popcar2

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[–] popcar2@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Right now. WASM has been supported by every browser for a while now, and most webapps are made with WASM. That said, it's not a replacement for Javascript, most people only use it on things that need to be high performance like heavier apps and web games. Nobody really makes websites that rely on WebAssembly instead of JS to my knowledge.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can backflip in mid-air which is useful to go a little higher or cancel the direction you're moving in. I don't remember the exact control for it, but I think it was double tapping after jumping.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Absolutely, it's a great game.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

The fun part of this game is hearing such differing opinions, I had someone explain that Block Koala was their favorite. I personally didn't gel with Planet Zoldath, it's conceptually neat but I found it very tedious. Glad you enjoy it though!

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

I'll post it on Lemmy once it's done. I'm still not entirely sure which gaming communities would be most suitable but it'll definitely be in !blogging@programming.dev :)

That said, UFO 50 is truly massive, so it'll be some time before I finish this thing. One of the games I haven't started yet is apparently a 20+ hour JRPG, so that'll be fun.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have been obsessed with this game since it came out. I've already put in 60 hours and got 14 games cherried (which means 100%ing them, getting a true ending, or beating a difficult challenge).

I'm writing an incredibly long blog post where I review every single game in the pack. Excited to finish & share it once I'm done playing through everything.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I've been on Nobara for almost a year now and am really happy with it. The only distro I'd probably switch to is Bazzite just to try out immutability, but aside from that I'm good where I am.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are two good options: Host your own blog yourself, or join a blogging platform that isn't corporate. I personally use BearBlog but I've heard good things about Write.as as well. These two have free blogging options and don't sell your data. If you want to host it yourself (which is safer), check out Hugo.

Ultimately, bots scrape the entire internet and there's no guarantee they will honor robots.txt of a particular website (which tells bots what they are and aren't allowed to do). If it's on the internet, people can scrape your content and there isn't much you can do about it. That shouldn't stop you from writing or blogging, just don't post very personal data.

Also, feel free to join us on !blogging@programming.dev!

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's a two part story:

  1. The mobile market mostly targets kids and boomers and their resistance to microtransactions has been basically non-existent, making the market quickly become predatory and full of spam

  2. Modern app stores have become abysmal, making it impossible for smaller games to see the light of day. 99% of google play is a dumpster fire, and the 1% that is decent isn't published by a multi-billion dollar company so you're unlikely to ever see it. There are good games out there, but the way the algorithms and ads work makes them constantly pushed down in the list. This isn't "a problem" to a company like Google because they're making bank off of all these ad spaces.


Anyways, most good games are paid, but here's a list of stuff I've enjoyed playing on mobile:

  • Fancy Pants Adventures

  • Bloons TD 6

  • Dicey Dungeons

  • Dead Cells

  • Slay the Spire (but the mobile port is rough on small screens)

  • Knights of Pen and Paper +1

  • The Enchanted Cave 2

  • Let's Create! Pottery

  • BAIKOH

  • Data Wing

Probably a lot more I forgot. Have at it.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Has it ever been better?

Actually, yes, by a big margin. Back in ~2011 mobile games were actually trying to be great. Games like Edge Extended, World of Goo, Bounce Boing Voyage, Zenonia 2 & 3, etc.

I remember early Humble Bundles being full of exciting games for mobile, now you'll be lucky to find just one of them that isn't filled to the brim with MTX or ads.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Your Inception is a great choice, but I also low-key wished pizza tower's music got in to meme on the other instances

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

There doesn't seem to be any affordable small phones. Small phones don't have a big market so they're usually $500+ and have worse specs than other phones in the same price range.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8955176

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8955176

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

The irony of crossposting this is not lost on me

 

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

 

!blogging@programming.dev


I’ve decided to make a community for sharing blog posts, since there aren’t many places to do so in Lemmy.

This is a community for posting interesting, insightful, or even personal blog posts. You can advertise your own blog posts, or share other blog posts you find interesting. See you there!

 

I've been browsing job posts lately and found a lot of poorly written posts looking for collaborators. Here's a blog post I wrote highlighting common pitfalls, and how to convince collaborators to join your project!

 
 

Previous posts: https://programming.dev/post/3974121 and https://programming.dev/post/3974080

Original survey link: https://forms.gle/7Bu3Tyi5fufmY8Vc8

Thanks for all the answers, here are the results for the survey in case you were wondering how you did!

Edit: People working in CS or a related field have a 9.59 avg score while the people that aren’t have a 9.61 avg.

People that have used AI image generators before got a 9.70 avg, while people that haven’t have a 9.39 avg score.

Edit 2: The data has slightly changed! Over 1,000 people have submitted results since posting this image, check the dataset to see live results. Be aware that many people saw the image and comments before submitting, so they've gotten spoiled on some results, which may be leading to a higher average recently: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MkuZG2MiGj-77PGkuCAM3Btb1_Lb4TFEx8tTZKiOoYI

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3974080

Hey everyone. I made a casual survey to see if people can tell the difference between human-made and AI generated art. Any responses would be appreciated, I'm curious to see how accurately people can tell the difference (especially those familiar with AI image generation)

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3160775

I'm usually a fan of open source games but rarely do they manage to be actually great. People like giving recommendations like Super Tux Kart that haven't aged well and don't play well. What are some open source games that are legitimately good that I've missed?

My favorites are:

  • Mindustry

  • Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart

  • Powder Toy

  • GZDoom (and all the amazing mods for it)

  • Veloren (even though it's still in alpha)

 

They're free to use commercially, and some of them are pretty neat if you want to show off support for the engine in your game. Preview image:

A screenshot previewing most of them

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