This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post , I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs. When I started out, I couldn't find any maps for the game, which is a pity, because a good achievement set should cover (to some extent) all of the available content of a game, including secret…
This post is part of the Game Boy series (#9). Last year, I discovered RetroAchievements and had a lot of fun since then. You can play old games, for example for the Game Boy, in an emulator, and are able to unlock achievements , like finishing a level (or the whole game) or achieving a challenge like finishing a boss damageless or a level with a certain time limit. This is how it looks: If you…
I recently started playing Minecraft again with my son, and it was a ton of fun playing together, and also rediscovering all the changes in the game since I played last some years ago. One time I was exploring the world for a bit and then died (bloody skeletons) leaving all my stuff in the middle of nowhere. After trying to find the place where I'd died, I remembered that there used to be a server…
Last year in April, I got myself a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE 3D printer. It was a steep learning curve at first - after learning about leveling (apparently needed from time to time), z-offset (not the same as leveling), different filaments ( regular PLA works fine for my printer, wooden PLA not so much) and over-extrusion (apparently the case for my printer), I continued to make progress on getting…
Last year, I started playing Pokemon TCG - a trading card game where you have a deck of own cards and play against an opponent, battling each other with Pokemon of your choice. One aspect of Pokemon TCG is collecting cards, which can be fun on its own, but it can get a bit expensive. Especially with the "Prismatic Evolution" generation, prices skyrocketed, but the Pull rates seemed much lower than…