You will hear the terms Free and Open Source software (FOSS) and Libre software thrown around everywhere nowadays. Open source is everywhere, from Firefox to Android to even the software that this website uses to function. The philosophy behind free…
Happy new year! 2020 was quite a year for all of us. A deadly pandemic swept across the land, nations continued to fight, global censorship increased, and we did our best to continue with our every day lives despite all…
Chocolatey is a great application for managing your installed programs on Windows, but it’s not always the easiest to use. Chocolatey GUI gives you an easy graphical interface to update your programs without having to use the command line. Today,…
Many of our devices run Android these days. You would think that it’s open source nature would lead to a vibrant open source ecosystem, but chances are, you’re running a lot of proprietary software. This software does not respect you…
Chocolatey helps solve one of the biggest issues working on a Windows machine: Software Management. It’s easy to maintain and update software on most other operating systems. On Mac you have Homebrew, on your phone you have app stores, and…
RSS is a tool that solves one of our greatest problems in our connected world: information overload. What is RSS? Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a standard protocol for websites to share information with other sites and applications. This is…
Last time we explored the map making interface and made our first map in RPG Maker. It looks nice, but there is not much for the player to do. Enter Events Events are a collection of commands that happen under…
This year was a bit slow, but we published four detailed articles and started a new series of posts on game design. We also redesigned the website and started a news letter. Posts at a Glance We began making a…
Now that we have our story and game engine, we are ready to start making our game in RPG Maker MV. Creating a new Project We need to make a new project before we can start making our game. To…
A lot of us hear the word ping used a lot in gaming and when we are having network issues, but what exactly is ping? ping ping is a command line tool that is used to measure the round-trip time…
