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Speaking only for myself, often a project is in a half-finished state, and any provided screenshot would quickly become out of date.
You could probably automate a tool to take screenshot for you.
I did not know this concept existed, Wonderful Idea, no doubt demakes would be a lot more frequent if we valued ecology and actually tried to curb digital obsolescence as much as possible, in a permacomputing way. I imagine it would be much more straightforward to port pretty much any indie games to consoles like Xbox original onwards, PS3 onwards, Wii onwards, maybe Windows 7 average desktop and notebooks (lots of i…
By most accounts the PS3 was not fun to write software for due to its unusual specialized processing units.
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Agreed, this repo is in desperate need of a few screenshots/video on the ReadMe to showcase what it looks like.
I personally have found there is something of an art to a good readme. So folks can make one that is informative and visual, others can't. I have a project or two that suffered because my readme designing skills suck, then talented friend PR'd a great readme with screenshots and such.
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Is the purpose of life to only work on "useful" things? I ask that genuinely.
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This person thinks this is a good use of their time. Why do we care what you think? You clearly don't care what person putting in the hard work thinks.
> demake Maybe the author will explain what a “demake” is. Nope, he doesn’t. No introduction section, just straight into compiler instructions. You have to make people care about your project, and right now I don’t.
First result on Google search for "demake".
> You have to make people care about your project
No he does not. This is a personal Github repo. A non-commercial hobby project. No one gives a f*** whether you care or not.
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It may be an art, but I wouldn't say it takes much talent to include a screenshot, GIF or YouTube link! Most likely he just didn't give it much thought.
Weirdly even commercial software websites seem to do this a lot. Pages of text and some mostly-unrelated images with no screenshots at all. Sometimes you can learn more about a program from screenshots of it in Google Images than from the official website.
It's not the sole way to evaluate usefulness of software obviously, but it can help save a lot of time if it's clear from screenshots or videos if its not a good fit for my needs.