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djlink, 7 months ago to random

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

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djlink, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to gamedev

A couple free & open-source Engines and game frameworks you can use today as alternatives. Feel free to comment with more.

Godot - https://godotengine.org
MonoGame - https://www.monogame.net/
FNA - https://fna-xna.github.io/
SDL - https://www.libsdl.org/
SFML - https://www.sfml-dev.org/
Adventure Studio - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
bgfx - https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
armory3d - https://armory3d.org/
ogre3d - https://www.ogre3d.org/
Renpy - https://www.renpy.org/

#gamedev

djlink, 7 months ago to random

djlink, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Nature is healing

djlink, 3 months ago to random

Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU

Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU

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djlink, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

No comments req

djlink, 7 months ago to random

let's never forget this is how the great Iwata handled the poor reception of Wii U, not with layoffs, but by cutting his own wage.

djlink, 1 month ago to random

these jokes write themselves

Bike fall meme

djlink, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

In case you are concerned about picking a server will restrict you to a certain place, it won't. A couple months ago I did a poll asking people from where they were seeing my post, and of around 6.5k votes 96% were from outside the instance I'm at, gamedev. Show this to your friends that are worried about the onboarding process of picking a servers.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/109433604286362207

djlink, 5 months ago to gamedev

I like how this developer effectively made himself a private software modchip to play PS1 game xD https://www.gamesradar.com/after-23-years-developer-reveals-he-snuck-a-cheat-code-past-sony-that-turns-a-cult-classic-horror-game-into-a-godsend-for-retro-enthusiasts/ #gamedev #retrogaming

djlink, 1 year ago to gamedev

someone created a Godot plugin to open Unity packages and prefabs. this is game changing, just imagine reusing your unity assets to port a game to Godot from Unity. https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/13io0bx/load_unitypackage/ #gamedev

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djlink, 11 months ago to random

the year is 2036, you can't flush the toilet because the toilet subscription expired or the auth servers are down.

djlink, 11 months ago to random

Gigabyte been selling motherboard with hidden backdoors that can download and execute software, more than 270 models affected https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/

djlink, 2 months ago to random

PSA for anyone still using Twitter, don't click any links there as the link previews only checks the final destination of the URL, not initial, so bad actors can fake a redirect via a malicious URL. https://lifehacker.com/tech/its-not-safe-to-click-links-on-x

djlink, 11 months ago to gamedev

Here are over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable on your #gamedev projects https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

djlink, 7 months ago to random

a delight to read this kind of stuff. Mario Wonder had no deadline for the whole prototype phase. https://www.wired.com/story/super-mario-bros-wonder-nintendo-switch-mouri-tezuka-interview/

HERE’S SOMETHING YOU don't hear often in game development. When the team behind Super Mario Bros. Wonder was in the prototyping stage of the game, it had no due date. "I wanted to prevent people from saying, ‘We won't make that deadline, so that's why we didn’t do it—we can’t do it,” producer Takashi Tezuka says. For the game’s director, Shiro Mouri, it was a very clear, and very positive, sign. They did not intend to make this game halfway.

djlink, 7 months ago to random

we should start a petition for Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation to add a "share screenshots to Mastodon" option, instead of only Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

djlink, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

majority of open-source game engines repos took a big jump in last few days. https://ossinsight.io/collections/game-engine/

djlink, 7 months ago to random

"c++ is hard, let's use blueprints."
The blueprint: 🙃

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

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djlink, 9 months ago to random

Not even Zoom wants to use Zoom for work.

djlink, 4 months ago to gamedev

Age of Empires had ~13k lines of assembly mostly for rendering code instead of c/c++, and that helped making the default resolution 800x600 and still scroll as fast as StarCraft at 640x480. https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/s/ICoTW3CnHD #gamedev

djlink, 11 months ago to random

I don't see it mentioned enough times but Fork is one of the best git clients around imo, lightweight, simple and it just works. Win & Mac, free to try and one time purchase. https://git-fork.com/

djlink, 10 months ago to gamedev

it appears Valve is banning games with AI generated content or when you can't prove intellectual property or rights to use over the assets in the game #gamedev https://www.reddit.com/r/aigamedev/comments/142j3yt/valve_is_not_willing_to_publish_games_with_ai/

djlink, 1 year ago to random

Rate my streaming camera

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djlink, 3 months ago to random

AI enshittification is happening so fast that Notepad, after decades of being abandoned, just became another victim.

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