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Adding web games to Playnite

Adding web games to Playnite

Like any sensible Windows user with a hoard of different competing games store launchers, emulated games and manually installed games littering his hard drive, I use Playnite. Which is probably the best integrated games launcher there is. It can import just about anything, some things require a bit of configuring. I don’t play many web games, but those I do occasionally dip into I wanted…

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Writing a QuestPack: The Common People

Writing a QuestPack: The Common People

My first steps into the world of Daggerfall Unity modding came when I realised that making quests was as a form of interactive fiction. As those of you who have noticed the wealth of novels, short stories and screenplays that I haven’t published here over the years, I’m not great at finishing things. The short nature of quest-writing appealed to me, despite having numerous unfinished D&D quests…

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Modding Daggerfall Unity

I’ve been exploring Daggerfall on and off for a few years now, but I’ve only been exploring the world of Daggerfall modding for a few months. I’ve still somewhat of an amateur so excuse any numptitude and hamfistedness in this guide… (more…)

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Pixel Art

I’ve started dabbling in pixel art. I like the constraints, it’s retro feel, and the fact I can do it on my phone or tablet when I’m have free time. At the moment I’m using Pixel Studio. (more…)

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Daggerfall Unity: Creating new pixel flats

Daggerfall Unity: Creating new pixel flats

Another issue when revamping the houses of Daggerfall is the limited clutter. We are used to clutter in Triple-A games, rubbish, detritus, object d’art… but Daggerfall was from a former era. PCs were limited. Everything non-essential added bloat that PCs of the time couldn’t cope with. Also, with a game Daggerfall’s size there was only so much they could add. So peoples diets were limited to…

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Daggerfall Unity: New Paintings

Daggerfall Unity: New Paintings

One of the (many) problems I came across when I decided to overhaul the NPC houses in Daggerfall Unity for my houses2homes mod, was the lack of variety in the paintings you can place on the walls of the buildings. There is basically six. Six different paintings that hang in the countless houses within an estimated 15,000 hamlets, towns and cities in the game. After I’d revamped a few homes they…

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Daggerfall Unity: Spotify Soundtracks

Daggerfall Unity: Spotify Soundtracks

Nexusmods user Macadaynu created a mod for Daggerfall Unity that controls an instance of Spotify running in the background and utilises playlists for music within the game. https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/238 (more…)

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Daggerfall Unity: Houses2Homes

I’ve been working on a mod for Daggerfall Unity that overhauls the layout of NPC houses in the game. (more…)

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Neverwinter Nights, daddy of the MMORPG?

Neverwinter Nights, daddy of the MMORPG?

I recently read on the Forgotten Realms Wikipedia page that Neverwinter Nights was the first MMORPG (Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game) to use graphics. More Wikipedia inaccuracies surely? Neverwinter Nights was released in the early oughts, by then there were multiple MMORPGs running such as Everquest, Ultima Online etc. Also, Neverwinter Nights, despite being able to host almost…

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TweetSturm und Drang

@RetroBoyShow  Not really a fan of sushi TBH @Dibbley1992 Then don’t eat it.

@sk4r4mang4 y u hatin on sushi bro?

@RetroBoyShow I’m not hating on it. I just said I’m not a fan. I don’t like it.

@OrioKatxx Is it just sushi or do you not like any japanese cuisine?

@RetroBoyShow I don’t like sushi. Don’t really know other japanese foods so I can’t say.

@masterofeve96 You should try more japanese…

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Levinson, Link and their killer cyborg

Levinson, Link and their killer cyborg

Richard Levinson and William Link are well known for gifting the wonderful character of Lieutenant Colombo to the world. In the 1980s they also gave us touring author and elderly herald of death: Jessica Fletcher. However what you may not know is that as year or two prior they wrote the script for the TV sci-fi movie Prototype. (more…)

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What was your first car? Answer now or suffer the consequences!

What was your first car? Answer now or suffer the consequences!

What was your first car? 5.5k responses? Great. Now I know what your first car was. I also know, from your Facebook profile, what your full name is (thanks Facebook and your real name policy) where you live, (if you’ve entered it, which you probably have) who you work for and who your family members are. Some of you even have your phone number listed. If you are female and married, I probably…

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Top 10 day-to-day things that will SHOCK you!

Top 10 day-to-day things that will SHOCK you!

Licking a battery. The police if they see you doing anything remotely suspicious, like running or being deliberately black A badly wired toaster Pissing on the electric fence This chair Car jump leads A defibrillator Doing this Trying to repair a portable generator in the rain And this

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A Nightmare in Elm Street 9: A Space Nightmare

A Nightmare in Elm Street 9: A Space Nightmare

For countless generations (nobody has tried to count them but it’s theorised there could be as many as two) There has been a long held truth that goes like this,  any horror movie series that goes on long enough without a reboot will eventually end up in space. For years this has been disparaged by experts due to the one notable exception:  Freddy never went into space. Well the horror movie…

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Top 10 Google Cardboard Apps

Top 10 Google Cardboard Apps

Recently picked up a Google Cardboard VR headset, because curiosity. Google sell them on their website for $15, but I grabbed an unbranded copy for £2.50 on eBay. Technically, due to the simple nature of the device you can make one yourself but I can’t be bothered with that and if my paper-craft skills are anything to go by, the result would look like something Cthulhu crapped out after eating an…

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Just favorited 50 MINUTES OF TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS BY THE BEATLES FOR 50 YEARS by Andrew Liles on Mixcloud

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Street Battles 2: The Can Opener

Street Battles 2: The Can Opener

I’ve had this great idea for a film. Picture this; Gollum, from The Hobbit and that, buys up the remainder of the Keystone cops organisation from some auction or something, probably using money he made selling antiques. He then builds the cops up again using young bullies and the more bitter class of nerds off the street, gives them access to all this ridiculous modern technology and basically…