I assumed it was how much I’ve used, so I just bought another eSIM from Nomad, this time with unlimited data. Now I’m worried I’ve just wasted my money.
I’d like to get back into this kind of shape. My scoliosis was subtle when making the effort to stand straight.
Unfortunately I have massive hips, which I hate. Not much I can do about that though.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZ9fdoghNk\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZ9fdoghNk)
Sorry if this isn't allowed, but I made a game based on Minesweeper and I want to share it.
Back in 2013 I participated in an online game jam called One Game a Month (#1GAM). I created a version of Minesweeper where you have to walk through the minefield and reach the exit.
It was at the top of the puzzles category in the Ubuntu Software Centre at the time the software centre was discontinued.
Anyway, recently I remade it, and it's now on iPhone as well as all desktop platforms. (I'm struggling to get the Android version approved for the Play Store.)
[https://freeholdapps.com/minefield\](https://freeholdapps.com/minefield)
Let me know what you think. Thanks
I’m looking for a freelance videographer to shoot some videos for me. DM me if interested or you can recommend someone. Thanks :)
I can’t edit my profile. I delete some text and then the whole app locks up and I have to force restart, so currently my profile is shit and can’t be changed. Brilliant.
This is getting seriously annoying now. I’ve used up all my super likes, all by accident. I know there’s already a million threads complaining about the same thing, so I’m not the only one. Given that there are so many people complaining about this and have been for years, are they ever going to fix it?
I’m uninstalling the app and cancelling my subscription. I’m fed up of this janky piece of shit app that’s constantly freezing. It also keeps swiping right when I’m just trying to scroll down. Again, loads of people have complained about this, but they don’t seem to care.
I'm making a game similar to Morrowind, but decided to add proper physics - so maybe more like Oblivion in some ways.
The only dynamic bodies are boxes and capsules. Other shapes (terrain, cylinders, ovoids, aggregates) are static only.
Performance is reasonable enough. I think last time I checked, in the 1000 cube scenario (see end of video) I was getting close to 60 fps on a Raspberry Pi 5 1GB.
Resting contacts are a bit unstable. Boxes of similar size don't like being stacked. I might address this later with contact recycling.
In case it matters to anyone, I didn't use any AI tools at all. I'm still coding like it's 2010.
The entire physics system is contained in a single source file: https://github.com/robjinman/lithic3d/blob/main/engine/core/src/sys_collision.cpp
I actually did this a while ago, but only just found this subreddit and thought you'd appreciate it.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJQ80pWyGI
Repo: https://github.com/robjinman/gemsnrocks_asm
Write up: https://deadbeef.io/a_cpp_developer_learns_assembly
Greetings you beautiful bastards.
[Steve Ballmer voice] "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! ..."
I’ve been working on a C++/Vulkan game engine for the past few months with the ultimate goal of producing a game similar to Morrowind - although initially just a “vertical slice”, i.e. all gameplay systems in place, but only a small amount of content, such as a single village.
A few months ago I wrote about the concept of freehold software, which was well received here and on Hacker News. Essentially, it’s a term I coined to refer to old-school software that is free from micro-transactions, ads, “active” DRM, and remote servers (unless the server side component is made available for self-hosting) - or anything that threatens the user’s long term ownership of the application. These concerns overlap somewhat with those of the Stop Killing Games movement. Indeed, the modern state of gaming is particularly depressing to me and I've been feeling increasingly nostalgic about older console generations. I even repurchased an original Xbox recently.
It got me thinking about how great it would be if a company were to create a new console built on freehold principles. This is wildly unrealistic, but let me describe to you my fantasy for this hypothetical console: It would be a powerful, modern system, not just some retro or indie gaming machine. It would support physical media only. Yes, that's right - no option to download games at all. Publishing over the air updates would also be prohibited. That means no bugfixes. Once the developer submits their final build to the publisher, that's it - so it better be finished! This would force developers to care once again about the quality of their games on launch. At least, that's the idea. What would likely happen in reality is that developers would release their games for this console later than for other platforms (if at all). Still a win, IMO. Games would not be allowed to contain ads (except maybe placement ads) or micro-transactions. Games with online multiplayer (or any online component) would have to make their server-side software available (also on physical media, but part of a separate purchase), so the community can re-host the server if the official one ever goes offline.
Naturally, many people would hate this idea, but many like me would love it. Are there enough weirdos like me to make this idea viable? No, hence why it will forever remain a fantasy.
Another aspect of modern software I despise is bloat. I hate that we waste such powerful hardware with crap, slow software. People will say that businesses have to make a trade-off between optimising for performance and optimising for development cost, and they often choose the latter. This is true, obviously, but I don’t like this excuse. I distrust anyone who doesn’t share my lamentations about this sad state of affairs. Good engineering is about minimalism and elegance. What kind of engineer are you if shipping bloated slop doesn’t cause you to die a little inside?
About 20 years ago I aspired to be like John Carmack, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible by squeezing every last ounce of performance from a piece of hardware. Sadly, my career thus far hasn’t really provided much of that kind of development, so I have to do it in my own time.
To that end then, I needed a fairly constrained hardware platform to use as a performance target. I chose the 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 as it was cheap (£43 for the board) and has good Vulkan support despite its limited capabilities. The plan is to provide a Raspberry Pi 5 edition of the game in a nice box (with a paper map!) on a micro SD card, which will have a very minimal custom Linux image on it - no window manager or desktop environment (gotta get the most out of that 1 GB!) - and the game will run automatically on start up. I will display a splash screen to hide the usual boot sequence and will attempt to hide the BIOS splash too if possible. This way, the user experience would be like playing an old games console: insert the game, power on the machine, play the game. I’ve already got the engine working on the Pi running Raspberry Pi Lite, so I just need to build a custom Linux image. Micro SD cards can be quite cheap if bought in bulk.
This idea ticks a number of boxes:
And it got me thinking: The Raspberry Pi 5 may not be the dream console I was fantasising about, but there's nothing to stop indie developers collectively deciding to build games for it and from creating games that conform to freehold principles. These are orthogonal concepts, of course - one could release for the Pi 5 while still incorporating micro-transactions and ads into their games. I'm basically trying to test the waters for a dev community that builds freehold games for the Raspberry Pi 5.
From a technical point of view, it's not too difficult. If you're using C++, you'll need to cross-compile for arm64. If using Vulkan, the way you obtain a VkSurface is different. For user input, you won't be able to use libraries like GLFW. I'm using libevdev. You can refer to the Lithic3D source for how exactly I do it. I have a docker environment set up, so making a build is as simple as:
./start_pi5_env.sh ../relative/path/to/project
LITHIC3D_PROJECT=../game cmake --workflow --preset=pi5-debug
Then I scp the build to the device. This is only during development as the release image won't have an ssh server. My device is currently running Raspberry Pi OS Lite, but the final release image will probably not even include the linux networking stack as my game doesn't require internet access.
If there is sufficient interest I could set up a forum or subreddit. Let me know what you think.
Cheers.
I have an app that has failed review a few times due to crashing. It works fine on my Pixel 7a and on all the simulated devices I've tried, but apparently crashed during review. I'd appreciate if you could just try it and see if it runs. If it crashes, I should get a stack trace sent to my Firebase dashboard, which will be very useful.
Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/minefield_testers
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freeholdapps.minefield
Thanks
I've been having some trouble getting my app approved. It runs fine on my Pixel 7a and on all simulated devices I've tried, but it crashed during review, apparently.
Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/minefield_testers
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freeholdapps.minefield
Thanks