Infovore : tag : linux

15
December
2011

Links

Tagged as:
games, linux, mac, rogue, roguelike, windows.

Brogue

"Brogue is a Roguelike game for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux by Brian Walker." It's REALLY good: stripped-down and straightforward, as Rogue was, but with nice mouse implementation and a lovely auto-explore mode. Really rather nice.

(tags: mac windows linux roguelike games rogue )

28
October
2010

Links

Tagged as:
blimey, distro, fade, gamedevstory, games, hannahmontana, imageviewer, javascript, linux, paginator, transitions.

Hannah Montana Linux – About

"Hannah Montana Linux is a free operating system based on Kubuntu with a Hannah Montana theme." You know you've made it when you've got your own OS.

(tags: linux distro hannahmontana blimey )
nathansearles's Faded at master – GitHub

"Faded is a super simple fading image and content viewer for jQuery. Easy to setup and design to your specifications. Features auto generated pagination, an awesome sequential image loader, some fancy crossfading, essentially no CSS required and a number of custom option for you to set if you like." Looks nicely coded, too; duly noted.

(tags: javascript paginator fade transitions imageviewer )
11 Vital Lessons To Learn From Game Dev Story « Double Buffered

"Building a series of Golf-themed Audio Novels is not the route to financial success." These are all true.

(tags: gamedevstory games )

28
April
2010

Links

Tagged as:
audio, bestpractices, books, daw, jamesbridle, linux, opensource, osx, programming, publishing, recording, reference, software, sound, stml, style, temporality, time.

What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness

"The book — by which I mean long-form text, in any format — is not a physical thing, but a temporal one. Its primary definition, its signal quality, is the time we take to read it, and the time before it and the time after it that are also intrinsic parts of the experience: the reading of reviews and the discussions with our friends, the paths that lead us to it and away from it (to other books) and around it." James, as ever, is very, very sharp. This is good.

(tags: books publishing time temporality jamesbridle stml )
ardour – the digital audio workstation

Open source DAW for Linux and OSX.

(tags: audio daw osx linux sound recording software opensource )
Programming Books, part 2: The Elements of Programming Style « The Reinvigorated Programmer

"I keep coming back to EoPS (I am re-reading it as I write this) because it’s short, it’s easy reading, it’s funny, and much of its advice is timeless. In a way, you could say its age is even a plus-point, because it makes it obvious which of the rules are of their time and which are fundamental." Sounds great.

(tags: programming bestpractices style books reference )

03
August
2009

Links

Tagged as:
cli, cmon, design, games, git, graphicdesign, houseofthedead, html, layout, linux, mac, marketing, markup, osx, packaging, porting, programming, retro, scm, software, tominsam, tools, transgaming, utility, versioncontrol, wtf.

aanand's cmon at master – GitHub

"All yeahs in a baby are always the same height." Crazy markup preprocessor of the day, with suitably entertaining documentation.

(tags: cmon html layout markup wtf )
Warhammer Online for Mac – jerakeen.org

"It seems to me that Transgaming have done more to hurt the Mac gaming world than anyone else. The idea that you can turn your product into a Mac game OVERNIGHT, without employing ANYONE WHO SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT THE PLATFORM is an absurd thing to peddle."

(tags: tominsam games porting transgaming osx mac software )
git ready » tig, the ncurses front-end to Git

"Tig provides a simple command-line yet visual interface to Git." An explanation of what Tig does, and why you might find it useful.

(tags: git linux osx scm tools versioncontrol )
tig

"Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands."

(tags: git scm versioncontrol linux osx programming cli utility )
House of the Dead Overkill – Case study – a set on Flickr

Marvellous – case study of all the packaging concepts for the bonkers House Of The Dead: Overkill. Lots of gnarly, grindhouse-inspired graphic design going on here, and many things that are as good as the final version.

(tags: houseofthedead games marketing packaging design graphicdesign retro )

12
May
2009

Links

Tagged as:
acting, audio, bash, business, email, find, improv, linux, mailinglists, music, offices, pretend, pretendoffice, propellerhead, record, recording, shell, software, theatre, tips, unix.

Pretend Office (Phil Gyford’s website)

"With no planning, we all started acting as if we were people in a real office. Almost immediately we began to adopt characters and send officious announcements. Soon we were referring to characters in the office who didn’t exist in real life. Meeting rooms were booked, couriers arrived, servers went down, timesheets were requested, and embarrassing emails were accidentally sent to everyone in the company." Phil is right; it's a wonderful, bonkers piece of improv-email theatre.

(tags: pretendoffice improv acting offices business pretend mailinglists email theatre )
Propellerhead – Record

"Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording." Lovely: seamless Reason integration, virtual Line6 Pods, and a DAW-ish bit of software that works the way my brain does. Excited!

(tags: software recording propellerhead record music audio )
Mommy, I found it! — 15 Practical Linux Find Command Examples

"In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of Linux find command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts." I've never really understood find, so these are very helpful.

(tags: linux unix shell bash find tips )

11
December
2008

Links

Tagged as:
africa, aspiration, blog, blogs, boomblox, business, corporate, crafting, cutscenes, design, doom, dubbing, experiential, funny, games, german, haiku, humour, ikaruga, interview, knitting, language, linux, littlebigplanet, middleclass, narrative, offworld, opensource, play, reviews, reward, roleplaying, rpg, sackboy, satire, shmups, slang, software, stevenspielberg, storytelling, thewire, tomchick, translation, treasure, tv, windows, wire.

One More Go: Ikaruka, The Big Enemy Is Approaching – Offworld

"Ikaruga doesn’t treat you mean because it wants to see you fail. Ikaruga treats you mean because it wants winning to feel wonderful. But the more I became addicted to that mechanic, the more uneasy I started to feel. Volunteering to be beaten and humiliated on the promise of eventual pleasure? Isn’t there a word for that?" I can't get on with Ikaruga – too much of a memory test, too much punishment, not enough pleasure – but I can totally understand these sentiments. Lovely writing.

(tags: offworld blogs ikaruga treasure shmups experiential reward )
“The words should roll out of the mouth” – On the dubbing of “The Wire” in German | The Babbel Blog

The Wire has started airing on German TV, in a dubbed version; fascinating interview on how to translate it whilst keep the flavour of the original show.

(tags: wire dubbing translation german tv thewire language slang )
Eegra: Updates a thousand times a second!! : Five-word/Haiku Review Database

How come I have not seen this before?

(tags: games humour haiku reviews funny )
Offworld goes to hell – Offworld

Preserved at least in the screengrab of this post: today is the 15th anniversary of the release of Doom, and Offworld have reskinned accordingly. Fun.

(tags: doom offworld blog design )
When Linux fails | Tux Deluxe

"The outcome of this rampant illegal software copying is that Windows is seen as "the first world standard" and any attempt to push a cheaper alternative is strongly resisted. They consider it trying to cheat local people out of getting the same quality of software that is used in the developed world, even though it's a legal way of getting quality software for free." Not what you'd expect, but totally understandable: as said before, there is a middle class everywhere, and it has the same aspirations everywhere.

(tags: windows opensource linux africa aspiration middleclass software )
Steven Spielberg interview – Quarter To Three Forums

…and here's a tiny bit that got cut from the final interviewer, from Tom Chick's own site. Spielberg talks in more detail about balancing storytelling and gameplay, and expands a bit on the cutscene problem.

(tags: tomchick stevenspielberg interview games play narrative cutscenes storytelling )
Steven Spielberg – Celebrity Byte – Yahoo! Games

Tom Chick interviews Spielberg on games for Yahoo!. Spielberg is consumate and smart, as you'd expect, but also well-grounded; he really does _play games_. "Yes, I've played Half-Life, of course" – the "of course" is the important bit.

(tags: games stevenspielberg interview storytelling narrative play boomblox )
Littlebigplanet: Sackboy Pattern In UK's Leading Knitting Magazine

“Sackboy will be tremendously popular and this is the perfect time of year to knit the little chap. Knitting and customizing him means that he will be utterly unique and a very cool accessory. We’re very lucky to have him in the magazine and we hope that he’ll help to increase the already sizable crossover between the great communities of gamers and knitters, online or not.” Frankly smashing. I wonder if Mum's looking for a Christmas knitting project?

(tags: knitting crafting games littlebigplanet sackboy )
Play This Thing! | MSG

"In short, [MSG] defies many of the characteristics we normally ascribe to a tabletop RPG — in the context of a very cynical, and very cool, cyberpunky future where even the minimal constraints on corporate action that currently apply are removed, and any residual ethical norms for businessmen are considered the domain of chumps. Excellent, in a word." Ordered, based upon Greg's writeup and also the fantastic downloadable version of the ruleset. Now, to find some players.

(tags: corporate rpg games play roleplaying business satire )

10
November
2008

Links

Tagged as:
android, bug, fail, games, google, linux, mobile, os, tennisfortwo, williamhiginbotham.

Epic Android bug interprets your typing as system commands – Engadget

"It turns out that G1 firmware revisions RC29 and earlier literally interpret everything you type as command-line operations, so if you happen across a legit command, it's going to get executed." Now that's what I call a show-stopper. Wow.

(tags: linux android mobile os google bug fail )
Entertainment – Upton – First Video Game Honored at Brookhaven Lab Birthplace – NYTimes.com

'“Games are great,” Robert Dvorak Jr. said. “You a learn a lot about strategy, you interact with people, you use tools and creativity. I’m a gamer, period.”' Also: lovely that Brookhaven celebrated the 50th anniversary of Tennis for Two.

(tags: games tennisfortwo williamhiginbotham )

13
October
2008

code

Tagged as:
capistrano, deployment, git, linux, ssh, versioncontrol.

Pulling from Git over a non-standard SSH port

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I must have lost about six or seven hours trying to get a Rails application deploying from Git in the past week. I could push and pull from the repository, but could I get the thing to deploy via Capistrano? No, I could not.

The problem, as far as I could tell, was not with Capistrano. It was a simple SSH problem. I block port 22 for SSH on the server in question, for security reasons, and use a different port. But, no matter how I specified it, Git was insistent on trying to pull over 22. I did a lot of Googling, and found lots of conflicting answers, none of which worked.

And then I learned my lesson. That lesson is: when Linus tells you what to do, you do it:

Use the “.ssh/config” file ;)

So I configured a hostname in .ssh/config on the server, and everything worked instantly.

A lot of problems tend to come down to SSH, it seems. After that point, everything went swimmingly.

13
October
2008

Links

Tagged as:
cli, console, criticism, culture, data, games, graphing, linux, media, play, plotting, psygnosis, shell, visualisation, wipeout, workethic, writing.

the future is now!: creating a world for wipeout on playstation

"From Liverpool 1995, to Nevada 2035, to a PlayStation somewhere near you. Once upon a time, I helped to write the world of WipEout." Nice article from the writer who helped write a lot of the texture and world for Psygnosis' Wipeout. Glad that writing like this is still somewhere, even if it's in the furthest recesses of fansites.

(tags: wipeout psygnosis writing games )
The Brainy Gamer: The problem with play

"But these arguments aren't getting us anywhere because the problem isn't the games. The problem is the _play_. When we engage with games, we _play_ with them. We don't read them; we don't attend them; we don't view them in a gallery. We _play_ them. And that's a big problem."

(tags: games play criticism workethic culture media )
Brendan O’Connor’s Blog – AI and Social Science » conplot – a console plotter

"This has to be the most quick-and-dirty data visualizer out there: I wrote an ascii art plotter script that takes a column of numbers on stdin and throws out a plot on your console." Oh, that's going to come in handy.

(tags: graphing data visualisation plotting console cli shell linux )

06
October
2008

Links

Tagged as:
audio, blog, consumers, coppola, creation, design, helloworld, ideo, imagery, interview, labs, laptop, linux, making, movies, msi, netbooks, os, portable, prototype, retro, technology, theconversation, via:brandonnn, wind.

All This ChittahChattah » The Conversation, and The Technology

"There’s a lot of great technology imagery… Here’s a sampling of stills depicting the awesomeness:" Beautiful. (If I had to have a favourite film, it would still be The Conversation).

(tags: technology movies audio theconversation retro imagery coppola via:brandonnn )
IDEO Labs » Hello World!

"Normally, one of the first things that admin will do when they set up their blog is to go and remove the Hello world! post. But for this blog, we’ve decided to keep it. The feeling a coder has when they see “Hello world!” for the first time on the tool or system they’re creating is a great feeling. You’ve just given birth to something. It’s still young, fragile, and only a hint of what it someday will be. But it’s alive. Something you’ve made with your own two hands is starting to breath. It has begun."

(tags: creation helloworld design making ideo labs prototype blog )
MSI: Wind Coming to Major Retailer, New Models Coming Soon

"Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux. People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don’t know what they get until they open the box. They start playing around with Linux and start realizing that it’s not what they are used to. They don’t want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store. The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks." That's interesting.

(tags: linux os netbooks msi wind interview portable laptop consumers )

Pulling from Git over a non-standard SSH port

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