looking ahead

It's been awhile since I've stepped into the good ol' Pub. I hope all my fellow patrons have been doing well!

~bartender, just a coffee for me. need some caffeine on this Monday to get energized for some more work today!

i've begun work with my wife on a small indie game we have been wanting to build for a long time, and so that's going to be my main focus for the next little while until it's done. she is handling the graphical assets and storyboarding, and I am doing the programming and audio production. we're fleshing out the concept and story right now. i've settled on building it on the LOVE2D engine.

other than that, i finished up the redesign of my website and wiki that I mentioned in one my last posts here. it's been a lot of fun. some wiki entries still need finishing, but for the most part, it's up and running. the wiki aspect was inspired by 100rabbits, a personal 'knowledge base' that is updated constantly as i learn new things, so that anyone else can benefit from that knowledge as well, if they so desire.

aside from the usual programming and web stuff, i've been enjoying the much cooler temps here in my neck of the woods. we've been in the 40s and 30s here, and I love getting a fire going in the trusty ol' wood stove and sitting around in the warmth. i've also been doing some livestreams and videos of some FOSS games my wife and I enjoy playing together, mostly Luanti (which used to be known as Minetest). lots of fun.

i had a seizure again back in november. thankfully i was in bed for this one and didn't fall down and injure myself like i have with past seizures. it took a few days of recovery where i barely touched my computer, which if you know me, you know i hate it when i can't work.

aiming to make 2025 a great year. continuing to build FOSS, getting this game off the ground, finishing up some music i've been working on, and focusing on health. trying to quit smoking, and have mostly quit sodas (my personal kryptonite). i still have a dr. pepper every now and then, but not near as much as i used to. have mostly replaced it with coffee/tea/water.

planning on going out of town for christmas to spend time with some family that i haven't seen in awhile. very much looking forward to catching up with all of them. the vet clinic where my wife works usually throws a new year party at the doc's house, so we will probably end up having a drink there to ring in the new year with friends from the clinic. those are always fun little parties.

well, my coffee mug is almost empty, and this cigarette is burning low. time to get back to work! hope everyone has been having a great last few months, and i hope you all have a great holiday and new year as well. looking forward to seeing what '25 has in store.

detritus

It's nice to hear that you are doing exciting things!

I have for a while wanted to make a game with my partner, we sometimes like playing "room escape" kinds of games, and being a former aspiring amateur gamedev myself, I felt inspired to make one myself with her to help me...

I suck at getting things done, though. I got the Godot engine on my 'puter but I never got around to learning it. I also got GIMP and expected to try it out with her. She makes fun collages with a surrealist style which I wanted to use for the graphical aspect of the kinds of games I was envisioning, but again, I haven't had the courage to actually dive in and try to do all of this stuff....

I haven't done anything worthwhile with the computer for a while, there is a luddite side of me which fights against the prospect of using a computer for more than 20 minutes at a time, add to that the endless pain and frustration that modern technologies have caused me for the last 5 or 10 years, which are a cause of additional friction when it comes to doing anything, and I barely can do anything with the computer without having to climb a sheer wall of dread before embarking in any project.

Oh well, I have a hundred, no, a thousand other interests, all trying to get my attention at once. I wish I were either a full technical geek or a true luddite living in tune with nature. Instead, I'm stuck in between these two not being able to fully enjoy either of these two worlds.