Every game starts with an idea. But how does it get from conception to release❓
In this Russian book, author Alexey Savchenko has put together a practical guide, based on his 20+ years in #GameDev, to help you avoid the common pitfalls and deliver on your idea!
In 2009, @lego and #Japanese retailer Muji collaborated to create innovative building sets that combined basic #LEGO bricks with Muji’s minimalist #design principles. Despite the concept failing to gain popularity, the team at Studio Playfool in #Japan has revived the idea, creating fun and unusual combinations of LEGO and paper using a hole punch and a template. 🧱📄🤖
How to: Mastodon-Instanzen datenschutzkonform betreiben. Dazu gibt es jetzt einen Leitfaden zum herunterladen und ebenfalls in drei Tagen ein Webinar. Termin: Donnerstag, 14.12.2023, 17:00 Uhr. 👇
My year with Mastodon (#MastodonWrapped)
I celebrated my first #Mastoversary a few days ago. It’s been a good first year on Mastodon for me; I like the #Fediverse idea, I like people here, and I like the calm vibe this place offers.
Also, I ditched all of my other #SocialMedia accounts. All but one.¹
As I say, Mastodon is a good #platform to be, however there are a couple of things I’ve been struggling with the whole time. I’m going to put together a brief summary below in hope that someone can help me with them.
¹ I still keep Instagram to exchange cute pics of sloths and pandas, and ice-hockey reels with my sons. 😁
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The thing that buggers me the most is boosting.
I know boosting is important because it’s the only way to spread the news around as there are no #algorithms here to force-feed us what they “think” is good for us, and I’m quite a #booster myself, too. But I’ve cut back a bit recently for a simple reason: I can’t hide boosted posts from my #profile.
I mean, when someone views my profile I want them to see my toots first so they can get an idea of who I am and, conversely, when I visit someone else’s profile I prefer to see what they have to say.
If you’re a generous booster but not so creative in the “#ContentCreation” department, just like me, you get a profile full of re-blogged posts where your original #toots are hard to find. And no, #Pinned toots don’t do the trick.
If there’s a #hack to work around this, I would much appreciate if you share it here.
For @mitch_deadberg - we wanted to show you how we make South Indian Filter Coffee! This coffee (a 80:20 mixture of coffee / chicory) is made with a metal filter. This filter makes enough for about 2 times but can be found in bigger sizes. You put about 2-4 tbsp of coffee depending on how strong you want it. You place the metal plunger on top, pour the water and then let the decoction brew. It usually takes about a half hour.
@mitch_deadberg Once the decoction is finished, you can start to boil milk on the stove. You can use any milk - dairy is probably best but we use soy and oat.
While the milk is boiling, you pour some of the decoction into a metal cup. Traditionally, you have filter coffee in metal cups with a tumbler and a saucer. Once you add the decoction, you can also add sugar.
@mitch_deadberg Then the fun really begins! Once the milk is warm but just getting to a boil, you turn it off and you pour it into the tumbler. The higher the better - that way you get the froth!
@mitch_deadberg Once you get a nice foam, you can sit down and enjoy! This is our way of doing it but everyone has some variations.
Full Disclosure: We usually use soy or oat milk, the later which just doesn't foam up as well as regular milk. So the foam in the photo below was made with an electric foam maker. But still just as tasty! It foams up perfectly with dairy milk (and better with soy).
Fixing a blank article display in NewsFlash (a feed reader that syncs with a number of web-based RSS/ATOM subscription backends).
TL;DR: The workaround is setting the following environment variable for when Flatpak runs NewsFlash, which you can do with an application called Flatseal.
After starting the book in 2020, I finally finished How To by Randall Munroe. It was certainly interesting and funny at times, but it is the type of book of which I can only read one or two chapters at a time before it starts to feel like too much of the same. I'm glad I read it though and even more glad to have lowered my currently reading pile from 13 to 8 books recently...
What I like about the #Fediverse is that you can ask stupid questions if you don't understand something and get great answers. So, I finally know what #kbin and #lemmy are and what they are good for! (No more answers needed). Read the answers to my request for an explanation for #dummies: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/110576964788392093 Thank you to all who helped me! #HowTo
You can follow the Kbin Magazine ‘test’ by searching and following: @test. You can also post into it by tagging it.
If you are already familiar with #Chirp and #Guppe groups, it works similarly. Follow it to get content, tag it to post content and share with everyone following the “group”/“community”/“magazine”.