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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>GoDot beginners course</title>
      <link>https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/godot-beginners-course</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[GoDot beginners course&#xA;&#xA;GoDot Game Engine 4.4&#xA;  Documentation&#xA;Learn GoDot game development&#xA;GoDot Matrix room&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#Godot,#Game,#Development&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GoDot beginners course</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://godotengine.org/" rel="nofollow">GoDot Game Engine 4.4</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/" rel="nofollow">Documentation</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-godot-for-game-development/" rel="nofollow">Learn GoDot game development</a></li>
<li><a href="https://app.element.io/#/room/%23godot:mgamers.com" rel="nofollow">GoDot Matrix room</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>Tags</strong></p>

<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:Godot" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Godot</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Game" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Game</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Development" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Development</span></a></p>

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      <title>Game development in Rust with Macroquad</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Game development in Rust with Macroquad&#xA;&#xA;This should be available by the time this post is published book on rust game programming/&#xA;&#xA;Game development in Rust with Macroquad&#xA;Lord Doctor Olle W&#xA;Rust Language&#xA;  Macroquad&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#Game,#Programming.#Rust,#Macroquad&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Game development in Rust with Macroquad</p>

<p>This should be available by the time this post is published book on rust game programming/</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://mq.agical.se/" rel="nofollow">Game development in Rust with Macroquad</a></li>
<li><a href="https://qoto.org/web/accounts/931244" rel="nofollow">Lord Doctor Olle W</a></li>
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<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:Game" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Game</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Programming" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Programming</span></a>.<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Rust" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Rust</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Macroquad" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Macroquad</span></a></p>

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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Scratch Frog Jump&#xA;&#xA;I have created this for code club members. &#xA;&#xA;This is what we are going to make,  when you click on the frog it will jump up,  come back down and make a croak sound.&#xA;&#xA;img 1&#xA;&#xA;Add the background.,&#xA;&#xA;img 2&#xA;&#xA;Select the frog from the animals section of spites.&#xA;&#xA;img 3&#xA;&#xA;Finally add some code to the sprite,  you will need to choose the frog sound. &#xA;&#xA;img 4&#xA;&#xA;img 4&#xA;&#xA;Notes&#xA;&#xA;The code to reset the position isn&#39;t needed, unless you add other code that will move the frog left / right for example and you need to reset back to original position.&#xA;&#xA;Links&#xA;&#xA;Code Club&#xA;   Paignton Library Code Club&#xA;Scratch&#xA;Frog jump project&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#CodeClub,#Game,#Animation.#FrogJump&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scratch Frog Jump</p>

<p>I have created this for code club members.</p>

<p>This is what we are going to make,  when you click on the frog it will jump up,  come back down and make a croak sound.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/blog-media/-/raw/master/frogjump1.png" alt="img 1"></p>
<ol><li>Add the background.,</li></ol>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/blog-media/-/raw/master/backgroundselect.png" alt="img 2"></p>
<ol><li>Select the frog from the animals section of spites.</li></ol>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/blog-media/-/raw/master/frogselect.png" alt="img 3"></p>
<ol><li>Finally add some code to the sprite,  you will need to choose the frog sound.</li></ol>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/blog-media/-/raw/master/frogmove-eng.png" alt="img 4"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/blog-media/-/raw/master/frogmove-russian.png" alt="img 4"></p>

<p><strong>Notes</strong></p>

<p>The code to reset the position isn&#39;t needed, unless you add other code that will move the frog left / right for example and you need to reset back to original position.</p>

<p><strong>Links</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.codeclubl.org.uk" rel="nofollow">Code Club</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://codeclub.org/en/clubs/062d87c8-01a3-4181-ac7b-4384907aebde" rel="nofollow">Paignton Library Code Club</a></li></ul></li>
<li>[Scratch](<a href="https://scratch.mit.edu]" rel="nofollow">https://scratch.mit.edu]</a></li>
<li><a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/867211067/" rel="nofollow">Frog jump project</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>Tags</strong></p>

<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:CodeClub" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">CodeClub</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Game" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Game</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Animation" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Animation</span></a>.<a href="/paulsutton/tag:FrogJump" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">FrogJump</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Global Game Jam 2022</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Global Game Jam 2022&#xA;&#xA;The GGJ Mission: To empower individuals worldwide to learn, experiment, and create together through the medium of games.&#xA;&#xA;Dates: 20 - 30 January 2022&#xA;&#xA;Links&#xA;&#xA;Website &#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#Global,#Game,#Jam,#Game,#Development,#Jan2022&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Global Game Jam 2022</p>

<p><strong>The GGJ Mission: To empower individuals worldwide to learn, experiment, and create together through the medium of games.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Dates:</strong> 20 – 30 January 2022</p>

<p><strong>Links</strong></p>
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      <title>Warzone 2100 4.0</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Warzone 2100 4.0&#xA;&#xA;Just spotted this on the Techrights irc channel.  Warzone 2100 4.0 has been released.   I have not played this much,  but when i have I feel that it is a really nice game.  Gaming on Linux&#xA;&#xA;On a related note, there was a really good talk on GPU architecture at Libreplanet back in March from Alyssa Rosenzweig called Does your GPU work with free graphics drivers? which may be worth catching up if you are interested ensuring all your hardware is freedom respecting, there are some excellent options out there now. &#xA;&#xA;REFERENCES&#xA;&#xA;Gaming on Linux&#xA;Warzone 2100&#xA;Techrights&#xA;Vulkan&#xA;Free Software Foundation&#xA;    GNU&#xA;    Libreplanet 2021&#xA;&#xA;TAGS&#xA;&#xA;#YearOfTheFediverse,#warzon2100,#Game,#RTS,#GPL,#FOSS,#Vulkan,&#xA;#Graphics,#Techrights,#Libreplanet&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xA;&#xA;img src=&#34;https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/uploads/default/original/1X/6aac842b7ff5c58385a02f3a131c259281be88c8.png&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; &#xA;&#xA;a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;img alt=&#34;Creative Commons Licence&#34; style=&#34;border-width:0&#34; src=&#34;https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png&#34; //abr /This work is licensed under a a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License/a&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warzone 2100 4.0</p>

<p>Just spotted this on the Techrights irc channel.  Warzone 2100 4.0 has been released.   I have not played this much,  but when i have I feel that it is a really nice game.  <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/04/warzone-2100-40-is-officially-out-now-with-the-vulkan-renderer" rel="nofollow">Gaming on Linux</a></p>

<p>On a related note, there was a really good talk on GPU architecture at Libreplanet back in March from Alyssa Rosenzweig called Does your GPU work with free graphics drivers? which may be worth catching up if you are interested ensuring all your hardware is freedom respecting, there are some excellent options out there now.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/04/warzone-2100-40-is-officially-out-now-with-the-vulkan-renderer" rel="nofollow">Gaming on Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wz2100.net/" rel="nofollow">Warzone 2100</a></li>
<li><a href="http://techrights.org/index/" rel="nofollow">Techrights</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan" rel="nofollow">Vulkan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.fsf.org" rel="nofollow">Free Software Foundation</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow">GNU</a></li>
<li><a href="https://libreplanet.org/2021" rel="nofollow">Libreplanet 2021</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Minetest&#xA;&#xA;img src=&#34;https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/uploads/default/original/1X/6aac842b7ff5c58385a02f3a131c259281be88c8.png&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; &#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xA;&#xA;MINETEST&#xA;&#xA;Minetest&#xA;Source: minetest.net&#xA;&#xA;An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.&#xA;&#xA;Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android. &#xA;&#xA;I have found this to be a really nice game, I never really got in to Minecraft, but this should easily appeal to those who like minecraft and similar games. Lots of options to build on this, develop levels, mods etc. &#xA;&#xA;REFERENCES&#xA;&#xA;Minetest&#xA;Minetest Addons&#xA;Minetest - Mastodon&#xA;Lua&#xA;minetest-dev on Freenode IRC&#xA;Free Software Foundation&#xA;&#xA;TAGS&#xA;&#xA;#YearOfTheFediverse,#Game,#Engine,#Minetest&#xA;&#xA;a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;img alt=&#34;Creative Commons Licence&#34; style=&#34;border-width:0&#34; src=&#34;https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png&#34; //abr /This work is licensed under a a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License/a&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Minetest</p>

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<p><strong>MINETEST</strong></p>

<p><img src="https://www.minetest.net/media/gallery/3-thumb.jpg" alt="Minetest">
Source: minetest.net</p>

<pre><code>An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.

Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android. 
</code></pre>

<p>I have found this to be a really nice game, I never really got in to Minecraft, but this should easily appeal to those who like minecraft and similar games. Lots of options to build on this, develop levels, mods etc.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.minetest.net/" rel="nofollow">Minetest</a></li>
<li><a href="https://content.minetest.net/" rel="nofollow">Minetest Addons</a></li>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GoDot Conference 2021</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://godotengine.org/article/online-godotcon-2021-schedule" rel="nofollow">Schedule here</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>Event :</strong> <a href="https://godotengine.org/" rel="nofollow">GoDot game engine</a> conference
<strong>Date :</strong> 23rd January 2021</p>

<p>Posted by:-</p>
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<p>Debian GNU+Linux info</p>

<pre><code>godot3/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
  Full 2D and 3D game engine with editor
godot3-runner/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
  Godot game engine run-time
godot3-server/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
  Headless Godot game engine run-time
golang-github-gobuffalo-envy-dev/stable 1.6.4-1 all
  simplify working with ENV variables
golang-github-joho-godotenv-dev/stable 1.2.0+git20180115.6bb0851-1 all
  Go port of Ruby&#39;s dotenv library
</code></pre>

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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Powdertoy part 1&#xA;&#xA;The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! &#xA;&#xA;Powdertoy website&#xA;&#xA;The website should auto detect your Operating system so go ahead and click the download button.&#xA;&#xA;download button&#xA;&#xA;When the save dialogue appears click save&#xA;&#xA;Save to a useful location&#xA;Go to where you saved the .zip file&#xA;Right click and extract archive ( the exact procedure will depend on your OS.&#xA;Extract the files to where you saved the .zip file&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;You will end up with a set of files. &#xA;&#xA;Extracted files&#xA;&#xA;Run powder toy&#xA;&#xA;The running program will look similar to this.&#xA;&#xA;running program&#xA;&#xA;Very basic demo video &#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; sandbox=&#34;allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups&#34; src=&#34;https://diode.zone/videos/embed/da7efa74-19cd-4e75-a18f-a7e2c24ad8a3&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;@powdertoy@diode.zone&#xA;&#xA;#powdertoy,#sandbox,#physics,#game&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Powdertoy part 1</p>

<pre><code>The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! 
</code></pre>
<ul><li><a href="https://powdertoy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Powdertoy website</a></li></ul>

<p>The website should auto detect your Operating system so go ahead and click the download button.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy.png" alt="download button"></p>

<p>When the save dialogue appears click save</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy2.png" alt=""></p>
<ul><li>Save to a useful location</li>
<li>Go to where you saved the .zip file</li>
<li>Right click and extract archive ( the exact procedure will depend on your OS.</li>
<li>Extract the files to where you saved the .zip file</li></ul>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy3.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy4.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy5.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy6.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p>You will end up with a set of files.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy7.png" alt="Extracted files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/powdertoy7.png" alt="Run powder toy"></p>

<p>The running program will look similar to this.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/running-powdertoy.png" alt="running program"></p>

<p>Very basic demo video</p>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://diode.zone/videos/embed/da7efa74-19cd-4e75-a18f-a7e2c24ad8a3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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