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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by popcar2 to c/godot
 

After two years of development, W4 Games is proud to announce the first beta release of W4 Cloud, our open-source backend for online and multiplayer games optimized for the Godot Engine.

W4 Cloud has been built around the same concepts as the Godot Engine: simplicity and flexibility.

As part of our commitment to open-source, we have made the initial public release available under the GNU AGPLv3 license.

~~Note that it seems this will only be free & open source initially, but will probably move to a paid model on release. W4 is a for-profit company, after all.~~

Edit: Removed some speculation, I misunderstood the "initial public release" part and assumed later releases would not be foss

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Lots of great changes this dev version, but the big one for me is that they improved the stability of pixel-art. There shouldn't be any more weird jittering and 1px offsets.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/10544732

Kingdom of Squares is my entry to the Egypt Game Jam 2024, it's a 2D archery game where you defend a fortress.

It was made in only 5 days, any feedback welcome!

 

Kingdom of Squares is my entry to the Egypt Game Jam 2024, it's a 2D archery game where you defend a fortress.

It was made in only 5 days, any feedback welcome!

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[–] popcar2 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Good read, and I think you might want to look at OnlyOffice. It's open source and while it is kindof a shameless Microsoft Office clone, it does seem to support LaTeX when adding equations. Not sure how well it works as I don't use it though. The slides app is pretty decent, the only bone I have to pick with it is that there aren't many animation types and most of them are very basic. Otherwise, might be what you're looking for.

Screenshot of OnlyOffice's LaTeX option

Edit: I just tried it and it seems to work pretty well. Select LaTeX, type your equation, then select professional in the dropdown menu and it'll show the equation.

A LaTeX equation shown in onlyoffice

[–] popcar2 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This really sucks, he was doing a great job as a core contributor. I'm not going to speculate on the why since it looks like internal drama between him and the team, but what shocks me is how sudden he left. He just finished and merged a big PR to rework the project manager UI a day before this tweet.

Edit: The Godot Foundation just released a statement

It is true that the Foundation has parted ways with Yuri. Please respect that we as an organization will not go into further detail, we value protecting any former contractor’s privacy over public demands.

However, due to the rampant speculations out there we see the need to emphasize: This situation has nothing to do with Yuri being of Russian descent (a country he has not resided in since before our contracts). We always have and will continue to condemn personal attacks, on Yuri as well as anyone else we are working with.

Lastly, Yuri was one of many valuable contributors to the project, his absence will be felt. The core team is working hard to ensure that we can continue working efficiently.

[–] popcar2 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That has been merged into another project called Sublinks

Wow, nice. Does this mean Pangora will be the official front-end for Sublinks?

[–] popcar2 2 points 9 months ago

TL;DR you'll enjoy it if you like casual puzzle games lol.

Voxelgram is a spiritual successor to an older game called Picross 3D. Picross 3D is a 3D version of a popular logic puzzle called Nonograms.

[–] popcar2 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Levelhead is a fantastic mario-maker esque platformer. The official campaign is a little over 10 hours long and is pretty good but its main draw is its incredible level editor and infinite number of quality levels online. I can't recommend it enough. Sadly it never got as popular as it should have but there's still a massive backlog of online levels to play.

Someone else mentioned Distance and I agree. It's a futuristic racing game with some horror elements. The campaign is short, but there's a great amount of levels in the workshop. The multiplayer modes are also pretty fun if you can grab a few friends (there's split-screen too).

Inkbound is launching from early access soon and while I wouldn't say it's the greatest roguelike out there, it's a lot of fun and very unique. It's essentially a co-op turn based RPG where you and other players play all your turns at the same time. I've played a lot of singleplayer too and the game feels well balanced there.

Voxelgram is Picross 3D for PC. Must-have for people who like nonograms.

[–] popcar2 -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You didn't read the post. The suggestion is to make the platform more decentralized not centralized. I'm not even going to reply to most comments in this thread that also, clearly, did not read the post and is making stuff up.

[–] popcar2 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the kind words! Really makes me happy knowing some people enjoy my content :)

[–] popcar2 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Right? Who gives a shit about user experience anyways? When someone has an issue, you just tell them to man up and figure it out.

No, it's not always obvious which is the "main" community and there are many communities that died due to lack of traction, often because there are duplicate communities that also lacked traction. Community following would not only help unify communities and unify comments in crossposts, it also encourages decentralization by making 5 useful communities instead of 4 dead and 1 active.

It's not insane or narcissistic to want to reach a big audience. The same audience, across multiple instances, without effort. It's social media 101. Saying who cares to that is a great way to see a dwindling userbase. Maybe you can't feel it because it doesn't directly affect your usage, but it does many others, and providing an optional solution is not a bad thing to consider.

I'd also like to take this moment to show that this is the most popular issue in Lemmy's github, getting over twice as many likes as the 2nd most liked issue. Everyone convincing eachother in the comments that nobody cares about this is clearly wrong, and are being so in an insanely toxic and dismissive manner. Thanks.

[–] popcar2 2 points 10 months ago

Same solutions apply. They don't have to be across different instances to be able to group them somehow.

[–] popcar2 -1 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I hope they can revisit the idea. There are many cases of duplicate communities splintering the community, making finding content more difficult.

[–] popcar2 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Followed posts would just link to the original post and wouldn't be a crosspost, yeah. So assuming a and b are following each other, a post from a would show up in b. If someone in b clicks on the post, they would just open the same post from a.

[–] popcar2 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ideally only one post would be made, no crossposts. One pancake post would be on your feed, and that same post would be visible from other communities

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