No Time To Play @notimetoplay@elekk.xyz

On the importance of letting personal experiences and real life inform your fictional work: https://www.filfre.net/2022/07/broken-sword-the-shadow-of-the-templars/

@baronvonjace Yet another proprietary, centralized social network apparently.

"When software makes you laugh!" Yet another tool round-up from the inimitable Nathalie Lawhead: http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/when-software-makes-you-laugh-creativity-as-a-mechanic-how-it-exists-in-games-and-the-ethics-of-either-empowering-or-exploiting-creation

@ItsSailor Virtue signaling.

Funny how anything related to crypto seems to involve art theft: https://www.pcgamer.com/owner-of-itchio-accuses-newly-launched-alternative-w3itchio-of-theft/

Turns out you can enable web-based #CYOA using literally *two lines* of CSS: https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-06-29_Programming

@SapphicGiraffic The movie was much better.

@NovaSquirrel If you're not comfortable with the GPL, and also not comfortable with permissive licenses, may I suggest the Artistic License 2.0? It's FSF-approved, copyleft but not viral, and well-suited for games in name and spirit.

This was supposed to go out tomorrow, but whatever: new link roundup! https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-06-14_Assorted

@hoppet No, it's not possible. Try it. Also, you're mixing up languages. ;)

@hazelnut Next: people discontinuing Linux distributions and recommending people just use WSL.

@hazelnut Do you suppose it has anything to do with the new owners, and their competing derived product?

@nonehitwonder You mean the Star Trek future where an Utopian planet Earth is supported by the labor of distant hellhole colonies? It can be arranged. There's this company whose resident visionary suggested people could work for passage on a one-way trip to Mars, where they'd spent the rest of their lives as indentured servants.

Game jams are valuable, y'all.

I had no idea so many well-known games started out as game jam entries: https://itch.io/t/2147192/game-jam-games-that-went-viral

@voltur Come to think of it, what's the difference between a dungeon filled with conveniently placed coins, and the gold mines in Warcraft? https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/decolonizing_games