Hotchpotch 19
Posted on Mon 22 February 2016 in english
Gamedev
- Why Aren't There Science Fiction Games?
- Warren Spector returns to full-time game dev to make System Shock3 or in his own words: "I've re-entered the world of game development. Part-time until June then full time with OtherSide Entertainment. First up, System Shock 3!"
- Shakespeare's Influence on Video Game Violence: Death and Gore in Titus Andronicus.
- No, you shouldn't get your money back for games you finished and loved.
- Intro to Monster Design 6 - Drawing the bear asset.
- The Legend of Zelda turns 30: 5 things it brought to console games.
- The benefits of integrating a writer: Rhianna Pratchett makes the case.
- HTML5 based explosions generator.
- The Comeback: Why Warren Spector is making games again.
BSD
- FreeBSD 10.1 x64 WiFi Captive Portal.
- Managing Jails with iocage.
- Free PDF: A Quarter Century of Unix.
The following news are merely related to BSD (because it's ZFS). I'm so happy to see ZFS get shipped by default on Linux :)
- ZFS filesystem will be built into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by default.
- Canonical's removed the "incompatibility" section from the ZFS page.
- ZFS Licensing and Linux.
Other
- February 14th: Lemmings came out 25 years ago today, watch a 6-hour playthrough. Happy birthday, Lemmings! I still love this game.
- I didn't know this was a thing, but apparently people do "flip throughs" of books to give you an overview of the contend included. I find this really helpful for, let's say, buying a book about cartoon character design.
- What Happened After Swedish Theaters Introduced a Bechdel Rating for Its Movies?.
- Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ.
- Mozilla - Help Us Spread the Word: Encryption Matters.
- Punctuation in novels.
- Kids react to fashion ads.
- Why I remain upset at Canonical's IP policy.
- Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89.
- Italian author Umberto Eco dies aged 84.
- Every Single Doctor Who Story, Ranked from Best to Worst.
- NASM is under the 2-clause BSD license now.
- Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study finds.