Category Archives: General

I use urxvt’s kuake plugin as a lighter replacement for Yakuake and, as a result, I’m using it with F12 as my “toggle terminal” keybind. …unfortunately, that means that, every time my finger slips, I hit Print Screen. As such, … Continue reading →

Over the last little while, I’ve written or researched a few little things to make my life as a Linux-using player of GOG.com games a bit simpler. As such, I thought I’d share them. 1. GOG.com – Updated Thread Count … Continue reading →

TL;DR: Try adding unset SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE to your game’s launcher script. Have you ever encountered an error that starts out like this when trying to start a Linux port based on MonoGame? Number of joysticks: 5 Number of buttons for joystick: … Continue reading →

UPDATE: See also the libre assets list I’ve started building on Itch.io. For assets, it’s a more updated, more comprehensive list. I got a little carried away while assembling a list of game-development resources as an activity for a course … Continue reading →

If you’re writing a piece of interactive fiction (A.K.A. a text adventure game),writing your own engine is the last thing you want to do. (That’s no fun. The fun is in providing off-the-wall responses to crazy instructions.) Instead, there are … Continue reading →

Well, given how much time I spent squashing bugs on my system after updating it, I missed quite a few instances of daily routine tasks (eg. doing my exercises) in TaskWarrior. Given that I don’t have a GUI installed and … Continue reading →