Tag Archives: community
Poem for Free (as in Freedom) Audio File Formats
Nikki and the Robots: Story EpisodesBuy the open source Überpixel™ style platformer now! outrageously blatant self-promotion Propaganda ahead. Proceed with caution. Audio File Formats can be confusing at first,I hope to change this, with this tiny verse! FLAC is lossless, … Continue reading
Sexism Double-Defense 101
If you are not offended, it doesn’t mean what was said wasn’t offensive. You don’t have to be sexist to say sexist phrases. Saying that you didn’t intend to offend someone does not erase the fact that you did. Bullets … Continue reading
Using OpenGameArt for Game Dev Jams
video: AotCfoS! gameplay At Berlin Mini Jam July 21th July 2012 (I’m one of the co-organizers, I still have to write that blog post) I helped Christiaan and Aurindam to create Attack of the Cows from outer Space! by “remixing” … Continue reading
Just in case Blender Open Materials disappears one day
While cleaning up a large list of free as in freedom art asset links, I had to remove a few entries: the websites were lost. One of the large still-available resource pages, blender-materials.org, showed signs of possible slow fade into … Continue reading
Real audiologs from inside a mental hospital
Sigflup of Hacker Public Radio spent time in a mental hospital for paranoia. She recorded some audio logs, which she shared in a podcast under cc-by-sa.
How I Ruined Crowdfunding: OpenOctave IndieGoGo Raffle Takedown
My overly sensitive spam sensors caused an open source project’s crowd funding page to disappear for about 20 hours because when I asked the funding service provider to double-check, they noticed that the funding page violated their terms that prohibited … Continue reading
Simple DokuWiki theme style – because the default is kind of ugly
The default look of DokuWiki creates a strong incentive to change it. The following are instructions how to make a new DokuWiki template named ‘quiver’ that has a ‘earthier’ look than the default. It can be easily be changed by using … Continue reading
Stopping forum spam users
This needs no introduction, you know why you’re reading this. :) The basics of minimizing spam are: Moderation of every user/users’ first post (awesome phpBB feature!) Question (Something obvious) reCaptcha (unfortunately, phpBB currently does not support both questions and reCaptcha … Continue reading
Open Development Game Marketing
Open Development Public Relations I talked about open development marketing at htw today. My slides are at opendevmarketing.blogspot.com. I will update the slides later and let you know.
Picking projects to join and contribute to (as interaction designer & marketing person)
I started attending interaction design and marketing classes in course of Interaction/Game Design at HTW Berlin. I was given the option to join a game development team. All internal teams use UDK, CryEngine or Unity, so I decided to join … Continue reading