Question for those who listen to audio books. What are your preferences for readers doing voices for different characters?

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@beemdvp Most game jams are geared toward allowing for teams or solo dev. So that they can have as many people as they get involved. The best way to get involved is to just pick one and plan on doing it. You can find a lot of game jams happening over on itch. Each one has its own theme or tech stack. Take a loot and see if any look interesting.
https://itch.io/jams

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

@britown It is a good game. Just not obvious in where you should be going. Which is part of the charm, but also part of why it is panned. But I enjoyed it a lot.

A long time ago, I made a basic vertical shooter as part of a collection of small games. I am now making an updated version of this shooter as part of my Beginning Game Programming open source project. This was one of the most popular of the three games in the collection.

I am looking forward to updating the code and adding some additional features.

Check out the original
https://manlyboy.divineknightgaming.com/

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@aram Yeah it is a great show. And I can't imagine anyone other than Natasha in the lead role.

I’m old enough to remember when the GOP hounded Bill Clinton out of office for having oral sex with a grown woman

@britown I had the same happen to me recently. Finally finished a small game i started months ago. It is now done and released and I have some good momentum going into my next project.

So, the next part of Beginning Game Programming is going to be a combo of 5 chapters. All of them build on the same game and there are only three new concepts that don't really warrant their own demo/game. So the game I will be working on is a vertical shooter. The concepts in this will be enemy AI, a Demo mode on the title screen, and a high score list/saving. This is convenient since I have made a vertical shooter before.

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Oh man. Meteor Defense is COMPLETE! This is such a great feeling. This completes the 5th game in my current opensource game dev project. There are 2 more games left.

You can read about Meteor Defense here: https://ezknight.net/2025/11/12/meteor-madness-our-next-game/

You can play the game and buy it here: https://heroofdermwood.itch.io/bgp-meteor-defense

Check out the source code here: https://codeberg.org/HeroOfDermwood/BGP_Projects/

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@yurisizov Audacity is probably the best software for sound mixing and editing.

Alright. I am down to code clean up and commenting. Then I will be building the final HTML, Linux, and Windows versions of the game and uploading it. This is feeling really good. I haven't completed a game project in a while and I really needed this for my sanity and health.

Tonight Democrats proved that old quip.

If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like.

We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.

So, I have not been keeping up with my game dev the last couple of weeks. But I am almost done with my Meteor Defense game. This is an older screenshot, but not one I have posted here. I will have more coming this week. I just have a few more things to tackle, but the game is 90% complete.

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@ireneista No company should own its own secondhand market. That is really frustrating.

And my medical insurance has ended and I can't afford to see my therapist. My depression meds are running out. I lost a car. Everything is just collapsing around me.

I am having so much mental paralysis right now. I am struggling with my unemployment and don't know what I should be focusing on. I have been applying for job after job, but have not gotten any interviews. I have applied to just some local businesses but no luck there. I need something to make money to support my family, but nothing is happening. I have been working on my game dev, but that can't make money right now. I am so lost.

Hey, if you want a sneak peak at the vertical slice for Meteor Defense, you can do so at Ko-Fi, for paying supporters only right now.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Meteor-Defense-Vertical-Slice-L4L81NK5X7

The game is coming along really well and there will be more updates to come.

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At this very early stage of development, Meteor Defense is a fully functional game. This is exciting. It needs plenty that listed above to make it a polished game, but I am happy with my progress today. It feels really good. I will probably wait until this weekend to show off screenshots as the game should be near completion then.

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This week has been rough so far. I don't feel like getting into details right now.

However, today has been good. I have been able to work on my Meteor Defense game. I have the meteors spawning in. I have interactions between the meteors, missiles and cities functioning as they should.

Next step is to add some explosions, destroyed city sprites, and then scoring. Once that is done, a splash screen and a game over screen.

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