Introduction I’ve previously written about the state of game development on Linux. While Unity, Unreal, Gamemaker, Godot, and a slew of other tools exist for Linux, it’s pretty rare to see someone…
Install Diablo 1 from CD on Xubuntu
If you have an original copy of Diablo 1 on CD, here’s a video describing how to install it in Xubuntu.
Knights of Pen & Paper II
A dice game with a sense of humour If games like Torchlight II, Diablo III, and Grim Dawn are your thing, Knights of Pen & Paper II will seem like a snooze-fest…
Fasteroids – August Update – Bugfixes
Silence? Back on July 7th I wrote about Fasteroids, the game I developed a few years ago. In that post I mentioned that I had some significant changes in mind for a…
Initial Gamemaker experience under Xubuntu Linux
Previous Gamemaker experience I bought version 1.4 of the Gamemaker game engine on a Humble Bundle many years ago. At the time Gamemaker ONLY ran under Microsoft Windows. It was possible to…
First experience trying to learn Unity on Xubuntu Linux
The king of game engines Unity is considered the big kahuna of game engines. It is often cited as the best engine to learn if your end goal is to work in…
Fasteroids – An Asteroids-like game for Linux and Windows
Today I realized that, since redoing this web site, I still haven’t added any information about the game I made back in 2017-2020. Recently I revived Fasteroids, and made some changes to…
Findmonitor BASH script – identify and price monitors with one script
Note: This script is NOT compatible with systems running Wayland. We use Xubuntu Linux at our project. The idea for this BASH shell script was born out of the need to process…
Anyone can learn Linux (it’s like using a pencil)
Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to work with people at all computer skill levels. Regardless of what others say, my experience is that people at any skill level can learn…
Xubuntu Linux – Interface Basics
Anyone can learn Linux I’ve been blessed/cursed to have used Linux in one form or another since 1997, starting with the Slackware ’96 Linux distribution. I’m doubly lucky in that I’ve been…