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Hello, Habr! Let's continue the conversation about the mechanics of gamification. The last article talked about ratings, and in this one we’ll talk about the skill tree (technological tree, skill tree). Let's look at how trees are used in games and how these mechanics can be applied in gamification. The skill tree is a special case of the technology tree, the prototype of which first appeared in the board game Civilization […]
Netflix and King Features Syndicate have announced the animated series The Cuphead Show! based on the action platformer Cuphead. The animated series will be set in the world of Cuphead and will feature its characters and an animation style inspired by the classic Fleischer Studios cartoons of the 1930s. The plot will tell about the misadventures of Cuphead and his brother Mugman. “Jared and I grew up on a constant diet of […]
The release of the Tesseract 4.1 optical text recognition system has been prepared, supporting recognition of UTF-8 characters and texts in more than 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian and Ukrainian. The result can be saved in plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF and TSV formats. The system was originally created in 1985-1995 in the Hewlett Packard laboratory, […]
KDE Frameworks is a set of libraries from the KDE project for creating applications and desktop environments based on Qt5. In this release: Several dozen improvements in the Baloo indexing and search subsystem - power consumption on standalone devices has been reduced, bugs have been fixed. New BluezQt APIs for MediaTransport and Low Energy. Many changes to the KIO subsystem. At Entry Points there are now […]
inXile Entertainment has decided on the release date for the updated version of the role-playing game The Bard's Tale IV. An expanded and improved version - The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - will be available in digital stores on August 27 (on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One). You can already pre-order in the Steam and GOG stores: 1085 rubles for a standard […]
Facebook has opened the source code of the lightweight Hermes JavaScript engine, optimized for running applications based on the React Native framework on the Android platform. Hermes support is built into React Native as of today's 0.60.2 release. The project is designed to solve problems with long startup times for native JavaScript applications and significant resource consumption. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. […]
The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications) announces that one of the first super services will soon be launched on the State Services portal. We have already talked about the project to introduce super services. These are complex automatic government services, grouped according to typical life situations. Such services will allow citizens to save time and quickly receive the necessary services. So, it is reported […]
The We Leak Info project announced the receipt of a database of Livejournal.com users captured as a result of a leak that occurred in 2014 and covered more than 33.7 million accounts. The database includes information about the username, email and password. In this case, passwords are presented without hashing, in clear text. You can check if your account is compromised on the website weleakinfo.com. Details about the incident are still [...]
Cooler Master has completely declassified the compact computer case MasterCase H100, the first information about which was released during the Computex 2019 exhibition. The new product is designed to work with Mini ITX motherboards. Inside there is space for one 3,5/2,5-inch drive and three more 2,5-inch storage devices. There are only two expansion slots, [...]
Gameforge has announced that Kingdom Under Fire 2, announced 11 years ago, will be released in Europe and North America this year. Kingdom Under Fire 2, like its 2004 predecessor, combines action RPG with elements of real-time strategy. In addition, the second part is an MMO. The project takes place after [...]
For the first time, a space tourism company will conduct an initial public offering (IPO). Owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic has announced plans to go public. Virgin Galactic intends to obtain the status of a public company through a merger with an investment firm. Its new partner, Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), will invest $800 million in […]
Studio Friend & Foe Games announced that the adventure Vane will be released on Steam on July 23. The game has been available on PlayStation 4 since January 2019. Vane takes place in a mysterious desert. Players can transform from a child to a bird to solve mysteries and navigate a landscape filled with caves, mysterious mechanisms, and storms. The world is reacting to [...]
