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Game Engines

microStudio – game engine

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

microStudio is a free, open source game engine online. It is also a platform to learn and practise programming.

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Warble

Words! – word puzzle game

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Words! is a word puzzle game where you have 6 tries to guess a hidden word. A simple and addictive game.

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Game Engines

Redot Engine – multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Redot Engine lets you create your 2D and 3D games, cross-platform projects, or explore innovative ideas in XR technology.

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Flashcards

hascard – minimal command-line utility for reviewing notes

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Utilities

hascard is a minimal command-line utility for reviewing notes. ‘Flashcards’ can be written in markdown-like syntax.

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OutFly – 3D space game in the rings of Jupiter

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms Games

OutFly is an atmospheric, open world, realistic 3D space game that throws you into the Rings of Jupiter with a sportswear space suit.

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Hypervisors

QEMU – machine emulator and virtualizer

February 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. QEMU can be used in several different ways.

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Game Engines

Bevy – data-driven game engine

February 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Counters – keep track of anything

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Counters is a simple counting application that lets you create counters to keep track of anything you want.

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Volta – JavaScript Tool Manager

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Volta is billed as a hassle-free JavaScript tool manager.

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GNOME Extensions

Refine – tweak various aspects of GNOME

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Refine is a simple tool that lets you tweak various aspects of GNOME.

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Utility Software

greentext – create green-text memes

February 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The GreenText Generator CLI is a command-line tool built with Go that lets you create classic greentext with ease.

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Remote Display

Dippi – calculate display info like DPI and aspect ratio

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Dippi is a tool which can analyze any display. Input a few details and figure out the aspect ratio, DPI, and details of a particular display.

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Backup software

ZnapZend – ZFS centric backup tool

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

ZnapZend is a ZFS centric backup tool to create snapshots and send them to backup locations.

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Analytics Software

Tally – hybrid native and web app for Plausible Analytics

February 11, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Plausible is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Tally wraps the Plausible web app in a native UI.

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RPI4 - video playback

Xjadeo – the X JACK video monitor

February 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Xjadeo is a standard for video-monitoring with the Ardour Digital Audio Workstation and used by a variety of projects, predominantly on Linux.

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Turn Based Strategy Games

Tanks of Freedom II – Indie Turn Based Strategy Game

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tanks of Freedom II is a classic, turn-based strategy game with up to four armies fighting against each other.

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Database

sled – embedded database

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Database

sled is an embedded database that’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Musical instruments

AlsaPlayer – heavily multi-threaded PCM player

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

AlsaPlayer is a type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.

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Hypervisors

Quickgui – virtual machine manager

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Quickgui is a graphical user interface for the Quickemu virtual machine manager.

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TiMidity++ – MIDI to WAVE converter and player

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

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