Remember that? The tool is now kinda done. It has a keyboard, it has multiple outputs, glyph designer, swap handling, etc. (if you don't know what I'm talking about play Tunic!)

The next logical step would be to add detection, so I can scan it with my phone to auto-transcribe.

I hope this is not a spoiler. To me it wouldn't be and I'm still not done with Tunic. And I'm also not done with my glorious "oh, I also wanna try out Typescript" project.

Imagine you are playing a game (say... Tunic) and you see a very cool language/font/way of writing. At some point, you learn how it works. Isn't your first instinct to make a small web app in the browser, because you can't be bothered translating everything manually? (Asking for a friend, of course)

Sonic 3 A.I.R. got a new stable update!
This is v26.03.28.0, and you can get it right here from Github:
github.com/Eukaryot/son...

I have to put a pin into that, maybe I'll build something like this in the next game jam or so. The source engine is such a gem... I think I need to open Hammer again some time.
Great work with the tool. If you ever release it, I will surely take a look.

logic_relay, my beloved! Thank you, will read!

crudely drawn digital image of a worm with the text 'placeholder worm ' No more excuses

here, stop using genai for placeholder images and just use this fucking worm instead. 100% human made with my own pen. free use or whatever!!!!

I actually wanted to get that out, because Disney was really bad for quite some time now and I want to give credit where it's due.
Also spreading positivity and not jumping on hate bandwagons all the time is a good thing, right?

Zootopia 2 is better than the first one.

I have yet to see it in English. The German voices were great, though. Good casting. I especially enjoyed how they handled the goats.

The only good achievement is “the part where he kills you”

I finally feel seen!

my toxic trait is that I consider curly braces permanently paired so instead of just adding another closing bracket inside the get{} scope I simply have to add it outside the scope, like, morally

Because there is currently the Detective Sale coming along on Steam I wanna recommend "Little Problems" which is a Golden-Idol-like but in suuuuper wholesome and I enjoyed it a lot more than Golden Idol. It's low-key my GOTY 2025. But grab Golden Idol as well. Also Blue Prince and Obra Dinn.

One of my new year resolutions is to be more active in the game dev community. Last year was horrible for me and I lost a lot of interest in the industry itself due to near burnout and immense job pressure... I want to change that this year.

Happy new year! I know it's not necessarily the first day of the year anymore (for me it isn't), but what can I say: I didn't bother to look into social media which I consider a good thing.

Merry Christmas and long live the new tradition!

The most fantastical thing in German D&D sessions is "the trains will arrive when you need them."

I just made 5 commits in a row! I'm sooo productive on my hobby project!

One was a swap from asset to package, one was a new 3rd-party asset, one was an amend and the other one was just split because I could. Looks good on the graph, though.

When do I finally get my noodles with hamburger flavor?

This is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound but having been Through It and now having been a Lead, here are a few things I do to help:

- Always make sure non-standup meetings have agendas and appropriate titles. Yes, even if it's bad news - make sure that agenda involves a Plan.

no cheating, post your lock screen

I actually love the "show me the current weather as lock screen background" feature, so I started using it as soon as it became available

Stronghold Crusader Definitive Edition is pretty nice. I have to sink waaay more time into it, though. But this first hour was great.

Bonus anecdote: Because we needed some loading screen hints that you could cycle through, I added some platypus facts to the array of texts. In honor of that era, there still remains at least one platypus fact in the list of loading screen hints.

I miss working on that title...

... arrived from the studio, people were asking "what are these texts?" and I was like "I've put them there, no-one changed them". But we realized that the French had their own version of the saying, so we kept them: "Une pomme chaque matin éloigne le médecin!"

... for the unit selection 3 years later, I used the descriptions from the config, thinking some designer had set useful values there. But no-one did. For the medical department I put the good 'ol "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" as placeholder description. When the French localization...

I can't answer that question, but I can tell you an anecdote about some French localization shenanigans that happened on a game I worked on: Waaaay back in 2019, I created some config for the in-game departments. And that somehow flew completely under the radar. When I created the UI...

Danke, das hatte ich erwartet. Aber den jeweiligen Anteil der einzelnen Konsolen habt ihr vermutlich nicht, oder?

Habt ihr 'nen Breakdown für die Konsolen? Weil mich schon interessieren würde, ob das jetzt Switch, PS oder Xbox (oder was anderes, who knows) ist.

I finally did some (very minor) work on the farm space sim again. I had some ideas I wanted to note down and also scrap the old prototype, as it was not focused enough.

Also, maybe don't submit the folders ending with "_BurstDebugInformation_DoNotShip" and "_BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame" to Steam...