New at my Patreon... This curious scene was snapped at the main railway station in Ljubljana, Slovenia - with everyone posed as if extras in a Wes Anderson movie:
If you have been using #Unity and you wanna jump ship to the nearest competitor, #GodotEngine is gonna be your best bet. The structure of a project isn't exactly the same, but it's similar enough that it won't take long to adjust.
Below, I'll give a few tips and talk about pain points you might run into, to help you try it out properly, and make an evaluation. #GameDev
The Legend of Edgar is a platform game, not unlike those found on the Amiga and SNES. Edgar must battle his way across the world, solving puzzles and defeating powerful enemies to achieve his quest.
#ElonMusk creates the conditions on his #platform for #hateSpeech and #disinformation to run rampant, gets criticized by a chorus of people and institutions, loses revenue because his platform is now a #cesspool for #bigotry, and then singles out a #Jewish-identifying organization fighting #antisemitism as the one to blame. Get off #Twitter. Now. There's no rational basis for engaging with a platform that explicitly promotes and amplifies hate-speech and bigotry.
For several reasons (don’t @ me) I still have accounts on those other sites (winding down) and it’s continuously baffling to me that people I consider politically and academically smart continue to complain about #enshittification (of the #birxsite, of Google, of Chrome) but can’t be arsed to use the alternatives that are already in place. What is this phenomenon? Even those fleeing the #birdsite go to #bluesky - and talk about how it will very probably go down the same route. But #Mastodon is „unusable“, say the super communist critics of #tech on the central website of the very industry they complain about
@rheinze
People #complain about the fact they have to get used to new #tech that people might have never done anything with. It takes time to move to a new #platform, especially if it's #federated some people prefer the #control a site has with the #centralized system as it has a basis of who controls it. #Mastodon doesn't and that causes people to loose direction of focus on the bigger picture and become afraid about it. Or using a new tool that only #geeks use. That is why #meta made #threads
The fragmentation among friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly the kind of problem that Mastodon and the social web solves for. Imagine that you don’t have to pick and choose which new platform to adopt, or make and maintain a million accounts—because you can follow anyone regardless of which platform they’re on. That’s our reality.
"The fragmentation among #friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly..."
...what #musk and his #saudi backers wanted to begin with. It's the reason they bought the #platform. They planned to separate and extinguish #progressive#accounts and #networks that were using #twitter to organize. And it's mostly worked, unfortunately.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia has called the news about Serbia joining the Crimea Platform ?manipulations? and emphasised that the country did not support the declaration of this initiative.
If you're still using #Twitter, how do justify it? When is enough going to be enough? By continuing to use the #platform, you are supporting and contributing to the funding of #whiteSupremacists and actual #Nazis through #Elon's profit sharing program. You are co-signing to all the horrible shit Elon is doing. There's no good reason to continue playing a part in the harm Elon's actions are causing. Pack your shit and leave.
"In other words: how it should work is, I own the replies to my post. Just like how it works on my blog. On my #blog, I get to moderate according to my whim and don't owe anyone access to my #platform. If you have something to say that I don't choose to #boost to my followers, you can get your own blog (or top-level post).
I am aware that this is not how #Mastodon works today. I am saying that this is how it should work."
👀 Excited to finally plug my free #ebook on #PlatformEngineering! Sign up now to be the first to receive this guide to building a #Developer-first, #Platform-as-a-Product mindset, laying that Yellow Brick Road to success.
But, left unmoderated, social media tends towards a cesspool of bigotry. We have seen small cohorts of people with terrible ideas gain traction and spread their influence, with the platforms unable or unwilling to stem the tide of hatred.
I love following people on whatever #platform it is, and seeing their wonderful pieces. It saddens me that some people see social media as purely a way to get money into their pockets, where every post they put up in selling something and their is little actual #engagement with their audience.
So, if you’ve seen this, please buck the trend and engage in the social media platforms of your choice, #talk to people, create a social space within your own posts and encourage others to follow your lead.
#Place has ended... but our project is just beginning! If you don't know us, we're the place #atlas (#placeatlas)! Now, an important part for us requires the help of ANYONE who wants to help.
We're a project to document every piece on the r/place canvas. With a wiki, atlas, and following our motto "We document as it is, not how we want it to be". Our documentation efforts include policing the arguments between edits and contributions.
How can you #help?
Spread the #atlas as far as your communities can reach, make people aware that we exist, and tell them about our #documentation efforts with the entire #community of #r/place
Share our Reddit post free karma. Use it to display the art that you've worked to protect!
And most of all, document the event as it happened within your community. This is what powers the atlas, it's what allowed us to serve the community with our #platform and we hope to do so for many more years.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Planet Alpha is a 2.5D sci-fi platform puzzle game with stealth gameplay mechanics.
You are a tall, slender astronaut in a fishbowl helmet, who awakens on an alien planet, and sets off on a left-to-right journey of survival.
The game initially opens at the resolution of your main monitor... on your leftmost monitor.
Since my main monitor is an ultrawide, and my leftmost monitor is a FHD monitor that's up and to the left, this is... irritating. Only made worse by the fact that the game doesn't allow you to specify which monitor to start on.
Oh well. WIN+Shift+Right Arrow, and it's on the main monitor. And away we go and... crash.
For the third time this month, I spend more time troubleshooting a game than playing it. This turns out to be the same issue as Rock of Ages 2. Using a version of Unreal 4 that has a buggy version of OpenSSL that triggers a crash on >10th Gen Intel CPUs. Add a start-up command, and finally we're off.
First off, this is a gorgeous looking game. The alien environment is truly alien, and lighting is used to great effect.
It is completely wordless. There is no explanation as to why you're there, or what your goal is. No obvious backstory.
At first there's a lot of climbing and jumping, and getting timing right.
Then you're introduced to the fact that you apparently have the ability to control day and night, and move the environment backwards and forwards through the day-night cycle at will...ish. When the game lets you, for specific puzzles.
Dev forbid you should use the ability for the stealth puzzles.
Ah, stealth mechanics. The gameplay mechanic I love to hate.
There are particular contexts in which I'm OK with it. This is not one of those contexts.
A few minutes after encountering the day-night magical power, you find yourself in a room that makes the whole game even more confusing. I'm not sure what it was trying to communicate, but the angry robots who smashed through the walls and started hunting you certainly seemed unhappy about it.
How do you avoid them? Stealth mechanic. Does it work? Sometimes. The game's 2.5D environment means I'm never quite sure whether they can see me or not, until they shoot me and I die. Several times.
This is one of those games where I don't like the stealth mechanic. There are also no save points, just "chapters", but no clear indication as to where chapters start and finish.
In the end, while the game is SO very pretty, there's just nothing to motivate me to keep pushing right on the controller.
Chromavescence by Barney (maybebarney.itch.io)
A mind-bending reality platformer
opensara (play.devnewton.fr)
opensara is a platformer/shmup browser game starring the Open Game Art mascot Sara.
The Legend of Edgar (www.parallelrealities.co.uk)
The Legend of Edgar is a platform game, not unlike those found on the Amiga and SNES. Edgar must battle his way across the world, solving puzzles and defeating powerful enemies to achieve his quest.
Hikou no mizu version v 1.0 (hikounomizu.org)
Hikou no mizu (ハイクの水) is a free, libre, and open source platform-based fighting game....
Serbia renounces Crimea Platform declaration after meeting with Russia's ambassador (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia has called the news about Serbia joining the Crimea Platform ?manipulations? and emphasised that the country did not support the declaration of this initiative.