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IT'S FINALLY OUT!!!

My first commercial game and my first game under the Ioncom brand. It's an action, roguelite, dungeon-crawler with limited lives and permadeath.

It's currently Linux exclusive, but the source code is available and you should be able to compile it for anything that SFML runs on.

ioncominteractive.itch.io/refr

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I have a lot of ideas when it comes to worldbuilding. I have always been a fan of science fantasy (combining both tropes from sci-fi and fantasy), but I feel like most works haven't embraced both genres to their fullest potential. The original Phantasy Star series is probably the closest because they weren't afraid to actually call magic "magic" instead of "the force" like in Star Wars.

I plan on using these ideas for my dream game (or series), but I'm posting these worldbuilding concepts anyway just in case I never get to creating the game, and I just don't care if other people use these ideas. They most likely have already been done before (in fact I know some of these ideas have been done before). I'm using AI to generate these concepts because I suck at drawing.

Anyway let's begin. First off, I think alien worlds should combine both ancient technology, futuristic technology, and everything in between. Technological progress isn't a linear path, so you shouldn't assume that aliens go through the same technological progression as we do. They might be flying interstellar ships, but they might also still be wielding swords and bows. So you can have spaceships flying over medieval style villages or even mudhuts. Star Wars has basically already popularized this, so this should be a no-brainer, but you can always take it a step further. For example, replace lightsabers with steel swords while still having space travel.

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In case you want to follow me on Nostr, here is my public key:

npub1p254warljd049k4j67aftzzpj6keshfa649uk3uhxea33h2g679snnl0qt

I plan of mostly talking about gamedev stuff on it though. I want a more laid-back experience.

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Fun fact: even I don't know how to pronounce my own username, so feel free to pronounce it anyway you want.

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Added a new bullet type: the wave beam. It can penetrate through walls.

It uses the same sprite as the standard laser, but I plan to change that.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #SDL #cplusplus
WaveBeam.mp4
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Obviously not for this account but what do you guys think of thid new username I'd go by ArcKin? Pronounced Ark-Kin similar to arcane.

Been trying to think of a new username to go by rather than the one I've been going by for 10 years this is the closest one I found that I might like. Any suggestions for names would also be nice.

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I really wonder if all the climate change bullshit is to try to get more geoengineering in. I wonder if world leaders want to restore ice age like climate because that's what's needed to active ancient and long dormant technology in ancient structures, like under the pyramids and in Antarctica.
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@MK2boogaloo people are fundamentally misunderstanding how 4chan operates on normalfag social media again and it's making me frustrated, regardless of what sort of impact Epstein's meetings with moot had, the culture of 4chan was developed by anons, not by moot, /new/ was already full of stormfags in 2011, after moot made /pol/ all of the refugees that flocked to 4chon came back to 4chan to start being edgy libertarians again.
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In spite of everything epstein has written or done i don't think I've ever seen him support libertarianism
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Possibly the main reason why nobody is leading an armed revolution is because there's essentially no cost to waiting, and every day of waiting the regime becomes weaker and popular support for a revolution becomes stronger.

What will probably be the trigger-point is when someone goes ahead and starts striking sparks, then everyone else is going to join in because they all want a piece of the spoils / control over how the revolution goes.
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I never said he was .. I'm just stating he's an idiot.

Still, the scamdemic is nothing to sneeze at. A very large number of people still think everything that happened was okay. People still say "before COVID," "during COVID," defining that era of mass-hysteria as real. There's never been a reckoning for what was the largest psychological operation in human history, and that will continue to have ramifications for the rest of this decade.
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Train evangelists are always like "oh trains are great and always on time and comfy and amazing" like wow I love being cramped and 45-60mins late every time lately

Don't even get me started on the horrors of Deutschebahn
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Ripple/XRP (a cryptocurrency company) just granted 200k USD to Social Web Foundation, "...to research sustainable revenue and operating models for digital publishers and community-run platforms":

https://interledger.org/news/interledger-foundation-awards-200000-social-web-foundation-support-decentralized-social-media

This means they will be able to influence the development of the ActivityPub specification at W3C.

For those who don't know: Interledger, WebMonetization and OpenPayments are basically the same thing, these projects were created by Ripple ~10 years ago in order to insert their cryptocurrency and related payment services into web standards. These projects are sometimes presented as independent, but this is a lie, they are not (not in 2019, not in 2025).

Needless to say, Ripple itself is a borderline scam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/. It's not even a cryptocurrency really, their infrastructure is completely centralized and no one in cryptocurrency space takes them seriously. But they have a lot of money to bribe people, so I am sure that we will hear more about their adventures soon.

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/?p=99982

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@forestofenchantment@furville.drinkanddrive.africa With respect to the NES I can name at least 10 titles that are worth playing, I cannot hardly name anything other than that weird robot game that was just a glorified demo of the PS5 capabilities. So yea to reiterate, I am sticking with my NES / SNES , PS1 and PS2 emulation - and there is also dos games. So I am good.
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Looks like the next year of politics is everyone proclaiming that their political opposition is and always has been just a psyop started by Jeff Epstein. Lovely.
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the average person is actually too stupid to legitimately understand the epstein files 

everyone knows epstein was a bad guy, so they immediately assume that literally anything in those emails has to be related to something bad. people are making massive leaps in logic to come to conclusions that are likely far worse than what is actually being displayed.

epstein is bad, obviously, we all know that, but the thing about villains in real life is that they are still people. epstein didn't have a mountain with a massive skull carved into it that exuded dark energy that could only be dispelled by he-man or some shit.

take example 1, for instance. i'm seeing people say that "140 - coney island" in this email is code for a 14 year old boy that epstein and his brother are talking about. no, it's literally just them talking about the invention of hot dogs on coney island 140 years ago. who the fuck knows why, but that's what it is. the link isn't some weird sinister shit, it's just a local news website that is still running to this day. unfortunately that specific article isn't on the wayback machine, but i'm pretty sure it's talking about hot dogs and coney island.

then you have example 2, where people see =9 and see it as referring to a 9 year old. if they have seen the other files, they'll know that the = sign shows up a lot as a substitute for other letters and numbers at random, likely due to some weird formatting error. this exact email is present in another location in the files with the formatting intact to show it is a 19 year old being talked about: justice.gov/epstein/files/Data

i'm beginning to wonder if these files really SHOULDN'T have been released. there's so much slop that can be so easily misinterpreted while there are other problems in the US and in the world in general that are more immediate threats to a massive amount of people. it all seems like a distraction and a lot of political theater. it'd be better if the DOJ could actually hunt these people down, charge them, and release the relevant documents for those cases to the public instead of just uncovering literally everything epstein ever did online.

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rust package unrelated to javascript that includes the whole of v8 for some scripting
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Now that RPGMaker.net has returned, God's Disdain is finally available on it (sort of)!

rpgmaker.net/games/13151/

Download support has not been added to the website yet, so for now the download button will simply redirect to Itch.io.

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>Junior position
>Wants a Bachelor's degree and two years experience

"Junior" and "Entry level" have lost all fucking meaning.
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