Trying out Patreon to see if people will keep funding fun projects like UT99/emscripten, PhysicsFS, 1pass, etc.
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I won't be paying for this, so unless this has a free-for-non-commercial use option, and other things like it will be turned off a week from now. Sorry, going forward, get your news feeds from a platform that doesn't suck.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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What I love here, besides the fact this awesome thing exists at all, is that the zine _itself_ is a DragonRuby game, using the Emscripten target.
But also, holy shit someone wrote a zine about something and I built! I can't begin to say how flattered I am by all this.
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For the past month I've been collaborating with my fellow DragonRuby developers to make this free zine celebrating what the community has been working on and learning! Here's the first issue. dragonridersunite.itch.io/dragonruby-zin
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For the past month I've been collaborating with my fellow DragonRuby developers to make this free zine celebrating what the community has been working on and learning! Here's the first issue.
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I had said that The Last of Us is _too_ faithful to the game, and I wished it would take some risks.
It finally did in episode 3, and lord, does it pay out.
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For years, I've been listening to talk about how we need more turbans in games, so I went back and started fixing this up in some older titles. Happy birthday, my friend. :)
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Second: the `which` field in device add/remove events always means an instance id now, not an index when added and an instance when removed. Massive source of confusion removed!
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First: no more for-loops where you look at each device with an index from 0 to total-1. We now give you an array of instance IDs, you free when done. Now okay if the device list changes while iterating it. Query a removed id and we return an error, no crash, no indexes shifting.
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All devices in SDL3 will have an instance ID, and never an index into a list. This solves several problems:
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SDL: Displays are now referenced by instance ID instead of index github.com/libsdl-org/SDL
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I am now accepting nominations for open source projects that should get a microgrant of $250. You can nominate yourself or others; I send money all over the world in the equivalent currency, so this is _not_ limited to Americans.
Just reply to this thread so I see the project!
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"I loved these games, too. But Dragon's Lair? Oh god, it was like Saturday morning cartoons any time you wanted...which I realize also doesn't clarify things 40 years later, so you'll have to take my word for it."
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I also watched the first episode of Velma while I was there, and it’s a little bit tryhard on shock value, but to my surprise I didn’t hate it overall. I might try a second episode.
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I thought the first episode of The Last Of Us was fine, but if you don’t have an HBO Max subscription, you can just watch a Let’s Play on YouTube because it’s shot-for-shot identical.
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Now accepting suggestions for pop culture replacements for this Harry Potter reference: github.com/libsdl-org/sdl
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Back to the shader compiler! I fire up "git diff" to see where I left it, find a 1000+ line diff touching everything and some block-the-build-until-implemented notes.
Just tweeting an update before I slam this laptop shut, stare off into space, and try again tomorrow.
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I couldn't convince them to let me anonymize their account, which is Discourse's current solution to this problem. Believe me, I tried.
Bums me out.
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Deleting a Discourse user deletes all their posts, and if they started a topic, that entire _thread_ is removed, including other people's replies. And that makes this twice a sadness. Hundreds of conversations just evaporated. Poof.
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Had someone on the SDL Discourse demand to have their account deleted. They'd been posting to the mailing lists and forums since 2006, and these posts all migrated to our Discourse instance.
Everyone has a right to be forgotten, imo, but it doesn't make it less depressing.
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Video game development is about hiding your limitations.
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I also am still accepting donations, if you want to contribute; at the end, we send money to as many projects as we have money to give out, so more money means more projects get a microgrant. See the top of this thread for details!
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I am now accepting nominations for open source projects that should get a microgrant of $250. You can nominate yourself or others; I send money all over the world in the equivalent currency, so this is _not_ limited to Americans.
Just reply to this thread so I see the project!
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Also a reminder that Steamboat Willie is meant to enter the public domain one year from today, so enjoy the current copyright laws before Disney forces them to change within the next 365 days.
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I got a PayPal for 5,000 dollars yesterday, so I’m taking that as a solid YES. 😳
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100% they should have kept the song "Pathetic" from the stage version's first act, and dropped "The Smell of Rebellion" from the second, though.
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Everyone's all hyped for Glass Onion, but Matilda the Musical goes hard, too.
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Y’all _really_ want me to violate this NDA, lol
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If you have no hay penny, then you can always upvote the Reddit thread, so people see it!
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Donations are super-low this year; what can I do to convince people to throw in?
How about this? If we beat last year's donations, I'll announce a new project and violate my NDA with a major game publisher. Sound good? :)
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Any amount of money is welcome! I bundle it up and send it back out.
Venmo: rcgordon
PayPal: icculus@icculus.org
CashApp: $icculus
Anything else: DM me!
So far, we have sent 16,300 dollars to open source projects! Let’s beat last year’s record of $7,250!
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…where we start up the annual Icculus Microgrant!
I collect money and hand it out to open source projects in $250 dollar increments. No strings attached.
Last year’s grants: icculus.org/microgrant/2021
Want to contribute? See next tweet!
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Had to leave the house, so I changed out of my Christmas pajamas into pajamas that passed for real pants.
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Some December Patreon Quickies ...
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So, app did some status update push notifications the other day, and I can’t stop thinking what will happen when Elon realizes that he can do this with Twitter, too.
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We've removed the gesture API from SDL3, but it wasn't much code, so I'm cleaning it up to be a single-header library if you still need it.
If you include it in an SDL2 program, it'll notice and just let SDL2 do the work, so you can target an app at SDL2 or SDL3 without drama.
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SDL_gesture: Initial add. github.com/libsdl-org/SDL
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Thanks, Waze, but Twitter already activated the experience for me today. :)
You all are amazing, thank you!! We’re delivering this giant pile right now…any other donations that come in will be put to more toys and school supplies that we’ll buy tomorrow.
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Get in the car, loser, we’re going to Windsor Park Elementary.
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Sleigh is loaded. The Tetris theme was playing while we tried to make this fit. Handing these out within the hour!
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