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6 votes
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After meteor lights up Perth sky, hunt begins for meteorite that crashed to Earth
10 votes -
Does Art Belong in Space?
9 votes -
Disenchantment is another fine work from Matt Groening
Love that it's not a retread of either Simpsons or Futurama. Need to watch more but I feel like critics are being way too hard on this.
27 votes -
How to design for the modern web
41 votes -
Voting: Best Practices
I've seen some discussion of what voting should be used for here on tildes. Here are the things I try to follow when voting on comment: Does it have a reputable looking source ( I open the source...
I've seen some discussion of what voting should be used for here on tildes.
Here are the things I try to follow when voting on comment:
- Does it have a reputable looking source ( I open the source and check it out)?
- Does it have new information?
- Is this a comment whose votes are acting as a form of population polling?
- Does it contain a well thought out point/ multiple paragraphs?
Here are the things I try to follow when voting on a post:
- Is it important for other people to see?
- Is it reputable?
- Does it contribute to the greater tildes dialogue?
I try to make sure it takes more than one of these for me to vote on a comment or page but that certainly isn't always the case. The one thing I try to stay away from is from voting just because I liked the title or because I agreed with an easy 1-3 sentence opinion unless I think that opinion is really important.
14 votes -
Amped up - 10 electronic underground acts from Ukraine
6 votes -
Direct ring 3 to ring 0 privilege escalation on some x86 processors using an embedded RISC core.
19 votes -
California abolishes cash bail, replacing with algorithmic based risk assessment
17 votes -
The "Chatty" messaging app for Librem 5 (Linux phone) with SMS and XMPP support
16 votes -
Ten years after the financial crash, the timid left should be full of regrets
10 votes -
Hunter S. Thompson in Chicago, 1968: The battle for the Democratic Party’s soul
12 votes -
RISC-V implemented in a night
14 votes -
Super Mario creator warns gaming industry: Don't be too greedy
18 votes -
Y Combinator plans to start doling out $60 million next year to study universal basic income
22 votes -
PlayStation Plus: Free games for September 2018 (Destiny 2 and God of War 3 Remastered)
5 votes -
FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules
20 votes -
Why I blame Wall Street for my Lyme disease
14 votes -
Rap is emo (Hip hop's sensitive new wave)
8 votes -
Introducing Xbox All Access
11 votes -
70 Years Ago, America Restored Democracy to Germany. Now Germany Wants to Return the Favor.
20 votes -
A dog called Mixture
2 votes -
Programming Challenge: Make a game in 1 hour!
Background There's been some talk on ~ before, and it seems like there are quite a few people who are either interested in, learning, or working in game development, so I thought this could be a...
Background
There's been some talk on ~ before, and it seems like there are quite a few people who are either interested in, learning, or working in game development, so I thought this could be a fun programming challenge.
This one is fairly open-ended: make a game in 1 hour. Any game, any engine, don't worry about art or sound or anything.
Doing is the best way to learn. Most people's first project is something overly ambitious, and when they find that it's more difficult than they thought, they can get discouraged, or even give up entirely. This is why the 1 hour limit is important: it forces you to finish something, even if it's small. When you're done, you can come out of it saying you made a game, and you learned from it.
Chances are the game might not be fun, look bad, be buggy, etc. But don't worry about that, everyone's game will have problems, and if you do create something really fun or innovative, congratulations, you have a prototype that you can expand on later!
"Rules"
Like I said before, these "rules" are pretty simple: make a game in (approximately) 1 hour. You can use any tools you want. If you use external assets (art, sound), it's probably best you use something you have the rights to (see resources). If you're completely new to game development/programming, your goal could even be to finish a tutorial.
If you're the kind of person who tends to get carried away with these things, you might want to post a comment saying you're starting, then another one once you've finished your game.
Please share your finished game, I'm sure everyone would love to try them! If your game is web-based, it can be hosted for free on Github Pages or Itch.io. If downloadable, it can be hosted for free on Google Drive, Mega, Dropbox, Itch.io, etc.
Resources
Engines
If you're a beginner, a good engine to start with is LÖVE. It's very simple, and uses Lua, which is very easy to learn.
If you're familiar with another language, you could use a library to make it in that language. Some examples:
Javascript: kontra, Phaser, pixi.js
Python: pygame
If you want something more complex, consider Godot, Unity, or Unreal.
You can also try something visual like Construct, Clickteam Fusion, or GDevelop
Art
For such a short time constraint, I'd suggest you use your own "programmer art": just use some basic shapes. Your primary focus should be gameplay.
If you think you have time to find something, try looking on OpenGameArt.
Sound
You can make simple sound effects very quickly with sfxr (or in this case, a web port of sfxr called jsfxr).
27 votes -
Did anyone here watch HBO's Sharp Objects?
From start to finish I found the show totally engrossing, tense, and mysterious. It was excellently shot and written, and the twists in episodes 7 and 8 were hard hitting, even if you had an idea...
From start to finish I found the show totally engrossing, tense, and mysterious. It was excellently shot and written, and the twists in episodes 7 and 8 were hard hitting, even if you had an idea that they were possible as early as episode 4 or 5. Plus, those post creditn scenes were haunting. What did you guys think?
I'm currently reading the book so please, no spoilers for the novel! TV show discussion only
11 votes -
Trump accuses Google of rigging search results to show mostly negative stories about him
32 votes -
Ethan Hawke is still taking Ethan Hawke extremely seriously
12 votes -
Human language may have evolved to help our ancestors make tools
3 votes -
A brief history of the Pansy Craze – the beginning of LGBTQ nightlife
1 vote -
How to use bureaucracies
6 votes -
USA legend Clint Dempsey retires from football at age of thirty-five
10 votes -
Nintendo shuts down the tool behind your favorite Pokémon fan games
15 votes -
There's a 'scallop war' raging in the English Channel and it's getting violent
5 votes -
We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?
15 votes -
Breakfast stew, popcorn chicken and waffles make for hearty brunches
4 votes -
Arrest warrant leak fuels suspicions of far-right links with German police
8 votes -
Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project
3 votes -
Climate change has caused a catastrophic drop in the numbers of terns, kittiwakes and puffins
7 votes -
Bernie-backed Andrew Gillum wins Florida gubernatorial primary in upset
26 votes -
Paul Wooster - SpaceX's Plans for Mars - 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention
5 votes -
Looking to chat? I've created an (unofficial) Tildes community Matrix room!
#tildes:matrix.org So there are many, many Matrix clients but the most popular one seems to be Riot which is available on iOS, Android (F-Droid, Play Store), and as a web app which you can join by...
So there are many, many Matrix clients but the most popular one seems to be Riot which is available on iOS, Android (F-Droid, Play Store), and as a web app which you can join by clicking the link above.
It's similar to Discord in the features it offers, but being open source I thought it might be more in the spirit of Tildes than some of the proprietary alternatives.
That being said I'll be the first to admit Riot is a bit rough around the edges and Matrix seems to be under both heavy load and development. If there's demand for it I should be able to get a dedicated server up since it's an optionally federated service.
Oh, and as a bonus the Matrix chat links with the Tildes IRC channels (#tildes and ##tildes) on freenode, so there's that. (Thanks @tyil)
Don't forget to visit @Kat's wonderful ~tech wiki for links to other options such as Discord and Telegram if them's more your fancy.
Happy wordsing!
23 votes -
Mario Kart Wii: The history of the ultra shortcut
11 votes -
Valve officially confirm a new version of Steam Play for Linux, including a modified version of Wine called "Proton" - available now in Steam Beta
70 votes -
Using insects as templates, researchers are buildings robots that are very small, very mobile—and very useful
10 votes -
Now that Ubuntu 18.04.1 is out, have you upgraded from 16.04 LTS?
The first point release came out July 26, and enables upgrades from 16.04 LTS. https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/26/first-point-release-of-18-04-lts-available-today Have you upgraded your desktop?...
The first point release came out July 26, and enables upgrades from 16.04 LTS.
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/26/first-point-release-of-18-04-lts-available-today
Have you upgraded your desktop? Server?
Happy with it? Any pitfalls?
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Weekly Writing Prompt Group - Prompt 0 - The Road Trip
Voting has closed for this week's topic. The prompt is... The Road Trip Some questions to help you get started: Who is the traveler? Why are they traveling? Where are they going? Are they going...
Voting has closed for this week's topic.
The prompt is...
The Road Trip
Some questions to help you get started:
Who is the traveler?
Why are they traveling?
Where are they going? Are they going anywhere?The questions are only meant to help you get started. Make it happy or sad, adventure or horror, romance or tragedy. Go where your imagination takes you. Don't feel constrained by what may seem to be the obvious response to the prompt.
Please keep your submissions between 1000-2000 words (for reference, this topic section is about 200 words), make sure to properly format to Tildes when submitting to the submission thread.
Submission thread will be created on Wednesday, Aug 29, EST.
Please feel free to use this thread to brainstorm or share ideas or post any other comments you have about the writing prompt group.
Have fun everyone! I can't want to see what you create!
Things I may change:
I may do away with topic voting if/until the group gets big enough, and I'll just post a weekly prompt.
Depending on the number of submissions, I may increase the max length.
11 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others'...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something!
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
23 votes -
Freddie King - Living On The Highway (1971)
4 votes -
Weekly Writing Prompt Group - Prompt 0 - The Road Trip - Submission Thread!
I hope you guys had a good time writing for this week. Show me what you got!
7 votes -
Does Hollywood ruin books? - Numberphile
11 votes -
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
15 votes