It would be a rather short article: Download, extract, run.
Regrettably 12 year old me would not have understood those instructions.
I concur. I asked Tuomo (13yrs) to extract and run a patch to Mass Effect 2 yesterday.
No comprende.
And this is an otherwise very tech savvy kid (who has fixed a dozen phones)
As indicated by the emoji, my three-word article wasn’t entirely serious.
More seriously, if someone has trouble downloading, extracting a zip and double-clicking an EXE, then maybe PyInSky would be a better fit. If those 3 steps are problematic, then simply using FemtoIDE afterwards is also going to be problematic. So far, it was designed with users of VSCode in mind, not Blockly. We’d also need more than an article in a magazine. Maybe an entire “How to make a Pokitto game” series of youtube videos.
This was accidentally left out from the first issue so it could be in #2:
- An article, probably about licensing and free culture concepts (@drummyfish )
According the poll people like interviews the most: [POLL] Pokitto Magazine #1: Your chance to influence its future!
Should we interview Brendon Slade from NXP? This is his comment about our great community:
I agree, interviews are interesting.
I also think a „production history“ could be nice
I want more advertising!
I want reviews!
That’s up to you guys to send things to advertise
As long as the ads don’t take up too much of the page, aren’t animated, don’t have sound and don’t attempt to track your movements. :P
Depending on the kind of review and the time i could make one
It is up to you. You can select any game/app you want for the review.
I think i would write why pokitto games are awesome for „real“ gamers and easily can make as much fun as triple A titles and pick some of my favs…
Still just a few more and we have as much articles as in the first mag(!). Looking at the poll, these might be good to have also:
- HW hacking articles
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Advanced level articles
- Any suggestions of the subjects? We have a lot of advanced guys here, who can explain any subject with no problems
Don’t forget to add Pokitto schematics part 2.
What would you consider a nice hardware project? I don’t know how many you’ve seen, but most of them end up not working or not in any way useful
How about Bluetooth to PEX? Simple and cheap.
Maybe the classical Christmas LED tree
Actually, I’d love a tutorial for controlling one of those 8x8 matrixes of LEDs from the Pokitto, maybe that could be something interesting as a hat project in general?
Would a hardware hacking article 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 be Pokitto related?