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![]() ![]() ![]() Then he applied Bumble & Bumble’s Dryspun Texture Spray and finally dried the roots with a very low speed hair-drier, leaving a powdery matte effect. He used a brush to paint on colours from the MAC Pigment range mixed with water around the roots of the parting and crown area. It is a great example that shows that you can use both coloring techniques at the same time. You can smell candy just looking at it Dark Shades Red Ombre. Light peach mixed with bright red is the proof. This is probably a combination of ombre and balayage since you can see some red highlights at the top and that is what makes it even more interesting. You can truly combine any color with red. Here’s how the look was created by Bumble & Bumble’s artistic director. Black and red ombres look amazing on shorter hair as well. Red is the perfect punch of edgy color for women who feel fierce and bold in their look. The main hair colour ideas for 2016 winter are still centred on warm reds – but it’s going to be platinum-ice and cool ash-browns all the way from spring onwards! Red to Black Reverse Ombre Hair An electric red peeks through on long dark reverse ombre hair. And having our balayage and ombre′s cooled down for spring with some fabulously chic ash-blonde and ash-brown shades! This color has created dimensions throughout this beautiful red ombre. The technique used was the classic ombre technique, with a bit of a twist. This color was created using a custom combo of Redken Color Fusion and Shades EQ Cream lines. In addition to those exciting new hair colour ideas for this year, we’ll be wearing less strawberry-blonde and more platinum-blonde shades in the New Year. This dark red ombre hair is an exciting twist to the classic ombre. 'Sometimes people with very dark hair can pull very red/orange warm tones when getting balayage done,' Cassanova says. ![]() warm, neutral, or cool) will influence the results of your balayage. 'If you’re someone who doesn’t like warm tones, then balayage is probably not for you. According to our experts, your natural hair color and its tones (e.g. Short hairstyles for women: Cool Two Toned Short Haircut with Bangs According to our experts, your natural hair color and its tones (e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part III: The Emergence of Live Service Platforms As the business of producing hits became more unsustainable, companies looked for new ways to build steady, long-term revenue. Successful game concepts were endlessly copied. Thousands of new games were released on Steam and mobile App Stores every year. Double-A studios like Asobo (a Plague’s Tale) and independent developers (Rimworld, Stardew Valley) started to take more market share.īut more studios also brought more competition. Steam, App Stores, and other digital distribution erased barriers imposed by shelf spaces.Īs industry barriers disappeared, smaller independent studios proliferated. Over the past ten years, public engines in Unity and Unreal have caught up to (and in many cases surpassed) private engines in performance and tooling. This dynamic of bigger-is-better produced many of the gaming giants today: Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Take-two Entertainment, Ubisoft, and so on. Bigger companies could invest more towards central engine technology and publishing spend. These limitations pushed the industry towards consolidation. Best Buy, GameStop, and other gaming retailers had limited shelf space, largely reserved for franchise titles with large marketing budgets. The second limiting factor was physical distribution. Few outside of the large studios and publishers had access to high quality engines. The first was access to engine technology: games engines were incredibly difficult to build. Two key factors gated the numbers of big releases each year. Game development was traditionally a slow process. To better understand why, we need to trace through the state of the industry. One interpretation is this: gameplay innovation is no longer a sustainable source of competitive advantage for the gaming industry. Drodo was the first mover in its category, but it accrued little of the first-mover advantages. Drodo became a sideshow in its own genre.ĭrodo’s story raises an interesting question for the gaming industry: who captures the value of gameplay innovation? Business theories often talk about “first-mover advantage”. So many copycat games entered the market that the genre got its own name: Auto Battlers.īy the time Drodo built its standalone Auto Chess game (divorced from Dota) in late 2019, the market was crowded with fast-followers. Blizzard introduced Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Riot redesigned Auto Chess for League of Legends, releasing Team Fight Tactics. Valve re-imagined Auto Chess as Dota Underlord. Competitors quickly flooded the market with Auto Chess clones. Unfortunately, Drodo’s decision did not pay dividends. After all, why let others capitalize on its success? When Valve and other large publishers approached Drodo with acquisitions offers, Drodo turned these offers in favor of building its own standalone game. Many saw Auto Chess as the most important gameplay revolution since Battle Royale.Īt the time, it seemed like Drodo struck gold. ![]() ![]() Over seven million players flocked to Auto Chess in its first three months of launch. ![]() It was a mod of the popular game Dota 2, and it became an instant viral sensation. Technically, Auto Chess wasn’t a standalone game. The game combined unique elements of strategy and deck building. Set on the classic chess board, Auto Chess provided a common pool of champions for battle. In January 2019, a small Chinese game studio called Drodo Studios released Auto Chess. This article explores the value of gameplay innovation and being a first-mover in gaming today. ![]() ![]() ![]() FileMaker Pro scripts can be triggered in a variety of ways, such as when a database is opened, when a user clicks a button, and so forth. Through FileMaker Pro's interface, you can create scripts, and attach them to a database. In addition to supporting AppleScript interaction, FileMaker Pro also has its own internal scripting capabilities. The following example code demonstrates how to retrieve the name of every opened database. For example: tell application "FileMaker Pro" This includes any opened, but hidden databases. tell application "FileMaker Pro"ĭo menu menu item "Hide Window" of menu "Window"Ī count command may be used to determine the number of currently opened databases. ![]() The following example code demonstrates how to do this. Using this method, you can hide a database by triggering the Hide Window menu item, which can be found under the Window menu. However, FileMaker Pro will allow AppleScript to interact with its menus, with the use of the do menu command. ![]() While FileMaker Pro has a show command, it does not have a hide command. To show a database, or bring it to the front of any of other visible database windows, you may use the show command. In some cases, your database may already be opened, but may simply be hidden from view, or be behind another database. Open theDatabase for Accounts "Admin" with passwords "heroes" set theDatabase to choose file with prompt "Please locate aįileMaker Pro database file to open:" tell application "FileMaker Pro" The following example code demonstrates how to open a single database with a specified account name and password. If multiple databases are to be opened, then a list of databases, along with a list of account names and passwords, may be passed to the open command as parameters. These parameters are pluralized because the open command may also be used to open one or more database files. When using the open command, you may optionally specify values for the Accounts and passwords parameters, if the database requires an account name and password. This is done by using the open command, followed by the path to the database file that you want to open. If the desired database is not opened, then you may need to write code to open it. This can be done by first checking to see if the database exists, as demonstrated by the following example code. ![]() When scripting FileMaker Pro, the first thing you will probably want to do, is make sure that your target database is opened. The first thing we will discuss, is general database interaction. You may download a copy of this database from This example database is password protected with an account name of Admin and a password of heroes. Therefore, some of the AppleScript terminology discussed, may not function with older versions of FileMaker.Ī FileMaker Pro database, named Super Heroes, is referenced throughout this month's column. This month, we are going to continue discussing data storage and access, this time, using FileMaker Pro, a third-party commercial database application.įor the purposes of following along with this month's column, if you do not own FileMaker Pro, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial from Īll AppleScript code covered in this month's column was written and tested with FileMaker Pro version 8.0.1. Another column explored methods of storing and accessing data in script properties and property list files. One column provided an introduction to Database Events, a background application in Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, which allows AppleScripts to interact directly with SQLite databases for the purposes of storing and accessing data. |