I started playing Littlewood
➤Simple town builder. Collect resources to build, upgrade, and decorate the various buildings in town.
➤You saved the world from the bad guy. Now you amnesia and it's time to rebuild
➤I couldn't decide on a hairstyle so I went with being bald
➤Right from the start you can change the terrain.
➤Time passes when you take actions that gain resources. Talking is free.
➤End of day you get to watch all your experience bars fill up.
➤The grind is the game, but I've played for a few hours and haven't really seen any ways to speed up the resource gathering. You need wood/rock for everything and you have to collect the raw materials and then convert to planks/bricks.
➤There's 3 types of wood/rock BTW
➤Upgrading the buildings can be a bit costly and the reward is "3 rare items" most of the time. They couldn't think of anything to fill this out with?
➤I going to keep playing to see if the game opens up more.

I ran across the Wikipedia article on Littlewood polynomials. It has a plot of all the roots of the degree 15 polynomials, that looks very nice. I thought I would create an animation showing the roots for degree 1, degree 2, etc. I also thought maybe I'd add a plot of the roots for something with degree higher than 15. Here is the degree 16 plot (this is reduced to 25% of the original image). It took 2 hours in Sage on my laptop, so I might try 17, even 18 - who knows? I have the thought that I ought to be able to reduce the precision, and this ought to speed things up a lot (since for plotting much lower precision than the default is needed). I don't particularly like blue, though: I'll have to try other colors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood_polynomial

Just finished Amazing Grace Adams [2023] by Fran #Littlewood. This is an amazing [yes, it is!] debut novel about a 45yo woman, her teenage daughter and her husband - whom you get to know and understand during different episodes going back and forth, over tens of years, which weren't easy but rich. Great storytelling, this book a monument of a woman in her midfourties, about parents, and about teens. ****

#rebcommendations #bookstodon @bookstodon

This week's Player Intrusion comes from Stace who recommends our listeners play #Littlewood!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/894940/Littlewood/

Last night I bought the game "Littlewood" on Steam... and immediately refunded it, because you can't even remap the keys!
Which is kind of a deal breaker when it's hardcoded to use WASD keys, and I'm not on a Qwerty keyboard

Then I realized I did the exact same thing to the exact same game a year or 2 before

https://store.steampowered.com/app/894940/Littlewood/

Again, no reason for the PM who hit the ground (with an almighty thud) to have power to stack the Lords. But for #Truss to make Mark #Littlewood a peer (he’s secretive, self-interested, Brexit pushing, #IEA member of Tufton Street who incubated Kwasi #Kwarteng ‘s economy-crashing budget) well, the argument for #reform of the #Lords just got that bit LOUDER.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/03/25/there-should-be-no-place-in-the-house-of-lords-for-mark-littlewood/

A new #introduction because now I'm over here

Hi! I'm Sam,

I like lots of things!

Cozy and Chill Games:

#FFXIV #ACNH #Pokemon #FallGuys #CultoftheLamb #Littlewood

A few fandoms!

#SailorMoon #ATLA #BTSARMY #RPDR

I have two #cats and one #pug dog

I love papercrafting and mixed-media art

I write code during the day (but don't really post about that)

but I will post whatever other random thoughts I have...

I'll follow you back if you are a real human

I think the great challenge in playing #Littlewood is resisting the urge to do things more efficiently.

It's really a game where slowing down and just puttering around and playing with stuff is its own reward.

Holy crap! Littlewood is out of Early Access!

I bought it in Early Access around Christmas, and other than playing it once to try it out I've been waiting for the full release. This is great!

#littlewood ist _sehr_ knuffig. #linuxgaming #itch