Sorry about the brief outage some of you might have experienced.

We've upgraded to Mastodon 4.4.0 this morning and it appears that one of our themes didn't play well and broke all of the assets (caching kept things working for a while, but eventually refreshed and caused things to stop working).

An update of the theme and recompiling the assets got things fixed though so we're all stable now. 🤓

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Game design friends, is there a widely accepted term similar to “progressive disclosure” in UX but for introducing mechanics, abilities, etc.? E.g. in a platformer where you can jump, push blocks, wall jump, etc. the level design basically forces you to learn the abilities as you go, “just in time” to complete the new challenges instead of all up front.

Maybe progressive disclosure isn't a perfect UX equivalent, either—it might be more like “guided discovery” or something.

#gameDev #gameDesign

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Unless some people pop up out of nowhere, its looking like the GNOME Foundation election may have the same issue as OpenSUSE's recent election where they didn't even have enough people running to fill the empty seats.

Currently 2 candidacies are announced for 4 open seats and nominations end on the 3rd of June. This is a massive drop from 11 candidates last year. So I guess if you want an easy seat now is the time to get one.