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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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My political views in a nutshell.

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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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> GitHub removed the ability to browse stars anonymously
And with that, nearly all the utility of GitHub is simply gone. Just like that.
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ChatGPT, how freaky is my engine?

`Pretty freaky. In a good, “someone built a PlayStation-era engine inside a haunted operating system” way.`

I liked Opus' line: It's a serious engine wearing a deeply unserious hat.
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Henryk Plötz

How ChatControl passed in the EU parliament.

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There should be more game engines/frameworks that support SVGs (or any other vector graphics) natively/out-of-the-box. I think indie developers should make games in the style of flash games you saw on Newgrounds. It has much more personality than pixel art and probably is much easier to do compared to hand-drawn art.

Apparently, SDL has native support for SVGs, but I haven't tried it yet.

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Decoldest Crawford :verified_flashing:
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Added empty item boxes and a particle effect when you destroy them.

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I'm sick of hearing about the FIFA World Cup.

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Artist making their art and eyesore just to own le AI
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> webkit2gtk dependency for an audio plugin

[hank hill noise]
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Dolus Neo
THIS is the right way to do digital. No DRM and no other bullshit. It's BETTER than a physical copy on CD.

Get fucked, Audible ~
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beard ひげ

Shesez (boundary break guy) got his car struck by lightning!
youtu.be/LZTCGqoF7IY

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macos 9 getting fedi clients before ios is

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why is the first thing any woman does when she sees my expensive fountain pen is, wait until i step away / am not looking, pick it up and screw the piston shut so all the ink in the reservoir comes out and then complain about it leaking

I am instituting a policy of not letting people use "my special pen"
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@PurpCat @SuperDicq @mangeurdenuage @Pi_rat @hakui The 8chan/quarantine problem doesn't have to be about politics or whatever is banned on the mainstream sites.

I do agree that "competitors" have to be containment sites, but instead of being containment sites for topics that are banned, just do what Vidlii did and make it a containment site for people who are nostalgic for simpler times. Vidlii in particular is for those who are nostalgic for old-school (pre-2009) YouTube. The content posted there reflects that, and I hardly see any political content on there.

I'm pretty sure Tumblr and DeviantArt went through drastic changes over the years and people are yearning for simpler times. Just make a site like old-school DeviantArt or Tumblr and attract that audience. You can then add federation simply as a bonus feature and then you can get a sizable and somewhat diverse (in tastes) audience.

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Caleb James DeLisle
Just got cjdns over websocket more or less working.

If anybody wants to give it a shot, here's the branch: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/tree/wsinterface-july8-2026

And here's a peering cred:

"wss://5.135.140.105/cjdns-ws":{"login":"default-login","password":"81sx357g22urvyytc94f1q48f21ty1j","publicKey":"m9g2ltp4v8wty379vxj7uzn2l0sr937l5lz7c6hzkygtwng7vf20.k","peerName":"vinny4"}

You need the new WsInterface block in order to use it, but you can get that by doing ./cjdroute --genconf
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I bent Jai into being able to do """member functions""" :devilish:

(I bake the index to a global array of structs into a runtime function stored on that struct during creation, so when I call that function from the instantiated struct's member it's got a reference to where the data local to it is stored, and I can "using" that so that I can reference the members as though they were local to the function itself). Here's sort of what it looks like:

Gorf :: struct { TestProc :: ($id: s64) { using arr[id]; // let's access x/y/z as though we "owned" them print("(%, %, %)\n", x, y, z); x += 1.0; // change x to confirm we're actually affecting our members } f: (); x, y, z: float; } arr: [..] Gorf; get_id :: () -> s64 { arr.count += 1; // fake the alloc return arr.count-1; } make_gorf :: (g: Gorf, $id: s64) { array_add(*arr, g); // add it to the global array arr[id].f = #procedure_of_call arr[id].TestProc(id); // bake the id into the member function } Test :: () { p :: #run get_id(); // get an index into the gorf array at compile time make_gorf(.{ x = 100.0 }, p); // make a gorf at runtime // call a few times to show x changing arr[p].f(); arr[p].f(); arr[p].f(); } #import "Basic";

I'm probably never going to actually use this but it's neat that I could do it if I wanted to

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Reclaim The Net

France and WHO Push Social Media ID Checks

reclaimthenet.org/france-and-w

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Gabriel

Real talk: has there ever been a notable example of someone in government, corporate, or academia pointing out "Hey! What we're doing is actually super illegal and wrong!" and people were actually held accountable?

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We admitted to funding the big bad boogieman but we are still going to tell you why they are still a threat anyway.

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wonder if anyone has deployed factorio's weird signal system as an actual programming language somewhere

i mean i'd hate it but i'm still curious :ablobcatgooglytenor:

would be neat to see a ladder logic system in a game but i doubt we will
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