Max

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...

I'm somewhere in the endgame of Chef Life and some of the recipes are broken. I'd love to fix them with a hack/mod, but unfortunately, Cyanide/Nacon decided to ship the game compiled as IL2CPP binaries. Sorry, but no, I ain't gonna deal with that. You order your soup cold, you get your soup cold.

Overall really worth a watch and I'm sad that I did not see it on the silver screen, but on the other hand I really wanted to hear the OV and that is hard to get with "kids movies" in Germany.

Which does not (I repeat: Not!) make her or the others bad characters. They just felt a little underdeveloped and I'd hoped the story could evolve them a little more. Also, we got a no-villain story again. The influence of the bad guys in this movie was as much as the decapod in the first movie.

My main criticism of the crew is that all three feel very stale despite having so much screen time. I would've hoped they all have more than one character trait and while I loooove me some engineer girls, her "I'm quirky, unpredictable and speak double time" personality feels bland next to Moana.

I finally came around to watch Moana 2 and it was surprisingly good, but you can totally feel the lack of Lin-Manuel Miranda in the music which I really loved in the first movie. Also, we got a villain song (I guess) which was also fine. But I never fully warmed up to the crew, as I'd hoped to.

One of my hobbies? Trying to fit free for board game rules into implementable data structures.

I just love to digitalize board games. I'm not the biggest idea-guy myself, so I really love to take ideas of other people and try to shape them into code. Also I have no people to play boardgames with...

If you want to know where our modern media pirate trope comes from, look no further than Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson. It has it all: Singing pirate crews, buried treasures, wooden legs, talking parrots, eye-patches, morally gray opportunistic pirates, obscure treasure maps, the "black spot".

Reading/watching/playing trope codifiers (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) is incredibly valuable in my opinion. It really helps to get a feel for _why_ things are how they are in media. This one is for vampires and vampire hunters.

Also, I cannot stress that enough, but if you haven't: Read Bram Stoker's Dracula. It holds up incredibly well and is public domain, so you can grab yourself an e-book on Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345) and then buy a beautiful physical edition afterwards if you like it.

Okay, so based on my filters on the Zombies vs Vampires sale, there aren't many puzzle games with vampires and not enough grand strategy games. Is this a niche that can be filled or is it a niche because no one wants it? I like vampires more than zombies, they seem to be able to hold a conversation.

The space garden game is still a thing, but it's more of a longterm project. I did not forget it and I only have to play one of the games that inspired it and I immediately know, why I want to have a game like that in the first place.

Unfortunately, I am not talking about my space-gardening-game. I still want to make this, but in good ol' game dev fashion, I quickly abandoned it for a different project. Well, not abandoned, more like "I wanted to do that for a decade now and I finally have the skills to do it".

It's nice coming back to projects that you had to put on hold, because life can be only stressful up to a point and you can dive right in without having to figure out what the hell you were doing 3 months ago.

Still, I'm not very keen on playing AC Chronicles India and Russia. I'm just really not into platformers. But the next title is Syndicate, so I've still got some time until I gotta play them.

This game was pretty nice (and pretty short). I'm not much in to platformers, but I really enjoyed it, especially the 2.5D aspect of the levels and the high focus on stealth. And the visuals were great!

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China. Alternative title: Shao Jun on the quest to get her box back!