Hi, I'm sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
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more like a platform where the community is able to publish user-created games for people to play. Maybe the different instances could be different types of games (e.g. action, RPG, puzzle) or different languages/regions. For instance, something like Roblox and even Scratch is where people are able to make their own games and make it public so others can play (though for Scratch, it’s not just games).
A decentralised game hub?
Is there anything like this? Something like Roblox, but rather than using a central server, using a network of decentralised servers with different self-hosted instances (a bit like the fediverse, but for online multiplayer games)
If there’s nothing like this, how difficult would it be to start something like this myself?
edit: Or maybe something like Scratch, where you’re not tied to a specific movement system and can program whatever kind of game you want?
Budget phones by Chinese companies are really good now, esp. with things like SiC batteries. Very cheap phones now have nice 120hz screens, decent processors for everyday use, very good battery life, nice build quality, and even okayish cameras. It’s really only the software that’s a bit bloated, but it’s (usually) removable (and you could always install a custom ROM)
Budgets phones from non-Chinese companies like Samsung and now Nothing/CMF are quite good too.
edit: when I mean build quality, I don’t mean metal/glass. Budget phones are made of plastic, but nowadays they have nice finishes, are quite durable, and are dust/water resistant.
That makes sense, humans love grabbing the next new thing.
I find it weird that tech reviewers are hyping up 7 years of OS support by Samsung and Google (which is very good!) while simultaneously promoting upgrading to the newest phone every year (which, in my opinion, is quite wasteful)
Yeah, budget phones have gotten really good. That makes sense, the companies have a financial incentive to make the better phone than everyone else.
Kind of crazy that we mere humans have developed these super-advanced silicon wafers that can do millions of operations every second and we develop new, better ones every year.
Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?
Every year, tech reviewers position the latest chip as much better than the old one, and the same thing happens next year, and the next. The Snapdragon 8 Elite was better than the Gen 3, which was better than the Gen 2, and so on.
If the “flagship” chips are so good, why not just stop to save cost? Why upgrade the chipset every year with minimal gains?
If everyone stuck with the same generation of chip, smartphones could be cheaper (good for consumers) OR profit margins could be increased (good for companies). Or maybe a mix of both.
What drives the yearly update in chips? AI maybe?
I've got some lighting now and it looks really cool! No normal maps yet though, so I might get to that at some point...
Ah ok. Everyone makes mistakes, it's all fine and good :D
No, I wasn't born yet...
later down the line I might add a few more nature deity abilities, but I think four is probably enough.
That makes sense, the Greeks has a bunch more gods and deities and such they worshipped.
In my game I’m also including four of the nature deities, Helios (the sun god), Achelous (the river god of the Achelous river), the winds, and Gaia (the Earth). The idea is that you can interact with the totems to use their abilities (e.g. Gaia totem would heal you)
that does look really cool! I’ll have to do that at some point…I should probably make the player sprite first though, right now it’s a recoloured version of the one from HeartBeast’s tutorial.
The idea is that you explore each god’s “realm” and at the end there’s some sort of boss fight where you have to knock out the god to steal their “fire” (e.g. mastery of the seas from Poseidon) for the humans
edited to mention it's the Greek ones and not the Roman ones. Or did I do something else wrong...?
or maybe I could play with some lighting to make it dark and cave-like...
I've made progress on my game about the 12 Greek Olympian gods!
Hi all, I'm making a game where you, the player, is tasked by Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods, to "steal fire" from the 12 Greek Olympian gods. First stage will be on Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy.
I've got the tutorial section mostly done now, and I think the pixel art I made looks great! I still need to eventually get on to making my own player sprite though...
What do you all think of this? Do you think anything needs to be added to make the world look better (e.g. more variety in the tileset maybe?) or have any ideas for some good puzzles I could add?
some more screenshots:
![Player is interacting with a rock covered in vines wit
If you could have any vision-related superpower, what would it be?
Hiya, I put out the godot project files on codeberg!
they have an e/os version I think
maybe, but I’ll stick with side-scrolling, at least for now
Should I make my game top down or side scrolling?
HI all, I'm making a game about Prometheus (the Titan who stole fire from the gods) assigning you, the player, a quest to "steal fire" from each of the 12 Olympian gods (e.g. mastery of the seas from Poseidon). I'm trying to decide whether to stick with side scrolling (where I'm comfortable in designing tilesets and player characters for) or go with top down (meaning having to learn how to design 8-way walking/attack/etc. animations and top-down tilesets)
I'm leaning more towards sticking with side-scrolling (since that is much easier for me), but what do you all think?
edit: The game will probably be a mix of exploration, puzzles, and a bit of action as well (e.g. fighting enemies, boss fights maybe?)
I'm thinking of adding lots of different symbols and references to interesting ancient greek myths I've read (e.g. how Persephone has to go between Hades and Demeter, causing a period of poor harvests when Demeter isn't with her daughter)
Also, the art will be pixel art as that's
Is it a good idea to get the Xperia XZ1 Compact as a secondary phone and install LineageOS?
It’s not officially supported, but I can see a few “unofficial” community builds. I like the idea of getting a small phone as a media player. I have some experience with installing operating systems, but never a phone. How difficult is it? Is this a good idea?
What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative?
We, as humans, consider ourselves intelligent life. Other mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, etc. are all considered life. Rocks, metals, gases, etc. are not considered life, they are considered to be non-living things. Towns, cities, and Earth itself is not considered life but are composed of many lives to create larger communities.
But we as humans are made of cells, just as a population is made of humans. If you were a cell, the human body would be more like a city. Just as we do not consider cities as living organisms the human would not be too. Likewise, if you were a population, humans would be more like cells, only considered to be a part of yourself.
And if you become a simpler single-celled organism, you would consider yourself an intelligent organism, and multi-cellular organism would be like giant cities. But what would be “non-intelligent” life?
You are what we humans consider as the least intelligent life there is, so perhaps what we consider non-living objects could be
Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats?
Horses and bulls make a bit of sense, big animals make big poos. Calling something a big poo means it is very stinky, a huge waste, etc. Very yucky. But bat poos? Those are teeny tiny, small bats make small poos. What do people have against the poos of bats?
Also, what about larger animals? Whale poos are huge, and yaks, buffalos, etc. all make big poos. Don't ask me how I know.
Changing window on hover? (GNOME)
On GNOME, it is possible to switch windows by doing the three-finger swipe up and selecting the window. When you do the three-finger swipe down, it goes back to your current window. Is it possible to configure GNOME so that when I hover over a different window after the 3-finger swipe up gesture and then do the 3-finger swipe down it goes to the different window rather than the current one? Or is that not a thing? It would be really helpful as then I don't have to click whenever I want to switch windows. I am running Fedora Workstation 42 on a laptop.
Aside from this small quibble, Linux has been very fun to use :D