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Game design document - § ¶

If you are about to create a new game, be sure to read this nice article along with its predecessors.

09.11.24. 13:29 | comment!

VelociRapid game element preview - § ¶

Click the banner to play a preview of prey fleeing, and also take a peek underneath to see the quadtree space partitioning (nodes do not collapse right now). WSAD to control the dino.

09.11.19. 23:18 | comment!

Gambit's response to recent virtual currency changes - § ¶

An interesting read at the Gambit blog.

09.11.05. 10:19 | comment!

Dirty coding tricks of game developers - § ¶

Read it at Gamasutra

09.11.03. 10:02 | comment!

Payment providers - § ¶

Some alternative payment providers for running your own virtual curreny system:

• Gambit
• Super Rewards
• Offerpal
• AdParlor
• Sometrics

09.07.13. 21:38 | comment!

ssh tunneling in linux - § ¶

To forward the local port X to the local port Y of the remote machine:

ssh -L X:127.0.0.1:Y remote.machine -N

Usage example: Setup a local web proxy (like privoxy) on a remote university machine, and connect to it from home. This way you can access university resources with ease.

09.05.14. 10:28 | comment!

Free flag images - § ¶

http://www.33ff.com/flags/index.htm

09.04.08. 11:52 | comment!

Render text with ImageMagick - § ¶

convert -font font.ttf -background none -geometry +0+0 -fill \#ffffff -pointsize 18 label:"`cat txt`" -set label '' out.png

09.04.02. 15:16 | comment!

Online Latex equation editor - § ¶

Online latex is

09.03.11. 09:02 | comment!

Create swc from a tree of as3 files - § ¶

V1 (thanks to Jarrad Hope!) compc -output my_swc.swc -include-sources .

V2 (the old and hacky :) cd tree_top; compc -source-path . -output my_swc.swc -include-classes `find . -regex .*as | awk '{gsub(/\.\//, "", $0); gsub(/\.as/, "", $0); print $0}'`

09.03.06. 09:58 | two comments

Delete first line from file - § ¶

sed -i '1d' file.txt

09.02.18. 12:28 | comment!

Gentoo: check security holes - § ¶

glsa-check -p $(glsa-check -t all)

09.02.04. 11:30 | comment!

Execution speedup with fifo - § ¶

Speed up the execution of programs that generate massive unwanted log-files by sending those logs to null through a fifo: mkfifo logfile
cat logfile > /dev/null &
./myprogram -log logfile

09.01.19. 14:09 | comment!

ImageMagick PNG background and auto-crop - § ¶

Set background to white and auto-crop with ImageMagick: for i in `ls *png`; do convert -flatten $i x.png; convert -trim x.png out_$i; done

09.01.12. 17:15 | comment!

Linux: split file on pattern - § ¶

awk '/PATTERN/{i++}{print > "file.pdb."i}' file, found here

08.12.15. 17:46 | comment!

Replace in multiple files on Linux - § ¶

perl -pi -w -e 's/search/replace/g;' *.php
Found here.

08.12.10. 10:42 | comment!

XPath in Python - § ¶

A nice summary about options for xpath with python here.

08.12.09. 18:41 | comment!

Christmas Icons - § ¶

Free Chrismtas Icons!

08.12.08. 11:46 | comment!

PS print on WinXP - § ¶

Print to PS on WinXP without any printers! Cool :)

08.12.04. 12:59 | comment!

Sorry, OpenOffice - § ¶

OpenOffice is simply a no-go. Ill UI, missing features. Go for Latex or Crossover Office instead.

08.12.02. 14:31 | comment!