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  1. Comment on WipEout 3: Special Edition at 100 FPS in ~games

  3. Comment on IKEA Kallax “Storageborn” in ~games

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    Madness of the best kind.

    Madness of the best kind.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative

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    Great work as always! The only thing I'd like to see is long press the screen to fast forward the ball flight.

    Great work as always! The only thing I'd like to see is long press the screen to fast forward the ball flight.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Has anyone tried making their own font? in ~design

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    The tools were less sophisticated but still quite capable. I loved using Fontographer, it was such well considered software. The rules of type design were exactly the same, as they had been for...

    The tools were less sophisticated but still quite capable. I loved using Fontographer, it was such well considered software. The rules of type design were exactly the same, as they had been for many years prior.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Has anyone tried making their own font? in ~design

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    I'm puzzled... there is no free version of my app Dottie. And it's on the Mac App Store so payment is via Apple not Google. Might you have tried a different app? Edit: ah, somebody has released a...

    I'm puzzled... there is no free version of my app Dottie. And it's on the Mac App Store so payment is via Apple not Google. Might you have tried a different app?

    Edit: ah, somebody has released a pixel art app called Dottie on Android. That's going to be confusing.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Has anyone tried making their own font? in ~design

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    I designed a font back in 1997 using Fontographer (version 4.1) and got a cease and desist from The Designers Republic because they thought my font was similar to their font 6x6T, even though my...

    I designed a font back in 1997 using Fontographer (version 4.1) and got a cease and desist from The Designers Republic because they thought my font was similar to their font 6x6T, even though my font was a from scratch design on a 7×7 grid. I was young and naïve, and the font was already widely distributed on the internet, so nothing happened. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/1997/06/17/cease-and-desist-the-designers-republic/

    These days, for such a font you could do it in an hour using the FontStruct website. Or using Bits'n'Picas app. Or even my own pixel art app Dottie.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games

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    Once you've finished it, there's the even better sequel Kururin Paradise on GBA (which adds some new controls) and Kururin Squash! on GC (which really needs to be played with a real GC controller...

    Once you've finished it, there's the even better sequel Kururin Paradise on GBA (which adds some new controls) and Kururin Squash! on GC (which really needs to be played with a real GC controller as the physical hexagon direction guide makes movement easier).

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games

  11. Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games

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    Games I Wish I Had Designed: MaBoShi (Wii/DS) Orbital (GBA) Pang (DS) Polarium Advance (GBA) Kuru Kuru Kururin (GBA)

    Games I Wish I Had Designed:

    • MaBoShi (Wii/DS)
    • Orbital (GBA)
    • Pang (DS)
    • Polarium Advance (GBA)
    • Kuru Kuru Kururin (GBA)
    7 votes

  12. Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech

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    I go to a weekly evening class, and I was surprised that several non-technical people there chat enthusiastically about their use of ChatGPT as a sounding board for things like—make-up tips,...

    I go to a weekly evening class, and I was surprised that several non-technical people there chat enthusiastically about their use of ChatGPT as a sounding board for things like—make-up tips, sanity checks/second opinions, body doubling, search engine.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) in ~games

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    As an award-winning independent game developer, my answer to the question "will you still have enough drive and originality left in you?" is a resounding YES. The point I took away from the...

    As an award-winning independent game developer, my answer to the question "will you still have enough drive and originality left in you?" is a resounding YES.

    The point I took away from the article isn't to fight the automated tools or pretend they don't exist, but to look past them towards new pastures full of ideas. As humans we are capable of so much more than derivative, common denominator quality.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on BELTRUNNER (and a new way to make games) in ~games

  17. Comment on BELTRUNNER (and a new way to make games) in ~games

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    The game doesn't make any sound until you opt-in by clicking it to activate it. This is etiquette that the browser enforces, which I think is great. Once you've clicked to play a game, I think...

    The game doesn't make any sound until you opt-in by clicking it to activate it. This is etiquette that the browser enforces, which I think is great. Once you've clicked to play a game, I think it's expected to hear the game make sound, no?

    I can't make any changes to the game during the jam voting period. So, I'm afraid you'll have to use your own volume controls. Cheers.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on What pre-NES games do you still recommend today? in ~games

  19. Comment on What pre-NES games do you still recommend today? in ~games

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    Agreed that Gals Panic is the better game, but it's very much post-NES. There is a non-eroge version called Gals Street, and the Saturn version is pretty clean. ps: at one point most of the wiki...

    Agreed that Gals Panic is the better game, but it's very much post-NES. There is a non-eroge version called Gals Street, and the Saturn version is pretty clean.

    ps: at one point most of the wiki page for Gals Panic was written/sourced by me alone. The detailed comparison of the features of each version was really cool, but has been edited out. Editors gonna edit. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gals_Panic&oldid=444535524

    Have you played Gal Pani X (an old Windows doujin game based on Gals Panic)

    1 vote

  20. Comment on BELTRUNNER (and a new way to make games) in ~games

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    Thanks for playing! The keys needing fullscreen issue I missed before the deadline, but it has since been fixed but I can't upload a new build since the jam is in judging phase. The sound does...

    Thanks for playing!

    The keys needing fullscreen issue I missed before the deadline, but it has since been fixed but I can't upload a new build since the jam is in judging phase.

    The sound does turn off briefly after game over, for a moment of solitude, and then starts right up again when the attract mode begins.

    4 votes