Daily Truffle Picks

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The Top 10 Truffles

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#1 DataDriven Game Design -- by @loreshapergames with an estimated worth of 7 SBD and 312 votes

Game design by analysis involves using numbers to help guide design decisions. My preferred way of doing this is always to make a spreadsheet. It makes it very easy to compare a bunch of factors and go into great detail. The hardest part of doing this is always getting data, figuring out what numbers you put where. For instance, if youre making a game and you want to check the balance between all the different weapons you could use a spreadsheet to calculate factors like range, damage pe...

#2 Cat Talk and Expression III -- by @thecatfiles with an estimated worth of 9 SBD and 60 votes

Cat meowing is another form of feline communication and is a very intricate set of sounds that will communicate different things. Some cats will talk happily throughout the day and sometimes will have conversations with one another. Other breeds may be a little quiet in their expressions but this is not often a sign of unhappiness, it is based on the temperament that a cat possesses. A high pitched shriek or hissing noise is cause for concern as it shows that the cat is experiencing a sig...

#3 Zombie Adventure Game 39 Day 1 June 5, 2019 -- by @happyme with an estimated worth of 8 SBD and 324 votes

A small team of adventurers improv, aussieninja, justatouchfey, paulag, bashadow, pbock and hhayweaver head out to find the forgotten village of Goldcrest. Unfortunately, the road to the village has been blocked by several landslides and nobody has cleared the road so our brave adventurers had to leave their vehicles behind and continue the journey on foot. They encountered many zombies along the way and managed to leave the zombies behind by scaling a nearly shear rock wall. Unfortunately, ...

#4 A new phase in our lifes -- by @verhp11 with an estimated worth of 6 SBD and 193 votes

This is the last day that we are with only 4 in our new home Tommorow morning we finally will get our puppy golden retriever, we are expected to pick him up at 09.00 AM, so we are all really exicted. It has been more then 7 years since we have to say goodbye to our big labrador Ozzy, and before him we had a other Labrador named Bo. Bo was a story apart... When we got Bo he was already 7 months old. He lived with a family at the back of the house of my wifes aunt and uncle. They called us o...

#5 Designing for Games vs Designing for Stories -- by @cheah with an estimated worth of 5 SBD and 238 votes

A week ago, PulpRev author Jon Mollison wrote a Twitter thread about the role of clerics in Dungeons and Dragons. Among the key insights was this He nails it on the head. Designing for games is vastly different from designing for stories. Readers engage a prose story through the plot, characters, and prose. The writer guides them on a journey in the mind, directing the story from start to finish. Gamers engage a game through its mechanics. By playing as their avatar, they create thei...

#6 Mountain Leader assessment on Rum the outcome -- by @natubat with an estimated worth of 6 SBD and 273 votes

brLast month I spent a targetblank relnoopener noreferrerfive days on the beautiful Isle of Rum, doing the assessment for my Mountain Leader award. It was a fantastic week. We learned so much and were so lucky with the weather. But at the same time, it felt very stressful, being continually aware that we were under assessment and needed to get things right. It was also pretty tiring five days of nearconstant outdoor activity, into the early hours a couple of nights, doing night navigatio...

#7 The Trek Home Gets Underway -- by @janton with an estimated worth of 6 SBD and 180 votes

Just a cool picture I found, I like the painted and decorated horse. source Howdy folks, greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas! Were in a series about the Wild West and the incredible story of an 11 year old German boy, Hermann, who was captured by an Apache war party from his familys farm in 1870 in Central Texas. Hes now 1819 years old at this point in the story and has become a full blown warrior who hates and fears the White man. And in fact, has taken many a scalp. Hes been ...

#8 E3 Hype! What I am looking forward to and hoping to see most and why! -- by @macguffinstv with an estimated worth of 7 SBD and 188 votes

Its been quite a while since I have posted on here. A few E3s ago actually. So with my return, there couldnt be a better time with all of my previous posts being linked to E3. I want to start using this platform more and help it grow. I want to talk about what I am most excited to see at E3 from the games we know are confirmed and what I hope to see from those that arent. First I will go through some confirmed games. Ghost Recon Breakpoint Wildlands was a pretty big disappointment. Th...

#9 I Thought It Would Be Zombies... Comic Creation Update 21 Beautiful Apocalypse -- by @bryan-imhoff with an estimated worth of 6 SBD and 164 votes

Over the past week Ive begun delving back into the coloring process for the first issue of I Thought It Would Be Zombies... Id done a bit of experimenting around colors about 6 months ago holy hell I cant believe its been that long! with some satisfying results mixed with dissatisfaction. This is of course no different from the other aspects of the work such as the writing and illustration, but Im particularly anguished over the colors because it is my least practiced area and not something ...

#10 Why Do You Need to Protect Environment? And Why Tree Plantation Cant Help in it -- by @xyzashu with an estimated worth of 5 SBD and 160 votes

The Blue Marble Flag also know as The Earth Day Flag is a 1972 NASA photograph Today, its the World Environment Day globally celebrated every year to raise awareness about emerging environmental issues and action for the protection of our environment. I often wonder, why do we need to protect and conserve the environment of our planet. The first WED World Environment Day was celebrated on this day in 1974 with the theme Only One Earth. But so what if we have only one Earth? Its ofte...

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