Dust Racing: high speed, Qt-based, cross-platform, with editor

Four Dust Racing screenshots (not split-screen!), pink player against yellow AI cars

Dust Racing (Dustrac) is a tile-based, cross-platform 2D racing game written in Qt (C++) and OpenGL. Dustrac comes with a Qt-based level editor for easy level creation. A separate engine, MiniCore, is used for physics modeling. CMake is used as the build system.

Planting trees on the road in Dustrac's Qt-based level editor

Graphics are SVG-based (sources included) and and the editor is simple and has a flat learning curve. GPLv3 is named as the license, no special license is named for the graphics, so the same might apply.

Dustrac's controls feel smooth and I love the object physics and the visualization of the trees.

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Cube Train, Frogatto development and LPC

Today is another session of: "Look what I found in my FG spam folder" ;) But this time I am actually adding a lot of nice other stuff to it, so that it is almost a "dev-corner" post!

But first things first... the frogatto developers made us aware that there is a new game based on their really nice 2D engine, called Cube Trains:

Cube Trains Beta gameplay

Note that, just like frogatto, the final version will cost a few pennies, but the engine is totally FOSS and the current Beta is still free to download.

This seems to fit to the general idea of the folks behind this engine as they outlined in the email to us:

I'm really glad we now have a second major title done in frogatto's engine, because we're gradually trying to position frogatto's engine as an open-source alternative to closed-source packages like GameMaker or RPGMaker;  partly just because development tools are one software category that benefits far more than other categories from being open-source, but also because our engine technology is a lot better than GameMaker;  we're fully GPU-accelerated, and we've got a much better internal programming language.  We've got a ways to go, since GameMaker still has a bunch of advantages over us on the gui side, but we're getting there.

Cube Trains is not one of them, but eventually, we're hoping to build a stable of "starter kits" for different game types - like GameMaker has, built under a CC0 license so they're suitable not just for GPL games, but for absolutely anything (indie titles being a big one).  Hopefully that was we can get a bunch of people from the indie gaming crowd behind an open-source tool.

Which seems like a pretty good idea to me, and looking at the awesome features they recently showcased in three tutorials (1,2,3) I wholeheartedly agree with the comment on their superior engine technology!

Speaking of the frogatto engine and tutorials I can elegantly lead to my other topic today, as the people behind the currently pre-warming Liberated Pixels Cup, aka our friends from OpenGameArt, are also endorsing the use of that engine as outlined here. The have also recently featured another really nice 2D game dev. tile editor, and hot of the press is the news that the Mozilla foundation has joined the FSF and Creative Commons as a main sponsor of the event!
With Mozilla also came a significant cash contribution, which means that the initial goal of US$ 10,000 has been reached, but you can still up the ante!

It seems that this comes along a general push from the Mozilla Foundation towards more HTML5 gaming (now part of the LPC too), supported by the fact that they have recently released a nice RPG game demo (BrowserQuest) and are working even on a 3D engine called Gladius.

Ah and not to forget: OGA has also recently added a nice featured tutorial section to their site... so nothing is holding you back to finally become an active part of the FOSS game-development community... yes, I said YOU! :D

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GameLV: Completely Free, Open Source Point And Click Post-Soviet Adventure Game

Post-Soviet Adventure's protagonist cleaning up the inventory

The story of GameLV: Adventure Game in Post Soviet Environment (Post-Soviet Adventure) begins with your dog having gone missing and your only lead being a meat product factory. For about one hour you point-and-click through pre-rendered environments, hunt pixels, read humorous descriptions and dialogues to reach a resolution.

I for one appreciate the humor in AGiPSE's humor, which I might have a high affinity to due to do my roots in Russia and my life taking place in eastern Berlin most of its time.

Be warned though: references to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pornography and violence are common in this game.

Post-Soviet Adventure is available in English and Latvian languages, both text and voice, although the English voices are incomplete.

video: [English Voices] Adventure in Post Soviet Environment (GameLV) by snauts (Arturs Grebstelis)

The engine features savegames and scene animations and uses image masks to set define interactive areas. Text files seem to be used for defining the game.

To use voices, see following note:

So here is GameLV HEAD from our local repo with half way done english speech that has terrible pronunciation and was abandoned. http://piepe.lv/game-lv/assemble.tgz
That "assemble" is the same as "data" directory on https://github.com/snauts/GameLV, just put your binary in there and run.
P.S. My uplink to foreign countries is slow, so it should take a while for you download it. [mediafire mirror]
P.S.S If you want to run latvian version issue (in assemble directory)
sed "s/\-en//" *.lst -i
UI will still be in english because UI strings are compiled into engine.

Both code and art are freely licensed and the very nice music was even written and performed for the game. Some sounds have unknown sources though and finding freely licensed replacements on Freesound and OpenGameArt would be a way to contribute to the project.

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Function Angka Terbilang (Visual Basic)

Angka terbilang adalah salah satu proses perubahan angka menjadi huruf yang sesuai dengan apa yang kita tulis, proses ini memerlukan satu bentuk penulisan fungsi tersendiri dimana pemanggilan fungsi tersebut ketika ada proses pengisian data dalam satu objek yang dituju baru ada konfersi nilai angka rupiah menjadi huruf sesuai dengan objek yang ada, ssaya sedikit berbagai dengan anda bagaimana cara menulis sorce code nya dalam Visual basic, Begini critanya... :-)

Code :

'//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//

Public Function TerbilangBulat(strAngka As String, _

Optional MataUang As String = "rupiah") As String

Dim strJmlHuruf$, intPecahan As Integer

Dim strPecahan$, Urai$, Bil1$, strTot$, Bil2$

Dim x As Integer, Y As Integer, z As Integer

On Error GoTo Pesan

Dim strValid As String, huruf As String * 1

Dim i As Integer

'Periksa setiap karakter yg diketikkan ke kotak UserID

strValid = "1234567890"

For i% = 1 To Len(strAngka)

huruf = Chr(Asc(Mid(strAngka, i%, 1)))

If InStr(strValid, huruf) = 0 Then

Exit Function

End If

Next i%

If strAngka = "" Then Exit Function

If Len(Trim(strAngka)) > 15 Then GoTo Pesan

strJmlHuruf = LTrim(strAngka)

'intPecahan = Val(Right(Mid(strAngka, 15, 2), 2))

If (intPecahan = 0) Then

strPecahan = ""

Else

'strPecahan = LTrim(Str(intPecahan)) + "/100 "

strPecahan = ""

End If

x = 0

Y = 0

Urai = ""

While (x < x =" x" strtot =" Mid(strJmlHuruf," y =" Y" z =" Len(strJmlHuruf)" z =" 1" z =" 7" z =" 10" z =" 13)" bil1 = "Satu " z =" 4)" x =" 1)" bil1 = "se" bil1 = "satu " z =" 2" z =" 5" z =" 8" z =" 11" z =" 14)" x =" x" strtot =" Mid(strJmlHuruf," z =" Len(strJmlHuruf)" bil2 = "" bil1 = "sepuluh " bil1 = "sebelas " bil1 = "dua belas " bil1 = "tiga belas " bil1 = "empat belas " bil1 = "lima belas " bil1 = "enam belas " bil1 = "tujuh belas " bil1 = "delapan belas " bil1 = "sembilan belas " bil1 = "se" bil1 = "dua " bil1 = "tiga " bil1 = "empat " bil1 = "lima " bil1 = "enam " bil1 = "tujuh " bil1 = "delapan " bil1 = "sembilan " bil1 = ""> 0) Then

If (z = 2 Or z = 5 Or z = 8 Or z = 11 Or z = 14) Then

Bil2 = "puluh "

ElseIf (z = 3 Or z = 6 Or z = 9 Or z = 12 Or z = 15) Then

Bil2 = "ratus "

Else

Bil2 = ""

End If

Else

Bil2 = ""

End If

If (Y > 0) Then

Select Case z

Case 4: Bil2 = Bil2 + "ribu "

Y = 0

Case 7: Bil2 = Bil2 + "juta "

Y = 0

Case 10: Bil2 = Bil2 + "milyar "

Y = 0

Case 13: Bil2 = Bil2 + "trilyun "

Y = 0

End Select

End If

Urai = Urai + Bil1 + Bil2

Wend

Urai = Urai + strPecahan

TerbilangBulat = (Urai & MataUang)

Exit Function

Pesan:

TerbilangBulat = "(maksimal 15 digit)"

End Function

akan Lebih enaknya anda buat modul dalam VB dan letakan source diatas di dalam modul...

soo... lebih detailnya bisa download contoh implementasinya

Contoh Implementasinya di Download

Budayakan untuk meninggalkan jejak atau command anda jika telah membaca artikel ini... Terima Kasih 

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Edit Document di Pdf (PDF FOXSIT)

Jangan bingung dan panik jika kiranya ada menemui dokumen yang tersimpan dalam pdf dan anda akan mengedit dari file pdf tersebut, ada sebuah software yang mungkin gak asing lagi bagai orang orang yang sering mengedit pdf yaitu pdf foxsit. Apakah anda ingin mencoba mengedit pdf silakan download soft PDF Foxsit diSINI

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Sistem Informasi Sekolah Dasar

Salah satu sarana untuk meningkatkan kinerja, efektifitas serta efesiensi waktu adalah penggunaan komputer. Setiap instansi atau pun sekolah dalam melakukan pengolahan data di era ini tidak lepas dari komputer, mungkin salah satu software yang anda pakai adalah ms office excell dimana banyak di gunakan untuk rekap data yang katagorinya memerlukan perhitungan dan rumus rumus matematikan lainnya. Mungkin dengan ini anda merasa cukup tapi apakah anda pernah membayangkan jika 2 atau 5  tahun yang akan datang sebanyak apa data yang telah anda buat? kemudian di simpan dimana dengan nama file apa? hal ini sering jadi kendala di satu instansi atau sekolah. untuk menghidari hal hal tersebut dan memudahkan ada ketika membutuhkan history data tinggal panggil aja maka bisa memanfaatkan sebuah aplikasi pemrograman dimana semua penyimpanan datanya terpusat dalam satu media database sehingga dengan memanfaatkan aplikasi pemrogram kita bisa memanggil data walau itu udh beberapa tahun sudah lewat. Salah satu hasil karya anak bangsa ini bisa anda gunakan untuk kegiatan pengolahan data di sekolah dasar. 

1. Menu Utama

    terdiri dari

Menu Administrasi Pendaftaran

- Input data prasyarat 

- Input data pendaftar

Menu Proses Seleksi

- Seleksi Pendaftaran

Menu Administrasi Akademik

- Input data Siswa

- input data pegawai dan guru

- input mata pelajaran

- input guru kelas

dan masih banyak lagi menu menu yang tidak mungkin saya tuliskan di sini, disamping komponen komponen tersebut ada juga laporan laporan yang salah satunya cetak nilai raport.

Tampilan menu utama

Tampilan salah satu Laporan Raport

Dengan memanfaatkan apalikasi seperti itu setidaknya anda bisa mengambil keuntungan keuntuang antara lain:

1. Hemat waktu 

2. Mudah untuk mencari data yang lampau

3. History data tersimpan dengan baik di dalam wadah dan terpusat

4. Hemat biaya hehehe

Aplikasi sementara belum bisa saya upload mudah2 dalam waktu dekat bisa saya upload dan bisa share dengan pembaca hehehe..

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Terasology - YAMC or not?

YAMC? Yet another Minecraft clone??? Well Terasology (previously called "Moving Blocks") sure looks like one:

Terasology alpha gameplay

But besides looking like a pretty good YAMC, it actually promises to deviate from the boring Minecraft routine and mentions the pretty well liked games Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper as inspirations for its planned game-play :)

Code is under the Apache license, however the current pixel textures are non-free. But if this takes off, those should be relatively easy to replace with really free ones ;)
Oh and you can run it via Java directly from your browser (I had a black void as a world under Linux though... so your mileage might vary also).

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