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I always start by scratching my own itch then I quickly switch to scratching everyone's else itches and then I end up jumping ship. 101%...

I always start by scratching my own itch then I quickly switch to scratching everyone's else itches and then I end up jumping ship. 101% of the time.

If it weren't for my stable developer job I would be screwed! 🙈

That's why art should be made for the creator. If I had sticked to my vision and my desire to just make stuff, I would have finished BR...

That's why art should be made for the creator. If I had sticked to my vision and my desire to just make stuff, I would have finished BR Food Simulator by now and I would have finished Farming Dioramas (and many other prototypes), due to not worrying about the "market".

I'm now living in Japan 🇯🇵 , my dogs died, my priorities and my point of view about a lot of things have changed, so I'm resuming all these projects and making many others... for me and for the sake of making stuff.

I start creating things FOR ME and then after I make the initial iterations I get blind thinking about the "market".This also...

I start creating things FOR ME and then after I make the initial iterations I get blind thinking about the "market".

This also hapenned with my big game project Brazilian Street Food Simulator: I wanted to make it just for me, to toy around with Brazilian machines. So I made that trailer, and a tiny prototype.

Then it went viral and then I got cursed by worrying only about the market :P

But at least the project is still alive after almost a year without progress (Koda, my dog, died 😢 🐶 ).

Hi after a 6 month hiatus! I am truly cursed of being a "prototype" gamedev guy - I actually CREATE A LOT of things but never...

Hi after a 6 month hiatus! I am truly cursed of being a "prototype" gamedev guy - I actually CREATE A LOT of things but never finish them.

2023 I was making a diorama farming game where you would observe the farm sitting at the side of your screen, inspired by Win96's Johnny Castaway.

Then I: "nah, what's the point, who would want play something like that". Fast forward 2 years it's now a hot genre on Steam, fueled by the success of Rusty's Retirement.

2023 post: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@alfredbaudisch/110374385744273544

"But without social media what am I going to do when I have to wait in line or in the toilet or wait at the airport?"All of...

"But without social media what am I going to do when I have to wait in line or in the toilet or wait at the airport?"

All of these:

Solution 1: have a loaded e-book reader in your smartphone.

Solution 2: SteamDeck.

Solution 3: pen + tiny pocket notebook, to doodle, plan, etc.

Solution 4: do nothing. Mindfulness.

So many alternatives to scrolling social media. I have done/am doing all of these for the past ~5 months.

Instagram and TikTok is not a problem, I didn't use them before anyway. I just had to cut these micro-blogging platforms.I've been...

Instagram and TikTok is not a problem, I didn't use them before anyway. I just had to cut these micro-blogging platforms.

I've been using RescueTime since 2010 and my average recorded time was around 4h/day in these websites.

So by quitting them I have FOUR EXTRA HOURS per day of free time.

I recommend everyone to monitor their online activity. It's so much time wasted in these websites. The 5 minutes doom scrolling every now and then add up.

Now back to the cave. See you in a week (or not).

I was on a social media hiatus that lasted ~5 months.It was great. No X, Mastodon nor BlueSky.With the extra time:- Learned vim, neovim...

I was on a social media hiatus that lasted ~5 months.

It was great. No X, Mastodon nor BlueSky.

With the extra time:
- Learned vim, neovim (motions and plugins), tmux.
- Read a book per week.
- Progressed the development of my game Brazilian Street Food Simulator
- Started 4 other gamedev projects
- Played World of Warcraft Hardcore (one death = character deleted)
- Played 10s of games from my Steam backlog
- Touched a lot of grass 🌱

I'll still be semi-away, coming back once a week or so.

I'd probably be forever banned from all the "influencer developer" circles. You know, guys like "The Primeagen" and...

I'd probably be forever banned from all the "influencer developer" circles. You know, guys like "The Primeagen" and the like?

My crime? I write code comments and I use basic language constructs, how dare? :D

(as a side note, I keep marking "Do not recommend channel" to YouTube but these clowns keep popping up in my timeline)

Capcom when it sees one of my Ludum Dare documentaries that include me cooking meat in glorious 4K: "COME WORK WITH US!"Context:...

Capcom when it sees one of my Ludum Dare documentaries that include me cooking meat in glorious 4K: "COME WORK WITH US!"

Context: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/dragons-dogma-2s-food-is-actually-live-action/

My video (2021, related to Blender, Godot and PS1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnoxfp1FdY

I was inspired by @PixelProphecy epic game jam documentaries and tried to do a similar one.

#Blender #GodotEngine #GameJam #ldjam

Actually, NINE art revamps, because I also pivoted it once to be an ASCII game, when I was obsessed with RexPaint + Dwarf Fortress + UnReal...

Actually, NINE art revamps, because I also pivoted it once to be an ASCII game, when I was obsessed with RexPaint + Dwarf Fortress + UnReal World.

Then I started making a whole new version of it as an ASCII Roguelike (and of course also changing tech yet again 😬 ).

My game already went through 8 art styles revamps and 10 gameplay concept revamps 👀 Realistic 3DMinimalistic pixel artPre-rendered...

My game already went through 8 art styles revamps and 10 gameplay concept revamps 👀

Realistic 3D
Minimalistic pixel art
Pre-rendered isometric pixel art
MS Paint-like rough pixel art
Stylized 3D
Vectorial
Top down isometric 3D
Monochromatic Pixel Art (PlayDate)

It goes like this:
1) I play/engage with THING
2) Now I want to make thing like THING
3) I lose interest of what I was doing, and now the only thing that matters is related to THING

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. 🙈

Unfortunately, worrying about money is necessary for dog longevity. Because then you can always pay for the best food and treatment.For...

Unfortunately, worrying about money is necessary for dog longevity. Because then you can always pay for the best food and treatment.

For example, for the 4 days that he spent in intensive care, it cost me only €289 here in Portugal's countryside.

In Denmark these same 4 days would have cost me approximately 72000 DKK ~ €9653 and the treatment would be much worse (there's a vet culture there of saying "if the dog is already too old, it's better to euthanize").

I moved out at the perfect time.

We almost lost Koda last week due to acute pancreatitis.He's back home since Sunday and as active as always!But he's taking a lot of...

We almost lost Koda last week due to acute pancreatitis.

He's back home since Sunday and as active as always!

But he's taking a lot of medications, and he has to soon remove his spleen (w/ a golf ball sized tumour), and with his age the surgery is very risky, but needed 😢.

He's turning 15 this September.

I never posted this publically: I take a photo per day with Koda. I have more than 5000 daily Koda photos :D

Left: 1st day with Koda, 15/11/2009.

Right: 24/04/2024.

#Dog #Dachshund #Dogs

Light theme experimentation report: after 10 days, I've got used to the "Visual Studio Light" VS Code theme, but highly...

Light theme experimentation report: after 10 days, I've got used to the "Visual Studio Light" VS Code theme, but highly customized (gray bg, better contrasts, etc).

And during the night I switch back to Atom One Dark.

I'm now less dizzy while coding, and my vision is not getting blurry anymore.

Turns out that long term usage of ONLY Dark Themes (and nothing else) is NOT a good idea (at least for me).

I was happily making a Postman clone with C and cimgui (Raylib renderer) but these ugly, very unattractive auto generated binding names...

I was happily making a Postman clone with C and cimgui (Raylib renderer) but these ugly, very unattractive auto generated binding names started making me want to poke my eyes out.

The code that was a side fun thing turned disgusting to read due to these cimgui function names all over the place.

Maybe I should just manually rename these bindings to something less... automated?

Hetzner is crazy.Dedicated server with 14 cores/20 threads, 64GB Ram and 2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD for just €42/month.Setting up our environment...

Hetzner is crazy.

Dedicated server with 14 cores/20 threads, 64GB Ram and 2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD for just €42/month.

Setting up our environment in Hetzner and testing the migration of our production setup from Heroku (currently US$ 2488/mo) to Hetzner (expected ~US$ 660/mo).

I guess I'll simulate it first in real-life, but the answer is kind of obvious: the sun and the light source are stationary, then either...

I guess I'll simulate it first in real-life, but the answer is kind of obvious: the sun and the light source are stationary, then either the camera or the object rotates.

But then why every tutorial I saw recommends rotating both the camera and the light? That's what so confusing.

I even extracted ALL of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 sprites (~29k pngs) but still can't figure out what exactly was rotated when rendering.

I even extracted ALL of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 sprites (~29k pngs) but still can't figure out what exactly was rotated when rendering.

When pre-rendering 3D models as isometric 8-directions sprites, should I (1) rotate the camera, (2) rotate the camera + lights or (2) rotate...

When pre-rendering 3D models as isometric 8-directions sprites, should I (1) rotate the camera, (2) rotate the camera + lights or (2) rotate just the object?

I'm so confused about this, and I can't figure out whether the lights were rotated or not, for example when checking Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 graphics.

Rotate the camera, keep object centered
Rotate the camera + lights, keep object centered
Rotate the object, keep camera and lights static

"Can a WebPage be alive?I'm happy to report that this page (like most housework) will never be finished. [...]It is not a...

"Can a WebPage be alive?

I'm happy to report that this page (like most housework) will never be finished. [...]

It is not a "work in progress", for this would imply not much intrinsic value until that magic day it is completed."

https://www.wendycarlos.com/live.html

(via @forestine)