You can read more on our website or watch how it's meant to be played in this video. My game, Entromancy: Hacker Battles, is a competitive cyberpunk card game with TCG-light mechanics. You can also skip to the bottom for the TL DR. So depending on your requirements, the below information might be of differing value to you.Īdditionally, this experience is based on development for a 2D card game, so I won't be discussing 3D engines, physics, etc. I'm also not comparing pricing, back end functionality, or platform deployment. I'm hoping the below info will be helpful for anyone else who is shopping around for an engine or framework.īunch of caveats: I'm not attempting to sell one engine or framework over the others, and I'm also not suggesting that one or any of these frameworks will work for your game better than another. I have some background in JavaScript and C#, and I set out as many do: by spending an inordinate amount of time in "what framework should I use" threads and reading documentation without actually making anything.įlash forward many months, and I've now spent more time working in (and wrestling with) React, Unity, Godot, Construct 3, Game Maker Studio 2, and Phaser 3, in an attempt to understand what makes them tick.Īdmittedly, I think I've spent way more time in each of them than necessary to make my little game, and I probably could have just stuck with the first one and blundered my way through the prototype. In designing a new card game, I decided to build a digital prototype to help me run simulations and easily share a proof of concept with collaborators.
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So the prices are good, but not quite doorbusters. TechRabbit seems a few dollars cheaper than Amazon for most of the accessories. Amazon has the Overdrive starter kit for $47 (compared to $37.49 at TechRabbit) but manages to match TechRabbit's price on the Fast & Furious Start Kit. Anki, maker of both the Overdrive tracks and those adorable little mini-robots like Cosmo and Vector, shut down in May of 2019, so there will be no new editions or software updates coming for Overdrive products.Īnd while these prices are good, Amazon's Overdrive inventory is priced competitively. Keep in mind that this is something of a clearance sale. (In the Overdrive universe, Supertrucks have special abilities when racing.) Here's a list of all the Overdrive deals at TechRabbit right now. There's also a Fast & Furious Edition Starter kit for $45, and any number of other goodies, like a Overdrive Supertruck X-52 Ice for $20, down from $61. Hopefully Anki will make some major changes to both the pricing and the gameplay experience for a future follow-up.That's just one a slew of Overdrive kits, track add-ons, and other accessories from eBay vendor TechRabbit. It will appeal to automative enthusiasts who love technology and have extra cash to throw around, but Anki Drive Starter Kit isn’t a wise purchase for most people. As a consumer product, though, its shine quickly wears off, and because it costs so much, we can’t recommend it it earns a flat C rating. Anki Drive is the first display of interesting technology from a company that likely has more up its sleeves. For $200, a toy needs enough staying power to avoid being buried in the back of a closet after a few hours of play. While the upgrades are a neat touch, they don’t ultimately change what you’re doing. There’s only so many times the same game can be played before it gets boring, particularly when what you’re controlling is as limited as this. Unfortunately, the set quickly grew less impressive, and we were frustrated by the extremely limited play options and overall lack of variety. We found the technology behind Anki Drive to be cool, and there’s definitely some initial “wow” factor. Anki Drive will try to correct for this, and when it can’t will have you place the car back on the track. Occasionally, one of the vehicles may spin off course, or off the mat entirely. The cleaning pad that’s included is sticky, and collects dust, pet hair, and other particulates that may build up on the cars’ wheels. In our testing, we were impressed by how smoothly the Anki cars drove over the the mat, as long as their tires were clean. As you play, you earn points, which can then be used to permanently upgrade the vehicle with new items and more powerful weapons. To attack another car, it must be within the line of sight of your vehicle, and there’s certainly an element of strategy. Each vehicle starts with a tractor beam and a blaster the former is used to slow down opponents, the latter to deal them damage. You must use your virtual weapons and tools to do damage to the other cars on the track, before they can do the same to you. The battle mode is a lot like a video game. There’s also a practice mode, in which the AI-controlled cars don’t have weapons or items, and a race game is listed as “coming soon.” In this battle mode, you must disable your opponents a set number of times - 5, 10, or 15, depending on which you choose. Sliding up or down on a virtual control will adjust how fast you go, while tilting left will move you into the inside lane, and right, the outside.Ĭurrently, Anki Drive offers only one real game play mode, which can be played against the computer or friends. Instead of full steering, players are able to regulate speed and lane position, as well as using weapons against their opponents. At that point, you get to take over control-partially. Seeing robotic cars driving themselves is really pretty cool. You’ll see the cars instantly begin driving themselves around the track, staying in invisible lanes and following the turns properly. The first time you do so, it’ll walk you through a tutorial, which starts with having you place the cars on the mat, and giving them a push. Once everything is set up, you launch the app to get started. You’ll pay for the entire year upfront and receive 12 credits per year Audible Premium Plus Annual, which works out cheaper overall.Audible Premium Plus with Double Credit, which entitles you to 2 credits per month.Audible Premium Plus, which is the most popular subscription available.Audible Plus which is the cheapest option but comes with no included credits.Here’s a breakdown of the various subscriptions available from Audible in 2022: This subscription also allows you to access Audible’s huge library of podcasts and talks at no extra charge. A credit is effectively a token that allows you to purchase an audiobook. There are quite a few different subscription options for Audible, but the most popular is Audible Premium Plus, which includes one credit per month. Audible will even contact you a few days before your trial is about to expire, so you won’t get stuck paying for something that you won’t use if you forget to cancel. This gives you a chance to see what Audible has to offer, without the commitment of a subscription. To begin your Audible subscription, first, you’ll sign up for a 30-day free trial. And once you’ve downloaded an audiobook to your device, it’s yours to keep forever, even if you’re only on a free trial and it’s passed its expiry date. If you start a new audiobook and decide it’s not for you, you can return or exchange it. The Audible app itself is intuitive and simple to use. These include classics, lesser-known titles, and of course, tons of up to date and brand new releases. There are over 200,000 audiobooks in their expansive library, more than any other service provider. Now owned by Amazon, it’s the big daddy of the audiobook world thanks to its absolutely huge selection of titles. I’ll cover the pros and cons of each, to help you decide the best one for your needs.Īudible is by far the biggest and most well known audiobook service around today. Here are our top picks for the very best audiobook services to use in 2022. So if your goal for this year is to listen to more audiobooks, you’ve come to the right place. Audiobooks are a great solution to this problem they allow you to listen while you do other things, like work out, clean the house, or cook dinner. After all, most of us lead pretty busy lives these days, and we don’t always have the time to sit down and dedicate ourselves to reading as much as we’d like to. These audiobook services are becoming more and more popular, and they’re expected to see a huge boom in 2022. The best audiobook services will let you download books to pretty much any device you choose, meaning you can listen to your favorite titles whenever and wherever you choose. Many of these services come in the form of apps for your tablet or your phone, while others are websites that you can also access from a regular laptop or desktop computer. Some even offer a great selection of fantastic audiobooks for no cost at all. Some of these services require you to pay a monthly or annual subscription fee, whereas others allow you to pay a simple one-time charge for each audiobook you download. Nowadays, there are many fantastic audiobook services out there that allow you to browse and download hundreds of thousands of audiobooks. If you start moving to the high end DSLRS like the 1D and D5, that may improve, but I think that has more to do with the amount spent on the sensor development than the sensor size. I’ve tried to use the metrics from the same manufacturers to avoid issues of people complaining about which ISO standards have been used. That aside, ignoring the issues with manufacturers, let’s go back to some of the major differences between APSC and Full Frame. If they spent as much time taking photographs or studying techniques as they did on forums, the impact on their photography would be greater. It’s the mistaken belief that their gear is hindering them more than their lack of skill. Too many amateurs are tied to chasing the technology behind cameras rather than taking photos. Yes, you can use the full frame glass on APSC, an argument we hear time and time again, but the cost of using full frame glass on an APSC camera means that you are paying for something you don’t fully benefit from. As a general rule, all the APSC glass is cheaper non-professional glass and all the more expensive glass is full frame. This approach is reflected in their glass and their bodies. It might have been valid at some point, but they’ve done a good enough job to keep the propaganda where it is today. Thanks to them, we’ve grown up our entire (digital) lives believing that good photographers “need” full frame cameras and only amateurs use APSC. I blame the current need to move to full frame on the propaganda machine from big DSLR manufacturers. Obviously no one is arguing that every user should go out and buy a $200 kit lens, but the reality is not every photographer “needs” $7000 sharpness of a top of the range Zeiss to create really great photos. Very few photos are blown up to a size where IQ becomes relevant. These anally retentive IQ hunters spend hours examining their images at 100% and making sure they have the sharpest possible camera and lens combinations, without realising that there is a limit to what you need to create a good photo. APSC image quality is well beyond the image quality of previously generation full frame cameras and professionals then weren’t constrained, but somehow every amateur photographer feels they are constrained by the image quality of APSC. They are extremely talented, but I also believe that if these talented photographers have reached this point without being constrained by APSC, there are very few people these days who can claim they are actually “constrained” by APSC. I don’t believe what these good APSC photographers are doing is magical. They are far better than me, better than most full frame users, and better than 95% of the users on forums who feel that APSC is such a hindrance that they could not survive in a world of only APSC. Let’s be clear, there are many good photographers who are not constrained by APSC. You may need want a luxury car so your family is comfortable and safe, but you don’t “need” a Bentley SUV when a BMW X5 or even a Range Rover will give you the same outcome at considerably less. You “need” a car to get to work if there is no public transport. Now, in their defence they might feel they “need” all of that, but I believe in most cases, that need is based on a false perception created by the primary DSLR vendors, namely Canikon. Someone comments that many mirrorless systems offer professional outcomes with APSC and then vast majority of full frame users spend the next 500,000 posts coming up with every conceivable reason why they and every other photographer on the planet needs full frame and why none of them could ever live without full frame. Eventually the argument of camera size will come up, whereupon the DSLR fans state that mirrorless isn’t that small because glass is the same size if they both full frame.Ĥ. Both sides goes through various arguments that I won’t bother going through because they are largely pointless and repetitive.ģ. The mirrorless vs DSLR debate starts on a random forum in a galaxy far far awayĢ. I’ve seen more than a fair share of topics shut down on forums as a result. A lot of the discussions between APSC and Full Frame tend to stem from a mirrorless vs DSLR debate where the story goes a little like this:ġ. The whole APSC vs Full Frame debate can get fairly heated. It's the capital city of the country and most of the Hylian population resides here. There are four main gates that point towards various locations of Termina. The North Gate aims toward Snowhead and the Goron Shrine, the South Gate leads to Romani Ranch and Woodfall, the West Gate heads towards Great Bay and Zora Hall, and the East Gate beholds the haunted Ikana Valley. Snowhead was named well for it's snow covered mountains. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D is a remastered and enhanced version of the Nintendo classic that is unlike any other Legend of Zelda adventure.Upon first arrival, snow covers the high peaks to the bottom of the valley. The person will make a tree grow, then will disappear. Back in the Ikana Valley area, walk over to the person sitting on the cliff while wearing Garo’s mask. Win the race against the Gorman Brothers to get Garo’s Mask. Where do you get Garo’s mask in Ikana Valley? In Majora’s Mask 3D for the Nintendo 3DS, the Stone Mask can instead be found in the Pirate Fortress. Use the Lens of Truth to see an invisible soldier in the stone circle. If you don’t have the Stone Mask already, look to the right of the cliff to see a circle of stones. Where do you get the Stone Mask in majora’s mask? To get into the canyon, you must first have Epona (which you should by now), the Garo’s Mask, and the Hook Shot. Your final task in the game before facing off against Majora’s Mask will be to travel east of Clock Town to Ikana Canyon and solve the mystery of the Stone Tower. How to get to Ikana Canyon in majora’s mask? It personifies the moon in a way that a normal moon would not have. The face on the moon adds a sense of urgency to the quest. Whenever you look in the sky it is staring down at you while it gets closer and closer to Termina as the days pass by. It is one of the central focuses of the game. Shoot it with a Light Arrow to make a chest appear. Stray Fairy #14.1 At the edge of the northern platform is a Sun Face. This will allow you to get a Stray Fairy later. Look at the same platform (north) and shoot the upside-down Sun Face with a Light Arrow to create an upside-down chest. What does the stone tower fairy give you? You can accept to help her chase the creatures now or later. After the training, she teaches you Epona’s Song and will be added to your notebook. If you can shoot down at least 6 balloons in less than two minutes she will let you keep Epona. Do you keep Epona in Majora’s Mask?Īgree to help her, so she lets you have your horse. If you agree, pass her test and shoot all the balloons. Talk to the girl Romani and she will ask that you help ward off ghost-like aliens coming that night. With the ability to use Powder Kegs, go back to the first day and blow up the giant boulder blocking the road to Romani Ranch. In order to dispose of them permanently, Link must find a way to make the house’s music box play. When Link first enters the area, the house is being patrolled by several Gibdos. The Gibdo Mask is obtained inside the Music Box House at the top of Ikana Canyon. If Link wins, they will award him with the Garo’s Mask. To obtain it, he must go to the Gorman Track once he has Epona, and ask to race against them for 10 Rupees. The Mask is given to Link by the Gorman Brothers. When he falls down on the ground, Link must shine the light on him using his Mirror Shield to defeat him. Igos du Ikana can also breathe purple flames as a mid-range attack. If the flying head attaches to Link, it will latch on to his face, taking Hearts away. When you play it, the pain will stop and the river will be restored. The way to get past this part is to simply pull out your Ocarina and play the Song of Storms (taught to you in the Ikana Graveyard side-quest). How do you get across the river in Ikana Canyon? After he’s done rambling, order him to open the grave and hop on in. Run over to the three that are circling the tombstone and speak with one of them while wearing the Captain’s Hat. Stalchildren (dead soldiers of Ikana) roam the Graveyard at night and guard the graves. By doing so, the man will make a tree appear beside him, allowing Link to Hookshot up to it and continue on his way. To get to Ikana Canyon, Link must show the Garo’s Mask or the Gibdo Mask to the Poe Collector. What mask do you need to get into Ikana Canyon? Powder Keg (Used shortly after completing the well.Blue Potion (completely unnecessary and just leads to rupees).5 Magic Beans (or 1 Magic Bean in the 3DS version).You’ll need several bottles as well as the following items: To purchase the software for Windows go here. To download a trial version for Windows go here. Its effortless to use and can batch convert entire collections without any user input which makes the task of getting all your music ready that little bit easier. NoteBurner does the same as MegaSeg in that it controls iTunes to circumvent the DRM restrictions, converting the output from iTunes to a save-able file format such as MP3. Now technically this isn’t DJ software but it is a method of using Apple Music with your existing DJ software so worth a mention. The other track will need to be from your standard music library outside of iTunes.Īpple are hot on DRM so whether this solution will work forever remains to be seen but for now MegaSeg does a pretty decent job of giving you full access to every Apple Music track you’ve downloaded. You also can’t play 2 apple music tracks and transition between them, because only one deck can control the one track playing through your iTunes software. you’d need to prepare your DJ sets well in advance, downloading all the tracks you wanted to your laptop via iTunes and then selecting them within MegaSeg to play them. The caveat here is that MegaSeg can only play downloaded Apple Music. Its true to say that MegaSeg does a much better job of playing imported music that isn’t part of Apple Music, where it can create loops, pitch bend and key lock. Rather than importing tracks from Apple Music the software can control the iTunes app on your Apple Mac, with play, pause, cue and a few other features enabled. Thanks to this they’ve found a clever workaround of Apple’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) which does work, kind of. MegaSeg is a DJ-ing product from Fidelity Media which takes a different approach to DJ software than its competitors. There’s a whole host of different options out there, but we’re going to focus on two main approaches and the software that you need to make DJing with Apple Music possible. If you want to know what DJ apps work with Apple Music, you’ve certainly come to the right place. How well can you run Grand Theft Auto V on a RTX 2070S (Super) 720p, 1080p or 1440p on low, medium, high or max settings This data is noisy because framerates depend on several factors but the averages can be used as a reasonable guide. To see if your computer can run the game, check out GTA V’s minimum and recommended PC specs, then take a look at the fastest cars in GTA Online. Grand Theft Auto V on a RTX 2070S (Super) 1. Don't warn me again for Grand Theft Auto V. may contain Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Violence, or Gore. For everyone else, the settings listed above should help boost your FPS, and make your time in Los Santos smoother. Gta v 1440p Bad anti aliasing :: Grand Theft Auto V General Discussions. Yes, the game Grand Theft Auto V is developed to be compatible with PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series. Of course, if you’re running very old hardware, there might not be any GTA V settings that can help your FPS. High Detail Streaming While Flying: Off.Refresh Rate: Select highest number than matches your monitor’s refresh rate Low versus ultra GeForce RTX 3070 graphics setting FPS comparison for Grand Theft Auto V on 1080p, 1440p & 4K resolutions.The backbone of a pc build is the motherboard. Resolution: 1920×1080 for high end graphics cards, 1600×900 for best FPS. Selecting The Right Grand Theft Auto V 1440p Motherboard and CPU. Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) RX 6800 XT Ryzen 7 5800X 4K 1440p 1080p Ultra & Low Settings.You can view our best graphics settings below. Turning MSAA anti-aliasing down is also very useful, with big performances improvements between 8x, 4x, and 2x. You may not even notice the grass while you’re driving around Los Santos, but knocking the quality down from Ultra to Normal can add 12 extra frames per second. Grand Theft Auto V latest version: Open-world action/adventure game. Read More: 10 Best Drift Cars in GTA Online Grand Theft Auto V, free and safe download.If you’re struggling for FPS in GTA V, there are some surprising settings you can change that could have a big impact on your performance. World War II and other historically based games remain in the store. “Enemies” within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, real government, corporation, or any other real entity. Realistic portrayals of people or animals being killed, maimed, tortured, or abused, or content that encourages violence. With a strong emphasis placed on learning, rather than gameplay, further paired with the fact the app has been available for well over a year, it comes as a surprise that Apple chose to pull the plug here rather than giving Slitherine an outright rejection from the get-go. Slitherine, a small UK based game developer, specializes in accurate war simulation games. Previously: The Mojave Marzipan Apps, Is There Hope for the Mac App Store?.Įlectron Finder Keyboard Shortcuts Mac Mac App macOS 10.14 MojaveĪpple Removes Afghanistan ’11 From the App StoreĪpple has removed game developer Slitherine’s Afghanistan ’11 from the iOS App Store for using a “specific person or real entity” as the enemy of the game, even though it is touted as being entirely historically accurate in depicting the US war in Afghanistan. That’s a tragedy.ĭon’t miss his rant about Finder keyboard shortcuts in Mojave. Software no longer needs to be Mac-like to succeed on the Mac today. What the Mac market flatly rejected as un-Mac-like in 1996 was better than what the Mac market tolerates, seemingly happily, today. Google Docs on Chrome is an un-Mac-like word processor running inside an ever-more-un-Mac-like web browser. One could also argue that the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac was the iPhone.Īs un-Mac-like as Word 6 was, it was far more Mac-like then than Google Docs running inside a Chrome tab is today. A lot of newer Mac users either don’t know or don’t care about what makes for a good Mac app. The problem is, the users who really care about good native apps - users who know HIG violations when they see them, who care about performance, who care about Mac apps being right - were mostly already on the Mac. The more Mac users there are, the more Mac apps we should see. In theory, that should have been nothing but good news for the platform - more users means more attention from developers. In some ways, the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac is that it got so much more popular a decade ago. In a 2021 letter, Strand states that CEP provides the scholarships through a “community benefit agreement” with Covanta amounting to as much as $80,000/year (eight scholarships awarded each year to Chester High School students, providing each with $2,500/year for four years). $10,000 for Chester Environmental PartnershipĬovanta’s letter proposed that Strand would be part of the process to identify who would get the scholarships and the funding to church and other groups.$5,000 toward church youth groups, and/or town landscaping projects, depending on the need for funds in these particular areas.$5,000 toward the Chester Little League.$10,000 for college level scholarships (for multiple students). Each page is initialed by Strand (HWS) and the Covanta rep, Gene Bonner (EVB). In 2006, Strand signed an agreement with Covanta for the trash incinerator company to pay $30,000 a year. Attendees are typically corporate polluters and governmental representatives with average Chester residents not invited or present. Meetings would normally be held at Strand’s Faith Temple church at 10am on Wednesdays if not hosted at the offices of one of the larger polluters in the city. Their first meeting was run by PA Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. In 2005, Strand formed the Chester Environmental Partnership. The money wasn’t fully paid back until 2000. CRCQL had to put a lien on Strand’s property to require Strand to pay the money back.Īfter meeting about it, we came to an agreement that Strand would pay the money back in installments by December 1996. Strand claimed (with no documentation) that the money had been spent to enhance property he owns adjacent to his church, claiming that 2500 West Second Street is the “Proposed site of New Office of Chester Residents.” CRCQL never discussed or agreed to use Strand’s property as the group’s office. CRCQL’s treasurer did not know about it.Īfter confronting Strand, he tendered his letter of resignation to the group, as well as an itemized financial breakdown of expenses. CRCQL only learned of this when Zulene Mayfield was speaking in Swarthmore and a couple mentioned their contribution. Strand did not inform the group and was not the group’s treasurer. CRCQL had a fully functioning board with bylaws on how the group is to make decisions. In 1994, a $5,500 donation to CRCQL was handed to Horace Strand. In 2005, Strand formed the Chester Environmental Partnership, funded by the city’s largest air polluter and #1 environmental criminal: the Covanta Delaware Valley trash incinerator, and has been Covanta’s advocate ever since. However, Strand resigned from CRCQL on after being caught trying to embezzle a $5,500 donation to the group. Strand touts his early involvement as a leader in the Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL), the grassroots environmental justice organization founded in 1991 in the City of Chester. Horace Strand, a reverend of Chester’s Faith Temple Holy Church, positions himself as an environmental justice leader in the City of Chester, Pennsylvania, but has been a pawn of the city’s biggest air polluter for years. Wright led CEP from behind the scenes while serving as Environmental Advocate for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Southeast Regional Office, and now serves as CEP’s Executive Director. With that, see Hadid's outfit for yourself, and shop pieces from her Frankies Bikinis collection (all of which would look cool with low-rise pants).Horace Strand sitting next to Alice Wright, the brains behind Strand’s Chester Environmental Partnership. And it gives you an excuse to wear your favorite swimsuits for more than just a beach or pool day. The great thing about this outfit is that it still shows a bit of skin (at the hip bones), but it's a lot less scary than wearing a crop top, if you ask me. (Although, the outfit would look great with any jacket or blazer or without a third piece at all.) She paired a one-piece with low-rise pants, heels, and a shrug-style shirt. (But if it's a look you like to wear, I fully support.) My point in saying all of this is that Gigi Hadid just provided an alternative-but equally cool-outfit idea for wearing low-rise pants or jeans.Įarlier this week, Hadid was out in New York to celebrate her collaboration with Frankies Bikinis, and she found a very creative way to wear one of the swimsuits from the collection. Not sure if you've noticed, but lots of the recent celebrity low-rise pants and jeans outfits also include a crop top. I don't know about you, but there aren't many occasions in which I'd feel comfortable wearing low-rise pants with a crop top, as it's a lot of skin on display. |