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by joegibbs 4y ago
I'm making a game called Fall of an Empire. It's like the inverse of a 4X game - than expanding you start off overextended and try and lose as slowly as possible. https://fallofanempiregame.com
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by joegibbs 4y ago
Is it http:// (scheme) http: (user) //http:// (password) at the start?
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by joegibbs 4y ago
Consuming less calories is the behavioural change that will reduce obesity. The problem is that people only do this temporarily and then start eating at a surplus again, which makes them put the weight back on. If someone quits chain-smokin
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by joegibbs 4y ago
"In fact, the brain of a very young child does perceive letters differently than an adult brain: not as fixed, flat symbols but as three-dimensional objects rotating in space." What does this mean? I've never (consciously) pe
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by joegibbs 4y ago
What happens if you've got a young-looking face? Are you going to get blocked out until you upload your driver's licence or something? Similarly, what about people on the cusp? It's pretty hard to tell a 19-year-old from a 17
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by joegibbs 4y ago
Would many people really be totally fine with getting disintegrated and a copy made immediately, if they knew that's what was happening? Even if it's instant I think that if you told someone they would be killed and an exact clone
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by joegibbs 4y ago
What does this actually imply?
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by joegibbs 5y ago
It's all done in Unreal Engine 4, which is great because you don't need to worry so much about all the cross-platform stuff. The assets are done in Gaea for terrain, Blender for models, Illustrator for icons and Photoshop for some
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by joegibbs 5y ago
Multiplayer is something I'd probably add post release, I think it would be hard to implement for the strategic world map since the factions are so asymmetrical. If I was going to add it in, it would probably have to be just the tactic
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by joegibbs 5y ago
Thank you! I started in July of 2020 with just the map and no mechanics, and worked on it intermittently until about 6 months ago when I decided to put some actual work into it. November is the release date because if I don't set one I
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by joegibbs 5y ago
You can't expand or capture any new cities, but you can still win since the win condition is based around completing the storyline and surviving longer is how you progress in the story.
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by joegibbs 5y ago
$1200 isn't bad! You've convinced me, I'm releasing it for Mac.
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by joegibbs 5y ago
It's a custom material (since I'm using UE4) - there's small detail (grass, snow, sand etc) with their own normal maps, and that's all filtered to break up tiling and applied to the terrain. The other part is the macro-l
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by joegibbs 5y ago
Thank you! Yeah absolutely it was influenced by AoE, more in a thematic sense rather than the gameplay which is more influenced by grand strategies and Total War. Come to think of it, there's really no reason I can't release it on
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by joegibbs 5y ago
I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few games before but they were only about a week's worth of work each, so I don't count them as "proper". This time I wanted to make a full-on project with
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by joegibbs 6y ago
Bit of an exaggeration in the title: the article talks about feedback loops from covering 20% of the Sahara in solar panels - for reference thats 1,840,000 square kilometres, twice the size of Texas. A 1 km2 solar plant costs about $400 mil
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by joegibbs 6y ago
There was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan as well, it’s also a bit of a reach to tie it to COVID too.
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Pillarisation(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by joegibbs 6y ago|0 comments
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by joegibbs 6y ago
As an Australian it was annoying at first, but after reading enough international headlines it’s pretty much just automatic to replace spring with autumn, etc in international articles.
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by joegibbs 6y ago
It works for me on iOS Safari, so maybe it’s just Firefox Mobile it doesn’t work on.
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by joegibbs 6y ago
Something interesting is that the author of the article, Nicholas Pileggi, later went on to do books that Goodfellas and Casino were based on
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by joegibbs 6y ago
Plus, if you’re an actual restaurant it’s a lot harder to rebrand if people don’t like what you’re doing. They’ll notice it’s the same people, the same location and a similar menu, but if you’re a ghost kitchen that gets bad reviews you ca
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by joegibbs 6y ago
If anyone else was confused, it looks like Champis is psilocybin from what I've found.
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by joegibbs 6y ago
It does it by this CSS: main > * { display: none; } main > *:last-child { display: block; } main > *:target { display: block; } main > *:target ~ * { display: none
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by joegibbs 6y ago
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170078 . This is pretty much a simple Python script and a bit of scaffolding that will create a single-page website by faking different pages using anchors. The main advanta
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Show HN: Create single-page applications without JavaScript(github.com)
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by joegibbs 6y ago
Hiveage is the one you're talking about, there's a big post about everything they ripped off here: https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b9...
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by joegibbs 6y ago
This seems like an interesting direction - considering the success with the Tesla big battery in South Australia which was 150 MW and this is meant to be 300. Hopefully should be able to reduce reliance on coal plants.
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Victoria to build one of the world's biggest batteries near Geelong(smh.com.au)
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by joegibbs 6y ago
The internet connection probably didn’t exist or it was too slow in the outback. I’m from a relatively densely-populated part of the country and we only recently got satellite, before that the only other option was dial-up or a USB device t

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