TheMightyGlider @themightyglider@gamemaking.social

#TIL The famous author H.G. Wells (War of the words, The Timemashine) published a book called 'Little Wars' in 1913.
This was the first printed ruleset for a tabletop wargame with miniatures ever and makes Wells the grandfather of games like Warhammer and BattleTech.

At the internet archive they have a nice scan of 'Little Wars':

https://archive.org/details/littlewarsgamefo00well/page/1

I own a old netbook: 32bit, intel atom processor, 1gb of ram. To modern standards this thing is really slow.
Past weekend I installed Puppy Linux. I need to say it's awsome how many things still work well on this old hardware. Before I had Ubuntu Mate run on this mashine and it took ~800mb of ram without running any app. This means starting a big tool like firefox overfloaded the ram and slowed down the whole mashine. Now Puppy only takes only 134 mb so even firefox runs okay on most pages.

Far too long since my last post here.

Time to show you a few fresh screenshots from #rba .

I reworked elfish fortress a little bit and here are some impressions for you!

#rbadev #gamedev #freegaming #foss

A nice side effect of this addition is that now mobs can act as heat sources as well. Fire monsters that are able to burn the doors and furniture of your shelter sound like a cool challenge for the later game.

Past weekend I've added one more pet to RogueBox Adventures.

This one is a little fire creature and a bit more difficult to handle then the other pets because it can burn flammable objects it comes close to. On the other hand it is very powerful because it can burn (instakill) most hostile monsters.

#rba #rbadev #gamedev #foss #freegaming

Almost #weekend !

Time to switch into #gamedev mode.

I'll try to push the changes, I've made to #rba during this week, tonight. This means new BGM made by 'Visager' and a reworked credits screen. 😁

Furthermore I plan to add one more quest this weekend. If this quest is done I only have to do one more quest, two pets and four items before I could think of the next release.

I hope I'll be done with everything before this month ends.

#rbadev #freegaming #foss

Here are some fresh screens for you!

#rba #rbadev #gamedev #freegaming #foss

Sometimes I'm really tired of all the drama that goes on among Free Software and Free Culture people.

Can't we just accept that our views on other subjects are maybe different and work together for the good of our shared values anyway?

And can't we just simply accept that the battles we are fighting are not for ourself but for the comming generations and just concentrate on projects that solve problems and push our movement another little step foreward?

Wow I did not post any updates on #rba here for weeks. Sorry for that. I'm just lazy.

Nevertheless the development continued.

- I've finished the re-working of the in-game shops... and I'm very pleased with it.
- Furthermore I added a new workbench to produce something I call aetheric technology.
- A new quest has been added.
- A way to enlarge players room in elysium has been added.
- Several new artefacts have been added.

I'll try to post more infos and some screens later today.

#rbadev