May 2010
1 post
I’m over there from now on.
April 2010
2 posts
Color picker with palette
Just got the hint on #archlinux: pychrom
How to edit GTK themes efficiently
GTK app window which contains the element(s) of which you want to change the look (I wanted to change the link color in Firefox’ UI, in this case “See All Recommended Add-ons”)
gtk-theme-switch2 [AUR] which allows you to apply a theme to all existing windows with the press of “Apply”
Two editor windows, one with the theme that you work on, one with the theme that...
March 2010
3 posts
Mood Boards (Illegal Inspiration)
I made a mood board (inspired by Durian) for DungeonHack. Mood boards are a place for quickly post images you think are cool. Videos too. Whether or not this one will be used needs to be discussed first.
A good mood board should follow following rules:
1. It is hosted by somebody else, who is reliable, so the images don’t get lost and you don’t have to take care of anything.
2....
randbash - milkytracker experiment
I basically only want to motivate you to try milkytracker out yourself, because you will be able to make something that does not sound like something horrible, like what I did. Youtube tutorials are very good for learning to use it!
Get it: flash/.mp3 | .xm
License: cc0
OpenClipArt getting pretty
I noticed today, that finally OpenClipArt looks good. Cleaner layout, previews for all images!
You can look at old versions in the wayback machine. For example (2008-06).
I did not try uploading in the new style, but even if it works the same way as before, I will not feel “why am I doing this, hardly anybody has the time to browse this site” any more! :)
The next step is making...
February 2010
1 post
Open Font Library Image Previews
I created a preview gallery (WARNING 13MB OF IMAGES ON ONE HTML PAGE) of (nearly) all OFL(P) fonts. I think it was well-received. The code used for making it and also included, all fonts, are available in this thread.
OFLB’s wiki looks nice by the way.
August 2009
1 post
git log to svn log
I emulated a svn-style log of a git repository by converting it using git log --pretty:
git log --date=iso --pretty=format:\ "------------------------------------------------------------------------%n %h | %an | %cd | %n%nnothing%n" > pp.log
I needed it for a code swarm video of Pink Pony.
The result is probably good enough.
June 2009
2 posts
Make Freenode IRC web client auto-join a #channel
#freenode@freenode.net told me that internet drama caused the on-line IRC client Mibbit to be blocked from the IRC server Freenode, which is popular amongst open source projects.
The solution is simple: use Freenode’s web client (which isn’t as horrible as it was the last time I tried it).
Luckily it’s possible to create auto-join links, by providing username or channel...
The Money Donating Game
I donated 92 EUR (130 USD) to OpenGameArt (OGA). The money will be used to finance art commissions chosen by OGA’s admin, Bart. The art will be released under the GPL2/3+ and CC-BY-SA3+ licenses.
I was not just donating money towards a cause that I like, I was also playing a massively multiplayer game of “fill the progress bar”. The rules are simple: you and other players around...
March 2009
6 posts
Cave Boy 1.0 Release
I released Cave Boy 1.0. It is a simple move-in-maze game. Sound is perhaps the only thing that makes it special. The project can be downloaded here and it requires LÖVE to run. License is zlib/zworks.
The game was inspired by Strong Bad’s Secret Collect!. At least I think so. I actually have made a mockup of Cave Boy half a year ago. I was already thinking of such a game look more than a...
A game that goes *boom* and with physics
Yesterday I met SiENcE, who revealed to me the game idea he lately played with: first you build, then you destroy. The games referenced were Bomber hehhe [review, screens, video] and Rampart [review, screens].
I was skeptical about the ‘build’ thing, because I remember from child days, that destroying was disproportionally more fun than building. Probably all this means is that the...
Ze Honey Game Design
I got an idea for a simple color mixing game. Instead of presenting a well-structured description of it, I will explain it in the order of my thoughts. (Whether I managed this is questionable, as for example this sentence (this one (um..)) was written when most of the text below was already written.)
For a start, here is the image my idea bases on and which got influenced by the idea:
I was...
Inkscape Version of Danc's Miraculously Flexible...
Daniel Cook finally decided to license his ‘free’ game art on Lost Garden under the CC BY 3.0 license!
I created an Inkscape import of the .ai file that he released. (It’s not perfect unfortunately.)
As I said, this stuff is by Daniel Cook - licensed under CCBY3.0US.
You can download the SVG file here.
Daniel Cook has been releasing his artwork ‘for free’ for...
February 2009
10 posts
Chartjunk that makes me throw up
I hope it will stay.
Public Domain Military Sounds Pack, first...
supermassive hypocrisy bomb →
TheAncientGoat used this word. Sounds like something one can build an instersting design around.
Flickr: The need for an all-permissive,...
I want Flickr to include something like the Public Domain Dedication, but I don’t know how to convince them. I’m afraid I should first ask Creative Commons to create an all-permissive, no-attribution license.
Here’s what I have written so far (for Flickr):
Hello, I want to be able to have an automatic licensing option to distribute my photos under public domain-like terms, to...
Code to embed public domain dedication in Flickr...
This work is dedicated to the <a href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/”>Public Domain</a>.
Due to restrictions of the Flickr licensing system, this work is marked with a Creative Commons Attribution License. Please disregard that license. You may feel free to attribute authorship to me, though.
Also, please consider <a...
all-permissive, non-attribution, zlib-, bsd- mit-...
After realising that the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication is not a license and that everyone’s complaining against it was kind of valid, I threw together four licenses that permit any kind of use with no conditions.
zlib License-based: “Ze All-Permissive License” (ZAPL)
This work is provided ‘as-is’, without any express or implied warranty. In no event...
My current Tumblr presences
Tablet Maltreat
Sans-Serif Sucks
Quality Let’s Plays
Public Domain Textures
Information Design
I Like Music
I Lerne Türkisch (German)
I Draw Comics
Freier Spieler (German)
Command-Line Image Editing
qubodup at rubyweekend#2
open source propaganda
Reverse psychology
osi-bad.png osi-bad.svg osi-evil.png osi-evil.svg osi-no.png osi-no.svg
January 2009
19 posts
Game name ideas
Eye Catcher 2000
Martian Graffiti
Eye Wars: Subway Day
Street Crossing Scout
Canon IXUS 55 works with CHDK!
Yay! Now I will have to learn a bunch about photo camera functions, the RAW format and how to edit it!
Canon Hack Development Kit →
I’m gonna use it.
I might have to get a new camera, because I think mine was the last one released not to be usable for this. :-\ I’ll check the product number later…
FreedroidRPG audio samples.
Licensed under GPL as...
Voice actor appears!
Yay! A voice actor showed up on the FreeGameDev forums!
He (Magnus Hoelvold) is not all that interested in licenes, but hey!
He’s a student/actor/silly person (self description). BLOG LINK TIME!
Death
A relative died.
I´m back from the viewing. 20% sniff/crying, 75% “have you met …” and “this is …” and “let me introduce you to …”, 5% off-topic.
Ok, I'm inside
Door/key/neighbour problems
Ok, so I’m sitting in front of the flat’s door, because I had to give my keys to my grandaunt when I was in Amsterdam, because she went to Berlin while I stayed there and my mother gave the keys to neighbours which are now not at home and I’m using out home’s wi-fi to write this post.
Oh yeah, mom doesn’t answer the phone.
I can survive for about 1.5 hours but after...
Damn Spam! →
I need to have this url somewhere besides there.
Again and again I forget it, thinking the title is “Spam Sucks” :{
3 tags
First pre-alpha Cast Lead release →
M64’s Games Blog →
m64 writes about free/open source game development and it makes me happy :)
Even though I do have a cold :|
My sorted Flickr account →
I finished putting all images into sets and all sets into collections. Hard work, man. Many are neither tagged nor geo-tagged yet :(
Cast Lead progress
I’ve been coding some extremely naive implementation of Cast Lead. It’s still pre-interactivity and not online yet.
Cast Lead LÖVE
I presented the game idea to the LÖVE forum.
Israel-Gaza conflict 08/09 game mockup
Project page
How to extract URLs from a file?
grep -o ‘xmlUrl.*’ file.html | sed ‘s/href=”//’ | sed ‘s/”.*//’
In this case all href= links get extracted from a HTML file. I used it slightly changed (by replacing “href”) to extract links from an XML file.
Cut of the cool song Banküberfall by Microdub.
...
December 2008
13 posts
FM radio while on a plane from Budapest to...
Budapest photos
I started uploading the photos, but one of the SD cards is still at L’s.
See this collection for what I have put into sets so far.
Fourth day in Budapest: flags and sirens
Museums closed and no more tickets for the parlament.
Climbing up to the Gellért-hegy, visiting the Citadella.
I’ve never seen so many national and European Union flags on a city’s streets.
I get the impression that every ambulance has it’s own individual siren sound.
Third day in Budapest, part 2
Walking down the Andrássy út, visiting the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, eating at Café Vian. Everything great!
Third day in Budapest
Yesterday L. arrived and we walked around for a while.
I made lots of pics, but the hostel’s workstations have a too old Flash version, no Java and don’t allow installing those.
I don’t want to upload the pictures in batches of six, so I’ll probably do all the upload work after coming back to Berlin.
I’m going to the supermarket to get some breakfast.