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code + graphics by Mihael Grilec d-cave.com

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Hellhole - our #LD48 compo entry.

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Various token icons

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d-cave

games and coffee

Site dedicated to our little game making group.

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Rogue's Shadow Strike ability.

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Most objects in the game can be destroyed and some may even contain various items to pick up so make sure you explore everything in the dungeon.

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This little guy is one of many critters that will be crawling around the dungeons. You can pet him if you want!

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Casting and attacking!

http://www.indiedb.com/games/d-dungeons

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Minigame made for VO2013@FER.

Davor Brunović

Ivan Renić

Mihael Grilec

Music by: http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography/by/trash80

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Kupa #mutek (tomada con Instagram en Auditorio BlackBerry)

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Added a video for my bachelor thesis on size calibration for face tracking. Using a credit card as a size reference, you can measure your eye distance in the image or draw any object in it's real size.

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Unity child count bug

A bug I found in Unity while writing a custom editor window that was removing and instantiating some objects. Seems like the children count wasn't updating well.

foreach (Transform child in transform) { DestroyImmediate(child.gameObject); }

This deleted only about half the children from the object. I used this code as a workaround.

foreach(Transform child in GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>()) { if (child != transform) DestroyImmediate(child.gameObject); }

The only bad thing here is that if-block because the GetComponents returns components from the parent object as well.

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Painted!

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Raspberry Pi usable web server

Everyone wants to use their rpi for hosting their blogs or whatever, installing the typical LAMP. In my experience the rpi is too slow for Apache, MySQL and Wordpress, so I wanted to setup a CPU and memory light stack. It needs to have clean URL's, and load in a reasonable time. I eventually dropped it because of my connection's terrible upload.

The speed setup I wanted:

raspbian - the current recommended OS

lighttpd - because nginx is impossible to configure

sqlite3 - less memory usage and more speed then mysql

chyrp - wordpress is just too heavy

Resources I used:

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/wordpress-cheap-vps-lowendscript/ Here you'll find a script and a discussion about setting up a low memory VPS for hosting wordpress blogs. Gave me a decent start.

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/ Another lowendbox post about sqeezing the last drop of memory from a VPS. This is an interesting setup using lighttpd and mysql for a memory-light solution while I needed something more CPU friendly.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=9566 A nice step-by-step tutorial on setting up a LLMP (Linux, Lighttpd, MySQL and PHP) server on the rpi. Still, MySQL is too much.

http://cc.davisremmel.com/2012/02/24/how-to-transform-a-stock-pogoplug-into-a-lean-mean-lighttpd-chryp-sqlite-postfix-serving-machine/ This is the real deal. Lighttpd with chyrp running on a pogoplug which is a box similar to the rpi. Working OK, but has some unneeded stuff like a lua script supported url rewrite.

http://chyrp.net/discuss/topic/running-chyrp-with-sqlite-and-lighttpd-from-a-pogoplug/ Here's the discussion about the above but with a suggestion to lose the lua script and the mod_magnet dependency. The site is down, but google cache has it.

That's all you need. Start by installing lighttpd, enabling FastCGI, caching and compression. I tweaked the setup a bit more by installing php5-xcache which brought the page load times from 5s to 2s.

I also ran into several problems such as:

lighttpd service won't stop; the configuration from one of the sites above didn't have a pid file in the config so you'd have to kill -9 the lighttpd  process.

pages loaded from the cache didn't correctly handle php zlib compression (receiving warnings and errors about using zlib), so I just turned it off, never finding out why

few quirks caused by spelling in the config files or something similar

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Raspberry Pi case built by my dad. Made out of spare plywood and a bit of glue. Painting is up next!