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2023-10-19

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hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 09:19

“I wonder if Paradox will keep up with the times and turn Chirper into Y and when you open it it’s full of people posting far right propaganda and deranged conspiracies and accusing the mayor of being a 15-minute-city-touting Deep State Jew for wanting to turn a street into a pedestrian zone.”

I laughed.

I banned cars from Houston and broke Cities Skylines II - YouTube

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 10:20

The brothers Barry and Jack being sweet to each other.

via @IamMrsGeek

#CatsOfMastodon

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hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 10:23

https://hackers.town/users/cypnk/statuses/111262726012779420

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 12:20

“What does this mean?” is like a siren’s call to this neurospicy brain.

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 12:20

oh that was a rhetorical question

but I prepared a 1,200 word essay response

ok

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 12:56

@dys_morphia “no I’m not a data scientist why would you ask such a weird question”

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 13:42

A title. Instructions. Very important elements of game design, or so I’ve read.

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hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 13:48

@ArtifexUmbra Oh, I should add space wrenches!

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 13:52

@ArtifexUmbra Really I’m just going through the tutorial material from the link up top, combining into one vaguely cohesive game, using Itch assets for a consistent look.

I don’t even know what the game will be by the end of the day.

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 13:53

@ArtifexUmbra though whatever it is, I’ll be sharing the link at that point.

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 13:58

@ArtifexUmbra I like microStudio as a learning environment for 2D game dev.

No-code learning environments have so far been too much for my code-oriented brain, but this hits a sweet spot for easy Lua-ish code and integrated lightweight workflow tools.

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 14:04

@funkatron great site, great resource, but yeah borderline hostile design for low-vision users.

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 16:21

Far enough along that I can pretend it’s a very simple game that I kinda suck at (high score 10). So here’s Space Dodgeball, my #microStudio learning project.

https://microstudio.dev/i/randomgeek/spacedodge/

hackers.town: 2023-10-19 Thu 16:22

still needs sound and other game-like things, but there’s a play loop in there!