In the Show Tell blog, we indicated that we are giving the game away for FREE on Steam. This is only possible to maintain if we find a good revenue stream.
Realizing that the game we have produces lots of data that the rest of the gaming industry is highly interested in, we found a way to monetize on our game.
By creating an API from our gaming data we now have a datapoint that companies are willing to pay top dollar for
We start of by creating an HTTP endpoint
Next steps are to loop through our data and add it to an string. Eventually responding to the HTTP call with the complete dataset that they have access to.
Pull request
We found Innovation Norways code and noticed that id lacked comments. We therefore decided to provide commenting services so that future “SELF” understands what was going on.
This time, we would like to share some valuable tips we’ve learned along the way and have found truly useful:
1. Enable that big Expression Box
Ever felt the pain of trying to edit large expressions in that tiny expression box?!?!?
Would it have killed you MS to make this box bigger!?!?!?
Well now you can do something about just that:
Settings -> View all Power Automate Settings -> Toggle that toggle!TADA! Look at that large expression window!! Your productivity will sky rocket!
2. Simplify debugging of Power Pages Javascript Code
Power pages support adding inline javascript in variaous places. This can be quite usefull if you need to add some some quick javascript magic.
Adding some inline javascript to a Power Pages web page
It’s however very hard to debug this code as it’s added inline into the page :/
Hard to debug code
The trick is to add sourceURL to the code:
The trick
This approach makes the inline code appear in the Sources tab, of the Browser, as though it were an actual file. This significantly simplifies finding it, setting breakpoints, and modifying or overriding the code.:
Sharing is caring, to the teams without a designer, here are some free UI elements to help you get started!
We recommend using Figma: https://www.figma.com/downloads/ (free design software), and to help you get started we collected some main components for iOS, Android and Web (fluent), and of course the Super Mario colors!
‘Tis true what they say, sharin’ be carin’ like a true pirate!
We hoisted our white flag and approached fellow pirates too se what needed doing. @in1 welcomed us aboard, even tucking away their plank for the occasion. They needed help fighting off backgrounds in their graphics, a honorable task to help with!
With the help of this fancy tool from Adobe (https://express.adobe.com/nb-NO/tools/remove-background), Tommy from @in2 successfully fought every and all white background in @in1 graphics. Resulting in clear and calm user experience, just like the friendly waters we prefer.
Since our team is on the law-abiding side of the game, we want to be orderly at all stages. When new code is written and pushed, we make sure to create pull requests so that a colleague can review the code and ensure that we are on the right track.
For build and deploy we use Github Actions
Transparency is also important to us, which is why our repo is open. We have nothing to hide. Feel free to run a code review on our code 😉
Arrr mateys! The captain of the EvidiPirateBay showed us great kindness by supplying us with the batteries for our LEGO EV3 Ship’s cat. Though some of our crew had to walk the plank and continue their duties from a distant land, we raise a glass to the EvidiPirateBay for their hearty generosity.
For this we deserve the “Community Champion” badge:
And “Sharing is caring”
On my way to solve the ongoing Head 2 Head Challenge I came across a blog article that might be a way of solving the challenge.
It’s more important to me that my fellow contestants and rivals learn more about Power Pages – then it is for me to win the challenge – I would like to share this blog article with you.
Hot tip for the next Head 2 Head challenge: When you google for answers, include the name of the person providing the challenge 😉
Arrr, ’tis true what ye say. In this age of Artificial Intelligence and large language models, ’tis important that we share our learnings and explorations with fellow scalawags for innovation.
We hope Evidi releases the Kraken of Nvidia image generation prompting… and ye’d best keep that shenanigan within pirate domains!
When harnessing tha powers of prompting, we keep our sample API requests tucked away in a Postman collection. Easy to use, easy to share! #ShareAlike, me hearties! #Sharin’BeCarrin’!
