Hey! I've been working on a little multiplayer space game called Scrapix, and it's finally playable -> https://scrapix.fun/

It runs right in the browser, so there's nothing to install and no sign-up.

20 ships start out as the same tiny junk boat. You blast asteroids, shoot pieces off other players, grab their parts, and bolt them onto your own ship in the middle of the fight. By the end, people are flying some pretty weird creations. Last one alive wins.

It's still early, and I'd really like to know what you think. What was fun, what was annoying, and whether anything broke? Every comment helps.

Hi, I wanted to share with you a small thing I coded today - Discord bot to moderate messages on a selected channel by using power of an open-source Shieldstral model by EU-based Mistral AI.

I prepared and tested a few filters: anti-EU speech, MAGA propaganda, LGBTQ+/women/migrants hate talk - the model handles that stuff well + doing it super fast on my 5950x CPU.

Repo -> https://github.com/ArtemkaKun/miderator

Hi,

From my experience, gamification can encourage users to take action, such as buying things or doing tasks for free. It feels much more rewarding when you receive a "prize" for your actions, even if that prize is not material.

I was thinking - what if there was a game where players could buy items for real money, and that money went directly to open-source projects? Or maybe players could provide proof of their support for an open-source project and receive rewards for it. Alternatively, for every merged pull request into an open-source project, a player could receive a unique in-game item that cannot be obtained otherwise.

I imagine an MMORPG where you can flex your gear or character to other players, multiplying the satisfaction, while simultaneously doing a genuinely good thing by supporting open source.

What do you think? Is it a stupid idea or not?

Every time I use Steam's discovery queue or any "what to play next" site, I get bombarded with stuff from the last 6 months. I get it - that's what generates clicks and sales - but it's genuinely unhelpful for how most of us here actually want to play.

I've been quietly working on a tool to change that. The core idea - your taste doesn't have an expiration date, so recommendations shouldn't either. Something from 2011 that fits exactly what you're looking for should surface just as easily as a 2024 release.

It's early and rough around the edges, but I'm at the point where I want to validate whether this is even a problem worth solving for other people or just a me.

If a recommendation algorithm for games like this existed - smarter discovery that actually respects older games - would you use it?

What features would make it genuinely useful vs just another thing you try once and forget about? I want it to be the tool someone actually recommends to a friend, not just upvotes and forgets.

Hi,

I'm looking for multiplayer games with good competitive PvP or MMORPG game to play. I want the game to be modern in a sense that it works well on modern computers without shenanigans.

What characteristics am I looking for:

• competitive fair PvP aspect (not PvE games with poorly implemented P2W PvP).
• easy to learn hard to master.
• community aspect preferable (so you can communicate with others, team play, etc.).
• works under Linux.
• works on a PC.

Games I tried and didn't like (I mean maybe I liked some parts of it, but didn't like overall):

• CS GO
• DOTA 2
• War Thunder
• WOT
• ARC Raiders
• LOL

Games I tried and liked overall:

• Beyond All Reason
• PUBG (but doesn't work on Linux 😞)
• Old COD: Warzone
• Overwatch 1
• Dragon Nest
• Robocraft (R.I.P)

I'm ready to pay for a game, I would actually be happy to pay a monthly subscription for a game if this will guard me from the P2W trash.

Thanks for your time!

Hi,

do you know any platforms that can help me donate to different open source projects regardless of what donation "channels" they are using? Some kind of aggregator where I load my money, choose projects I want to support, and this platform handles everything else - for example, I don't need to care that one project uses OpenCollective and another project accepts only "manual" donations in crypto, that aggregation donation platform would handle everything by itself.

If you don't know such platforms, do you think one should be created to potentially improve the donation flow so more people can donate to different projects more easily?

Cheers

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/61727574

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share some data visualizations I’ve been working on. The images below show how different game genres cluster in the Gamescovery database. The data’s still a work in progress, but the overall patterns look interesting so far.

⚠️ These diagrams might not perfectly represent every genre. Mapping multidimensional data to 2D is tricky, and results can vary depending on the algorithm (I picked the one I think fits the best). There’s also some inconsistency in the genre data itself - so if something looks off on both images, let me know, and I’ll double-check it manually.

Have a nice day :)

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share some data visualizations I’ve been working on. The images below show how different game genres cluster in the Gamescovery database. The data’s still a work in progress, but the overall patterns look interesting so far.

⚠️ These diagrams might not perfectly represent every genre. Mapping multidimensional data to 2D is tricky, and results can vary depending on the algorithm (I picked the one I think fits the best). There’s also some inconsistency in the genre data itself - so if something looks off on both images, let me know, and I’ll double-check it manually.

Have a nice day :)