Nathan Manske nmanske

kdrnic's Caves of Qud beginner notes

The guide below I wrote mostly for myself as a "notebook" of info I found, but then slightly expanded it with stuff that may be useful to others.

As of finishing writing, I have 16 hours of CoQ playtime and have a level 20 character, definitelly still a beginner as well, perhaps a slightly seasoned beginner.

My previous roguelike experience included beating DCSS with a minotaur berserker and playing a good amount of POWDER on my celphone.

Justification

The game is a tad opaque. As this Qud denizen explains (I don't agree with his overall opinion):

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

Problem

I have a notebook connected to a port replicator. I want to use the build-in speakers and microfone and not the external ones. If I boot my notebook in my port replicator Ubuntu changes the devices to external.

Solution

Find your internal speaker

pactl list short sinks

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	set -Eeuo pipefail
	trap cleanup SIGINT SIGTERM ERR EXIT

	script_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd -P)

	usage() {
	cat <<EOF
	Usage: $(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}") [-h] [-v] [-f] -p param_value arg1 [arg2...]

	import sys
	from subprocess import call
	import json
	import os
	import requests


	def download_gists(gists: list):
	for gist in gists:
	call(["git", "clone", gist["git_pull_url"]])

	import requests
	import csv
	import os
	import json
	import re
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	import mechanize
	from random import choice
	user_agents = ['Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko Debian/1.6-7','Konqueror/3.0-rc4; (Konqueror/3.0-rc4; i686 Linux;;datecode)','Opera/9.52 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)']
	random_user_agent = choice(user_agents)

	# Put this function to your .bashrc file.
	# Usage: mv oldfilename
	# If you call mv without the second parameter it will prompt you to edit the filename on command line.
	# Original mv is called when it's called with more than one argument.
	# It's useful when you want to change just a few letters in a long name.
	#
	# Also see:
	# - imv from renameutils
	# - Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y (cut last word, paste, paste)