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pux0r3

@pux0r3@mastodon.gamedev.place

Dad, gamer, tinkerer, mobile game developer, roboticist, and developer advocate for Android (formerly Firebase).

Credits include Monopoly, Space Miner, Book of Heroes, Ninjatown, Sphero's BB-8, Sphero Spider-Man, Sphero RVR, and Google Play Games on PC.

Opinions are my own. Also https://patrick.games/

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pervognsen, to random
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Somehow I doubt it. Headline: "Microsoft is finally getting its native Windows UI platform act together with WinUI 3 and WPF."

pux0r3,
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@pervognsen WinForms continues to be my favorite UI framework - they need to just make that their main again!

pux0r3, to random
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When I first started making games, I used Klik&Play. This let me just drag/drop clipart into a scene and randomly start adding behaviors. So easy in fact that I used to sit at the computer with a friend and just make a game to then play vs. each other.

Part of me wonders why game engines aren’t that easy anymore, and another part of me just wonders if my mind has been broken enough by real software dev that I’m not willing to just make garbage spaghetti code that won’t last beyond the day.

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 I suppose I got fast-ish again when I was prototyping (a game in 2-3 work days, usually with specialized hardware). But when I sit down with my 6yo now, we can’t just easily jam a bunch of components together within her attention span (yet). Microsoft MakeCode gets close, but part of what I miss was the giant sprite library.

I do miss game jams though, I’ve been told to please stop (as long as I’m on a partner team) which is a bummer (it would be a huge bummer if I had more free time)

pux0r3, to random
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Wait, when did it become easier to hook up external monitors to Linux than macOS?

I remember trying to panic-edit an xorg.config before a talk, and now I have to re-plug my MacBook if it goes to sleep.

pux0r3, to random
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I feel like one of my biggest wastes of time is that every app I use for work is a web app - and every web browser default opens things in tabs (outside of PWAs, you can’t turn this off).

So now the important document is buried under memes, random forum posts, and whatever other research/distraction happened. On days when I can focus, this means I open the same doc/workspace 20 times. On days when I can’t, it means that I just have nonsense literally pushing work away.

pux0r3,
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I'm old enough to remember Firefox 1.0 (Linux browsers back then were either Netscape which was weird and purple, Opera with its banner ads in a web browser, or a pile of incompatible Gnome/KDE specific ones) and that tabs were an awesome selling point you held over your friends trapped in IE.

Now I just want to turn them off.

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@raptor85 Huh, I wonder if those all merged in my mind.

pux0r3, to random
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It's weird that companies that sell DRM even exist. If DRM actually worked, we wouldn’t also need the DMCA.

pux0r3,
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@azonenberg I should start with “I am not a lawyer” so I might not know what I’m talking about but:

I would still question why you need a dedicated licensed software solution when you could just have a Jr. engineer do the most basic of copy protection and still have DMCA protections. Or even doing anything outside of what stores like Steam do as a function of existing would seem silly.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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The first rule of Etymology Club is, wait hold on did you know that the word "club" meaning a group of people with a common goal is of 17th century origin and refers to the idea of a mass of people as being like a club, in the older sense of a cudgel, what were we talking about?

pux0r3,
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@ZachWeinersmith Arch rivals of the entomology club!

seandick, to gamedev
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it's not a proper platformer unless you have a ground pound.

video/mp4

pux0r3,
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@seandick The ground pound tracking the platform around a curve is pretty ace!

pux0r3, to random
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So yesterday I bought some new music (got an album from Snarky Puppy and some Scary Goldings/Scary Pockets), got in my car, went to turn it on, and my backend sync server was down.

Of course the reason why I do this is I like paying artists for their work and I was tired of not hearing songs anymore because they’ve been silently removed from services. I really just want an iPod back (or for Android phones to have SDCards again so I can just load them up with songs).

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 I’m not sure the actual current state of SD card support in Android other than /sdcard is being deprecated for a newer “scoped storage API” and most flagships don’t have sd card slots.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/storage/sdcardfs-deprecate

I don’t think people really make phones I want either, which is a bummer. I tend to take whatever work gives me (which is also why I don’t know the current state, Pixels don’t have sdcards) and use a computer for most of what other folks like phones for.

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 How do you handle syncing things as far as ratings/tags? Most of my playlists are like x+ stars (depending on my mood, 3+ or 4+) mixed with “collections” in Plex (ex: Ska day? Cover band day? &c). I care enough to build a custom scripted solution, but not to actually manually organize my music 😆

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@raptor85 I keep an eye on the Cosmo phones, but they tend to not support Android for more than two dessert releases. I figure it’s best to buy whatever Pixel/Samsung phone is newest on your carrier and use tethering to connect whatever device you actually want to use (huge caveat: I have Fi, so tethering or data only sims don’t cost me extra). I can probably AOSP them up, but I’m not sure how much recurring work that’d be.

https://store.planetcom.co.uk/

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 Amarok in KDE3 was by far my favorite music playback app (I took great advantage of both the iPod sync and the smart playlists back in the 00’s). KDE4 simplified all the things though (ie: removed features I loved), and I never came back to it 😅

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 My recent vendetta has been for multiple Windows. I’m not a fullscreen my apps kind of person, especially for IDEs and game engines when it’s super convenient to pull out a tab and jam it on another window (or drawing tablet, &c).

pux0r3, to random
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I can't believe UT2K4 is 20 years old. It was a great game, helped me on my journey into professional game dev, and ran great on Linux (I even set it's demo loop as my root window in Enlightenment 16 once!).

It's too bad Epic basically ignores Linux with Fortnight though.

https://youtu.be/abmiv22Q7xA?si=y_mPc6PQ1VZXVbCt

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 I loved this game for kind of the mix/match of mutators and seeing what worked as I sorta put together a game mode. It was actually kind of a lull in my gamedev. I never worked out GTKRadiant (really anything other than the Quake 1/2 Hammer editor, so nothing with curved surfaces), and I let silly people on the internet convince me that I had to learn C++ to make games rather than just making games with tools I already knew.

But so many hours just playing and tweaking things!

pux0r3, to random
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Something that bugs me now: operating systems by default are configured to make you upset and anxious.

Any of the big 3 (Windows 11, MacOS/iOS, Android) will just throw headlines and notifications at you for breaking news. If there's a tragedy happening somewhere, Windows will literally put it in your start menu so it's the first thing you see.

You can mostly turn these off (as far as I can tell, not quite for Windows), but it's weird that tech is trying to make you miserable using tech.

McFunkypants, to random
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Let's all chip in and buy a hobby farm with a workshop. make a place for retired gamedev. a crafter commune selling our wares at the night market. game jams every weekend, art classes and yoga, campfires and a pottery studio, barn kittens aplenty

pux0r3,
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@McFunkypants I just want to move to a weird postmodern cabin in the woods where I make games retro-modern games on the Picotron or Playdate and play music on renaissance era instruments like the hurdy gurdy.

pux0r3,
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@glassbottommeg @McFunkypants I keep looking at houses up in the mountains thinking about how nice it would be to live up in one of those one road towns and have “the internet isn’t here today” be a real excuse.

Granted, I also need to live somewhere with a good school system for at least 11 more years.

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been doing some research on standard keyboard control schemes for 2D platformers today and it seems like there's four broad categories that all use the arrow keys to move: games that use ZXC, games that use ASD, games that use JKL, and games that use the modifier keys

and then there's bloodstained curse of the moon over there with its absolutely absurd "move with WASD, jump with space, attack with mouse" scheme like bro COME ON

pux0r3,
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@jonbro @eniko I was about to mention that game: https://archive.org/details/Abuse_454

It works for a very narrow definition of platformer (which definitely doesn’t apply to what I played of Bloodstained 😅)

pux0r3, to random
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I was trying to explain LAN parties to my daughter, and she just didn't understand the idea of going somewhere to play a game 😆

pux0r3,
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@raptor85 @pux0r3 It turns out that the best anti-cheat is an annoyed gamer on the other side of the room 😆

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