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Written by Ben on 2024-12-08 at 13:13

Hi, everyone! :ablobcatwave:

So a lot has happened in my personal life over the past month and a bit, and so I wanted to share an update with you all, and how it will affect the future of Tabletop Club:

https://tabletopclub.net/2024/11/24/announcement-project-update/

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Written by Ben on 2024-11-06 at 08:36

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Am I glad I live in Europe rn :blobcateyes:

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Written by Ben on 2024-10-18 at 12:21

OK, so it looks like #Twitter is exploding (again), and a lot of the people I used to follow are going over to #BlueSky - for those that use it, is it worth making a new account over there? :blobcatthink:

I love Mastodon to bits, so I'm very hesitant to make another social media profile. Will it be possible to follow Bluesky accounts from here in the future, does anyone know? :blobcatopenmouth:

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Written by Ben on 2024-10-12 at 16:56

Day 1 of #GodotCon is done! The talks were super interesting, and it was really cool seeing what everyone's been up to with this wonderful engine :blobcatheart: I can't wait to get back to working on Tabletop Club and make some serious progress with the re-write :ablobcatbongo:

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Written by Ben on 2024-10-08 at 20:16

How's it going, Fediverse? :blobcatcool: GodotCon is only a few days away now, so before I go, I wanted to update y'all on what I've been working on with regards to the re-write of Tabletop Club, and the progress I've made towards v0.2.0:

https://tabletopclub.net/2024/10/08/devlog-4-waiting-for-godotcon/

[#]GodotEngine #GodotCon #GameDev #DevLog

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Written by Ben on 2024-09-30 at 15:54

Okay, so I don't go on social media nearly as much as I used to (I haven't looked at my Twitter feed for about a month now...), so I'm a little confused as to why the #GodotEngine social media account is imploding at the minute :blobcateyes:

Can anyone please bring me up to speed as to what happened/is happening? :blobcatgoogly:

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Written by Ben on 2024-09-04 at 18:04

Now that I've rewritten the lobby server for Tabletop Club and moved it to a dedicated server, this little guy can finally rest.

This is a #RaspberryPi Model B, as in version one :blobcatbolb: I actually got this as a gift back in school for being a cool-ass programmer, and it's done a lot for me, from helping me learn about sysadmin, to hosting the lobby server for my game.

If you have played multiplayer Tabletop Club before v0.1.3, it was this dude that your client was talking to :blobcat:

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Written by Ben on 2024-09-04 at 16:27

Why hello there! Did you know there's a new update out for Tabletop Club? Me neither! :blobcatberlineraww: ... someone should have let me know at the very least :blobcatgoogly:

It's a small one, but it has a brand new lobby server re-written from scratch in Rust, a quality-of-life change to how dice faces are given values, and it also includes Brazilian Portuguese as a playable language! 🇧🇷

📰 Download + Notes: https://tabletopclub.net/2024/09/04/release-v0.1.3/

[#]OpenSource #BoardGames #Simulator #GodotEngine

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-25 at 14:51

The internet in general has a lot of pros and cons, but one thing I will be eternally grateful for is how much easier it makes finding resources for language learning.

The YouTube channel Easy German is amazing for this. There's so many videos over a range of topics, with interviews with the public, as well as slower-speech videos. Plus I can't get enough of Cari and Janusz :blobcatcomfreading:

Genuinely considering subbing to their Patreon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrHYPzK4jRU

[#]German #Deutsch #Language

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-22 at 19:34

I've slowly been getting back into German recently to prepare for my trip to Berlin for #GodotCon! One of the things that I discovered that really helped me with Norwegian was that I learn a lot from listening to music in the target language. With that in mind...

🇬🇧 Germans, I need your help! Which songs do you recommend that are sung in German?

🇩🇪 Deutsche, ich brauche Ihre Hilfe! Welche Lieder empfehlen Sie, die auf Deutsch gesungen werden?

[#]Deutsch #LerneDeutsch #Songs

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-20 at 10:07

Writing unit tests can be extremely dull at times, but man... seeing all those green OKs is incredibly satisfying :blobcathappy:

It's actual evidence that I'm at least a somewhat competent programmer... until someone comes along and tries something that I haven't thought of yet :blobcatdunno:

[#]RustLang #GameDev #Server

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-15 at 22:03

Congratulations to the #GodotEngine on it's 4.3 release, and with it, one of my favourite fixes to any bit of software, ever! :ablobcatbongo:

Loading resources across multiple threads has been causing infrequent, random crashes for me ever since Tabletop Club was in alpha, so I'm REALLY happy this has been fixed! :ablobcatrainbow:

How is the stability for those that are using it? Is it worth me converting my project to 4.x at this point? :blobcatopenmouth:

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-12 at 17:18

Although I'm back on Mint now, I liked how on Vanilla OS you could easily make containers for the most popular distros and install apps that way if you couldn't install them with Flatpaks.

Maybe I might start using something like distrobox on Mint? That way, I could organise all of my project's build environments separately and stop cluttering up the main system? :blobcatThink:

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-12 at 17:11

I am so predictable :blobcatgoogly: Tried a fresh install of #LinuxMint again, and lo and behold, the issues I was having were gone :blobcatglowsticks:

Think it was probably because I upgraded from 21.3, maybe something along the way didn't update properly, or something?

I did also consider trying #NixOS again, but after looking at the documentation for about five seconds, I immediately got overwhelmed again :blobcatdizzy:

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-11 at 19:27

Been having a few issues with Linux Mint lately, so I decided to give #VanillaOS a go today! I love their idea of an immutable distro, but I came across a very fundamental issue for myself...

ckb-next, the software I use to control my keyboard and mouse, needs write access to USB device files in /dev, which it doesn't have because the file system is immutable :blobcatfacepalm:

Welp, pretty sure I can't use any immutable distro, like at all? Time to go distro hopping again! :blobcatMelt2:

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-10 at 17:46

How's it going, Fediverse? :blobcataww: Sincere apologies for not being that active on here at all, I promise that will change in the future!

While I was gone, I ended up making both a website and a community forum for my game, Tabletop Club, both of which are now live! :blobcatcheer:

Read more:

https://tabletopclub.net/2024/08/10/website-and-forum-live/

[#]OpenSource #WebDev #Forum #Community

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Written by Ben on 2024-08-06 at 20:06

Web admins of the world, I need your help!

I'm in the process of setting up a forum for my game, but it needs transactional email to work for things like user registration and what not.

But searching for email providers online is doing my head in :blobcatangery:

What transactional email providers do you guys recommend that is suitable for a small number of sends, and is cheap-ish and reliable?

I don't plan to do marketing emails at all, and privacy is a big plus.

[#]WebDev #Email #Help

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Written by Ben on 2024-04-29 at 18:42

Hey y'all! Today is a special day for me personally, as one year ago today I released my first ever video game into the wild :blobcatopenmouth:

The free and open-source board game simulator, Tabletop Club, is one year old today! :blobcatberlineraww:

Thank you to everyone that's taken an interest in the project, and hopefully as this devlog I've written shows, I'm not stopping anytime soon! :ablobcatbongo:

https://drwhut.itch.io/tabletop-club/devlog/722959/devlog-3-happy-birthday

[#]OpenSource #GodotEngine #Tabletop #BoardGames

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Written by Ben on 2024-04-03 at 19:13

Hey everyone, I just wanted to apologise for not being so active on here as of late.

The last few weeks have been pretty rough mentally - I think I burnt out by pushing myself too hard trying to update the game to the point where I could write a devlog.

And since my brain reaaallly likes going into depressive spirals, it lead to the "oh no I'm not doing enough" > "am I letting people down?" > "am I just a failure?" path.

I'll bounce back eventually. Again, apologies for the radio silence.

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Written by Ben on 2024-03-28 at 22:36

Hey @flathub! Is there any way for me to verify my app aside from hosting a static page? My app has the ID io.itch.drwhut.TabletopClub, but I can't add a static web page to drwhut.itch.io.

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