Ross Karchner

I’ve finished “Robo Rampage”, and thus I’m done with the Complete Godot 3D course.

My day today…

This week, work is still in a holding pattern.

Finished reading: Game Magic by Jeff Howard 📚 Interesting book!

Finished Listening: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚 Done with Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection!

Benjamin and I have started a game jam: Crazzzy 4X Jam!

Become a Solution Architect looks promising: free training over 8 weeks, starts this weekend.

Yesterday, I spent a little time polishing my resume and applying to jobs, and took another AWS Security practice exam.

So far it’s been four days since I and most of my colleagues were ordered not to work.

Benjamin’s recent game jam entry is Rolling is Spinning.

I’ve been helping my son on an entry for the Boss Rush Jam 2025– the concepts are his, most of the art is royalty free stuff from a humble bundle, and I do most of the coding and Godot-wrangling.

Finished Listening: His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

I’ve been checking out some older games in my Steam library that I haven’t played much.

Just a little bit of Barbarian Blaster, the 2nd of 3 projects taught in Complete Godot 3D.

It turns out, I don’t have to use the “rawhide” version of Fedora just to get an updated kernel– so now the new machine is on Fedora 41, and I’m getting the kernel from the vanilla mainline repo.

If you’ve made a resolution to create your own website or blog (or have just been thinking about it) micro.one is a great way to get started. $1/month, and supports a custom domain name.

Every three or four years I get the urge to build a PC.

Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ve never been hurt, sing like no one is listening, and never give Brian Krebs a reason to call your mom.

Somewhere along the line, I told myself a story: Before making 3D games, I needed to learn 3D, as in get a handle on 3D graphics as a general topic, and perhaps develop some expertise in something like Blender.

Finished listening: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚 I really enjoyed this one!

I’ve finished the Inkscape course I was working through.

It’s unfortunate that itch.io got taken down because of an escalating set of automated processes and overreactions– but it’s got me thinking about hosting games myself.

Finished Listening: The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

Currently reading: Game Magic by Jeff Howard 📚

Finished reading: Light It, Shoot It!

Finished reading: The Arab of the Future 3 by Riad Sattouf 📚

I decided I was tired of faking my way through Inkscape, so I grabbed this course on sale a few days ago.

Finished reading: The Arab of the Future 2 by Riad Sattouf 📚

Nora Reed says you should have a website If you don’t want to learn to use technology, other people will use it for you, and they will use it to place you under their thumbs in a way that makes it as impossible to switch to something else as they can.

I’ve submitted Pinball Putt to the 1-Button Game Jam.

OK, I’m pretty happy that the dethrace project exists so that I can play Carmageddon natively on linux.

A mini-golf/pinball mashup where you need to earn enough points to pass a level, without running out of strokes.

My “chill mini golf game” for the 1-Button Jam is coming together– though I don’t think I’ll be done for the 5pm deadline tomorrow.

I had hoped to complete a couple more obstacles/gadgets today, but only got this pinball-style bumper working.

I’ve added an “attract mode” bot that plays plausibly but seldom successfully.

I’ve migrated fediverse following/followers over to my profile on mastodon.gamedev.place. ross.karchner.com will now cross-post to that account.

Working on a chill mini-golf game for the 1-Button Jam.

Finished reading: The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf 📚

The Smithsonian has a model of the ship from Close Encounters of the 3rd kind.

I was on the fence a bit, but I allowed my yearly micro.blog subscription renew today.

Finished Listening: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

Finished reading: Delights: a Story of Hieronymus Bosch by Guy Colwell 📚

I had a couple of ideas for the Github Game Off, but I’m kind of feeling more motivated to work on SpinDoc– though I think my plan this month is to focus on building a level editor.

Currently reading: Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman 📚

Not much obvious has changed since my last post about SpinDoc– I did rework a lot of how the wands work behind the scenes.

Finished reading: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

Finished reading: Little Black Book by Jeff McComsey 📚

Finished reading: Medea by Blandine Le Callet 📚

Currently reading: Medea by Blandine Le Callet 📚

Maybe it’s time for for a little station ID?