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🍉 Melon 🍉6d ago

Maggie Chapman Mar 18

🎉 Today Scotland bans greyhound racing!

In 2023: 109 greyhounds died trackside in the UK, & there were 4,238 injuries to during racing.

🐕 Congratulations to @ruskell + team & all the tireless campaigners for seeing this through.

🍉 Melon 🍉Mar 15

Perfect Butterfly Angel Mar 15

part of why i love having foreign languages turned on in steam is because every once in a while i find a high-wishlist number game with no english translation that just looks fucking WILD

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3114370/Word_Game_World

look at this shit!!! that's cool as hell!!

Word Game World on Steam

「探索」世界，「創造」世界，只要你會中文，就能主宰這個世界。在《文字遊戲》的經典機制上，帶來全新的探索與創造體驗。你可以遊玩主線故事、挑戰跨界聯名內容，還能動手自製關卡，一起「敲」出專屬於你的文字世界吧！

🍉 Melon 🍉Mar 2

Ben Porter Mar 1

since when did we get all these game engine emojis?!

🍉 Melon 🍉Mar 1

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g.roll Mar 1

Here is what the dice roll looks like in-game :-0

🍉 Melon 🍉Mar 1

g.roll Mar 1

I'm making a dice game, so it's important to make a dice roll animation that *feels* right! I wrote a blog post detailing my process; from ideation, to planning, to implementation using blender, normal maps, 2D lighting, movement logic, and more!

Check it out at:
https://groll.dev/blog/animating_dice/

Animating a Dice Roll

using normal maps, spritesheets, blender models, and more

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🍉 Melon 🍉Feb 15

@yora this might also open up more expressive combat maneuvers than first-person typically allows for - like holding a long blade to the side of your character and running past a foe, slashing along the way, like in classic samurai film fashion. harder to do when you're always staring at enemies head-on with a crosshair!

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🍉 Melon 🍉Feb 15

@yora i think it can certainly be made to be *more* fun than the Fo3 implementation was. something that system lacked was any influence over where your own character was standing, or where they would move after the attack. perhaps some kind of movement-planning phase would be interesting?

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🍉 Melon 🍉Feb 15

@yora oh wow you literally just posted about it! i think it warrants some playing around with.

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🍉 Melon 🍉Feb 15

@yora what about something like Fallout 3 / NV / 4's "VATS" system, where the game pauses and provides body-part targeting for individual foes with chances-to-hit? it's a little clunky in those games, but i think it's a relatively unexplored idea for how combat can be more thoughtful and planned out in a first-person setting.

🍉 Melon 🍉Feb 8

yschaeff Feb 8

You where all thinking it. And the answer is 'yes!'. Yes you can totally LASER engrave a banana to exfiltrate data from your secured premises. Just out of the machine the text is barely noticable. But the next morning? Clear as day.

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