https://hooby.blog/A blog about anything I'd like to write about. Mostly video games and especially Stars Reach. 2026-05-09T14:25:16+02:00 hooby https://hooby.blog/ Jekyll © 2026 hooby /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-05-09T14:01:00+02:00 2026-05-09T14:01:00+02:00 https://hooby.blog/posts/shadowrun-boston-unlocked/ hooby

Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown was released in 2015, unplayable at first, barely playable later. It released an expansion in 2016, went into maintance mode shortly after, and got shut down in mid 2018. Efforts to revive the game with private servers were stuck in Limbo for eight years. But it finally happened last month! Shadowrun Online has returned. The History 2012 was the year when...

2026-04-27T15:41:00+02:00 2026-04-27T15:41:00+02:00 https://hooby.blog/posts/stars-reach-crafting-in-practice/ hooby

In this post we are taking a close look at crafting in Stars Reach. Especially at what the current formula for calculating item stats (PQRV-values) means for crafting in practice. This post might be a short-lived one, as crafting in the game is work-in-progress and likely to change. Potentially soon even. Thus, what is being described in here, might no longer be true, depending on when you are...

2026-04-22T19:01:00+02:00 2026-04-22T19:01:00+02:00 https://hooby.blog/posts/how-many-frames-per-second-do-you-need/ hooby

Technically, both video games and movies are just a series of still frames (individual pictures), that are shown in quick succession. It’s only due to our human perception and brain, that we perceive an illusion of continuous movement - if that playback of individual images is fast enough. But how fast is fast enough? Movies And Biology The early movie industry found out, that 24 images per ...

2026-04-04T13:44:00+02:00 2026-04-04T13:44:00+02:00 https://hooby.blog/posts/PAT28-open-horizons/ hooby

Welcome to this newest entry in my ongoing series of blog posts reporting on the (P)re-(A)lpha-(T)ests of Stars Reach. Stars Reach is a currently in development social sandbox MMORPG, designed by Raph Koster, who is well known for designing both UO and SWG (pre-CU). Stars Reach aims to create a truly living virtual world and society - using a design approach that’s heavy on systems and simulat...

2026-04-03T13:25:00+02:00 2026-04-03T13:25:00+02:00 https://hooby.blog/posts/stars-reach-and-the-skill-cap/ hooby

I hope we can all agree that it would be a problem, if an MMORPG allowed a player to train up a character that is a level infinite soldier, priest, mage, ranger, summoner and assassin all at once. A: “So, what’s your role?” B: “Oh, I’m a tank, healer, melee dps, ranged dps, pet class. But I also can do stealth, buffs and debuffs and crowd control.” In an MMORPG that is designed around ha...