![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Deepnest, you eventually learn the exit was staring you in the face. Where else to go but down, right? Again, Team Cherry anticipated this. That’s what prompted me to go further into this hellish den of bugs. See, generally speaking, when you enter a new area, the exit(s) are far away, forcing players to trudge along, explore, and die. It’s then I discovered a brutal joke Team Cherry hid in the level design. (Humorously, when you come across the mapmaker, he confesses to being too scared to go any further, and cannot provide a full map!) A few hours later, I’d more or less seen much of what Deepnest had to offer, but still no no escape! It’s at this point you begin to scan the map and look for tiny corridors you may have missed. I did, eventually, find a map maker, and sketched out the depths of Deepnest, providing some relief. I spent three hours making my way around Deepnest, and never got comfortable. Contrary to Blighttown, it’s well-designed, meant to push the player’s buttons because Team Cherry is trying to subvert your approach to playing the game. I say infamous because it was not particularly well-liked upon release for a variety of reasons: it was dark, the frame rate was abysmal (we’re talking single digits in an era before PC versions), and maze-like.Įven with a real framerate, Blighttown still sucks? Deepnest does, too, but in the sense that you’re miserable. There are legit reasons to compare Hollow Knight to the Souls games, and in this specific situation, I couldn’t help but think about Team Cherry doing their own take on Dark Souls’ Blighttown, probably the most infamous area from any Souls game. ![]() If I came back, I’d be starting all over again. Though dying would allow me to leave Deepnest-the game sends you back to the previous checkpoint-I would lose all my geos in the process, and without having found the mapmaker, all of my progress would mean absolutely nothing. I was audibly yelping during the moments where enemies would catch me off guard, and I’d be down to a single life, without a checkpoint in sight. There is almost no way the developer, Team Cherry, didn’t explicitly set this trap, a way to push players away from playing it safe, forcing a position of risk. It’s hard to express in words how dark this area is. “Welcome to the Deepnest,” Hollow Knight cackles, “Good luck.” Further off, the stomp stomp of something much larger, the kind of creature you’d normally be game to take on, but right now, courage is precious. All around, the whispers of a million insect legs chatter against the rocks, as they explore the dark, on some mission of their own. You’ve in a basement with the lights off, and only a lighter to flicker off the walls. In other areas of Hollow Knight, you can see the area around you, but here? Not a chance. A lot of Hollow Knight works like this: encounter unfamiliar thing, figure it out, move on.īut then, while exploring an otherwise innocuous area, I fell into a deep hole, with no way to escape. Each area has new dangers, aesthetics, and enemies, but it remains comforting to follow a procedure that’s reliably worked out in the past. You start out without a map, resulting in a lot of blind walking from one room to the next, making notes in your head, and hoping the next section will bring the familiar hum of the game’s mapmaker, who you can pay a few dollars to chart the locale. Hollow Knight knows this, and the moment you’re feeling safe, it kicks you in the teeth.Įarly on, there’s a familiar cycle to finding a new area in Hollow Knight. ![]()
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Here you can find more than 35 online games, various in design and presentation. ![]() ![]() Yes, on one hand Epic is buying up timed exclusives of third-party titles and the promise of more favourable revenue share for developers and that sucks for us (but is great for the indie devs who sign up - until this special fiasco, of course).īut on the other hand, it is helping to break the platform exclusivity of Quantic Dreams’ acclaimed titles. Across its six-hour run time, youll encounter a string of environmental puzzles. Planet of Lana has all the hallmarks of a story-rich platformer. While each run has a main plot, you'll discover random events, new characters, items and cards each time you. Rock Paper Shotgun The making of The Gunk how the SteamWorld devs went from mist. Each character has unique cards they can collect, and individual storylines that follow their journeys through the Griftlands. Griftlands and the trouble with everything being a card game now. 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Try as you might, Link will constantly lose his grip and slide back down to where you started when you try and do a bit of rock-climbing here - much like he would do outside when its. ![]() Look, I’m also not a fan of the timed exclusivity nonsense and also think the Epic launcher is decidely NOT epic. Rock, Paper, Shotgun Ynglet is proof that great things can come from terrible, world-ending disasters. Griftlands and the trouble with everything being a card game now. 1 day ago &0183 &32 A lot of Hyrules caves are pretty damp, wet spaces for Link to scamper about in, which can make climbing up their slippery rock faces a pretty difficult task. ![]() I’m sure all of this was handled in the commercial agreement between GOG and Night Dive - they would have got their fair share of the revenue given the amount of work they put in. Rock Paper Shotgun is a UK-based website for reporting on video games, primarily for PC. GOG then provided its technical resources to help polish up and package in the user-made mods already available out there to improve stability and such. GOG had worked for years to secure the rights, but Night Dive out-researched them and beat them to the punch. You are technically correct, sir! (The best kind of correct.) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been a member of the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) Board since 2008 becoming Past President in 2015. In July 2013 she moved from Education Technology Specialist to Online Learning Administrator. ![]() I pull it up next to the program that I use for my IEPs for easy reference.Tricia Jackson has worked for Park City School District since 2005. Anyone else always forget to mention the oral mech exam?īetter yet, just open up the program and make the window smaller. Having a list can also help you make sure you don’t miss any important parts of the IEP. You won’t need this forever, but it’s helpful to have a list of your “shortcuts” at your fingertips. You can also use a similar trick for pronouns (e.g., type “his/her” and then search to replace with the correct pronoun). When I’m filling in the report, I can hit CTRL+F (Windows) or COMMAND+F (Mac) to quickly find and replace all the stars. So easy!Ĭheck out the video above for a tutorial on how to get this set up! Click here to download the FREE step-by-step guide.Īnother tip? I use “***” as a placeholder for the student’s name (or appropriate pronoun). I made up an abbreviation, put in the content, and made a label (optional). Yes, this may take some time, but I promise it’ll be worth it! STEP 2: Add Your PhrasesĪdd your “template” phrases to your text expander. This was kind of annoying, and I didn’t even consistently use the templates I made. Before I started using the text expander, I would open my document and go back and forth to copy over the information. I also went through and created templates for frequently administered tests (e.g., a test description and placeholders for test scores/interpretations). I already had a template made for the redundant phrases in my paperwork (e.g., student considerations, prior notice, etc.). Make a list of the things you are always having to type. Go through your evaluation and IEP paperwork. How do you use this text expander? STEP 1: Review Your Paperwork Unfortunately, the expander wouldn’t work in my school’s IEP program, so I had to find a different option. I tried a Google Chrome extension ( Auto Text Expander) because I reeeeeeally wanted to be able to quickly sync my “codes” between multiple computers. ( Caveat: I haven’t tried it myself yet, but I will let you know as soon as I do.) They have paid options out there, but I’ve heard that this one will do the job. I use a few different computers/devices for work, so that was a very important feature for me! They have a free 30-day trial if you want to give it a try!ĪText is a good option if you’re on a Mac. This is one of the pricier options, but I chose it because I can sync between all of my devices. If so, you can jump right ahead and start thinking about how else you might use this tool to save yourself some time! Note: Some of you lucky ducks might have a paperwork program that already has this feature built in. Today, I’m sharing how this simple little tool can cut your writing time in HALF! As an added bonus, it might also reduce the number of typos in your reports. I used a text expander when I was in school, but I recently started using it to boost my productivity at work. Think frequently used phrases in evaluations/IEPs, evaluation/IEP templates, e-mail addresses, your credentials (all those fancy letters!), and so forth. Although I love chocolate, there are a number of slightly more functional ways to use this. choc, it will automatically “expand” to I love chocolate. For example, if I always write “ I love chocolate,” then I can enter a shortcut (e.g. Have you heard of a text expander? If you’re tired of paperwork, then you need to check it out!Ī text expander allows you to create your own shortcuts. ![]() ![]() It is the full version of the game. Don’t forget to run the game as administrator.
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I use the Sharpie Permanent Marker – ‘ Ultra Fine Point‘ for my thin lines and the ‘ Fine Point‘ for my profile (heavy) lines. While this might burst the illusion for some of you that I can actually sketch well, I think you’ll see that these techniques are easy to incorporate into your own sketches and before you know it, you’ll be fooling people just like me!īefore we get to the actual tips, let’s talk some tools of the trade real quick:Īlmost 100% of my sketches are created using two pens. Since I didn’t have anything else to write am such a generous person, I thought I would pull the curtain back today and share with everyone a handful of the techniques I use when sketching. ![]() I’ve even mailed off a few sketches to people who have requested them – a mind-boggling idea quite honestly – the people in my office get my sketches all the time and they end up in the recycle bin 100% of the time. Through these posts, I get a considerable amount of feedback from people who are kind enough to let me know that they like the way I sketch. Over the last four years, I have published a handful of articles where I share my thoughts and observations on the process and value that I believe sketching offers an architect. While I don’t think I am particularly gifted at sketching beautiful drawings, I do think that I have a style that has become recognizable as my own – and that is pretty awesome to discover. I’m not sure I would have made this observation had I not started writing this blog and posting my sketches for others to view. Looking back over 25 years of my sketches is kinda freaky to be honest. Now that I’ve been at this “architect” thing for a little while, I can look at my sketches, all the way back to my time in school, and see how my sketch technique has evolved and how that technique has shaped my architectural solutions. ![]() What it does mean is that we learned how to think and communicate our ideas in a slightly different manner from the students graduating from modern-day architecture programs. This doesn’t mean that everyone who graduated in my era could sketch – far from it. I graduated eons ago back in 1992, back in the days that pre-date computers being used in the studio. Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days. ![]() |
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