Author: Jack Slater

  • Selaco Shows off Combat in Trailer

    Selaco looks like a fun new sci-fi FPS and it is using the free-software GZDoom engine which is a very cool thing to see as a proponent of free software game engines. Check out the first trailer of the game’s combat above. Hopefully the developers of this retro FPS don’t milkshake duck themselves like Ion…

  • The Secret Life of Components: LEDs

    The Secret Life of Components: LEDs

    The second in Tim Hunkin’s eight-episode series for makers, The Secret Life of Components, is up. This episode focuses on LEDs. A subject I finally know a tiny bit about because some mechanical keyboards can use them, but there is a lot more to learn from Hunkin about LEDs and he goes through a short…

  • TMNT Shredder’s Revenge Coming to Windows & Consoles

    TMNT Shredder’s Revenge Coming to Windows & Consoles

    There’s a new 2D Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in the style of the old side-scrolling beatemups from Dotemu and Tribute Games. TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge doesn’t have a release date yet, but there is a page up on Steam for it on Windows, and it will also come to “consoles”.

  • “THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”

    This past week has apparently been a watershed moment for “cryptoart”, and the past few months have helped grow cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens. Everest Pipkin: The current ecological cost of cryptoart and cryptocurrency is very real and very large, and while steps can be taken to reign in some of that energy cost, the crypto-…

  • The Secret Life of Components: Chain

    The first episode of Tim Hunkin’s The Secret Life of Components, which as you may have determined I am very happy to watch, is now available on Tim Hunkin’s YouTube channel. This first episode covers everything you need to know about working with chain to make things. The show’s creator and star, has this to…