{"title": "Why you should care about Dani's Race?", "timestamp": 1784911121.8567789, "description": "[Dani's Race](/games/Dani's_Race) is a pretty to look at, open-world game. Is this a good enough reason to care about it? No. It's not. There are plenty of good looking games out there. And Dani's Race is not even close to some of them. *Dani's Race* is a Libre \"GTA Clone\". Okay... so what? It's not the only one. And it is not even that GTA-like anyway. Yes, you can get in and out of cars. Yes, you have an open world. Yes, the levels are structured into missions. But so what? Why should you give a damn? What's so special about this game in particular? Well...\r\n\r\nLet's start with a square.\r\n", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film \"Moria's Race\" and the lead developer of it's game sequel \"Dani's Race\".\r\n\r\n[My Story](/about/who_is_blender_dumbass_)\r\n\r\nMore links to me ( view page source to see how I did those ):\r\n\r\n![internetarchive](https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22J.Y.Amihud%22) ![imdb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15214305) ![notabug](http://notabug.org/jyamihud) ![odysee](https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f) ![codeberg](https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/)", "invited": ["AngryAlien", "Erwinjitsu", "trueauracoral", "Cricetus", "elban", "Troler", "johny", "RowdyJoe", "adgbeveridge", "doublelion", "alkyilcycloalke", "jedi66", "WanchaiMike", "Trolli123", "ddd", "ByteBlast", "dolphinana", "Madiator2011", "Uriel_Cohen", "mk-la", "TestUser", "Mr._MotherFucker", "MorsMortium", "cptbichez", "dbbs", "Xavi", "test", "Ozoned", "Tcll", "FranzoPow"], "invited_by": "blenderdumbass", "title": "Blender Dumbass", "website": "blenderdumbass.org", "mastodon": "@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online", "username": "blenderdumbass", "email_verified": true, "jami": "", "peertube": "https://peer.madiator.cloud/c/blender_dumbass/videos", "activity_pub": {"pub": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAqzwMvWrEKQfGdoyZHn/x\n1XbAxaFagX29NlP7JVC8O7rZWB9jYMzJsn5jWC8+8aWOoBUVDTIY8CZQR+pUiIBc\nBr5XW760pgPGeVCqE50Ts9lhehjr2z+rh0sdeUrNbYyiZ9HB+Wz74M3b08Xde7lj\njzH416uxh1727m+wz04TC4pGOQq4Bzgqyid2RFG44bw150n7QhGwDBqN9vcyS8iR\nJnoUMABFHdu/AhDgoTjHIvXNieNwLKDDfp0a9aWfEEIPxo4SWm9y7azZASZY3KgC\n3JDHvGTtOnGG7nfMSsGSB1gU/vEG0HJ67dOmLt9HQlgkpJCiVYQ4ZuHUWdk1WExA\n7wIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n", "followers": ["https://shark.madiator.com/users/a48b85shv6zk0001", "https://shark.madiator.com/users/a8nizbgfpor600c4", "https://social.dl4ax.radio/users/alexander", "https://mstdn.social/users/lefractal", "https://mastodon.online/users/blendernation", "https://swiss.social/users/rettichschnidi", "https://mastodon.world/users/lesmccann", "https://mstdn.social/users/gwendolenau", "https://sharkey.flauschbereich.de/users/aeeeefmt1fhn0007", "https://mementomori.social/users/levi", "https://mastodon.social/users/schnatterick", "https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115611070628088773", "https://mastodon.social/users/The_Escapist", "https://btfree.social/pub/actors/firesidefedi", "https://cupoftea.social/users/magnetichuman", "https://mastodon.online/users/troler", "https://btfree.social/pub/actors/ozoned", "https://mastodon.social/users/simonwood", "https://mastodon.social/users/rowdyjoe", "https://todon.nl/users/soloojos", "https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116051136211425975", "https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116696538002197507"]}, "css_posts": "", "css_personal": "", "css_user_global_priority": false, "fandomhood_gifts": {"@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online": 80, "@ozoned@btfree.social": 150, "@rowdyjoe@mastodon.social": 47}, "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass"}, "thumbnail": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/thumbs/whycareDR.png", "license": "cc-by-sa", "views": {"amount": 15, "dates": {"2026-07-24": 15}}, "recording": "", "comments": {"comments": [{"text": "[@blenderdumbass](https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass) a Libre GTA clone is a god-send to the Libre-Gaming world. Keep on keeping on\ud83d\udc4c", "username": "_netzn01_social.linux.pizza", "edited": true, "id": 0, "timestamp": 1784920189.3449757}, {"text": "> I'm serious. A square. What is a square? A square is a 2D object, with 4 corners, where all corners are 90\u00b0 and all sides are exactly the same length.\r\n\r\nconsider the closed interval [0,1] as a subspace of R. The product [0,1]\u00d7[0,1] is just the unit square in R^2. Open sets in the square are unions of products of open sets in [0,1]. That is, they are unions of open rectangles", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1784919314.5800326, "p_index": {"2": 5}}, {"text": "> And there is technically a phenomenal 3D real-time strategy game called 0 A. D. which just breaks my brain when it comes to how good it looks, given that it is Libre.\r\n\r\nLibre just means the code is out there for anyone to play around with. It does not entail quality or effort. It is just that most game devs don't care about making their games hackable and instead concern themselves with publishing them to big platforms, such as Steam.\r\n\r\nThere are exceptions, such as Thrive, which is God for honest libre game on Steam.", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1784919719.5044544, "p_index": {"2": 87}}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["danisrace", "moriasrace", "game", "gamedev", "freesoftware", "blender3d", "python", "programming", "gta", "gta5", "gtav", "gta6", "gtaiv", "gtasa", "gtavicecity", "gta3", "stupertuxkart", "libregaming", "zeroad", "supertux", "tux", "gnu", "linux", "gnulinux", "opensource"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "lemmy": [""], "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/why_you_should_care_about_dani_s_race_", "likes": ["blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass", "Troler"], "boosts": ["https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass"]}