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jan_Inkepa

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About jan_Inkepa

makes games. At https://www.increpare.com , twitter: @increpare , and bsky: @increpare.bsky.social

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    Comment #48880185

    i see pablodraw up top - you know your stuff and have good taste!

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    Comment #48243212

    I was on a forum that had one member who is very knowledable on the subject of the forum. But now he...only ever responds with "I asked gemini your question, here's the answer:", a…

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    Comment #48061194

    a tricolon crescens ^^ https://latinaadvitam.blogspot.com/2007/02/poetry-device-of-...

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    Comment #47762770

    Here's an editorialized title in the other direction: On Roblox everyone can make games and play them with their friends. Here's my suggestion for an amendement: "Roblox devs will …

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    Comment #47762745

    (Yes, I would recommend a change of title.) The step is a significant one, and Roblox has taken one other measure recently, restricting chat a lot for minors ( https://x.com/Roblox…

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    Comment #46715014

    >Hence you gain nothing You're saying you get nothing, but you perhaps underestimate how time-consuming and expensive even the easiest company shut down in the Germany is. (I had a…

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    Comment #46709655

    I've been told by a lawyer that a common sensible step in closing companies in Germany is to first...reseat the company in the UK ... (at least pre-brexit - not sure if things have…

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    Comment #46320166

    I'm actually a fan of his game/prototype Painter from 2006 - was just talking about it today. http://number-none.com/blow/prototypes/index.html It's very different from his more re…

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    Comment #46320143

    (I'm a fan of Kwirk. I had it as a kid on Gameboy, and thought it would have aged badly, but no it's still good!)

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    Comment #46312768

    interactions between the various mechanics in the games likely yield countless surprises, and let you build something considerably more elaborate than thesum of its parts..

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    Comment #46311724

    Puzzle design is his strong point (and the team has several v. good puzzle designers on it), so it's safe to assume there'll be some good ones there. The sheer quantity make me won…

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    Comment #46232411

    >Trying to optimize to some kind of perfect pixel alignment shouldn't be a goal anymore. If you're trying to display pixel art (or make games with pixel art), being able to have in…

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    Comment #45604190

    Huh (having scanned but not read in detail the post), interesting approach. I'm not that well-versed in this area (as a game developer, I tend to jump straight to nearest-neighbour…

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    Comment #45499260

    > It had horrible subs because the sub were written by Chinese people using Chinese names for places and character More likely the translators, probably native English speakers, in…

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    Comment #45247445

    Yeah, I remember a friend getting a call during coworking and her face just went white, and after the call she told us that was the tax people calling about irregularities (she had…

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    Comment #44971119

    >Moreover, with Han Unification it strayed from its core mission to "encode all characters needed for written communication in the world" (emphasis mine). Why do you say that? Beca…

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    Comment #44716673

    In the painting there's a delicate interrelation between colours - you have browns/greens/blues in the dark parts, and more whites/yellows/blues/pinks in the light parts. I wouldn'…

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    Comment #44681887

    The problem I personally have with the Zelda example given is that it looks really bland to me - the landscape looks really washed out - the author says "Somebody would paint this.…

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    Comment #44319671

    The editor is really cool, how it highlights what parts of the file are active as the song plays.

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    Comment #43615650

    A most charming and very 90s translation of 'irrumabo' in this poem bequeathed to us the following result: "I'll sodomize and clintonize you,"

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    Comment #43372155

    in 2d, but not in 3d though (like in the video on top of the article)!

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    Comment #43371162

    I had to reload a few times - eventually it loaded everything.

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    Comment #43371155

    "Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible." I…

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    Comment #43256311

    Yeah - if there was just a risk of having one I'd probably get mine removed, but yeah - I think I remember looking into it once and coming away thinking it's probably best to leave…

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    Comment #43138085

    Is there any way to zoom out of the graphs once you've zoomed in by clicking and dragging?