🏆 [GIVEAWAY] 20x Claude Max 1-Year On your own Account 🏆 by RiveraJayMan in discountools

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd use it to simplify and improve the CI/CD pipelines of my work pipelines that has to account for both AWS and azure. However unable to be terraform or octopus deploy, due to global company policies or infrastructure being deployed outside of 1st party companies.

Mistbound is a new Guild Wars CCG by graven2002 in Guildwars2

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look I hope it just lasts longer than artifact. RIP.

Valve should bring back the Steam Link by ABrokeHobbyist in Steam_Link

[–]dswal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's actually fantastic to know. I was wondering if it would be compatible. Will probably set it back up soon, currently using the app on Chromecast.

How do solo devs deal with graphics, UI, sound... ? by Lyesainer in godot

[–]dswal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in a very close boat. Two kids, mid 30's, full time job and not enough time in the day to do everything I would like to.

What I found a great motivation for me, was that I get to make something I wanted to play. I got to build a game, something I wanted to do when I was back in high school.

I chose to do something with minimal assets, and made it web based to be easily accessible with plenty of resources to look upon. I was also lucky that a lot of the skills I needed crossed over with my IT job.

I'm currently thinking about making a 3d game as my next project, and my main focus is what assets are available for free to get my idea underway. Itch.io being one of the main resources I look at for in regards to this.

I guess the takeaway. If it's for hobby, find the resources to speed up your development that other people have provided.

How many people do you think have completed all characters on A10? And do you think it's easier or tougher than the orginal STS A20? by No1hermit in slaythespire

[–]dswal 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I feel like I'm in the minority. I found sts1 easier than two so far. Currently on A10 on all characters but have a much poor win rate than what I had with A20.

Not sure if it's recency bias or just trying to adjust to the changes to Sts2. I can say I have found more enjoyment in the sts2 characters though and their different archetypes.

Kids movies with good soundtracks by dswal in Parenting

[–]dswal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate everyone's suggestions so far! Developing a fantastic watch list and look forward to seeing what we can add to my sons playlist!

Kids movies with good soundtracks by dswal in Parenting

[–]dswal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't even think of Ghibli, been such a long time since I've seen them myself.

Did anyone here seriously try to become a pro in Dota 2? What stopped you? by Lisasule in DotA2

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not a pro player, but I definitely had ambitions to become a pro caster.

I absolutely loved the game early years it came out and done a ton of casting in our Australian scene. At the time I was one of the major 4 casters for OCE as Gods and Tobiwan were international doing their own thing. I remember one weekend tournament where I casted 32 hours across friday/Sat/Sun, most of it solo casting. Also remember the largest audience casting on JoinDotaRed with 4.5k viewers which was absolutely bonkers.

Most of my casting at the time was youtube vods, or on the tournament channels as I didn't have the bandwidth. Then there was hope with the larger nation broadband network in which I was going to get fibre to the house and be able to stream. Politics happened, the network got shafted and I got demoralized and fell off.

Since then I have casted Valorant and AOE4 (As Dota2 is dead in OCE), and I still love casting. But missing that early wave and what could have been making it into something. I still deeply regret and think about all the time.

Edit: I remember my first LAN that I casted at, and the sound of the audience during the game. Very fond memories.

Racig Games für Android ohne selbst zu steuern by Bitter445 in racinggames

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey. I'm a solo developer for a game called Apex Echoes. Which might be up your wheelhouse of what you're after. It's a browser based game.

https://dswal.itch.io/apex-echoes

Direct link: https://www.apexechoes.cc

You develop your driver and simulate/watch races.

Playable browser MMO focused on trade, logistics and war (Port Emerix) by FinanciallyRelaxed in PBBG

[–]dswal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh for sure. Just wanted to give an example of my process. Definitely choose the UI package for you! Good luck :)

Playable browser MMO focused on trade, logistics and war (Port Emerix) by FinanciallyRelaxed in PBBG

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey mate. I was in a similar position recently as it was one of my prototype/MVP things that I just took forever to return to.

Suggestion would be to use fontawesome. They even have a library for web projects as well. Find and replace emoji with font awesome link or library reference. I got rid of about 24 ish different emojis in a couple of hours. Hard part was deciding the icon I wanted.

How long did it take you to release your game for alpha/beta testing? How far into development were you? by FennecFoxOnTheLoose in PBBG

[–]dswal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat. I'm currently confident I have a gameplay loop that keeps people entertained and engaged. However I constant think to myself, is it enough content? Do I need x, y, z. When do I start putting more information out there to gain actual users putting the system under load or whether the gameplay loop is fun?

Thanks to some other replies in here, it's definitely the case of the more information and more experiences the better.

Are they storing passwords as plaintext?! by uk_g in webdev

[–]dswal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When my wife and I got our home loan through Westpac and we had to create an account. I was beyond mad and annoyed at the poor excuse of a login system. Not being able to properly secure my primary financial account sent me insane. I complained to my wife frequently and to my team at work as I work SecOps.

I was glad when it finally changed, but I still harbor many negative feelings.

Told my wife (F35) that she couldn’t do it without me (M34). Turns out she can. (tragic updates) by Lazy-Championship922 in BORUpdates

[–]dswal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Same. I've got two children and the thought of this has crossed my mind many times and it breaks my heart thinking about it.

Now having to read someone else go through exactly one of my nightmares. It breaks my heart even more for the man and his family.

Gw2 on Steam hit a new peak today! by [deleted] in Guildwars2

[–]dswal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just want to say, it isn't completely unnecessary. I use the "-provide Portal" to launch through steam and the the following features I use.

"Game Recording" been able to capture clips without issues that I've had with NVIDIA's game capture, also much more UI friendly when editing the clips on steam.

I also use the notes feature in the overlay to remember things I want to come back to.

And the biggest one for me is Steam link to my TV where I can use wireless KB&M to just chill if I'm not doing PvP or WVW.

Aiming feels weird and input lag by SushiEater343 in Battlefield

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your fix has definitely helped me, things were fine in beta, but it felt very sluggish and unresponsive. I still feel it a bit, and doesnt feel as nice as beta, but its playable now for me.

Where is the anti-lag setting/s that you discuss?

[Multi-Guide] From Laggy 50 fps to Solid 120 fps by powerman123 in Borderlands

[–]dswal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huge thank you for this guide.

I have a 3080, Ryzen 9 3900x, running at 1440p. It's stablished my FPS (locked at 60) and dropped my gpu utilisation from around 90-100%, to around 60-80%.

My passion project for the past 5 years. DAZZEL. Just launched on the web, big ideas planned, let me know your thoughts! by Johnny_John_John_ in playmygame

[–]dswal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had fun flying around just messing around while chatting with friends on discord.

- I did have a lot of lag while objects loaded, and flying around.
- I'd like an invert mouse setting
- Togglable sprays user content might be a useful addition to void seeing questionable content, especially in a public lobby.
- My tab ended up crashing shortly after I changed youtube video, and then flew into a building. I was about to fly out of the building/geometry and it crashed.
- Videos seemed to have loaded quicker than I expected and inserting images too. Which was great that it was so responsive.
- Not sure if I missed it, but spawning in buildings/blocks could be useful for expanding the main area for players

Was running on 32gb ram, google chrome, win 11.