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What are you doing this weekend?
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So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
I am completely disillusioned with what the software dev world has turned into, so I'm attempting to design a turn-based multiplayer game with in-game purchases (cosmetic and non-cosmetic but not "lootbox") with the sole goal of developing a large enough player base to sell out to a big company.
I'm done with idealism, I'd like to fucking retire some day.
Out of curiosity, would you be up for elaborating on what made you feel this way?
Ten years in corporate America, watching everything slide into a dependency-injected unit-testing-as-a-religion just-glue-frameworks-together hell of madness.
I love coding. I do it for fun. I hate software dev jobs. Also, when you hit your 40s it's a lot harder to get hired, since most companies just want stars-in-their-eyes college grads they can burn through for cheaper than a graybeard who knows his shit.
I've been unemployed for a year now, my bank account is dwindling, and I currently have zero chance at retiring.
So while I'm looking for work, I'm now prototyping this game in C++, will test out with a very basic 2D interface, and when I've got the gameplay nailed down I'm going to port it to C# and glue it to Unity. Might even be able to add a VR mode, too.
I'm not going to give away the specifics because I think I may actually be on to something here, but I have a catchy title, gameplay design that should appeal to hearthstone-level players w/out being too complex nor too derivative, and a path to monetization w/out being pay-to-win while still being more than just cosmetic additional skins.
I'm aiming for exciting turn-based. A smattering of carnage and excitement, and non-card play while still incorporating the concept of cards and decks, because for some odd reason people really like cards even if they're only digital ones.
I've already got definitions for all possible piece movements (now and for all new future pieces) and the bulk of all possible actions / commands defined. Once that's done, I have to code up the board resolution logic (might be a bit of a slog, but I'll get through it), and then I can slap on a simple 2D UI for basic initial testing.
I'd like to make an AI for single-player mode so players can get used to the game by themselves, but... that might be a non-trivial task. I'll have to trial-and-error a few ideas, see if anything falls out.
I'd like to see your art
I'm trying to spend less time gaming and watching garbage on Netflix, and more time learning new things.
So, inspired by some of my colleagues, I'll be trying to learn me a Haskell for great good. I don't have any real projects in mind yet, but think some Project Euler exercises may lend themselves to it.
Also, since I took up the hobby of skateboarding this spring, I'll probably also spend some time practicing in our building's basement parking. At the moment, I'm trying to get better at tic tac-ing.
I'm also trying to get back into a routine of exercising regularly, so I'll spend some time at the gym. I got a membership around 3 months ago, but probably only went there 5 times since then..
Haskell and Rust are on my "shit I really need to learn" list. As a C++ guy, Rust's enforced RAII on practically everything has piqued my interest.
I went through like half of the Learn You a Haskell for Great Good a few months ago, and I have to say it's great. I also did some Project Euler stuff and I gotta say, for some of these problems, Haskell feels a bit like cheating :D. Have fun.
Today is D&D 3.5. Our characters have all ascended into godhood and we're pursuing some plots in Sigil (a major hub-city that connects and is connected to every other plane). I've been rummaging through the Deities and Demigods book to determine what I want to do with my character now that he's a deity. I've wanted to go to Sigil for a while, now, since before learning the Plane Shift spell. It represents another chapter in a character's development, it represents transcending the basic material plane where most adventures take place and claiming one's position among the sources of real power in the D&D multiverse. I've firmly established myself in that set, and am very excited to see what happens next.
I've got some poems I want to post here (and have posted a couple already). I want to dedicate tomorrow to reading and writing, and we'll see how well that goes. Will probably spend the day at a coffeeshop with a poetry book and a notebook.
Two weeks ago, I wrote a comment about how I got a job in Milano.
I spent that weekend on the road, and the weekend after that cleaning up and making the house livable. Now I'm on my second week in, and I got most of the stuff I needed to do out of the way: I renewed my ID card (it expired on me three months ago), I got all the data they need to complete the contract, I got username and password for the school email and electronic register, I started familiarizing myself with the lab, and I think I met all my classes at least once.
Things are awkward, though. After three years on HRT, I pass, even disheveled and wearing camo & boots, but I have yet to change my legal name - which requires Very Cisnormative things like a lawyer, the opinion of a few doctors, a couple of months back and forth and a judge's order, which I could not afford before - so I can get gendered correctly, until someone asks me for my name for some thing or another.
At least I should have, in a month or two, enough money to put things in motion to fix this (and the Milano area is bound to be much better than a bloody village in the South), but nevertheless - it grates.
I'm just going to spend this weekend relaxing. Maybe I will do some revising tomorrow - physics is a topic I last touched in my university days - but I'm mostly going to lounge around, do some cleaning, push the info I logged during the last two weeks to my wiki, and get back to reading.
I'm going out to breakfast with my mom, my treat! As well as reading and partaking in my numerous other hobbies and plan some Xmas gifts? I was hoping to have a physical copy of a recipe book for everyone but boy howdy that probs won't make it, so I'll do something else handmade. Mostly so I don't have to spend money on EVERY individual. I have 5 siblings, 6 niblings, along with my SOs family so really, I'm just trying trying to like condense and not spend a whole lot lol
I plan on still suckin'... but we'll see how much!
Watching football and playing DnD
Celebrating my birthday, at least that's what I think I'll be doing, but then again most people cease getting presents at around my age so 'even' at 14 I shouldn't be surprised. At least there'll still be cake.
No, not really, I think it's mostly a 'I can't really afford presents and I'm going on a trip' kind of thing. Most people here (in Southwestern Brazil or more specifically São Paulo city) only really spend lots of money going to a coastal city for a few day or visiting some parent in the Brazilian Northeast.