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‘Going just 0.5 mm thicker would probably have saved me months of engineering’: Redditor crafts actual credit card sized computer

My happy place is learning about cool things made by cool people with their own two cool hands. A self-powered, actually credit card-sized computer definitely fits that bill. Now, some would describe any number of Raspberry Pi computers as ‘credit card sized.’ I’d personally love to see those folks attempt to slide one of those…

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s original director hadn’t played a single MMO before launching its development studio: ‘How the hell did they trust me with this much money?’

The original director of BioWare’s long-running MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic—which is now being run by Broadsword—had not played a single game in the genre when he started work on it, he has revealed. In an interview, BioWare veteran James Ohlen described the studio’s founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk calling him into their…

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How to get Celestine in Subnautica 2

If you’re in need of Celestine in Subnautica 2, that means you’re finally ready to craft that Tadpole Depth module—say goodbye to imminent hull breaches everytime you try to dive. You can only get Celestine in the biome around the Alien Ruins, meaning you have to complete the Tadpole Pens and cross that vast and…

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Sim City – by Marcus Albers

In 1984, game design found  Bungeling Bay, he was having more fun making the levels than playing the game. This was the seed that eventually bloomed into the granddaddy of simulation games, SimCity. As the game took shape, one of the key aspects Will brought was the absence of a “win-lose” scenario. There were no…

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone would never use AI, instead wants to rely on human creativity—’I feel like that should take priority over a soulless machine’

Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, creator of Stardew Valley, one of the most impactful indie games of the last decade and dev behind the upcoming highly anticipated Haunted Chocolatier, knows a thing or two about being creative. And like many other creatives he’s recently been touting the importance of human-made art and listening to your gut instead…

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How to get Creature Enamel in Subnautica 2

If you’re looking for Creature Enamel in Subnautica 2, it likely means you’ve arrived at the Alien Ruins, having crossed that spooky stretch of ocean between the Tadpole Pens and the Research Base. And yes, if you heard a groaning sound coming from the depths below you but didn’t encounter any trouble, consider yourself lucky….

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