AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA! for the Awesome

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!! for the Awesome

base jumping game

2024-01-04

Today's game is AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!! for the Awesome. It's a base jumping game, you jump off a building, try not to hit other buildings but get close for points, then safely land at a certain place for more points.

I think that's about it. There's different courses to jump and I'm sure there's other goals and things to try, but only so much you can do because the game is just jumping off a building.

But the simplicity is probably what led to also developing the course selection. You select them from a big plane of tiles. Most are locked probably until you meet certain challenges. But some are unlocked but only show you an interesting fact about base jumping.

The game also has a sense of humor, as you can guess from the name. So that also makes it more interesting.

I'm actually playing games on Linux now. I started playing on Windows, but the rebooting was a hassle. Then I realized I could get Steam on Linux and I can still play over 200 of the games. Plus I have a nice new wireless controller, a GuliKit PRO which seems to work well. I'll play what games I can then switch back to Windows. But I also noticed there's a GOG Linux application, so maybe after Steam that will be next.

I finished Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree, the prequel to Legends and Lattes. Like the other book, it's just really cozy.

I'm starting on the book KitchenWise, a book on cooking techniques. I got this and another book with a gift card from Christmas. I wouldn't have gotten them on my own, but pretty good to get if I have a gift card.

Speaking of books, there's a great post by the guy who runs Standard Ebooks on how they handle millions of requests per month on just a 2GB $5 VPS.

If you're not familiar with Standard Ebooks, it's a great site that takes public domain books and edits them into exquisite ebooks. There's hundreds of excellently formatted classic literature ebooks, all for free.

How they achieve that is the site is just a classic web site. It serves static web pages, so just HTML (well, XHTML5 because they already work with epubs which use that) and CSS for formatting and some interaction. No JavaScript. Not even a database. They just use PHP on the backend for server-side rendering using it's already built-in templating. Everything is processed with just shell scripts, since everything is just files they are updated with rsync. No frameworks or third-party dependencies. Their biggest third-party is GitHub, and even that is a mirror which they're thinking of getting rid of.

This makes me love Standard Ebooks even more. And it reminds of my web site here. It's only HTML pages. My VPS uses PHP, but only because that looks to be the only web language that actually serves static web pages. But I don't use any PHP for this site. I create new pages by copy and pasting a template HTML file. This site could really benefit from a templating scheme, but I don't want to use a third party one. I'm looking into sed and awk to basically create my own though.

The RSS is also just a text file. To make a new entry, I copy the article text to a temp file, run a script with the title and URL, then copy the results of that as an entry into the feed XML file. That too could benefit from more automation.

To publish the site, my VPS can update with a git push, so I copy all the site files to another directory that's a git repo who's remote is my VPS. I have a script that does the rsync from my site files to the git repo directory then does a push. Publishing my site is a single command.