Phil Roberson @Paleomancer@qoto.org

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

I did a little prototyping on a new layout for my game's character info. Not nearly complete (doesnt show most of the stats yet) but thought I'd share anyway. It at least gives an idea as to the direction im heading in on visualizing some of this stuff with just ASCII.

Some general info:

The game is called AetherMud and it is open-source and written in Java :java:

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/Syncleus/AetherMUD

#gamedev #mmorpg #rpg #gaming #game #mud #programming #java

Related - check out Claus Wilke's slides on giving good presentations. It's not obvious, but many of his insights come from understanding human cognition and behavior: https://www.slideshare.net/ClausWilke/giving-effective-presentations-oct-2016
I just went to 3 conferences in the last 6 weeks and many of the presenters ignored the basics.

Hello -- I am Jeremy, and very new to Mastodon. I read through quite a few posts from different servers and loved the vibe of everyone in QOTO. I look forward to getting to know everyone better!