Paul O'Leary McCann polm

Following is a translation of a post by Kenta Cho (@abagames) about what he learned making 50 minigames in 2014. The original post is here:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ABA/20141223#p1

This translation is by Paul McCann (@polm23); please feel free to contact me with any comments or corrections.

The Secret to Creating Fun Games I Learned By Making 50 Games in a Year

... is that there isn't one.

Etrian Odyssey Director's Diary

These notes were blog posts written by the director of the first Etrian Odyssey Game, Kazuya Niinou, leading up to its release. They were originally images embedded in a Flash page, so I took the liberty of typing them up and posting them here. The Japanese source for these articles is no longer available on the official Etrian Odyssey page, but you can find it on archive.org.

	#!/bin/bash

	GENS=50

	WIDTH=12
	HEIGHT=12
	declare -a OLD
	declare -a NEW

	OLD=( \

	spawn frob -i plain bone.t3

	send "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"

	while {1} {
	expect {
	"More" {send "\n"}
	default break
	}
	}

	厄介な後ろの不穏な剣
	瞳いとこの敏感な石
	豪勢な脅威の一連釣り合い
	妙な背後の単純な杯
	ハードな軍師の速いバット
	自国自分の小説小説
	濃密な貴族の静かな空白
	得意な兄さんのめざとい前世
	細かい母のすい通り
	陰鬱な軍人の美味な尻尾

	The Useful Compatriot Helper, representing the Bite
	The Dangerous Physician Waitress, representing the Perfect
	The Perfect Compatriot Guerrilla, representing the Song
	The Adorable President Grandfather, representing the Told
	The Planet-destroying Longer Client, representing the Sad
	The Centennial Daughter President, representing the Extraordinary
	The Late-night Contractor Rogue, representing the Other
	The Desperate Winner Contractor, representing the Historical
	The Free Captain Rogue, representing the Whole
	The Short-lived Winner Prince, representing the Previous

	pico-8 cartridge // http://www.pico-8.com
	version 4
	__lua__
	-- ultra magic bingo quest world
	-- ld48 #32 - by 23

	-- rules
	-- try to make bingo to hurt
	-- your opponent
	-- but don't fill the dead pile!

	#!/bin/bash
	# based on cellusion's photoshop method
	convert "$1" -resize 256x1000 -colorspace Gray -auto-level \
	gradient.png -clut -scale 1000x1000 -posterize 6 "$1".out.png

	import cv2
	import numpy as np
	import sys
	import math

	"""

	This finds quadrilateral objects, cuts them out, squares them, and fixes skew.
	It works but has strict limitations: