🌸 Sun, Jun 30, 2024 🌸
Aliens do exist. Today I met a family with two kids and a dog at an empty campground. There were about 40 spots, and maybe three spots were taken. The family picked the spot right next to me. The family had an older kid, a newborn, and the dog. The dog was barking non-stop. The d…
🌸 Wed, Jun 26, 2024 🌸
AIs sometimes gives very appealing ideas, but then you try to piece everything together to a coherent outcome, and everything falls apart.
🌸 Wed, Jun 26, 2024 🌸
I just got a message from Valve; they are not recommending going live on July 3rd because of the sale event and would not be able to promote my game, so I am discussing later release dates. The Steam page is live, though. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058180/The_Final_Act
🌸 Tue, Jun 25, 2024 🌸
I need to do proper scoping for the 3-month and 6-month long games. I know I can scope a game for what I can make in one month, so it shouldn’t be that hard to do for the 3-month game and eventually for the 6-month game. The same technique just needs to be scaled up by a factor o…
🌸 Tue, Jun 25, 2024 🌸
Just a reminder: I am doing a one-month game jam and at the end of this month, I am going to publish the game on Steam. Steam page is up: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058180/The_Final_Act
🌸 Mon, Jun 24, 2024 🌸
I’ve got it! Here is my rough outline plan for the next eight years.
I am going to make games. Currently, I am employed full-time, working 40 hours a week at my day job. However, I can dedicate an additional 45 hours each week to work on my games.
Step One: I will scope …
🌸 Mon, Jun 24, 2024 🌸
About half a year ago on a whim, I wrote a post about the development process. I thought a lot about how I can optimize it and came to the conclusion that just working solo, the outline of the process takes about 10 steps, each step int…
🌸 Mon, Jun 24, 2024 🌸
What is going on? I woke up and World War III and nukes are trending on Twitter. And also, I pulled my back and have diarrhea. Just keep swimming.
🌸 Wed, Jun 19, 2024 🌸
I am doing a one-month game jam, and I was stupid enough to commit to publishing the game on Steam at the end of the jam. The store page is live. Wishlist or not is up to you.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058180/The_Final_Act
🌸 Tue, Jun 18, 2024 🌸
I am still learning about game development and development in general. I am reflecting on why I do not like the existing art pipeline in engines. You need to get locked into some decisions. One small example: if you want to do blend meshes, you are locked into the mesh, and you c…
🌸 Tue, Jun 18, 2024 🌸
Last week I started working standing almost 100% of the time. I feel it has helped a lot to deal with my long COVID symptoms.
🌸 Mon, Jun 17, 2024 🌸
YouTube playlist is buggy; it is falling apart with my 400 music videos playlist. Slow, stops playing at random times and refuses to restart.
🌸 Mon, Jun 17, 2024 🌸
I have an idea for tutorial processing. I feel my tutorials are too slow-paced. Personally, I watch my own tutorials on 2x speed. I’m wondering if I should record them normally, then speed them up to 2x and re-narrate them to match my own 2x talking speed.
🌸 Mon, Jun 17, 2024 🌸
Does anyone use the Insert button to toggle between insert and override mode? I never use it, but occasionally press it by accident, then I try to hit backspace? We probably have to repurpose the button for something more useful.
🌸 Sat, Jun 15, 2024 🌸
Some game developers ask: “I spent 3, 4, 5 years working on a game, and then I released it. Some minor issues, like problems with the controller, generated negative reviews that set the tone for the whole project, and the game sank. How can I avoid these types of mistakes?”
I th…
🌸 Fri, Jun 14, 2024 🌸
Just keep swimming.
🌸 Thu, Jun 13, 2024 🌸
If someone says to you, “I am Taiwanese” or “I am Singaporean,” and you reply, “Nah, you are Chinese,” remember that they feel the same way as if a Ukrainian says, “I am Ukrainian,” and you reply, “Nah, you are Russian.” Please, be mindful.
🌸 Wed, Jun 12, 2024 🌸
Today I went to the SoCal Startup Day and saw a lot of desperate entrepreneurs. I could see it in their faces. They go for the pitch, it’s high energy and upbeat. But then they come downstairs, and their expressions change from smiles to desperation. It’s a horrible sight. I ques…
🌸 Tue, Jun 11, 2024 🌸
Breaking news: Apple finally added a calculator to the iPad!
🌸 Tue, Jun 11, 2024 🌸
“Reticle” and “reticule” are two different things.
🌸 Mon, Jun 10, 2024 🌸
I had a strange dream. I invited Elon Musk to a Bible study group in my dream, and he agreed and came to the meeting. He was super chill and seemed to be having fun, while I was very self-conscious, thinking I was wasting Musk’s time with the Bible study. Then I started thinking …
🌸 Mon, Jun 10, 2024 🌸
Should we start calling Proton PINE (Proton is not an emulator)? Some people call it an emulator, and it triggers me a bit.
🌸 Fri, Jun 7, 2024 🌸
The 2FA into my studio takes so much time; sometimes I get distracted while waiting for the webpage to come up, and ending up on the timed-out page, because I forgot that I was about to log in to the studio system.
🌸 Thu, Jun 6, 2024 🌸
Sometimes my Unreal Engine gets confused about which GPU to use, giving the error “Cannot find a compatible Vulkan device that supports surface presentation”. I am fixing it by adding -graphicsadapter=X. For example, `/mnt/Texas/prj/ue5.4/Engine/Binaries/Linux/UnrealEditor ~/pr…
🌸 Thu, Jun 6, 2024 🌸
The Actor Lifecycle is a very useful documentation page. Do you put all starting functionality into BeginPlay? And you’re trying to figure out dependencies between an actor’s initialization? What if this actor runs BeginPlay first and another one hasn’t run it yet? Check this…
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