For years now I’ve been planning to eventually create a menu for accessing Cogmind’s lesser-used “special commands,” features not only requiring the keyboard, but even all assigned to Shift-Alt key combos. So these rarely needed (but still sometimes useful) features were already pretty clearly grouped together as a unit by their annoying modifier, but ideally they should be easier to trigger, not to mention also more readily available to mouse users.

I waited quite a while to implement this menu, mainly because I wanted to design and build it for a more stable and complete set of special commands, one that we couldn’t really be sure about until later in development (and sure enough these features have been gradually expanding and fluctuating over time, coming to a head in the current Beta 11). In the meantime it wasn’t an especially pressing issue because, again, these aren’t exactly commonly needed features,

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Last time I wrote about item variants and randomization in roguelikes, and how Cogmind is purely based on a large set of static items, but more recently I’ve been running an experiment to play with not-so-static items. The entire mechanic revolves around a single new utility: the Scrap Engine.

Cogmind ASCII Art: Scrap Engine

A new utility is born.

The Scrap Engine operates like the Field Recycling Unit in that in addition to the normal inactive and active states it can also be cycled to COLLECT mode, during which it will “eat” items at the current location. These items are presumed to be disassembled and added to the Engine’s resources in order to be mixed with others and reassembled into new “constructs,” the name for a new category of randomized items. Instead of creating new ones it can also use these resources to modify existing constructs. Although in both cases the results are indeed based

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What is osrs gold? You see the term osrs gold more and more often when you look on the internet. Osrs gold stands for a virtual currency of an online game called Oldschool Runescape. In this game, you can collect osrs gold through various activities. You can use the skill Slayer to kill monsters, but also to do bosses and raids. In this way, you collect gold, but also valuable items that you can sell on the Grand Exchange. Collecting gold is complicated, yet very important for the progression of your account. You can use it to level up your skills and by means of high skill levels, everything goes a lot easier. Not everyone has time to collect gold, but it is still critical to have gold. So how do you get gold? In this article, we will elaborate on that, so you will know everything about it.…

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The Learn to Create Game Art in Blender 2022 Humble Bundle by GameDev.TV is now live. This contains several courses covering all aspects of learning to use the Blender 3D application. This includes low polygon 3D modelling, character creation, sculpting, environment design and more.

As with all Humble Bundles, it is organized into tiers:

1$ Tier

Blender Low Poly Landscapes Course

Finish IT Course

Mid Tier

Blender Visual Effects Course

Blender Low Poly Characters Course

25$ Tier

Complete Blender Creator Course

Blender Character Creator for Video Game Design Course

Blender Environment Artist Course

Create Anime Characters in Blender Course

Blender Dragon Sculpting Course

Blender Texture Painting Advanced Techniques Course

Pixel Art Characters Course

Assets – Blender Surface Texture Material Pack

As with all Humble Bundles, you decide how your funds are allocated between Humble, the publisher, charity and if you so choose (and thanks so much if you do!) to

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