This post is a response to Unityβs heartbreaking announcement that they willβ¦ charge developers relentlessly for distributing their games? I struggle to frame exactly what they are doing because Unityβs decision is so bizzarely resentful toward their huge developer base that β¦
i put together a long hopefully helpful curation of alternative game engines. there are so many, some deserve a lot more attention, all with their own strengths and benefits.
Twenty-two years ago, I sat in the office β actually the bottom two floors of a Victorian home with creaking, carpeted floorboards and an overstuffed kitchen β at Daily Information, the local paper where I worked in Oxford. It was mid-afternoon, and I probably had Dreamweaver β¦
I cannot start the story where I want to start it, because I have to start it where everyone else who was there starts it. Itβs how we calibrate our positions, time-stamped and geo-coordinated to the precise moments and exact locations where each of us was standing when we looked β¦
Damien Guard is providing a collection of 8Γ8 graphical fonts for the community, free with attribution. The collection consists of 228 typefaces with 417 fonts.The fonts show up in 199 games / tools (so far).See the details in the post here.
My technology thesis is this:All technology should punch up, not down.It should connect the disconnected. It should empower the disempowered. It should inform the uninformed.It should empower communities that historically have been underrepresented and underserved.It should help β¦
And just like that, I went back to work. You couldnβt make it up: after 51 weeks of unemployment and job searching, I got multiple freelance contracts in a single week.
Doc Searls writes about what he calls wide news:Local and regional papers covered politics, government, crises, disasters, sports, fashion, travel, business, religion, births, deaths, schools, and happenings of all kinds. They had reporters assigned across all their sections. No β¦