If you had read my other comments here you would not be asking these questions. A badge that makes sure users feel safer and hackers have to use a real name card on itch and spend money and wait, to successfully spread malware. It does not hurt newcomers by blocking them, but newcomers have to buy into getting the badge; it makes old users more trustworthy as they should be.
Sandboxing is the solution if you think the browser is a solution, and it ain't looking good I tell ya. Java had sandboxing for 30 years nobody used it, outside of applets, except me; not even Minecraft modders. So I'm making my own JVM to fix that since Oracle foolishly removed the sandbox in the latest Java version... in the meantime we have to embrace native (or close to native performance/featured VMs like Java/C#, js can't do efficient memory sharing between threads without copying f.ex.) because of power usage: Linux on ARM is the only viable platform long term and until we get a better sandbox than V8 (even with WASM) that will not work.
Time is trust, you want to remove the breaks to go faster. That's an accident waiting to happen.
That is a question for Visa/Mastercard/Governements. if the card API says "this name is a legal person and not some prepaid card" itch has to trust it... Good luck to hackers crating multiple fake cards and spending $100 to get a gold badge and trick 5 people!
Its actually very simple to promote real persons over hackers... account activity over 5 years with 100+ downloads, Commenting on the forum replying with non AI answers. Etc. Filing VAT paperwork. Taking out money to an account that matches your card name and is not flagged as criminal. etc etc etc forever.
But when you use your card, itch gets your real name. How can they exploit that, creating fake real people? Visa/Mastercard do not have safequards against that?
I meant 2FA as additional protection against someone getting access to your acount after you have been verified.
So maybe gold badge would be verfied card + 2FA, silver = verified card, bronze = 2FA?
OR gold = $100+ purchases, silver $50+, bronze $10+? That way it's really expensive for hackers to cheat.
We need more trust on itch, because steam signs the executable people blindly trust that platform.
One cheap and effective way would be to add a verified badge to profiles that made a purchase with a card in their own legal name.
That way if someone uploads a virus itch can send the real identity to the police in that country. Not that the police cares but you know for a trust boost as now anyone can create a profile without buying anything and host viruses on the platform?
Of course this means you have to be really careful of not getting hacked AND maybe some sort of 2FA would be good?
Itch just has to require one payment on the itch account, that way someone signs a virus they have an address to give the authorities and it becomes the card/banks problem.
Thinking about this more, itch should absolutely make a verified badge for all accounts that made a purchase with a card in their proper name. That way you can trust the download!!!
Should work on mac/linux too but you have to replace the native path and \ with /... To the creator: you can make a .jar that contains all assets and works on all platforms without problems in like 5 minutes also please add ARM?
Yeah, the unofficial release on scorpion is so much better. Better framerate and more polished. But I agree that you should write your custom engine so you can innovate.
The demo runs out of memory on a vanilla 1200, guess I need a RAM expansion. Edit: it was the WiFi stack that made it crash... Do you have any plans to add multiplayer?
Animations would complete this set! I know that is not the rogue way, but I like physics and then a static frame looks weird. I'm going to add these to my logic tool.
I think 8x8 is much more valuable for us retro hardware game makers.
Specially 1-bit! We can work around that on two of your paid packs for some part, but a free 8x8 1-bit pack would make a complete "open" C64 development kit possible!
What are the redistribution terms of the Underbase/MiniAdventures packs? If one bundles them as C64 chars/sprites? I guess that is too easily reversed!
Without recurring payments you are relying on eternal growth to fund your project (= population growth, kids being born now have to buy Minecraft in 5-10 years or Mojang WILL fail; and that is neither sustainable nor moral).
I'm not looking forward to the "after one year expiration of playtime" for my MMOs, so that's why I need to give them an option to choose so they can't say they didn't know.
The problem is institutionalized in how all printed money works, only way out is to make the problem obvious across everything in society as soon as possible as the fall will be from much higher if we wait.
The actual pricing I have to go with is only because of Visa/Mastercard fees. But $1/month (non metered) and $1/day (metered) in $10 transactions sounds fine to me at first glance.
Collecting is easy as you can purchase games more than once and validate purchases through the API.
An MMO with recurring revenue is not a DRM and much better than in-game purchases, but yes I will be validating the account has purchased the game with the API so you wont be able to pirate the game.
It seems the .crt save does not work. Maybe you could provide a .crt with all levels unlocked so we don't have to keep the C64 powered on between play sessions?
Kungfu on R1 breadbin. Will try 1.02 later. So only normal saves the levels, or did 1.02 fix that? Edit: Saving does not work on Kungfu... when you press Menu it should inform about the change and allow the write... Edit: It works AFTER you die.
It's really hard, I wish there was a "noob, only here to enjoy the scenes/music difficulty option", does clearing a world write to the crt on Kungfu automatically? Also just skips past the death screen an all subsequent screens for me on v1 and 1.01.
