Puzzle Dependency Charts
“In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let’s delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. Don’t confuse it with a flow chart, it’s not a flow chart and the subtle distinctions will hopefully become clear, for they are the key to it’s usefulness and raw pulsing design power.”
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Seattle Songwriters Rooms
“Songwriters Rooms is a monthly Sunday songwriting meetup designed to foster collaboration, dismantle barriers in the music scene, and give emerging artists a space to co-create”
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Pianolibrary.org
“Pianolibrary.org is an online catalogue containing musical incipits and related information for more than 5000 pieces for solo piano”
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A bunch of puzzle games
“This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK) and on Windows. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets.”
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Optimizing Godot build size
“How to Minify Godot's Build Size (93MB -> 6.4MB exe)”
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Troubleshooting a TLC TV
Surprisingly in-depth video about how to troubleshoot and fix TCL “power cycle” problems
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Single page printable calendar
“If you print this page, you’ll get a nifty calendar that displays all of the year’s dates on a single page. It will automatically fit on a single sheet of paper of any size.”
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Godot localization tool
"Create and edit CSV translation tables directly in the Godot editor"
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Mos utility for smooth scrolling on MacOS
It was bugging me that I didn’t get smooth scrolling when using my external mouse wheel on MacOS. This free utility solved the problem!
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Rules of Typography
“The four most important typographic considerations for body text are point size, line spacing, line length, and font, because those choices determine how the body text looks.”
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Luggage brands
Briggs & Riley
Mullvad VPN
Interesting looking VPN with no subscription (just “pay as you go” flat fee)
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Quodlibet
I came across this rather delightful musical term!
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Ambience Antarctica
“Ambience Antarctica is a chill spot to listen to music and look at visuals pertaining to the wonderful continent of Antarctica!”
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Image optimization for the web
In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the fundamental strategies for optimizing images for mobile browsers. The main idea is simple: reduce image size as much as possible without sacrificing its quality.
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Godot Shaders
Godot Shaders is a community-driven shader library for the Godot game engine.
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Airalo e-SIMs
“Airalo uses eSIMs to help you stay connected and avoid huge global roaming bills while you’re abroad.”
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SID Factory II
“SID Factory II is a cross-platform editor for composing music that will work on a Commodore 64. It uses the reSID emulator and is currently in open BETA. Here you can find the latest builds for downloading.”
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Music notation on the web
Javascript for rendering abc music notation
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Indie game dev guide to contracts
“This guide is designed to help developers navigate the complexities of video game publishing agreements. It consists of several articles that explain the clauses most commonly found in these contracts.”
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