Gabe

@gabrielpeterson.com

Coding, design, gamedev, electronics, techie, meat popsicle. All views are my own.

Occasionally I like to change out the background on my computer by browsing for something good on one of the many wallpaper subreddits. That experience has been painful these last couple of years with the amount of AI slop out there. 1/2

I only had one New Year’s Resolution, and that is to play a new indie game each month. It’s late in January, but I’m starting with Undertale. Not exactly timely, but it’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think “indie game”, and I hear good things

Fucking awesome... Just found out at least one retailer has been selling Wind and Truth before the release date. Going into isolation from social media until I get and finish my copy

Three days later after a second attempt and I have a successful, squishy TPU print. Some of the inner supports failed a third of the way through, but I decided to keep going just to see how it would turn out and I’m glad I did

A 3D print of a skull

The print made it a third of the way before the center organic supports began failing. I'm trying again with a larger minimum support diameter, and a reduced maximum angle

A failed 3D print

I successfully printed a Benchy using TPU for the first time, so of course the next step is a skull that will take three days and use half a spool

A model of a skull in PrusaSlicer, prepped to be printed

Despite the fact that she is a fluffy cat and there is a heatwave, Jasnah decided to pull the bubble wrap out of a cardboard box and use it as a bed and blanket

A cat using bubble wrap as a blanket

Writing quick Steam reviews for games you like is the single best thing you can do to help their visibility. Taking 10 minutes to go through your library and bang out a handful of reviews for games with <1000 total reviews can really move the needle.

Currently building a game for the GMTK Jam and I'm noticing my normal internal monologue cycle while programming of "I'm a genius" and "I'm the dumbest human to have ever lived" has been greatly accelerated

Watching my sister's dog, who is notorious for destroying toys, and thinking I could find something she couldn't tear apart. Oh, what a fool am I

New "World's tuffest soft dog toy"Dog chewing on the tough dog toyThe tough dog toy was no match, and has been shredded up

I’ve never participated in a game jam before, so I’m looking forward to making something for the GMTK Game Jam this Friday. Even if what I make is terrible, it should be fun

Another battle of deciding whether to handle just the bare minimum of my responsibilities, or blowing off everything because it’s a “holiday”

No matter how comfortable I become with git and its terminal commands, I will invariably screw up something simple and not notice until someone else catches the error

I love that I can trick myself into feeling clever just by implementing some code someone else wrote that I happened to stumble upon in the past