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This is not meant to be any sort of religious "my lang > your lang" discussion, or anything along those lines. I've no big complaints about the langauge itself, or it's syntax so f…

Private servers for Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown now available

There are some valid reasons to use software in English as a German speaker. Main among those is probably translations. If you can speak English, you might be better of using the s…

I'm actually of the opinion, that blue-green colors like teal or turquoise are both green and blue at the same time. Basically a mixture. Having to pick just exclusively one - blue…

"Shards" are the inlore explanation in Ultima, for why there would be multiple copies of the game world existing in parallel (the different servers). Some sort of world-crystal bei…

Raph Koster is also currently working on a new game, that aims to take this ideas of social experience and player-driven virtual society and push it beyond what they were able to d…

I used to say that video games do everything you might find in any other kind of software - only difference being, they do it 60 times a second.

weirdly enough, when asking for documentation/problem solving types of questions - chatGPT actually is a good alternative. you still have to double-check since you can't trust it..…

Regardless of whether you hire in-house developers or hire a software studio that does contract work - I believe the key to success is giving the developer unfettered access to an …

This game is definitely gonna be known for it's systems, mechanics and simulation, and not for it's graphics - that much is sure.

The Discord is currently the probably best place with the most information... https://discord.gg/starsreach Check "A brief, subjective history..." in "community-forum", for a rough…

Full player housing, with building options similar to Landmark. Also player-cities, and even player-governed planets.

Yeah it does - but it is early work in progress, and is gonna see several more passes before getting close to release. According to Raph the goal is for the visuals to end up somew…

They all can be colored in 4 colors - if you don't care about giving the enclave the same color as the parent country. If you insist giving those little islands the same color as t…

So, there was this one question "Can every map be colored with just 4 colors?"... And there I sit, knowing that every map of CONTIGUOUS territories can be colored with 4 colors - b…

I remember playing around with that like... 20 to 25-ish years ago. Back then only pre-rendered cut-scenes could come close to having graphics like that, and I dreamed of the day w…

Many years ago, I've been playing around with similar ideas - although my attempts were probably more like "abstract fonts" then actual ciphers. What feel kinda curious to me about…

All of that sounds like, that torrent-based updaters/downloaders should be the absolute killer-app for environments like that. Infinitely resume-able, never looses progress, remain…

"I invented a ranking system that cannot be gamed!" By my experience, ALL ranking systems can - and will be gamed, no matter what. I'm still willing to give you the benefit of the …

might save your own life as well

when I made my drivers license, you were still taught that if all your breaks fail and there's no way to stop car, you should use "body braking" - i.e. use the friction of scraping…