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Ember Chime - how to estimate time?
My first app is out. Ember Chime version 1 has been released on the Google Play Store. But that's not the end, quite the opposite. Read more in the article ;-)
ApplicationsEmber Chime - custom time guide
Ember Chime is a gentle hourly chime for Android that helps you pause, take a breath, and return to the present moment – as often as you like. Join the open testing..
ApplicationsGlassworks Fajrum: Czech game about fire, sand and furnace operation
Arnsdorf, 1680. You inherited a furnace, a recipe, and a debt of fifty groschen. Buyers from Haida await behind the forest, the first batch is crackling in the furnace, and your glassblower wants a raise. Guide to a game that takes no nonsense.
GamesScriptorium: Czech game about ink, parchment, and survival in a monastery
Olomouc, 1465. You were given a cell, a goose quill, and a debt to the abbot. Cellarium with groschen awaits behind the wall, the first transmutation attempt smolders in the athanor, and an old scribe claims you will run out of ink by morning. Guide to a game that didn't worry about history — because it didn't need to.
GamesCity of ink and lead: how printing came to Prague
An anonymous figure who feared the scribes' guild. A printer who became mayor. And Melantrich — the man who swallowed the competition and gave his name to an entire street.
HistoryThree fingers write, the whole body suffers: how scribes lived in medieval monasteries
The typo demon, women with teeth stained blue from lapis lazuli, and monks complaining about parchment margins. Real life in the scriptorium was far from quiet.
Middle AgesGutenberg, Fust and Schöffer's betrayal: an ancient tragedy in the Mainz workshop
A penniless visionary, a loan shark with a lawyer, and a journeyman testifying against his master. The story of printing's invention is full of betrayal, court trials, and the Faust legend.
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