Kelly

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[–] Kelly@programming.dev 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Some sacrifices were made... But the end result is a Godot project that works exactly the same, albeit with slightly worse performance.

The write up has lots of hard numbers for the executable size but only describes the performance impact in general terms.

It would be good to see some before and after performance numbers.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It looks like they were using the name.

At that point it becomes a trademark protection issue.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This is going to vary from case to case.

In a situation where sales are legal and the publisher or platform later choose to remove it from sale then it usually remains available in your library for download.

But in a situation where the publisher never had a legal right to sell the product then they were never legally able to grant distribution rights to the platform? In that case the license offered to the purchaser is invalid and it may be pulled from libraries.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The PlayStation version released in 2021 was PS4 software (that also ran on PS5 in backwards compatibility mode).

This update provides a native PS5 version. So I guess it is "next gen" in comparison.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I bought it because my son has been asking for Skatebird, but we also enjoyed an hour playing Ripped Pants at Work together and I'll give Delver a go later tonight.

Thats the thing with bundles, different titles will appeal to different people.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

obviously there are people who downloaded it multiple times

Its been around and on enough different platforms that most people who use it would have lost count of how many times they have downloaded it.

I currently have it installed on 4 android devices (my phone, my tablet, my sons tablet, google TV dongle), 3 windows devices (personal PC, loungeroom PC, work PC), and 1 Xbox. That's 8 installs in current use but if you factor in a history of device replacement and software updates I would easily account for hundreds of downloads.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My workplace calls it "n-jinx", we know its nonstandard but its still what is understood by the team.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That was fast!

Edit: its great to see the games they highlight with the cover illustrations. They cover a variety of genres and all look like quality games with interesting design choices.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Another chapter in the Cypto Wars.

I used to spoof my address to download (import) the US version of Netscape, are people in the UK going do something similar to bypass the restriction?

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