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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also WASM can't directly manipulate the DOM so it can't really be used for handling HTML/CSS, all front-end stuff still has to be done with JS.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Right now. WASM has been supported by every browser for a while now, and most webapps are made with WASM. That said, it's not a replacement for Javascript, most people only use it on things that need to be high performance like heavier apps and web games. Nobody really makes websites that rely on WebAssembly instead of JS to my knowledge.

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

You can backflip in mid-air which is useful to go a little higher or cancel the direction you're moving in. I don't remember the exact control for it, but I think it was double tapping after jumping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely, it's a great game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The fun part of this game is hearing such differing opinions, I had someone explain that Block Koala was their favorite. I personally didn't gel with Planet Zoldath, it's conceptually neat but I found it very tedious. Glad you enjoy it though!

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/20779359

Been working on this one for a while and I'm eager to share it. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 retro-style games, and I decided to write a blog post reviewing every single one. Enjoy!

 

Been working on this one for a while and I'm eager to share it. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 retro-style games, and I decided to write a blog post reviewing every single one. Enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why? Automod is just a tool, the issues people have with it is how overzealous the mods using it are. If you're moderating a community with 10,000+ people you can't expect to filter and manage everything yourself, so a bot scheduling posts and filtering potential spam/low effort content is necessary.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There are two good options: Host your own blog yourself, or join a blogging platform that isn't corporate. I personally use BearBlog but I've heard good things about Write.as as well. These two have free blogging options and don't sell your data. If you want to host it yourself (which is safer), check out Hugo.

Ultimately, bots scrape the entire internet and there's no guarantee they will honor robots.txt of a particular website (which tells bots what they are and aren't allowed to do). If it's on the internet, people can scrape your content and there isn't much you can do about it. That shouldn't stop you from writing or blogging, just don't post very personal data.

Also, feel free to join us on [email protected]!

 

Getting Riff-Raff as my first joker activates all my dopamine receptors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

It's a two part story:

  1. The mobile market mostly targets kids and boomers and their resistance to microtransactions has been basically non-existent, making the market quickly become predatory and full of spam

  2. Modern app stores have become abysmal, making it impossible for smaller games to see the light of day. 99% of google play is a dumpster fire, and the 1% that is decent isn't published by a multi-billion dollar company so you're unlikely to ever see it. There are good games out there, but the way the algorithms and ads work makes them constantly pushed down in the list. This isn't "a problem" to a company like Google because they're making bank off of all these ad spaces.


Anyways, most good games are paid, but here's a list of stuff I've enjoyed playing on mobile:

  • Fancy Pants Adventures

  • Bloons TD 6

  • Dicey Dungeons

  • Dead Cells

  • Slay the Spire (but the mobile port is rough on small screens)

  • Knights of Pen and Paper +1

  • The Enchanted Cave 2

  • Let's Create! Pottery

  • BAIKOH

  • Data Wing

Probably a lot more I forgot. Have at it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Has it ever been better?

Actually, yes, by a big margin. Back in ~2011 mobile games were actually trying to be great. Games like Edge Extended, World of Goo, Bounce Boing Voyage, Zenonia 2 & 3, etc.

I remember early Humble Bundles being full of exciting games for mobile, now you'll be lucky to find just one of them that isn't filled to the brim with MTX or ads.

 

TL;DR:

  • 2D physics interpolation: Should heavily reduce jitter and make the game smoother on higher refresh rates!

  • TileMap layers are now separate nodes: Each layer is now its own node. This is huge because it means it's easier to manage, easier to iterate over, and each layer can have its own settings and move separately.

  • Option for checking for engine updates automatically

  • Reverse Z for the depth buffer: They made a blog post about this a few days ago.

 

Thought people might be interested. I'm tempted to get the shaders course which is the only one in the $1 tier.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Great fixes here. I've been looking forward to some of the fixes like Camera2D's frame delay and code completion improvements.

Oh and they finally fixed the profiler which was bugged and didn't report your worst-performing scripts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

A mod launcher is a program that lets you set up and configure mods for a game, then launch the game with everything set up for you. They exist because configuring everything yourself can be a real pain.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

That just because I'm a programmer that must mean I'm a master of anything technology related and can totally help out with their niche problems.

"Hey computer guy, how do I search for new channels on my receiver?"

"Hey computer guy, my excel spreadsheet is acting weird"

"My mobile data isn't working. Fix this."

My friend was a programmer and served in the army, people ordered him to go fix a sattelite. He said he has no idea how but they made him try anyways. It didn't work and everyone was disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Good read, and I think you might want to look at OnlyOffice. It's open source and while it is kindof a shameless Microsoft Office clone, it does seem to support LaTeX when adding equations. Not sure how well it works as I don't use it though. The slides app is pretty decent, the only bone I have to pick with it is that there aren't many animation types and most of them are very basic. Otherwise, might be what you're looking for.

Screenshot of OnlyOffice's LaTeX option

Edit: I just tried it and it seems to work pretty well. Select LaTeX, type your equation, then select professional in the dropdown menu and it'll show the equation.

A LaTeX equation shown in onlyoffice

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