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New blog post on world making for Gaia’s Riddle launching May 1. There is still time to join in - minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/making-an-ag...

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New blog post up on the origins of the sunblock project - minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/the-origins-...

#minecraft #mcdev #ecogames

WIP solar hud mod for our solar powered Minecraft server. minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/sunblock/
#mcdev #smp #minecraft

New blog post providing some background to the design of our modded Minecraft SMP launching May 1 - minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/thinking-thr...

#mcdev #minecraft #solarpunk #ecogame

Here we go… discord now open for May 1 launch of Gaia’s Riddle, our forge 20.1 SMP running on our own custom solar powered server. minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/gaias-riddle/
#Minecraft #SMP #solarpower

Opening tonight #SolarBiennale2 👉 at Mudac.ch
🌞Exploring the symbolic & transformative potential of the Sun

👉We will be in excellent company with Liam Young, Andreas Gursky, @olafureliasson.bsky.social, @tega.bsky.social, ecoLogicStudio, @juliettebibasse.bsky.social @joanielemercier.bsky.social...

Pondering the idea of California as the cherished 11th province… maybe Vermont can come too

If you haven't played Known Mysteries yet, check it out! It is a climate sci-fi narrative game run from a solar-powered server

www.solarserver.games/onnow.html

I have been reading more of Imre Szeman’s work on solarities and its clear when you operate a solar powered Minecraft server you do a lot of praying for sunshine. minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/sunblock/

Irony. When your Black Friday solar system upgrade arrives as the first major snowfall covers your panel.

Looks like playtests with SunBlock One have come to a halt.

Odroid H4 or H4 ultra. It’s interesting how the main use case for these servers is an NAS but since we don’t need any SATA ports. Maybe we will open a new market :)

I think I am becoming a permacomputing guy :)

So it looks like we will try to build SunBlock 2 with an Odroid H4 sporting an N97 CPU. Power consumption is wonderfully low but will it be able to handled our modded server?

Black Friday and cybermonday deals have me dreaming of building SunBlock Two even though we barely have enough sun to keep SB One alive

Working on or want to dip into the #nostalgia research crowd? And to experience #Montreal in February? 🥶😁

Submit to our LOVE & LOSS symposium 🌹before Jan 13th 2025!

Welcoming *all* approaches tackling nostalgia — #cfp here at nostagain.ca/2024/10/10/c...

As a long-time attendee and less-long-time organizer, I honestly can't recommend this conference enough. Please consider submitting and feel free to shoot me any questions! #gamestudies

Anyone wanna learn a bit about the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia U in Montreal? We have a podcast series! milieux.concordia.ca/introducing-...

I think our ZUUK buddies are there showing Within Touching Distance… worth checking out.

Anybody in Rome can check this out. Kinda related to a project of ours - archinect.com/news/bustler...

Also

@miguelsicart.bsky.social Google “calculator saturnalia”

Action Intent Links | Bluesky Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Thanks… you can check out most of work on our website and we blog new stuff now and then - https://minecraftbloc.milieux.ca

Solar panel under the sun in Montreal

Sunny day in Montreal but it’s not going to be enough to float our Minecraft server I suspect. minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/sunblock

Thanks…. There is more coming. We are making a solar sword now that will one shot mobs when the sun is peak in Montreal and a bunch of other mods

How a solar Minecraft server is changing the way we play video games As the COP29 summit gets underway and zero-emissions goals seem further away than ever, video games could provide new pathways for people to imagine plausible low-carbon futures.

So we wrote a thing about our solar powered modded Minecraft server. Most fun game studies ever - theconversation.com/how-a-solar-... #MinecraftEDU #energytransition

The thing for me here is that effort needs to be relative and subjective. We wanna avoid saying effort is good for you. So sliding scale brokenness would be cool

We need more language for degrees of the brokenness of tools. Too broken is bad so there must be just broken enough

GitHub - fishttp/awesome-bluesky: A list of all known tools available for the Bluesky platform A list of all known tools available for the Bluesky platform - fishttp/awesome-bluesky

Oh ho. I found a pretty handy GitHub list of Bluesky resources. Good number of 3rd party clients to try here - github.com/fishttp/awes...