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When I didn’t learn Rails I wasn’t left behind.

It’s been a long time since I made a WIP update on here but I’ve been very busy.

I don’t like TODOs.

The last few weeks I’ve been making props and fleshing out a little bit of world to plop some quests into.

I spent this week backfilling unit tests and have no progress to show off.

This week I refactored my input system, and added the first flows for the quest system Accepting Quests

This week in the evenings I took some low hanging fruit and worked on UI.

So over the last few weeks I’ve finished the first pass on the UFO effects, and started designing and implementing the dialogue/narration system using Yarn Spinner.

I now have a dedicated time slot to work on game development.

Still poking at this, I will eventually have a vertical slice ready.

I have been working as a web developer since 2002.

I published my first game in 2016, & while I work mostly in Unity, I do quite like Godot.

I enjoy working on UI/UX & design in general.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 23rd week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned from the 19th to the 22nd week of 2022.

I’ve had a good run of movies.

After watching The Northman I realised I’d never seen this.

I like Eggers a lot and this was a pretty good movie.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 18th week of 2022.

I started designing the main menu and start screen.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 17th week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 16th week of 2022.

I had a few days off and worked on a pet project.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 15th week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 14th week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 13th week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 12th week of 2022.

My thoughts in italic.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 11th week of 2022.

Really enjoyed this comic, the art and supernatual themes were right up my alley.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 10th week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 9th week of 2022.

A roundup of the things I learned in the 8th week of 2022.

TV show follow up to 2021’s Suicide Squad movie.

I made a spin off of Wordle as a programming exercise on my parental leave.

This is a follow up TV show to the 2010 (wow has it been that long!?)

The Court of Owls & The City of Owls.

The Ready Player One of Ghostbuster movies.

Everyone seems to have hated this but I quite enjoyed it.

I discovered a nice cheat sheet reference for loads of languages https://quickref.me.

While making this journal I discovered a neat trick for animating list elements sequentially without having to use javascript.

When I did my 2021 end of year review in work recently, I realised that by being completely lazy towards documenting the things I’ve been doing I was hurting myself.