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sean_earle

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I'm an Australian ruby developer who loves to make games which is why I'm building Taylor!

Taylor is a small, free, and open source game engine designed to be easy to use, cross platform, and to boost developer happiness

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djlink, to gamedev
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if you haven't seen this I highly recommend watching. a video about Tomorrow Corporation internal programming and debugging tools, and it's incredible what they have behind the scenes of their games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE #gamedev

sean_earle,
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@djlink A fantastic video, their time travel stuff blew me away. The sheer amount of state they must track to do that is mind blowing (or I guess perfectly recalculatable deltas?)

witch_warren, to gamedev
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This scene is getting a little hard to read; which of these 4 do you prefer?

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sean_earle,
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@witch_warren Number 4 is my vote if the left building is supposed to be in the distance

aeva, (edited ) to random
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a poll for Free Software enthusiasts specifically

please only vote if you have strong positive views regarding copyleft licenses for software and cultural works

Can you name several video games you've played and enjoyed that match this criteria:

  1. The game was first published in 2023 or 2024.

  2. The entire game (all source code, art, music, etc) is freely available under appropriate open source licenses (permissive or copyleft)

If the answer is "yes", I'd love to hear about them.

sean_earle,
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@aeva Voted yes because I've been playing Mindustry. It's FOSS but I paid to have it on Steam to support the developers

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

sean_earle,
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@aeva ah bugger, I read your post as "You played in 2023/2024", that's my bad sorry!

kroc, to random
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Since I've got a new laptop I've decided to set up my previous machine with Linux and I'm trying out some distros, or, "The agony of UX blindness in the Linux world"

sean_earle,
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@kroc @bbbbbr If you're interested in a gnome 2 like experience I ended up moving to cinnamon because I hated gnome 3

sako, to random
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My drawing app is now on the BBS and splore! You can look at my (probably bad) code and modify it if you want!

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=55608

sean_earle,
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@sako This is a really slick drawing app, cheers for sharing!

aeva, to random
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I sent my physical therapist a link to a SIGGRAPH talk today lol.

We were talking about rhythm and exercise games, and I remarked that pole dancing is definitely the most surprising form of VR exercise I've ever heard of people doing, and, well, she seemed just as astonished to hear that as I was when I first saw the SIGGRAPH talk about it.

sean_earle,
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@aeva As someone who does pole dancing, this has been a wild rabbit hole to dive down. I couldn't imagine doing it while strapped with VR gear! Very impressive and interesting application of the technology and interesting to read the challenges they had to overcome

djlink, to random
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so 1password 7 stopped working on a browser with last update, cause I guess they really want everyone on 1P8, but downgrading versions worked for me.

sean_earle,
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@djlink I recently switched to version 8 for work, what's the reason for wanting to stay on 7? I was annoyed I had to install it from outside the app store but not sure the difference other than that

sean_earle,
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@djlink damn, that really sucks, they're very good reasons for not wanting to move on

helvetica, to random
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new keys just dropped at https://launch.puzzmo.com

also! the puzzle for today is Flipart, a brand new game from @games_by_jack and i!

sean_earle,
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@helvetica @games_by_jack Is there any chance of these ever being offset by 12 hours? These happen at 3am for me which just isn't doable

helvetica, to random
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I have been working on Puzzmo, in secret, for almost two years now with @orta.

Puzzmo is the place to play daily newspaper puzzle games online.

TODAY we are launching a brand new daily crossword (designed to be approachable like all of my games) alongside with 2 other new games from me (and 3 older ones reimagined)

During prelaunch we only let in 500 people a day, so get at em!

I hope you enjoy Puzzmo!

https://www.puzzmo.com

sean_earle,
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@helvetica @orta This is so cool, I loved spelltower and put a bunch of hours into it. I'm hyped to try to get a key tomorrow!

kroc, to Mac
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Call for experience: I've got an old ~2006 Intel iMac, CoreDuo -- NOT Core2Duo! I.e. 32-bit only -- that I'd like to repurpose as a DVD player since it has a remote control, but is there any 32-bit Linux it could run that would be up to date enough to also access Netflix, Disney+ etc?

sean_earle,
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@kroc Debian still officially supports 32bit CPUs so that would be what I'd try first. I've no experience personally with it on macs but have heard good things

Source: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html

ebihimes, to random
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Eldritch Idol has been released!
It's a statsim where you turn Cthulhu into an idol!
Raise her stats, manage her schedule, and try not to stress her out. Can you help her amass an army of followers, or will she destroy the world first?!

🐙 https://ebihime.itch.io/eldritch-idol

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sean_earle,
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@ebihimes I'm keen to check this out after work today!

gamingonlinux, to linux
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Yo! Looking for some more cool game devs to follow doing any and support. Make yourself known in the replies plz ❤️🎮🕹️

sean_earle,
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@gamingonlinux I'm the developer behind Taylor an based game engine that supports and soon I develop on Linux and believe it should "just work" on a but don't know anyone who has one to try it with.

You can check it out at https://www.taylormadetech.dev/

sean_earle, to pixelart
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I'm looking to start learning pixel art but am pretty lost where to start.

Can anyone recommend some good tutorials for a programmer with near zero art skills?

djlink, to retrogaming
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Got Typing of the Dead for Dreamcast working with the keyboard. sorry angle isn’t that great, I don’t have a camera tripod or anything had to improvise

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sean_earle,
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@djlink This is such a banger of a game. One of my big highlights from my recent trip to Japan was playing this in an actual arcade!

djlink, to random
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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

sean_earle,
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@djlink make this a poll you coward

aeva, to random
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Every time I see a "uwu defederation is bad" hot take it's because mastodon.art moderated another instance :3

sean_earle,
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@aeva

djlink, (edited ) to random
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Only one can exist!

sean_earle,
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@djlink This is evil because trains + bikes would be a perfect society

blinry, to random
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The open-source fantasy console just got Python support!

And a Rust template that compiles to WASM!

And a Vi mode! :'D

This all makes me really happy, and will be great for doing game dev workshops for different audiences!

These features are not in a release yet, but you can compile it from source: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80

sean_earle,
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@blinry I just noticed this said Vi mode, I'm actually excited now. I've always wanted to dabble with this using the mruby bindings but the editor put me off.

witch_warren, to gamedev
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web player is working well, i just need to remove some keyboard shortcuts that HTML5 doesn't like.

sean_earle,
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@witch_warren what technology are you using to build this game? It's been coming together so quickly!

_benui, to random
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If having an on-screen cursor and moving it around with the analog stick is called "free cursor" navigation, what do you call the old way of doing stuff? e.g. pressing up/down/left/right moves you between different navigable screen elements

sean_earle,
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@_benui "reliable"

witch_warren, to gamedev
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menu bevels or no menu bevels?

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sean_earle,
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@witch_warren no bevels looks nicer IMO

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