martinmakesgame

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by martinmakesgame 2y ago
The widening of the pool of drafts doesn't work because it is not fun. When you find something that works you want to use it as much as possible because as the player all I want to see is the numbers get higher and higher. This is wher
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by martinmakesgame 2y ago
Empathy is I feel what you feel. Compassion is I understand what you feel, how can we help? It is usually better to aim for compassion because if a person is having a crisis you don't want to go down in flames with them, compassion giv
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by martinmakesgame 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. I feel very hesitant about saying anything further anyway but I will. Consciousness is an expression of love, which is another way to describe the life in us. Consciousness as love is not complex. In our life we can ch
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by martinmakesgame 3y ago
But what happens when you realise that your life is straight forward and simple, whereas everyone else around you is living complex or seemingly complex lives?
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Use multimc.org. When the launcher changed to a microsoft app we moved to using the multimc launcher. It has far more predicatable and reliable behaviour than what microsoft is offering
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Algorithm for generating islands on an expanding ocean(martinmakesgames.itch.io)
2 points by martinmakesgame 5y ago|0 comments
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
>perpetual refund period that covers "DRM or server obsolescence." This seems like it would still be an issue if the company providing the game goes out of business. I've bought games from both PlayFirst and AmbrosiaSW and
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Hi and thanks for the question. I can think of several reasons why it is possible to trust software that may need to be run with full privileges. The game is hosted on itch.io and they do have some backend checking for malware that is hoste
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
The two fonts I've used in the game are Hezaedrus and Redkost Comic. I selected both of these because they are available under the OFL (SIL Open Font License). For parts where readability in the game are important I've used Hezaed
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Hello Everyone, I was playing a game of solitaire one afternoon and got very close to sorting all of the suits. When I play solitaire I think about how the game is an elaborate kind of sorting algorithm and I think about what the conditions
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Show HN: Impossible Solitaire(martinmakesgames.itch.io)
3 points by martinmakesgame 5y ago|5 comments
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
I'm really surprised that out of 276 comments, only one comment mentions that this is Jeff Vogel. I have enjoyed playing Jeff's games in the past, I think his games are beautiful. He's amazing as a game maker with all of his
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Seneca, Moral Letters 16.5(stoicbreviary.blogspot.com)
2 points by martinmakesgame 5y ago|0 comments
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Seneca, Moral Letters 16.2(stoicbreviary.blogspot.com)
3 points by martinmakesgame 5y ago|1 comments
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Would you even want to tell yourself advice learned from ten years of experience? If I learn from the past ten years and then go back and tell myself two outcomes are possible. My past self listens and changes my future self or my past self
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
For something that feels decent enough to share the minimum for myself is three weeks. Functional and verification testing is really important, and then deployment testing after that. These take time. I look at the experiences of Phil Strah
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
I made a fishing, farming and mining game about thoughts and feelings called Peace Of Mind. There are characters in the game you can talk with about different ways of thinking and feeling. Ideas from Buddhism are about overcoming afflictive
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Hi Kenny, The motivations that you've talked about, learning or money and generating users, are these the only motivations when undertaking a side project? When thinking about a side project would you think about other motivations as w
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
If you are looking for information about current research into consciousness, there is a book, The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms. He gave a talk organised by The Royal Institution that talked about case studies that explore where consciousnes
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
> ... correlation between games and violence (i.e. the consensus is that no such causation relationship exists). I feel that the connection between violence and violence in games is far more subtle than a direct connection. Video games a
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
> The book Factfulness makes a pretty good case that people generally think the world is falling apart but that objectively the world is currently in better shape than any other period of history. The book, Abundance: The Future is Bette
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
> My phone has the bare minimum things on it I need to get by. I turn everything off I can. I've railed about location tracking because I know how it works, but damn it, I am not going to mount an all-out war against all my devices
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
> We work longer, not shorter. We work as a couple, not as a single breadwinner. We have less job security than ever. The combined stress of a life long quest and grind for economic relevance is the greatest source of human suffering rem
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Endless Sky is truly excellent. I've been playing it for the last couple of months. It's even possible to explore the whole galaxy playing pacifist and never firing a shot. It's wonderful to be able to play a game in a comple
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
I feel this way too. > Humanity always gets better, eventually. I feel that it is inevitable that we, us, and the state of the world will get better. We as humans are rational and that is our power. We can choose our thoughts and our fee
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
I feel like much of the time when people think about giving a challenge a go it relates to the external world. Sport, hobbies, a software project. For people who have financial independence, what about mastery of our internal world, our tho
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Also the world is not a zero sum game. I win when we both win. In a competitive environment it isn't necessary for someone to win and someone to lose. If someone else wins and I "lose" then I get enjoyment from the other pers
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
> How do we keep stories like this in the "middle" of our minds? I hope this is helpful. A part of Stoicism can be remembering death. There is a nature walk that I often do and I see two cemeteries on my way. I'm reminded
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Thanks for saying this. I feel that a lot of the time people forget about post scarcity. People can focus on the dystopia but I feel that it's important to remember there are other options. A lot of us are already living post scarcity
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by martinmakesgame 5y ago
Hello Everyone. After eight months of development I have completed a game designed for practicing a calm and peaceful state of mind. It is a 2D pixel art farming, fishing and mining game but it also explores ideas about choosing to remain p

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