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joined 1 year ago
 

This is a talk from BenUI for #notGDC.

Covers UI / UX best practices and thinking through the lens of:

  • Letting the player know something
  • Letting the player do something
  • Letting the player feel something

Slides are available as well

 

This is a talk from BenUI for #notGDC.

Covers UI / UX best practices and thinking through the lens of:

  • Letting the player know something
  • Letting the player do something
  • Letting the player feel something

Slides are available as well

 

This is a talk from BenUI for #notGDC.

Covers UI / UX best practices and thinking through the lens of:

  • Letting the player know something
  • Letting the player do something
  • Letting the player feel something

Slides are available as well

 

This is a talk from BenUI for #notGDC.

Covers UI / UX best practices and thinking through the lens of:

  • Letting the player know something
  • Letting the player do something
  • Letting the player feel something

Slides are available as well

 
 
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm over at https://mastodon.gamedev.place and enjoy it a ton.

There are a number of prolific game designers as well as tons of indie devs sharing knowledge + life updates. A very cozy instance without any hateful BS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also keep in mind that defederating (blocked instances) will prevent posts and comments from syncing between instances as well.

You can see blocked instances on lemmy.world here: https://lemmy.world/instances

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yooo nice. Speaking of which have you found any good fashion / fit sharing communities on lemmy/kbin/masto? Most of what I find is just "look at this celeb wearing Dior" and I am fr yawning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I feel you. I have written browser automation scripts to press "I am not interested in this ad" buttons for me is gets so bad 💀

 

I've found Patreon to be really rewarding (hidden gems in the game modding space, music producers, technologists + tinkerers of all kinds), but am curious about the vast number of other creators out there.

Do you have any favorites or even just a list of folks you support on Patreon or kofi?

 

Over my life, I've noticed that my expenses for living fall into one of three buckets:

  1. Exciting buys
  2. Wise purchases
  3. Necessary costs

But I'm mostly curious about that first one...

What is your favorite kind of exciting buy?

My exciting buy might be a new musical instrument even though I have plenty, a new video game, purchasing art, a vacation, a luxurious meal, etc.

And less on the fun side of things, my other categories would shake out like:

  • A wise buy might be investing in a house or business, putting money away for savings, or spending a premium on a BuyItForLife kind of purchase to avoid buying a new one every year.
  • A necessary buy is probably the same as most others: housing costs, utilities, clothing, household goods, food, transportation, etc.
 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the docs, there should be a lemmy-ui folder that was created by the Ansible install. Within that folder, the app is set up to search for an extra_themes folder by default.

For native installation (without Docker), themes are loaded by lemmy-ui from ./extra_themes folder. A different path can be specified with LEMMY_UI_EXTRA_THEMES_FOLDER environment variable.

Digging into the docker-compose.yml file used by the Ansible playbook, it looks like this is where extra themes directory is mapped into the lemmy-ui service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Namaste brother

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Gitea and it's been wonderful.

  • I run it as a Windows service - I know I know, I should containerize it 😄
  • Using SQLite as the DB; I've always been a fan of filesystem DBs
  • Not exposed outside my LAN since I just Parsec home when abroad
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

frothing assholes

smh this is just the kind of NSFL content we're talking about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does this basically come down to "Twitter doesn't want to spend the compute to fingerprint media uploads?"

I know that's been a massive cost sink for YouTube with their Content ID technology, and I don't imagine Elbow is in a hurry to burn even more money at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait to try this during tax season next year

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Have always had a huge soft spot for Neocities, happy to see it getting some time in the news.

I made this dumb game years ago and it somehow is just still there, being a weird HTML game on Neocities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, I enjoyed D4 as a nice campaign. Played through a few times, once with my partner and another solo.

D4 pros: Impeccable game feel, moment to moment combat, graphics and even some nice storytelling. Enjoy the QoL features for alts and the myriad of endgame loops; Helltides are a lot of fun.

D4 cons: Dungeons are boring to me. Builds that feel fun and powerful are limited to 0-2 per class; a big letdown. Weird network / instance lag which stands out among the otherwise polished aesthetic. Middling open world re: exploration to reward ratio.

PoE pros: Deeeeeep. Hardcore. Aspirational? Still haven't cleared the campaign despite getting closer each league. Lots of builds and skill variety.

PoE cons: Feels like the oldest baguette ever to exist. Wildly stiff gameplay. Ugh its such shit compared to D4. Like DMC vs Skyrim level of difference. Disparate, cheap feeling UI and tacked on storytelling. Exudes HardXCore__Statzz.xls energy and feels practically impossible to navigate a viable build without a guide.

In the end I think Grim Dawn outplays both D4 and PoE. Check it out if you love ARPGs

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