The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development, now on Kickstarter
Thank you all for joining us yesterday for the Git's Birthday Bash, and for helping us celebrate his 10010th birthday. As a token of appreciation for your generosity, we have now unlocked a new add-on item for our backers: exclusive catboy bath water.
I mean, how often does one get to help support a more independent web AND get catboy bath water in return? Hurry up though, cause there is only a limited number available 😽
[Bonus under the cut]
Seriously: help us reach our goal by backing us on Kickstarter, reblogging this post, and sharing it with your friends!! Every little bit helps!!
[Catboy Bath Water Promo art by @sgt-spank + bonus GitHub by @brokemycrown.]
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Tamagotchi P1 Core Available for Analogue Pocket & MiSTer FPGA Thanks to GitHub Project
If you’ve got an Analogue Pocket or a MiSTer FPGA (field programmable gate array), and you love Tamagotchi, then you’re in for a treat. These are multiple video-game-system portable handle devices that allow customized programming.
image source: iam_agg on Twitter
Adam Gastineau, agg23 on GitHub has published a project that they’ve been working on for three months. The project takes the Tamagotchi P1 ROM and transports it onto the Analogue Pocket & MiSTer FPGA platforms. However this isn’t just your regular P1, there’s some special treats! There is savestates/sleep & wake feature, instant resume at core launch, turbo play up to 1,800x (which is ~30 minutes a second), and the ability to set custom backgrounds (love that!). Adam notes that building the core was way more fun than making it run on different platforms.
There are plenty instructions and documents posted for you to review and download. Available on GitHub to download. Enjoy!
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✨Spotlight on Localhost HQ✨
Today we're here to tell you all about Localhost HQ, the first setting for the adventures of our protagonist (and fujoshi extraordinaire) Boba-tan.
Follow us under the cut to learn more about the #FujoGuide world and the amazing people that made it happen! And don't forget to back us on Kickstarter (and share this with your friends) so we can make this world a reality!
🏰 Localhost HQ 🏰
So, what is Localhost HQ? Well, we don't have—nor want!—all the details. The vaguer it is, the easier it adapts to any fanfic scenario. On the technical side, computers in a network use "localhost" to refer to themselves, for example to fetch a website they themselves host!
In the #FujoGuide world, Localhost HQ houses all programs that run on a user's own machine as part of the development workflow. Most importantly, the Terminal (a.k.a. Shell), but also programs like Git. In our version, Boba-tan has her very own (relatable) room within it.
🏰 Localhost Character 1: Boba-tan 🏰
Needing no introduction (ok, some introduction), Boba-tan is the author and protagonist of our zine. She was originally designed to serve as @bobaboard's own mascot by @essential-randomness, and brought to life by @ymske.
In our Kickstarter, you can see her all over the place, drawn by many different artists (some of which don't like the spotlight). For our character roster and avatar, she's been brought to life by @ikam177! Witness her in her full glory!
Want to know more about her? Well, she's the blankest slate of them all! Boba-tan is the quintessential fujoshi (or fujin, if you want), meant to embody the best quirks of transformative fandom folks: openness, enthusiasm, creativity, and heaps and heaps of thirst!
🏰 Localhost Character 2: Terminal 🏰
Is it Terminal or is it Shell? You too can now be part of one of programming's most pointless (and thus heated) debates.
Regardless of how you choose to refer to him, we all know who he actually is: the sexy live-in maid-pa of Localhost HQ.
Terminal is a powerful tool in the programming world, used to run other programs and orchestrate complex interactions between them. He also runs the show in the #FujoGuide world, and is able to quickly summon any local program, and to interact directly with the operating system.
(comic by @tempural)
Is there any limit to Terminal's powers? We don't know, actually, and we don’t want to know! Please play around with hi— I mean, it!
If you love his look (a powerful mix of Danny Trejo and Revolver Ocelot), you can thank—and follow—@mappapapa's incredible work! And if you've wondered what's on his apron...well, that's cowsay for you!
(Shhh don’t tell anyone about this still-unused version, with a terminal-looking eyepatch on his eye)
🏰Localhost Character 3: Git🏰
We've already spent a lot of time on our favorite catboy, but that's no reason to ignore him—not that he'd ever let us!
If you haven't yet, see him in action and learn all about him in our demo (link in the Kickstarter).
This time, the hard work of turning our technical and trope guidance into a bona-fide hottie comes from @brokemycrown—the master of sexiness who also helped us with the overall art direction!
(If you're wondering what the lines on his hoodie are, those are “git branches”.)
🏰 Localhost Character 4: GitHub 🏰
☁️ Cloud character 1: GitHub ☁️
Unlike Git, GitHub is not a program that runs in a "local environment"—that is, a developer's own computer. Instead, GitHub is a cloud-based service where programmers can upload their own "Git repositories" to share their code with other developers.
In the #FujoGuide world, characters like Git live in ~the cloud~, a network of data spawning around the world and a place we want to carefully avoid showing. In part, to keep an aura of mystery, and in part because mysterious places not well-defined in canon are fujin catnip.
So why is GitHub at Localhost HQ? Because Git is there, of course! The two share a powerful psychic connection. While Git hasn't yet accepted that they're meant to become one, that is not for lack of trying. Much to Terminal's chagrin, GitHub keeps teleporting to HQ, uninvited.
Once again, the amazing artist behind our favorite tentacled catboy is @brokemycrown. We'll probably keep shouting them out over and over again in these spotlights, so just go right ahead and follow them now.
(I'm sure you can appreciate the subtle character design cues here.)
...and that is all for the Localhost HQ spotlight! If you like the amazing work of our team, you can hire our artists and writers (and help us launch this project) by backing our Git Art/Fic tiers! You can also help us by reblogging this post and sharing our kickstarter link with friends, family, colleagues and Discord servers.
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