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I have always liked gamebooks with interesting game mechanics (not so much the traditional CYOA or Fighting Fantasy) and one great source for that in the past was the annual Windha…

As much as I dislike AI slop, one of the first things I did when I first saw Chat GPT was to generate some gamebooks to use as test input-data for my gamebook-generator script. Des…

There is this collection of 1980's internal design documents from Flying Buffalo that you can buy: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/296847/t-t-solo-desi... It is old, but I …

He also makes some (non-free) tools that are fun (says me, not a real game dev or artist). Asset Forge is for combining 3D models into bigger models. Fun to quickly bash his variou…

I have learned it (somewhat) by playing around in TIC-80 and Löve2D (including LoveDOS). Both Lua and Fennel are tiny languages. You can skim all the documentation in a short eveni…

I looked at the documentation, saw it looked like a lot of stuff to learn, and went back to my plain org-mode files. Not sure what it is I miss out on?

> text-only apps What? Is that a common problem? And where are those text-only apps anyway? I have installed Termux and some vim app and a few interactive fiction games that are al…

Is this part of the long-term plan for zig to get rid of the dependency on clang/llvm? https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270

It passed the type checker!

But Google Translate is correct about Dutch. It was just not one of the languages I tried before. I do not think it is a particularly difficult case for translation. The reason I c…

This killed FreeDOS (and presumably all the other *DOS as well) on modern hardware unfortunately. It was fun as long as it lasted. I do not know what the next-best single-user, sin…

I like mazes and I saw that distinction be made before, but I am not sure how universally accepted it is? Other than English how many languages even have two different words? I spe…

I take notes in emacs with org-mode. It is not simple at all, in a way, but there is nothing that gets in my way either. No distractions since all features are hidden behind keyboa…

You can just use termux+rsync to get files to or from your phone.

I think having modern game engines reducing the need for game programmers to almost zero caused much of this, but it also resulted in some interesting games when artists could crea…

If we are sharing favorite RAND books, this introduction to game theory from 1954 is lovely (I read it twice): https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1.html I admit I ski…

That is the modern (well, DnD 3E and later, so this century?) style of RPG campaign, with pre-packaged bundles of adventures to play in series, designed to last some specific time …

Text-mode editor for FreePascal probably works fine in bigger text-modes as well and still looks a lot like traditional programming editors. Or for just a good DOS-compatible code …