Hi worldenddomin8r (woah intense name!) Welcome to the forum, feel free to ask if you need any help!
Making your own space is always time well spent! Iv been thinking about social media recently too, its days are numbered, but there's gonna be a lot of drama as it goes down Sit back, have a tea and enjoy the show from the safety of these distant shores
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Oo, I secretly wanna make an online fish tank game, its been on my mind for a while You right about social media sites, I think they are fine if you have a product to push; but personal sites are much better if you wanna step back and make something slower, more lasting and peaceful.
Cool art and games! I tried CHONDRIATIC but I sorta got stuck in the mirror.. anyway it has a vibe! I look forward to hearing more about your work! Whats your biggest inspiration?
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My dad showed me Fantastic Planet when I was much younger (he's a major french film buff).. I don't remember much of it.. and I think I saw it in french with no subtitles.. but the visuals were captivating.
I just noticed this when I was trying to figure out why I was getting some erratic views, but Neocities is on Polygon right now and a few sites have been mentioned (Including me ). Oooph as a game designer even being mentioned there is super exciting! Anyway you might enjoy the article!
Ooo another RPG maker, what have you made? (Maybe I should make an rpg..)
Totally unrelated but if your old enough to remember cassette players, they had a switch called "metal" and I used to think you could only turn it on if you were listening to heavy metal
Anyway I look forward to seeing more of what you make!
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Hmm banner tutorials; if you mean 88x31 badges/banners (the ones at the bottom of this site) any drawing/pixel art program you like works great, then I use this site to animate them! As for stylistic ideas, looking at other banners helps, but often just referencing your sites design and content is the best thing to do!
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As a Mac gamer the situation is even worse There is wine for Mac but its not good, you can also get a paid version of wine called CrossOver, but its only really good for games that are 10+ years old.
For many years I used to Bootcamp (Install Windows on a partition on Mac) but it wasted so much harddrive space and was annoying to use. More recently I used Parallels to run Windows in a VM to play games, but again it only really worked for games that were a few years old.
Recently I got an Xbox series S and oh my gosh its so much better! Its cheaper than a graphics card, gamepass is a great deal for games, and everything just runs perfectly with no effort! You can even stop playing a game on xbox, then stream it on a laptop and pick up exactly where you left off, its amazing!
Ok ok I don't wanna write an xbox ad, and as an indie developer who cannot publish games to xbox (yet) its not good; but if all you wanna do is play games it really is incredible.
We might be entering a phase where consoles are the top dog in games again, until Linux and cross platform PC gaming really catches up
Hi, so Iv decided to move Internet Discussion to the archive (You can read it but cannot make new posts). WHY THO? Put simply, most of the posts there are about being unhappy with the internet today.. that's fine, most of the internet today is a pain and I'm unhappy with it too! However I want this forum to be about constructing something positive and new, not focusing on the bad of the world.
I want the forum to be about things that inspire and make people happy; I know that some of the discussions on there, such as metaverse, the web3, social media etc are SUPER important issues to discuss... I suppose though.. I don't really want to be the gatekeeper of those discussions, its not what brings me joy in life.
Anyway, we'll see how it goes, if everyones really annoyed at this we can restore it! It wont be deleted anytime soon as I think these discussions have important historical relevance tooo.
LibreOffice Iv used in the past, and its good if you have nothing else; but its slow and clunky and generally not nice to use (I do like that it has a retro drawing app though).
Ooo thanks for reminding me about Godot, Iv been meaning to give it a proper try!
The tablet was a great deal, I got it on ebay for 80 euro with no stylus. Then a family member gave me their spare stylus, but it was too old for my tablet, so I sold it and got the right one for the same price. Anyway all and all with some trading, I got a super professional tablet for 80 euro!
Oh I forgot to reply here, I was looking at these for ages! They are super impressive and capture the early 2000s perfectly! You could definitely do some really cool cut scenes for a game!
What do you use to make these and what do you hope to do with this style in the future? (If anything, making them for fun is fine too!)
Aha! So I took some time off away from web development this month, partly to repair an old bag that needed a lot of work, but also to revise my computer setup! My last big computer setups were in 2016 and 2019, so it was time for a revamp!
I put a LOT of effort into my setups (prob too much..), so I figured Id share it here, maybe there something I use that would help you, or maybe you have some suggestions for me! This is the result of a lifetime of using Mac OS, so I think its gonna be intense! Also Id love to hear about some of the setups you guys use!
This was prompted because I'm selling my old computers (A Mac Mini with an eGPU and a Macbook Air) and switching over to a new Macbook (I needed to make my life more portable ) So lets get started!
Hardware:
Macbook Pro 14" (with M1 Pro cpu)
27" Asus ProArt Display
Vortex Race 3 Keyboard (cherry clear keys)
Logitech MX Master 2s Mouse (its OK but not ideal)
Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet (an older one I got cheap on ebay)
KORG nanoKeys midi keyboard
A mix of LaCie and G-Drive hard drives
Internet Applications:
Firefox - Main browser: (Addons: uBlock, SponsorBlock, Enhancer for Youtube etc)
Safari & Chromium - for site testing!
Raindrop.io - for bookmark management, the free option is fine
1Password - for password managment, its paid but great
NetNewsWire - a great RSS reader for long articles
RSS Bot - for forum and guestbook notifications
Lagrange - Gemini Browser
Thunderbird (May change to Outlook as they ruined it!) for email (Fastmail is my email host!)
Ripcord - Discord client (I also have normal apps for other chat services)
Transmit - the best FTP/WebDAV client ever!
Transmission - bittorrent downloader!
NZBVortex - usenet downloader
LittleSnitch - it lets you see and filter all incoming and outgoing web data, its cool!
ProtonVPN - a VPN.. its fine, but not great, may change later!
SiteSucker - downloads entire websites!
Downie - youtube downloader that also extracts audio
Web Development:
Nova - all main site development
TextMate - Auxiliary text editing and file viewing
Sip - a colour snapper and colour library for managing colours you like!
ImageOptim - Compresses and optimizes images for the web so they load better
iOS Simulator (Part of xCode) - I use it to test sites on mobile
Audiacy - for compressing and editing audio for sites
Sequel Pro - SQL editor for checking the forum database!
Graphics and Art:
Pixelmator Pro - My main image editor
Acorn - Auxiliary image editor, it does text and gifs better
Eagle - a library for scrap booking images and reference material
PicArrange - sorts images by colour (Used on TextureTown)
FinalCut - for making movies (Recently Switched from Davinci Resolve)
Krita - for any digital drawing
LogicPro - for complex audio work and custom sound making
Game Design:
Blender - for any 3D creations (had to switch from 3DSMax recently)
Unity - Most big game projects
Rider - For editing c# in unity
WebStorm - a text editor, for complex Javascript games using MelonEngine
Utilities:
Alfred - Its a search bar that sorta does everything, I use it instead of Spotlight
iStat - Systems stats, calendar, weather and stuff in your menu bar
HazeOver - it does a cool dimming effect on non focused applications so easier to see!
iTerm - a nice lil Terminal app
PasteBot - a clipboard manager, it also makes all copies plain text so they paste better!
TinkerTool - lets you edit secret settings in MacOS :O
Displaperture - restores the rounded corners apple took away in 2007 rrrrrrr
EasyFind - Faster than Finder for searching for files
Moom - Window snapping and arrangement, much better than the weird apple split screen
CheatSheet - a hotkey that shows all hotkeys in a program
AppCleaner - a good application uninstaller
The Unarchiver - unzip and unrar and uneverything
OnyX - System cleaner and maintenance, run it once every few months!
Tot - a cude lil notepad I keep open at all times for notes and pastes (syncs to iphone/ipad too)
IconChamp - lets you change the icons of apps easily
Lungo - Toggle app to keep the mac awake if neeeded
Gemini - Finds duplicates, useful if you downloaded 100,000 gifs!
DaisyDisk - helps find large files eating up your harddrive
Front and Center - Makes finder windows function like they did in Mac Classic
CarbonCopyCloner - backup drives and folders!
Writing & productivity: :omg:k:
MS Office - I have a lifetime copy I got cheaply, its good to have
Pages - I write most documents in this, I like the way they look
OmniFocus - Todo list, mainly for project tasks
OmniOutliner - for planning things
OmniGraffle - for planning interactions and flows, mainly in game projects
OmmWriter - for writing moody things
Media
Photos & Music - I just use the default apps
XLD - A really amazing music converter, its free too!
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Welcome to the forum, feel free to ask if you need any help!
Sit back, have a tea and enjoy the show from the safety of these distant shores 
You right about social media sites, I think they are fine if you have a product to push; but personal sites are much better if you wanna step back and make something slower, more lasting and peaceful.
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