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Super hexagon terry cavanagh final level4/10/2023 Need to somehow encrypt/decrypt replay files to avoid tampering. The code for the game logic is intertwined with some rendering code. Need headless version of Open Hexagon which only runs game logic without rendering. I started working on this game almost a decade ago, and the codebase is not in a great state, despite my continuous efforts to improve it and clean it up. Need to completely separate game logic and rendering logic. Not a big deal, but costs and logistics are something to consider. Need a database, somewhere, maybe my VPS or have to rent cloud servers. Therefore, I came up with the following list of things to consider: It sucks when players work hard for high scores, just to have the leaderboard ruined by a hacker. Fortunately, I've worked hard to make the game logic fully deterministic and have implemented an input-based replay system already, but there absolutely are zero online capabilities in the game.Īlso, I want to make cheating as hard as possible. Download replays of top scores directly in-game from the server, and view them in-game. While selecting levels, the user can see his ranking in a global leaderboard. After playing a level, the user's final score is automatically submitted to a server. My intention is to have the source always freely available so that people can learn from it and/or improve the game. I've also had players thank me for getting them into the world of programming, which feels amazing.ĭespite being published on Steam, the game is also fully open-source (on GitHub), and anyone can contribute to it or build it themselves for free. Here's a short compilation of some very creative user-made levels: Fans have created mind-blowing levels that push the engine to its boundaries. Users can create custom levels using Lua scripts and publish them to the Steam Workshop. Open Hexagon started as a clone of Super Hexagon, but it evolved into much more: it features new mechanics such as a 180° swap and curving walls*, and - most importantly - it was completely designed with *modding and customization in mind. You control a small triangle spinning around the center of the screen, and your goal is to avoid various obstacles that hone in towards the center. It's a fast-paced arcade and rhythm game heavily inspired by Super Hexagon, created with its author's permission (Terry Cavanagh). Video Card: Direct X9.This is going to be a DevLog about the implementation of one particular feature for my game Open Hexagon: online leaderboards.Hyper Hexagonest - Hyper Hexagonest, The End.Hyper Hexagoner - Hyper Hexagoner, Hyper Hexagonest, The End.Hyper Hexagon - Hyper Hexagon, Hyper Hexagoner, Hyper Hexagonest, The End.Hexagonest - Hexagonest, Hyper Hexagonest, The End.Hexagoner - Hexagoner, Hyper Hexagoner, Hyper Hexagonest, The End.Hexagon - Hexagon, Hyper Hexagon, Hyper Hexagoner, Hyper Hexagonest, The End.The following list outlines the path each level takes. If the player survives long enough on one level, the game seamlessly transitions to another difficulty. The player must finish 60 seconds of Hyper Hexagonest each time he or she wants to play The End.Įach difficulty level is connected to others in some way. Unlike the other levels, this stage is not accessible from the main menu. Thus, the "Hyper Hexagon" mode is identical to anything after 60 seconds of "Hexagon" mode.Īfter 60 seconds of gameplay in Hyper Hexagonest, the game seamlessly transitions into another unnamed stage (referred to as The End in this article). The "Hyper" difficulties are unlocked by surviving for at least 60 seconds in the corresponding difficulty level. The game comes with 6 difficulty levels, with 3 unlocked from the start. Jenn Frank serves as the game's "slightly taunting" announcer. The music was composed by Niamh Houston, also known as Chipzel. Unlike Hexagon, the player is allowed to collide with the sides of incoming segments. The player's score is based on how long they can survive without running into the center-facing sides of the line segments. The segments encroach relentlessly towards the center of the screen. The player must rotate a triangle around a central point (a hexagon) while avoiding line segments. The game initially started out as a free Flash game that was simply titled Hexagon. Super Hexagon is an arcade score attack game developed by distractionware. Overview A scene depicting "Hyper Hexagon", the 'hyper' version of the first level.
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Truck horn sounddog4/10/2023 It is important to make the distinction that fear is a normal emotional response to a real or perceived threat or situation, such as dreading the anticipated pain from a vaccination needle. What are some common sounds that scare dogs? What sounds scare dogs? Photography ©Sonja Rachbauer| Getty Imagesīy definition, veterinarians and animal behaviorists use the term “noise phobia” to describe the intense and irrational fear displayed by some dogs to certain sounds. Rusty has learned what we call a behavioral chain, a common occurrence in dogs with noise phobias.” So, I distract him in another room while my wife, Linda, works the indoor grill. “He has learned that turning on our indoor grill may cause the smoke alarm to go off, so he starts to shake and tremble with fear when he sees us bring out the indoor grill. “My dog, Rusty, is terrified of the smoke detector in our kitchen,” says Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, professor emeritus at Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, a board-certified veterinary behaviorist and lead veterinarian at the Center for Canine Behavior Studies in Salisbury, Connecticut. Some dogs with noise phobias can become petrified with fear even before the dreaded sound arrives, because they pick up on pre-sound warning cues. Certain sounds that scare dogs can cause them to pace, drool, shake, shadow you or desperately seek a safe refuge like inside the bathtub. There are tons of sounds that scare dogs, unfortunately. Dogs don’t need to see something scary to turn into puddles of panic.
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Firefox new logo4/10/2023 Color and graphic treatment unite them and connect them to the master brand. These are meant to relate most directly to the master brand as peers to the Firefox Quantum browser icon.įinally, the icons for new applications and services signal the unique function of each product. Firefox Developer Edition and Firefox Nightly are rendered as color variants of the Quantum icon.īrowsers with a singular focus, such as our Firefox Reality browser for VR applications and our privacy-driven Firefox Focus mobile browser, share a common design approach for their icons. We continue to simplify and modernize this icon, and people who use Firefox tell us they love it. Who knows? Someday this icon may be what people think of when they hear the word “Firefox.”Īt the general-purpose browser level, we’re proposing to update our Firefox Quantum desktop icon. The masterbrand icon will show up in our marketing, at events, in co-branding with partners, and in places like the Google Play store where our products can be found. The brand architecture for both systems is made up of four levels.Įach system leads with a new Firefox masterbrand icon - an umbrella under which our product lines will live. Do these systems suggest our position as a tech company that puts people over profit?.Do these systems reinforce the speed, safety, reliability, wit, and innovation that Firefox stands for?.Can the design logic of these systems stretch to embrace new products in the future?.How visually cohesive is each of them? Does each hold together?.Do these two systems still feel like Firefox?.We’ll be using these criteria to evaluate the work: Our focus at this point is on the system. Each individual icon will undergo several rounds of refinement, or may change entirely, between now and their respective product launches. You can make your views known by commenting on this blog post below.Įxtreme caveat: Although the products and projects are real, these design systems are still a work of fiction. Living by our open-source values of transparency and participation, we’re reaching out to our community to learn what people think. No one is being asked to design anything for free.Today, we’re sharing our two design system approaches to ask for your feedback.įor those who recall the Open Design process we used to craft our Mozilla brand identity, our approach here will feel familiar: Working across traditional silos, we’re designing a system that can guide people smoothly from our marketing to our in-product experiences. We needed to start from a new place.Ī team made up of product and brand designers at Mozilla has begun imagining a new system to embrace all of the Firefox products in the pipeline and those still in the minds of our Emerging Technologies group. Recoloring that logo or dissecting the fox could only take us so far. But they are still taking a poll to keep their audiences involved in their decision of changing their firey foxy logo.īelow are the designs of the two system approaches that team Mozilla has proposed.As an icon, that fast fox with a flaming tail doesn’t offer enough design tools to represent this entire product family. Even though they clearly mention that these designs are proposed designs and nothing is finalized as of now. “With your input, we’ll have a final system that will make a Firefox product recognizable out in the world even if a fox is nowhere in sight.” The team is taking a poll on whether the audiences and users like the foxy logo or the fox’s back in the logo. Mozilla asks its users to provide their feedback in the comments section of their blog post. Director, Firefox User Experience and Tim Murray, Creative Director announced this on their blog. “Firefox is creating new types of browsers and a range of new apps and services with the internet as the platform,” as written by Enros and Murray. Thus, they are planning to redesign their old foxy logo. The officials explained that their original logo of a fast fox which depicts speed and power does not depict the power and worth of their entire product range. With all the technological and digital advancements happening people will need newer tools to benefit from them the most. Mozilla is all set to launch a new design system.
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Social empires gods4/10/2023 It would take another 400 years after the Exodus before Israel would become a monarchy and major power in that part of the world. Being delivered from bondage in Egypt, God gave them the land of Canaan according to His promise to Abraham ( Genesis 12:7 Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.Īmerican King James Version ×). Israel and JudahĪfter the family of Israel moved to Egypt, it soon grew into a nation of two to three million people. Its power and wealth often brought it into conflict with other kingdoms and empires of the region. In its stronger periods it still exercised influence to the north, at times cooperating with and at times hostile to the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. This crippled Egypt, yet it would remain a key player in the region, its power waxing and waning. God delivered the Israelites from slavery at the time of Moses through devastating plagues. It enslaved the people of Israel for more than two centuries before they became a nation. EgyptĮgypt is one of the oldest empires recorded in history. Ultimately, Bible prophecy tracks the progression of world empires even to modern times and beyond-to the Kingdom of God at the second coming of Jesus Christ. The story follows Israel’s oppression, rise to prominence, destruction and subjugation. The Bible recounts the rise and fall of mighty kingdoms and vast empires, primarily through the lens of their relationship to biblical Israel and Judah.
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Wimoweh karaoke4/10/2023 He has songs about work, songs about crime, songs about how banks rob you by giving you paper in exchange for real money, songs about how rudely the whites treat you when you go to get your pass stamped. Solly keeps his eyes open and transmutes what he sees into songs that he and his homeboys perform a cappella on weekends. In the mid-Thirties they shake off the dust and cow shit and take the train to Johannesburg, city of gold, where they move into the slums and become kitchen boys and factory hands. Among the half-naked herd boys who drift through the mission is a rangy kid called Solomon Linda, born 1909, who gets into the Orpheus-inspired syncopation thing and works bits of it into the Zulu songs he and his friends sing at weddings and feasts. One such place is Gordon Memorial School, perched on the rim of a wild valley called Msinga, which lies in the Zulu heartland, about 300 miles southeast of Johannesburg. Wherever Orpheus goes, “jubilee” music outfits spring up in his wake and spread the glad tidings, which eventually penetrate even the loneliest outposts of civilization. The African brothers have never heard such a thing. McAdoo is a stern old Bible thumper, to be sure, but there’s a subversively rhythmic intensity in his music, a primordial stirring of funk and soul. This American music is a revelation to “civilized natives,” hitherto forced to wear starched collars and sing horrible dirges under the direction of dour white missionaries. Next thing, McAdoo and his troupe are on the road in Africa, playing to slack-jawed crowds in dusty mining towns. They meet during McAdoo’s triumphant tour of Australia in the 1880s, and when Sir Henry becomes High Commissioner of the Cape Colony a few years later, it occurs to him that Orpheus might find it interesting to visit. Orpheus McAdoo is leader of the celebrated Virginia Jubilee Singers, a combo that specializes in syncopated spirituals. Sir Henry Loch is a rising star of the Colonial Office. This is an African yarn, but it begins with an unlikely friendship between an aristocratic British imperialist and a world-famous American negro. Let’s take it from the top, as they say in the trade.īrian Wilson had to pull off the road when he first heard it, totally overcome Carole King instantly pronounced “a motherfucker.” This one’s for Solomon Linda, then, a Zulu who wrote a melody that earned untold millions for white men but died so poor that his widow couldn’t afford a stone for his grave. It was in the nature of this transaction that black men gave more than they got and often ended up with nothing. Its epic transcultural saga is also, in a way, the story of popular music, which limped pale-skinned and anemic into the twentieth century but danced out the other side vastly invigorated by transfusions of ragtime and rap, jazz, blues and soul, all of whose bloodlines run back to Africa via slave ships and plantations and ghettos. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songsħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Time It is the most famous melody ever to emerge from Africa, a tune that has penetrated so deep into the human consciousness over so many generations that one can truly say, here is a song the whole world knows. It has logged nearly three decades of continuous radio airplay in the U.S. Hollywood put it in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. England’s 1986 World Cup soccer squad turned it into a joke. The New Zealand army band turned it into a march. and Glen Campbell, Brian Eno and Chet Atkins, the Nylons and Muzak schlockmeister Bert Kaempfert. It has been recorded by artists as diverse as R.E.M. The French have a version sung in Congolese. Later, the song took flight and landed in America, where it mutated into a truly immortal pop epiphany that soared to the top of the charts here and then everywhere, again and again, returning every decade or so under different names and guises. He just opened his mouth and out it came, a haunting skein of fifteen notes that flowed down the wires and into a trembling stylus that cut tiny grooves into a spinning block of beeswax, which was taken to England and turned into a record that became a very big hit in that part of Africa. He hadn’t composed the melody or written it down or anything. It was 1939, and he was standing in front of a microphone in the only recording studio in black Africa when it happened. Once upon a time, a long time ago, a small miracle took place in the brain of a man named Solomon Linda. This story was originally published in the issue of Rolling Stone.
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Cancel ezviz cloudplay4/10/2023 All you have to do is push a button for better performance and more integration with your favorite smart home devices and services. It runs on EZVIZ’s adaptable platform, which adds new features and functionality as they become available. Once complete, you can place the camera anywhere you can connect to Wi-Fi, such as indoors or outdoors using a bracket and mount included with your purchase.Īs technology improves, so does the EZVIZ C3X. Just download the free EZVIZ app on your mobile device for iOS 7.0+ (iPhone, iPad) or Android 4.0+ and follow the simple steps to sync your phone to the camera. You can use it on your smartphone or tablet to see all your EZVIZ cameras at the same time and adjust their settings from anywhere. See what’s happening inside or outside with the EZVIZ app.
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Thief simulator rating4/10/2023 Once you have your entry point info and tenant schedule, it is time to strike. Any tenants you see can be “marked,” and this will add their current time frame to your notes, which allows you to keep track of when and where the tenants are at every hour of the day. When you make it to your desired house, you can spy from a safe distance. If you catch too much attention, civilians will become alarmed and call the cops on you. You can go to any of the houses at any time you like, but just be aware of prying eyes. These tips are helpful, but you will also want to do some scouting of your own. Tenant has a graveyard shift job? The house is basically yours for the night. That dingy old fence that is falling apart in the back? Give it a good smack with a crowbar and you are pretty much in. If you have the cash, you can purchase some info about your target location, provide you with some helpful insight on how to plan your approach. Your computer also has access to a secret community forum that keeps an eye on the neighborhood. You can even practice picking locks on dummy locks or try out your other abilities, because as any master thief knows it is all about preparing! Here you can access the internet which lets you purchase new gear, take up requests, pawn off special items, and more. When you get a good handle on all of Thief Simulator’s inner workings, you will truly feel like a master thief.īefore heading out into the neighborhood, you will prep at your secret hideout. At its core, Thief Simulator has the basis of a typical stealth game – you will need to stay out of sight, avoid making too much noise, and make sure you are equipped with the right tools for the job. You are accompanied by your good friend Vinny, who will teach you the in’s and out’s of being a thief.Įven though Thief Simulator is still in early access, those moments like the one we described where you pull off the perfect heist is when the game is at its best. You have been recently bailed out of jail, and we all know that old habits die hard, so you continue your life of crime, swindling the nearby neighborhood of all they are worth. In this case hide and wait till they stop looking for you or you can always leave the loot and run away as fast as possible.You, my friend, have just pulled off a robbery in Thief Simulator, the newest simulation game that puts you right in the shoes of a sneaky bandit. If they catch you in the act, they will call the police. Or maybe they aren't?īe careful! In some houses you can meet unexpected guests. Of course many of them are just useless trash. All those things can make life of an aspiring thief so much easier and reduce your burglary time even by a half. Key near a window or purchase receipts in trash bins. They will save you some time on lockpicking or hacking. Prepare phones and tablets before selling them in a pawn shop by removing their security. Use the flashlight at night to highlight all the valuables in sight and places where you can expect them to be.ĭisassemble a stolen car and sell parts on the internet. Be careful, cause some things can draw police attention to you!Ī real, experienced thief can spot places where there's most probability of finding some valuables on the fly. If you fill your backpack with worthless items, you may have to waste your time to throw stuff out just to make space for other things. If you're not sure that you can take some serious money for it, maybe a good idea would be to leave it behind and save space for some expensive goods. In every house you'll find tons of useless stuff, which can really slow you down. When it's about time you have to maintain cold blood. Remember that infinite backpacks don't exist. Find and steal as many valuables as possible in the shortest time possible. Many modern devices available in Thief Simulator might come in handy with gathering intel about your target and it's neighbourhood. Choose from lots of possible approaches to prepare the best plan. What's inside? Who lives there? What's your target day schedule? Find out when the house is empty and does it have nosy neighbours. Do anything that a real thief does!Ī good thief always observes his target. Buy some hi-tech burglar equipment and learn new thief tricks. Take the challenge and rob the best secured houses. Observe your target and gather information that will help you with the burglary. Steal in free roam sandbox neighborhoods. The app is accessible on Steam.īecome the real thief. Thief Simulator is an app developed by Noble Muffins.
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Kingdom new lands ballista towers4/10/2023 Reward: a mithril LEGO brick Quest 89 - Sunken Spirits Deal with all of them, which you should have no problems with. After a while, there will appear monsters in the area, although goblins, disguised as dragons, only. Walkthrough: From the questgiver, you will learn that he fears dragon attack. Reward: a mithril LEGO brick Quest 88 - Dragon Attack.? This will result in fire bursting in all the interactive spots and completing the puzzle. Sam) and start two fires shown in the above screenshot, i.e. Switch to the character that can start fires (e.g. The quest consists in starting fires in the order suggested by the word puzzle, which you learn after you interact with the plate with the question mark on it. You will be tasked with finding a treasure here. This way you can pay for 5 days worth of charge by paying only 3 charges worth of coins.Walkthrough: The questgiver is staying in the storage.It will refill the first charge, and give you the second one as well. If you pay for 1 charge on the archer statue, wait until it is just about to run out (the charge will appear very faint blue) and then pay again.However, the statue will take a charge as being ‘filled’ regardless of when you pay for it. You pay a certain number of coins for each charge, however, you can maximize the time by paying at the right time. These portals will be linked, and you have instant movement between them when using one of those portals now. When you teleport to an open area (just grass with no tree background) from an un-linked portal, you will see that you can construct a second portal in that space.Whether it’s making your mad dash for the coast by being a lumberjack or recruiting vagrants far out or simply just scouting ahead, portals are very useful for movement and save you a lot of daytime.They remain useful in the winter as their walking speed is the highest, and you won’t be running a lot in winter with no areas to graze.A quick charge out and back into your walls will remove them. Your archers suck at hitting greed that clumps too close to your wall.Hunting is useful because you can easily get a full bag of coins in a day while exploring. Its sprint is a charge that deals damage just after every time the bear touches the ground. The bear is my personal favorite and the reasoning for this is below.They produce 3 coins every time they graze and this is incredibly helpful. The Unicorn is a good mount for early-day island establishment.Useless and a straight downgrade in winter. The Stag runs faster in the forest which is good for early game but as you start clearing the trees, this becomes less useful.Bear in mind winter never ends once it has come. Building farms therefore may be justified so as just to pack as much money as possible for those winter days.Your only opportunity to get money is with the Treasurer in your town center. All the crops will wither, and all hunting will stop. For example on Day 50 ish on the 5th Island. Winter comes at different times for different islands.Having a ballista hermit with me saved my crown so many times on Island 5 which had no Archer or Builder statue. What structures will be available on which island is random? You need to make sure that when you go to another island, you’re prepared for any eventuality.I never really used the Armoury hermit for the extra knight until the later islands where you would need to send as large a force as possible to destroy portals.Place it on the nearest tower position behind your front line, and it will maximize its damage. Floaters will just grab your engineer and you will have lost a recruit. The ballista tower is great because, unlike the catapult, the Breeders can’t throw the bolt back.I almost lost on the 5th island because I forgot the Bakery hermit and the vagrant camps were very far away from my base. They can make the difference between winning and losing. They live in little huts somewhere on the island, so make sure you find them. Hermits and their towers are very useful: A boat can take anywhere from 3-10 days to get to the port, depending on the size of the island and the number of trees in the way. Clear any portals, including the cove portal, so your builders can get to the port safely. It will be pushed at a much slower speed through the forest than open ground. Clear the trees in the way of the boat.Make sure you have 3 idle engineers to avoid wasting time. 3 Engineers will push the boat to move it at max speed.This will be the tallest side of the boat. The Boat will face in the direction of the port when you initially spend the gold coins to construct it.
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