To Improve 'Fortnite Battle Royal' Gameplay
Go to tilted towers, even if you are a beginner, this gets you into the action of the game and playing against other players faster. This helps you from wasting so much time looking and searching for other players to attack. Tilted towers also will help you in learning how to do combat with shotguns and other close-range weapons, as well as long-range weapons like sniper rifles. This is a great place to play a few warm-up games to get you ready for more serious squad games. Make sure you organize your loadout with your weapons. Setup an assault rifle, shotgun, maybe a secondary shotgun or a rocket launcher weapon, be sure to include a healing kit and a long range sniper rifle for when needed. You will likely be using the assault rifle the most so keep that in your first slot, followed by the shotgun to easily switch for any type of close range combat. It may take you a few seconds to set up or organized loadout but this will save you time during combat and make for easy transitions to your weapons and medkit as you are fighting. Make sure you are using a headset and have the volume turned up on the headset. This keeps people from easily sneaking up on you. You will be able to hear people running, building, shooting nearby, harvesting resources and even setting up traps in the nearby area, allowing you to be alert and paying more attention to your surroundings. In your squads and teams, make sure you are giving out good callouts for your teammates, such as "I see two at North 58, I see three at South East 257" etc. This will help your teammates with identifying where people are in the event they are nearby and can also offer some assistance. Keep up the building editing when you are inside one of your constructed buildings. Enemies cannot see that you are in the edit mode but you can see through that wall, edit a window or a door and make the edit allowing you to then start attacking the enemy player before they have a chance to respond to the building edit and where you are. This keeps you from destroying the wall and does take some practice but will pay off in the end. Hunt for shields and heals, even if you are still at 70 percent health, that extra 20 percent health can make a difference when you hit combat between life and death. Always try to keep your shield and health at a maximum. Take some time to leave combat alone for a bit until you can bring your health and shields back up. A basic tip but still important to always remember that when you are farming resources hit the blue circle. This will allow you to farm faster and keep yourself moving from resource to resource. This will allow you to farm twice as fast which means you get materials twice as fast. Thus, allowing you to get what you need and get back in action. Always crouch while using assault rifles. You will see most of the better players doing this and this makes your aim much more accurate. With shotguns, this will not be as big of a deal, but makes a difference with assault rifles, and try not to be moving too much. How good your weapon is will also make a difference i.e. a common, blue, purple or gold weapon. When using a shotgun and jumping up and down as you shoot, you want to shoot when you are at the apex of the jump, at the top of your jump. This will give your spread with the shotguns a little bit more accuracy, helping you to defeat your enemy faster. Always try for a head shot causing the most damage.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
5 Common Misconceptions About Mental Illnesses
As we grow as a society and uncover more truths, mental illnesses start to show themselves more and more. Not because it is more common, but because more people are talking about the problems they are having instead of trying to hide it all the time. This doesn’t mean that people don’t hide their illness, but they are actively seeking help. Stigma is still an issue that is attached to mental illnesses and those that suffer from them. As someone who suffers from severe treatment-resistant depression, I see and hear those stigmas all the time, and a lot comes from people being uneducated about mental health and mental illnesses. Here are five common myths about mental illnesses.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Psyche
Questions to Answer to Create Your RPG Storyline
Have you ever wanted to build an RPG game but not sure where to begin with your story? Sometimes the storyline can be the hardest part of building your game. You want to make the story interesting and have an idea of where you are going with the game. Without having some basic information about your story you can end up sitting down in front of your computer screen staring and wondering what to do next. Here is a list of questions to help you get started so you can start making an RPG of your own and keep you on track as you build your game.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
How to Create Lighting Effect in Construct 2 and 3
Often times in your game, you might want to have your player in a dark place and add a lighting effect either to the player themselves or to torches on the wall or other objects to give the feeling of being in a dark place and provide the player with some light to see. In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to create a lighting effect in Construct 2, and this should also be able to be applied to Construct 3.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
How to Create a Tilemap Spritesheet for Construct 2 & 3
When creating a game in Construct 2, where tiles are being used, such as a platformer, top-down shooter or RPG game, using a tilemap becomes extremely useful and is the best and easiest way to go about it. Without a tilemap, you would have to create an object instance of the tile, and then make multiple instances of that object by clicking and copying, or holding CTRL, then click and drag to copy. Placing the tiles this way can become very time intensive.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Gamers
