![]() ![]() First, sand with 120-grit, then move up to 220-grit for a nice smooth finish. An orbital sander works for the straight pieces and sides, but I sanded the curved pieces by hand so they wouldn’t get damaged. My curved pieces were about 9.5″x3.5″ so I cut my long pieces at 10.5″ and my short pieces at 4″. This just needs to be tall enough and long enough to encase the curved pieces. ![]() In this photo, I traced the bottom edge of the center piece about 1/4″ wider than the curved piece, leaving a right angle on the back side which will attach to the base (if that is confusing, scroll down to assembly instructions.) Cut this shape with the scroll saw twice. Once your curved pieces are cut, lay one onto the rest of your board and trace a line imitating the outer shape. (I am definitely an amateur scroller!) Cut out all 4 pieces. This is a pretty simple pattern for a beginner. Use a spray adhesive to adhere the stencils to your wood.īefore you start cutting, drill pilot holes into the sections you’ll be cutting out in the middle of the design.īegin cutting on the scroll saw, starting with the inner cuts then working your way out. You may want a little extra to hold onto when cutting with the scroll saw. I used a French curve stencil and traced out 4 pieces. Once you have them traced, cut 4 pieces of wood at least the length that you need. The first step in this project is to make the curved parts of the bookends. Miter saw (a circular saw could work too).Today I’m going to show you how to create these amazing DIY Decorative Wooden Bookends. Which also means that I have books displayed throughout my home. One of my favorite things to do (other than DIY projects) is read. Hello everyone! I’m excited to be writing my first post as guest contributor on The House of Wood! I’m Sheri from Hazel + Gold Designs and I am a DIY blogger who dabbles in a lot of creative mediums. ![]()
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![]() Voodoo has been criticised for releasing apparent clones of indie games. As of August 2021, the platform has 1 million MAUs in the United States. Outside of games, Voodoo developed the social media platform Wizz in 2020. The company finances select studios and supports them during the prototyping phase, receiving a royalty share in return. The publisher has worked with over 2,000 such studios, which account for 75% of Voodoo's releases. Įxternal developers can submit games through an online platform for Voodoo to evaluate. Helix Jump, developed by H8games, is Voodoo's most successful game with more than 500 million downloads as of August 2020. In December 2019, Voodoo games had 2.6 billion downloads, 300 million monthly active users (MAUs), and 1 billion individual players. Voodoo games were downloaded 2 billion times by April 2019, 3.7 billion downloads by May 2020, and 5 billion by May 2021. Games released by the company include Helix Jump, Baseball Boy, Snake vs Block, Hole.io, Aquapark.io, Purple Diver, Crowd City, and Paper.io. The majority of Voodoo's games are free-to-play " hyper-casual games" developed for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Voodoo acquired the Israeli studio Beach Bum in September for a reported price of $250–300 million. Groupe Bruxelles Lambert acquired a 16% stake in Voodoo for €266 million in August 2021, valuing Voodoo at €1.7 billion. ![]() Voodoo further bought BidShake, a Tel Aviv company developing a marketing automation platform, in June 2021. OHM Games had developed four games for Voodoo in 2020, which together generated 260 million downloads. The company announced an investment in Istanbul-based developer Fabrika Games in September 2020, and acquired Parisian developer OHM Games in December. In total in 2020, Voodoo saw revenues of €380 million, up from €1 million in 2016. Voodoo subsequently opened offices in Singapore and Japan later that month, headed by Julian Corbett and Ben Fox, respectively. According to Yazdi, this deal would help Voodoo to extend their games into the Asia-Pacific market. At this time, Voodoo was valued at $1.4 billion. Tencent acquired a minority stake to undisclosed terms in August that year. īy July 2020, Tencent was looking to acquire a minority stake in Voodoo, which was still majority-owned by Yazdi and Ritter. The company acquired Shoreditch-based developer Gumbug in December that year. Through this new location, Voodoo intended to expand beyond hyper-casual games. This continued with the opening of a Montreal development studio in November 2019, led by Mehdi El Moussali, a former producer for Gameloft. A publishing office in Istanbul, Turkey, was announced in August 2019 and is headed by publishing director Corentin Selz. ![]() īy September 2019, Voodoo employed 220 people, including 150 at its Paris headquarters. It later hired key employees from developers Blizzard Entertainment, King, and Mamau. The studio started out with roughly ten people, looking to eventually expand to 40 employees. A development studio in Berlin, Germany, was established in December 2018, headed by general manager Alexander Willink. At the time, Voodoo had, aside from its Paris headquarters, offices in Montpellier and Strasbourg. Yazdi and Ritter retained control of the company. It was the largest fundraising in the French technology sector since 2015. In May 2018, the American banking company Goldman Sachs, through its West Street Capital Partners VII fund, invested US$200 million in Voodoo. Through 2017, Voodoo quadrupled its staff count to 80 and expected to grow to 150 people by the end of 2018. This method resulted in the successful release of Paper.io in 2016. ![]() Using the Unity game engine, Voodoo tested one new game roughly every week. Using data it gathered from its previous games, the company designed its newer games to attract more players. According to Rivaud, the company was in turmoil for its first four years in operation and opted to change its business strategy thereafter. Yazdi became the chief executive officer of Voodoo, while Gabriel Rivaud acted as the vice-president of games. They had been friends since high school and had previously founded Studio Cadet in 2012, a services company for websites and mobile applications. Voodoo was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter. The company has been criticised for cloning other games. By February 2022, their apps surpassed 6 billion installs. Voodoo's games, predominantly free-to-play " hyper-casual games", have been collectively downloaded 5 billion times as of May 2021. The company was founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter. Voodoo SAS (also referred to as Voodoo.io) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your next steps depend on whether we could verify your account: We'll send the results of your recovery request to the working email address you provided at the beginning of the form within 24 hours. If you use a Chrome browser, see Manage passwordsįor passwords saved to Mac or iOS devices, see View the information stored in a keychain on Mac or Set up iCloud Keychain For help with how to check for saved passwords here are a few suggestions from common browsers and tools:įor passwords you may have saved to Microsoft Edge or Windows Web Credentials, see Save or forget passwords in Microsoft Edge or Accessing Credential Manager Check your web browsers to see if you saved a password there. Think about passwords that you use on other accounts that you may have used here. 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Over the life of the fortress, when the dwarven miners were not digging deeper, they would return to levels 5 and 6 and continue digging in a grid pattern to locate the most valuables. Levels 5 and 6 were set aside for exploratory mining, as they were primarily marble with lots of gem clusters. No enemy from the depths ever made it through this gauntlet, including some pretty ferocious underworld creatures, including the Gorlak, and the Gorlak’s son. In this passage a ballista was erected, as well as a wall of fortifications, behind which the Hammerers had their barracks and training rooms. Level 7 was built with an up stairway at the south end, and a long l shaped passage leading to the downward stairs. ![]() ![]() With this in mind, Ibuilt level 7, the home of the Brazen Hammerers, and elite squad of heavy armor wearing melee dwarves. With a single step and an enemy can (and will) step out onto whichever floor they want, and this is not good. The dwarves learned early on not to use one central stairway for the entire depth of the fortress. That is saying something about the design, which featured among other things, staggered stairwells. Indeed, during the life of the fortress, no enemy ever managed to breach levels 1 through 4. They were defended above and below, and were intended to be inviolate. These four levels were the main backbone of the fortress. Of to one side, a rich loamy clay was unearthed, and a secondary chamber was mined out for kennels and additional farming, as well as some underground plant harvesting. Carpenters had full time jobs making bins for this level, which eventually numbered in the hundreds. Anything not a treasure was stored here, including food, raw ore, and trade goods. This massive, sprawling series of chambers was home to the main stockpile. Next we come up to sub-basement level 1, or the level directly below the initial fortress. 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This would be where all the housing, dining hall, cooking and brewing would take place, as well as the Royal Chambers and private treasure vault for the eventual leader, once Meng stepped down as expedition leader to make way for a mayor. It was unknown how deep the dwarves would have to dig (level 32 it turns out) and so they planned a newer, larger burrow on level 4. The plan for Stasisgem was to dig as deep as possible, in hopes of setting up a magma forge. Meng, architect and engineer as well as expedition leader, set out the mining plan for the next seven levels. Level Zero was meant to be the bulwark of defense for Stasisgem, and the true fortress would be spread out on the many levels below. When spring finally arrived, Meng and his cronies set about planning the full fortress in all its glory. Earlier the initial fortress, or “Ground Zero” was described, and how it was hewn from the stone of Misty Mountain during that first long winter. 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Facebook seems content to ignore your phones settings and force you to use their in-app settings, which is a huge pain and way less efficient. Gadgets 360 was not able to independently verify the feature. 8 Most important messenger settings You must Use now to increase your experience. The feature is available today on iPhone and iPad and will come to Android in the next few months. According to the post, the new feature was spotted on Facebook Messenger app version 314.1.0.19.119. App Lock uses your device’s privacy settings like fingerprint or face authentication to unlock the Messenger app, and your touch or face ID is not transmitted to or stored by Facebook. ![]() The post was first spotted by PhoneArena. Recently, Facebook introduced the Messenger app to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 VR headsets as well.Ī Reddit user spotted the new settings for Messenger's Dark Mode that Facebook appears to be testing. Notably, the feature was already available on the iOS app. Earlier the app only had the option to turn the Dark Mode on or off. Dark Mode has been available since 2019 but now it is said to get a feature to set Dark Mode according to the phone's system's settings. Facebook Messenger is reportedly getting an additional Dark Mode setting on its Android app in the form of System mode. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's capable of killing a Gladiator or anything weaker in one direct hit, although this isn't always the best use of ammo - a single BFG shot expends 50 cells, whereas the Hyperblaster can kill that same Gladiator using only 20. In the single player, the BFG is one of the most useful weapons in the game regarding the tougher enemies.Nearby enemies will be blasted by a laser beam. The energy ball travels through the air slowly. When it is combined with Quad Damage its power is unrivalled by anything else. The BFG requires skill and practice to be used at its full potential, but once comfortable with it, the player will find the BFG as the most useful tool in their arsenal. If the player fires and stays in view until the blast hits, then the Tank Commander's devastating attacks could kill the player. But if the player fires the BFG at a Tank Commander and takes cover before the blast hits, then the Tank Commander will receive less damage. Fighting enemies such as the Tanks and Gladiators requires constant moving or popping in and out of cover, taking potshots. Whilst this can be used to deal great amounts of damage to a lot of enemies in a room, it does have its disadvantages. ![]() If there is an unobstructed line of sight between the enemy, the point of impact, and the player, the enemy will receive the full force of the shockwave and even strong enemies that are hit by the beams beforehand can be killed or even gibbed by the splash damage alone in this manner. The BFG's splash radius on impact to solid wall and ceiling is enormous but how much damage it deals to surrounding enemy depends on the location of the enemy, point of impact and the player. If the player experienced the BFG9000 from Doom 2, the principle is very similar. The BFG’s damaging system is quite complicated. Its only downsides are that it uses 50 Cells per shot and it takes a while for it to fire and reload. In the Doom Bible, design document for the original Doom, it is explicitly referred to as the 'Big Fucking Gun'. When it hits something, the sphere will explode, taking out any enemy that is within range.Īs noted above, the BFG is referred to as the "Big, uh, freakin’ gun" in the manual, and is also known as the 'Bio Force Gun' in the Doom movie (although The Rock namedrops the expletive nomanclature). As it's traveling, it will exert its excess energy in the form of green beams that lash out at any enemies near it, usually killing them quickly. When fired, it releases a large green sphere of compact energy that travels forward until it hits a wall or other obstacle. This weapon redefines the word "wallpaper." Simply fire the BFG into a small room of unsuspecting Strogg and observe the new red paint job.Īn even more powerful version of the famous BFG 9000 from the Doom series, the BFG 10k (simply called BFG in the manual) is the most powerful weapon in Quake 2. ![]() |
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