A happy reunion with Chris Crawford's hit geopolitics simulator Balance of Power (1985), with gameplay and code analysis.
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Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2
Is DALL-E 2 fit for use in creative work? A case study involving pixel graphics for a point-and-click adventure game.
Continue readingA quick textmode-themed update
Summer is coming and I've got a couple of posts cooking that may turn out mildly interesting, but — time constraints being what they are — in the meantime there's this.
Continue readingLet it snow '21
Amidst the holidays that perhaps aren't turning out exactly as hoped, one can take comfort in small tokens of continuity – like the fact that xsnow is still being actively maintained.
Continue readingChafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
The Chafa changelog was growing long again, owing to about half a year's worth of slow accretion. Hence, a release. Here's some stuff that happened.
Continue readingChafa 1.6.0: Wider
Here's another one from the terminal graphics extravaganza dept: Chafa 1.6.0 brings fullwidth character support, so in addition to the usual block elements and ASCII art, you now get some mean CJK art too. Or grab as many fonts as you can and combine all of the Unicode into one big glorious mess.
Continue readingOn the Graying of GNOME
The GNOME project turned 23 this year, and despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, it's still alive and kicking. Just how alive, though?
Continue readingChafa 1.4.0: Now with sixels
April 1st seems like as good a time as any for a new Chafa release — though note that Chafa is no joke. At least not anymore, what with the extremely enterprise-ready sixel pipeline and all. As usual, you can …
Continue readingChafa 1.2.0: Faster than ever, now with 75% more grit
For all you terminal graphics connoisseurs out there (there must be dozens of us!), I released Chafa 1.2.0 this weekend. Thanks to embedded copies of some parallel image scaling code and the quite excellent libnsgif, it's faster and better in …
Continue readingdesktop-file-utils 0.24 released
One thing one can do in this amazing summer heat, is cut the 0.24 release of desktop-file-utils. It's rather a small thing, but since the last few releases have been happening at roughly three-year intervals I felt it merited a …
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