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vineri, 12 ianuarie 2024

The Ren'Py visual novel engine .

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games.
Ren'Py is free to use with commercial and non-commercial games and you can find on the official website.
This run's on Android 5.0+,HTML5/Web Assembly (Beta),Linux x86_64/Arm,Windows 7+,Mac OS X 10.10+ and iOS 11+.
This is last video tutorial from RenPy start tutorials but you can find more on web.

sâmbătă, 22 ianuarie 2022

Use the scoop to install UFO: Alien Invasion game.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the scoop tool to install a game.
First, you need to add the bucket with the games.
C:\>scoop bucket add games
Git is required for buckets. Run 'scoop install git' and try again.
This install need the git, use this command:
C:\>scoop install git
...
Creating shortcut for Git Bash (git-bash.exe)
Creating shortcut for Git GUI (git-gui.exe)
'git' (2.34.1.windows.1) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
Set Git Credential Manager Core by running: "git config --global credential.helper
manager-core"
Let's try again:
C:\>scoop bucket add games
Checking repo... ok
The games bucket was added successfully.
After install a software you can see it with this command:
C:\>scoop list
Installed apps: ...
With this command you can see all softwares can be install with this tool:
C:\>scoop search a
'games' bucket:
    0ad (0.0.25b)
    actools (0.8.2358.38968)
    adom (3.3.3)
    advanced-genie-editor (2021.3.15)
    amidst (4.7)
    amulet-map-editor (0.8.17)
    angband-dev (4.2.3-249-gbb7ea2dca)
    angband (4.2.0)
    ares (126)
    ark-smart-breeding (0.49.1.0)
    armagetronad (0.2.8.3.5)
    ascii-sector (0.7.2)
    assaultcube (1.2.0.2)
    assetstudio (0.16.8)
    augmentinel (1.3)
    blade-of-agony (c3)
    bombermaaan (1.4.0.627)
    ...

'main' bucket:
    1password-cli (1.12.3)
    abc (1.0.0-beta.3)
    ack (3.5.0)
    acmesharp (0.9.1.326)
    act (0.2.25)
    adb (31.0.3)
    ...
Let's install an old game named: UFO: Alien Invasion.
C:\>scoop install ufoai
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'games' bucket...
Updating 'main' bucket...
Checking repo... ok
The main bucket was added successfully.
Scoop was updated successfully!
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
The download not works from the first time and with some Enter keys typing I install it:
C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [=====>                                            ]  11%
Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
URL https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ufoai/UFO_AI%202.x/2.5/ufoai-2.5-win32.exe#/dl.7z is not valid

C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [==================================================] 100%
Checking hash of ufoai-2.5-win32.exe ... ok.
Extracting dl.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\current => ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\2.5
Creating shim for 'ufo'.
Creating shim for 'ufoded'.
Creating shim for 'ufo2map'.
Creating shortcut for UFO - Alien Invasion (ufo.exe)
'ufoai' (2.5) was installed successfully!
The last command is to run the game: ufo.exe
You can see my video tutorial with same steps from my youtube channel.

vineri, 30 octombrie 2020

Ubisoft comes with Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be available on 10th November, 2020 on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store on Windows PC, as well as on UPLAY+**, Ubisoft’s subscription service, and Stadia.
Pre-order now at www.assassinscreed.com/buy
The intro is simple ...
Ninth century AD. Driven from Norway by endless wars and dwindling resources, a Viking raider, Eivor, leads a clan of Norsemen across the icy North Sea to the rich lands of England’s broken kingdoms. Their mission: establish a new permanent home, no matter the cost. Wars will rage. Kingdoms will fall. This is the age of the Vikings.

vineri, 31 iulie 2020

CameraBag Photo 2020

Ultra-intuitive tools for filtering and editing photos and videos. Available for MacOS and Windows.
This product comes with a price of $30.00.
You can try CameraBag free for 7 days.
At any point, you can purchase a license to unlock the time restriction and register the program on your system.
Already own a CameraBag license and have purchased/renewed your upgrade period within the last year?
This download will upgrade you to the latest version.
System Requirements:
MacOS 10.12 or newer, 64-bit Intel
Windows 8 or newer, 64-bit
1GB RAM, 100 MB hard drive space

vineri, 2 august 2019

The EPUB File Reader tool for readers.

With this tool, you can read epub file type on Windows OS.
As you know already, the epub file type is:
EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones, tablets, and computers. EPUB is a technical standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.[2] The Book Industry Study Group endorses EPUB 3 as the format of choice for packaging content and has stated that the global book publishing industry should rally around a single standard.[3], see Wikipedia.

About this tool, you can read and download it on the official website:
EPUB File Reader is a free EPUB files viewer, can help you to open and read ePub e-books and documents. The software interface consists of two parts, the left will show document chapter directory, the right is a browser to show document content. This software is easy to use very much, it is a freeware and completely free to use.

marți, 9 octombrie 2018

The Magicavoxel tool for your game development.

The development team tells us:
"A free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer, made with love by @ephtracy. Available for PC and MAC. This is where it all begins.

This tiny light-weighted software is the core of voxelart, since it is capable of many things : just edit, paint and move your voxels in a cubic grid, then animated them and render them with the powerful integrated renderer.

License : feel free to use it for any project, no commercial licences required, credits are appreciated"
Let's see this video tutorial from youtube channel:


luni, 6 august 2018

Testing CopperCube with my android emulator.

Today , I tested the example make by CopperCube - version 6 named  with android installation.
This example can be found when you start the CopperCube at Open Example App - First Person Shooter.
If you want to try another example, you may be asked to buy the license if you try post effects.
You can find my complete tutorial with the settings here.
The result works great and is a little slow for my android emulator.
See the result of this test can be see in the next screenshot:

marți, 31 iulie 2018

Using Coppercube game engine with android.

Today I will start this tutorial about Coppercube and android.
First you need to know the CopperCube is free but can also buy it, see this link.
For CopperCube, you need the Android 2.2 (Froyo / API Level 8) and Android 8.0 (O) SDK packages.
You need to install all of this SDK packages with the Android Studio - using SDK Manager.
You need to have install the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) - most users already have it in the operating system.
NOTE: The Android Studio SDK can be found at : c:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk and you need to create a keystore. Follow the next images to see the steps how to make all settings to test your android output:





duminică, 31 decembrie 2017

MEmu - android emulator .

This is another android emulator named MEmu.
I tested with the android version 5.1.1.
The last official released version from official page tell the news about MEmu version 3.6.7.
The main reason I tested the MEmu emulator versus last emulator BlueStacks has some problems with PixelGun game - the multiplayer game.
Is simple to used it , just download the right version of MEmu and add your google account.
The next step for the emulator is to update the google account application and then let you to install your games.
The MEmu 101 contains all-inclusive info about MEmu App Player.
The official youtube channel can be found here.
I like also the splash when is starting the emulator, see the next image:

sâmbătă, 2 decembrie 2017

Free game: SNOW come with winter sports .

If you like winter sports, then this game adds all the qualities necessary to this type of player.
The game can be found on steam at this link.

joi, 30 noiembrie 2017

The appleseed version 1.8.0 - beta released.

The appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects and is developed by a small team from VFX industry.
The day of November 28, 2017 come with this news: We’re proud to announce the release of appleseed 1.8.0-beta, the eighth release of our beta program and the 31th release since the first alpha in July 2010.
This tool supports:
  • fully programmable shading via Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Open Shading Language (OSL);
  • RGB/spectral/mixed rendering;
  • fast and robust transformation and deformation motion blur;
  • state-of-the-art ray traced subsurface scattering;
  • exhaustive Python and C++ APIs;
  • ... and many other production-oriented features.

You can read more on official website.
The next video from official vimeo channel is an old basic tutorial of appleseed software.

vineri, 24 noiembrie 2017

The Hexels tool creative suite .

The development team tell us about this tool:

Hexels is a creative suite for grid-based painting, animation, and design. The Hexels canvas is a paintable grid of geometric shapes that lets artists create complex designs with the stroke of a brush. It is a new kind of vector workflow, a friendly playground for the beginning artist, and a versatile tool in the hands of a professional.
The price now is the $24.50 and you can read and download it from official website.

luni, 20 noiembrie 2017

Maps with telnet .

The MapSCII use telnet to show you whole world into your console.
The project can be found here.
To test it just run this telnet command with your linux or use PuTTY on Windows:
telnet mapscii.me

duminică, 6 noiembrie 2016

This application deal with images into 3D.

AwesomeBump is a free and open source program designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion, metallic, roughness textures from a single image.
The AwesomeBump software is totaly written in Qt cross-platform application framework.
This application come with some features like:
  • convert from normal map to height map,
  • convert from height map (bump map) to normal map,
  • extract the bump from the arbitrary image,
  • calculate ambient occlusion and specularity of image.
  • perspective tranformation of the image,
  • creating seamless texture (simple linear filter, random mode, or mirror filter),
  • generate roughness and metallic textures (different types of surface analysis are available),
  • real time tessellation is available,
  • saving images to following formats: PNG, JPG,BMP,TGA
  • edit one texture which contains different materials
  • add some grunge to your map with grunge texture.
  • mix two bumpmaps togheter with normal map mixer.
  • and many others, see our videos on YouTube

The official page can be found here.
You can see video tutorials about this application: here.

duminică, 17 mai 2015

Make online sprite with piskelapp.

This website -www.piskelapp.com can be used to create sprites for your games.
Basically, it's an interface with drawings features like:
    - set the drawing tools;
    - set grids;
    - use layers;
    - copy image to all layers;
    - set your size and resize;
and more...
If you want to use Piskel offline, you can download an offline version of Piskel below.
We provide applications for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. See this screenshots:

sâmbătă, 21 martie 2015

News: Godot - new game engine working with Linux, Windows, OSX and consoles.

The last version of Godot Engine Reaches 1.0 come with new features: 
- working simple , flexible and feature rich editor, with tools under multi-platform editor: Linux, Windows and OSX;
- the game result work for your multi-platform : iOS, Android, Desktop Platforms: Windows, OSX, Linux,Web Platforms: PNaCL and consoles: Playstation 3 and Playstation Vita (only with license from Sony); 
- 2D and 3D game development; - GUI library for UI Game Interfaces; 
- Python-based scripting language, designed to make games with C++ API to optimize parts of the game or extend any part of the engine. - you can animate 2D or 3D. - simulate 2D and 3D physics engines; 
First look : I run it , working well. You need to make some settings to export the game.
Working with .obj to import objects . Not working with tff fonts.
Seam to be a lite dizzy , but I saw some good youtube tutorials. 
 
download the templates for exporting , see the next image:  
and export your game ... 
 

duminică, 2 februarie 2014

View molecules online ...

You can see many molecules example.
It's working well with Firefox , Chrome, Opera and Safari.
See more on this website
The next image show us the penicillin ...

luni, 12 august 2013

News ... Synfig Studio 0.64.0 for Windows is available now.

Synfig is the best , light and easy way to do an animation. I used with linux and is simple tool to make animation. I think this software can be one great educational software. Your child will leave aside the pencil and sketchpad, watercolors to make own animations. Let's see the demo reel from 2012 by Rafael Bardisa.

duminică, 6 ianuarie 2013

Deadlock make with Unity - Linux, Windows , Mac OS

Another game for Linux users : Deadlock.

Also the Windows and OSX users can play this game using the webbrowser and Unity plugin.

Recommended:


- Intel Core-2-Quad 2.4GHz or similar
- 2 Go Ram
- DX9 3D video card such as Nvidia GTX280 or Radeon HD5850 or newer.

You need to have the GLIBCXX_3.4.11 under Linux OS.

miercuri, 16 februarie 2011

Allegro 5 library for game development.

Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers.
The Allegro library provides low level routines like input, graphics, midi, sound effects, and timing.
It is cross platform : Windows, OS X, Linux, DOS, and others.
The official website is here.
You can find some tutorials, and various articles for beginners.
Other information can be found here.