No Time To Play @notimetoplay@elekk.xyz
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I make #games because the alternative would be to lie down and never get up again.
I make #art because art is good. One of the few good things we have in this world.
I #write about it all so that others may have a better shot at success than I did.
Joined Dec 2018
Hello, everyone! Issue #297 of my #gamedev newsletter is out, with a minor game release, plans for the near future, design lessons from classics, and then some. Take a look! https://notimetoplay.org/blog/weekly-links-297.html
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.org is a gTLD for everyone, and is foundational to the Internet, for individuals, non-profits, and everyone else. Don't let it be sold to a private interest without any oversight. https://savedotorg.org #SaveDotOrg
Funny how rules of polite behavior seem to include everything under the sun, except for minding the wishes of other people.
For those of us who grew up with the ZX Spectrum (or C64 I suppose), to hear people these days complain about a "restrictive" palette of "only" 56 colors is surreal.
TIL that the std::istringstream class in C++ has all the operations needed to read Forth source code. The more you know.
The text-based edition of Space Cruiser Orion can now be downloaded from https://notimetoplay.org/misc/orion-tt-x86_64.zip -- source code included.
Survey of marginalized [game] designers, running through December 8th https://gomakemeasandwich.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/survey-of-marginalized-designers-running-through-december-8th/
Isn't it funny how the more sophisticated CPUs and compilers become, the more we have to worry about low-level details like cache locality?
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also, fucking mock people who still say "alpha male" and "beta male" with complete seriousness
because that was research done in the 70s and the researcher has since retracted his theories completely, straight-up begging people to not pay attention to it, because he was studying wolves in captivity. their 'natural order' looks way WAY different.
even if you assume wolf society = human society (...? or owo i should say), it's a bullshit model of wolf society lmao
Saw a toy VR kit in a toy store, just a cheap headset and controller. Realized it's a game kids can't share with others unless there's a TV nearby to plug into. And then you can just use an ordinary console.
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holidays, family drama
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Okay. My game has a working Monster AI now. Next I need a death screen, a start screen and inventory interactions to make something playable out of it. Furthermore I should think about a good boss stage for the end game.
... and about a good name of course. (I'm bad in giving things a name.)
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Another update for my #zxspectrum #roguelike .
I've added monsters. They don't move yet but you can already attack them.
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advertisers are okay with ad-infested malware. it wouldn't be able to exist otherwise
Hello, everyone! Issue #296 of my #gamedev newsletter is out. Inside: .org domains in danger, plans for more articles on scripting, and a bunch of links with no comment: https://notimetoplay.org/blog/weekly-links-296.html
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Slowely I do some progress on my ZX Spectrum game.
The YAGNI principle (You Ain't Gonna Need It) has two big caveats:
1. Sometimes you do know you're gonna need it, based on prior experience.
2. Sometimes you don't know what you're going to need until you have it.
Do play around and make experiments when you can.
It's not the business of a programming language to teach, let alone enforce, discipline. Pascal, Java, Rust; all of them are fundamentally misguided in that regard. Teachers, do your job!
So, what is it with people trying to resell open source / free culture works
1. without proper credits for the author(s),
2. therefore in breach of the license,
3. and thinking they won't get caught?
Never mind the iffy morality of it even if they scrupulously respected the license.
- Website
- https://notimetoplay.org/
- Bookstore
- https://gumroad.com/felixp7
I make #games because the alternative would be to lie down and never get up again.
I make #art because art is good. One of the few good things we have in this world.
I #write about it all so that others may have a better shot at success than I did.
Joined Dec 2018
