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Because it was ready and I couldn't think of any good reason to wait any longer to release it. I dunno when you're supposed to do this stuff or if it matters much at all. :)
Absolute bangers.
This makes me happy.
Did I add posters and a few arcade cabs with animated screens? Perhaps.
Now that playtesting is done, time for some final touches. Little cades!
No regrets.
Still working on it, but getting these colours out of Quake makes me happy.
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Craig Dhui Castle from “The Black Island”, book 7 of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, 1943
originally posted on January 10th, 2019 11:00pm
I may be going crazy with trim, but man that looks nice.
Learning why the Quake palette is the way it is, is fascinating. I was curious why some colours are fullbrighting - obvious in hindsight.
This tidbit is funny:
It is important that the latter 8 palette rows are "backwards" (light-to-dark instead of dark-to-light). It appears that the ID artists did this for no good reason in the original Quake palette, and the engine programmers were forced to add a hack to accommodate it (along with the comment "the artists made some backwards ranges. sigh")" - https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Quake_palette
Hmm. This is tingly.
I wonder. 90s lazertag/arcades aesthetic deathmatch maps.
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i love software i love tools i love utilities. show me your favourite free and/or open-source software that people might not have heard of that you love
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility | Tweak Windows settings, install/update a wide range of useful software from a single screen (including some software featured on this list), run O&O Shutup directly, and has a feature to create super-small Win11 ISOs (which didn't work last time I tried it lol). Runs directly from a single command in PowerShell. |
| Condution | Task management software with all the standard features you expect from a modern To-Do list application. |
| Deblur | Very fun tool to deblur a blurred image. Not particularly useful as it cannot do so accurately, but fun! |
| Everything | Very fast filesearch for Windows. |
| JERN | Command-line journaling tool, intended to be used on a USB drive. Encrypted using AES-128 encryption. |
| JetUML | Fast, simple, free UML diagram designer. |
| jPDFtweak | "Swiss Army Knife" for PDF files. Has a lot of incredibly useful PDF utilities. |
| JRNL | A cute daily journaling tool with fun themes and options for daily notifications. |
| KDE Connect | Connect your PC to your phone - share files, links, clipboard data, notifications, remote control input, run commands, and more. |
| magic-wormhole | Command-line tool to send files from one machine to another by providing human-pronouncable keywords. |
| Ninite | Install and update all your programs at once. Chris Titus' Winutils has a similar feature & includes more software, but this is far more beginner-friendly. No command lines here! Also not that useful if you know how to install software using Winget/Scoop/Chocolatey, but again - beginner-friendly and idiot-proof! |
| O&O Shutup10++ | Windows tweaks - primarily disabling telemetry and unwanted bloat from Microsoft. Lets you switch off all the AI bullshit in Win11! This tool can also be opened from within Chris Titus' Winutils. |
| Playnite | Games library for your games libraries - consolidate GOG, Steam, Itch, and just about everything into one application where you can search & filter your library. |
| QOwnNotes | Markdown note-taking software. Simple and lightweight without the overload of bloat and features competitors like Obsidian or Notion have. |
| QTodoTxt | To-do manager - a GUI frontend for the todo.txt plaintext format. |
| RetroShare | Peer-to-peer chat, file sharing, mail, forums, channels, boards, and more - almost like a self-contained peer-to-peer social network. |
| Stacher | GUI frontend for yt-dlp - a downloader for YouTube videos and also many many other websites. (I use it to get Twitter videos!) |
| tldr pages | Command-line tool for simple manual pages - has basic usage and examples for many popular CLI applications. |
| Winaero Tweaker | Allows you to make various miscellaneous changed to Windows |
| Zim - A Desktop Wiki | Personal Wiki software with ability to publish files to HTML. Can be minimalist or feature-rich depending on how many plugins you enable. |
i have more installed on my home desktop PC that i'm surely forgetting but it was 33°C yesterday so i was NOTTTT turning that computer on
edit: 2024-08-13 @539 - added Winaero Tweaker, O&O Shutup, CTT Winutils, Ninite and Stacher
Great post! Never heard of WinUtils before, that's staying in the toolbox.
My go-to software is pretty simple:
Firefox: Browser. Worried about them though.
Dropbox (begrudgingly): Part of work file share.
KeePassXC: Passwords/Vault info. Because paying for password managers is silly.
7zip: The best.
Steam: Work and Play.
Discord (begrudgingly): Work/Friend comms.
FastStone Viewer: Multitool for images.
Notepad++: 99% of gamedev.
ShareX : Easy screen capture for GIF and videos.
Everything: Search everything on your system, fast.
All of the above can be gotten via "winget" in Windows 10 command line, which makes reinstalling after a format a breeze. "winget install 7.zip.7zip" for example. To find the right vendor, "winget search ".
The only hyper specific tools I use are:
PureRef: The best tool for when you need to handle a lot of images, arrange, collage, compare, etc. It's an infinite canvas you can drop images into, and it's ability to recover from source files being moved/changed is great.
Made my first curved hallway with arches today, thanks to this excellent tutorial. Not as tricky as I feared.
I have no idea if the game is any good, but I fell in love with this website design instantly. As you scroll, it 'eats' the playfield just like in the game I presume. Glorious!
An underappreciated part of game dev - spreadsheets. Sometimes I needed help taking a step back and seeing the birds-eye of things, and spreadsheets are great for that.
When you see some cool stairs and just gotta.
Software done RIGHT! Being able to choose to have programs store their stuff in the same folder as their exe is a delight.
My face at the new Lion King 'Mufasa' CG movie trailer. They really thought this was the answer to complaints about the first movie being expressionless.
I made this 'all the boss intros at once' gif for 30XX at some point and I have no idea why. Looks neat though.