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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)
@Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.

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Finished ripping Voyager. Handbrake has a cli interface, so I wrote a .sh script that copies the dvd to the hd and then rips it from there. Copying the dvd to the hd is a lot more fault tolerant. Now I can rip a cd completely hands-off. Takes about 20 minutes end-to-end. The only step I have to do by hand is naming the episodes. That's my next task. Then I just need a robot arm (preferably made out of lego) to put the dvd's in for me.
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Spud · 2w
Voice-actived robot arm so you can just say ""Computer, play Voyager"
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How are steam keys generated?
1. Randomly generate a key and if it's taken, generate another one and loop.
2. There is a database of (millions) available keys, when it runs out make more with step 1.
3. Key aren't random, it's a algorithm (seems dangerous if figured out).
4. Something I haven't thought of because I'm just a simple game designer.
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Andrew Haining :directx: · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqmc3fyzafm6shv38mesf05vapyg3dxhxm34u3heqqn7jrze9hlqfquu7laa Almost certainly a cryptographic hash (probably SHA-3) using a private key that they keep locked up tight. They've changed the key lengths in the past, that was probably caused by switch...
Giuseppe Sellaroli · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqmc3fyzafm6shv38mesf05vapyg3dxhxm34u3heqqn7jrze9hlqfquu7laa it used to happen to me too and eventually figured out that logging in into the steam client messes up the steamcmd credentials cache. I have stopped using my dev account for that and st...
David Amador · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqmc3fyzafm6shv38mesf05vapyg3dxhxm34u3heqqn7jrze9hlqfquu7laa yeah and the 2 separate portals (back end+sales) as well are logged independently as well. I wonder if some older system (for valve logins only) they had, that once they opened public fo...
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Got the first build of twp2 uploaded to steam on the tester branch. I will be 6+ months before we do any testing but I wanted to get a build team member can play. Steam back-end is a mess, clearly built slowly over time. Like all platform backends, it will never be made better because doing so won't make them more money. No one says "I want to develop for Switch because the dev backend is awesome."