haven't animated anything for years - when making prototypes I valued just making things work, which is fine and all but sometimes you need some close to done art to really sell yourself on an idea. I want to do sword things for this experiment, but am practicing on gun first. Into the engine next!

spent the weekend figuring out how clouds work, and I'm pretty sure it's something like this #gamedev #ue5

when I finally thought of something to make, it turned out all my nerd friends had already ditched their 3d printers. just so happens my boss wanted to get rid of theirs, and now it's mine! it seems to be an okay-ish one? making a 2cm test cube to see how it goes

extremely out of practise doing any kind of dev blog thing and making about 1/100th of the screenshots I should. maybe I should set a timer? anyway, here's some bushes #gamedev

made watermelon jam, then put it in some little tarts. the internet article that said I didn't need pectin was a total lie, even after boiling to death it won't set. but still, tastes great

thinking of a company I used to work for that burned a third of their employees, myself included, to get several failed FDA approvals through the door only to just succeed in time for the agency to be nuked from orbit and the tarrifs making it almost certainly unprofitable to operate there... lmao

I'm finding Severance doubly relatable since I too forget my job and the names and faces of everyone I work with when I leave the building on a Friday

Bullet jump sliding back into Warframe after about a year and still in awe at how batshit the story presentation is. How the big flashy main quest just blasts through new concepts and expects you to roll with it. Until, you slow down, do a little digging, and it becomes so deceptively simple.

I know am a serial Not Getting The Hint offender, but at this point I realise it's been several years of 'man that thing we did was fun' and then me not organising another round of it because no one directly told me they wanted it

took the tanks out on the road again yesterday, another victorious group of players! unfortunately there was one casualty, the green tank got a bit squished. one more playtest to go this month! #gamedev #trrpg #wargaming

Tried some Copilot today after struggling with some automation and it's still a load of shite. But I can see how powerful a managing upwards tool it is - if your boss believes Snowcrash is an instruction manual then 'AI says do it this way' is a cheat code to getting what you want.

Final ham update! Finished overnight, not as pink as I wanted but it had been frozen before cooking. Finished with sea salt and a malt vinegarette, topped with gem lettuce.

have been visited at work by a small monster

ham update, 2 hours of cooking complete, I'm not allowed to touch it for at least 4 while it cools and sets

ham update, all wrapped up and in the pot. timer set for 2 hours

ham update, I somehow didn't get enough parsley for this. need to clean up the edges and wrap

ham update, I gotta chop up the green stuff and somehow get all of it inside the pink thing

it is time to ham. will provide Ham Updates throughout the day

I don't wanna dox my location, so you'll have to take my word for it that I currently have LED lit up Morris dancers outside my flat. It is 3°C in January at 8pm.

team went for coffee, I pushed for a tiny independent place in an old building, with just enough room for us all. I completely forgot the layout, specifically the heating arrangement. we're just huddled up there still with our coats on in front of a teeny electric fan heater. excellent coffee tho

Played tanks! Got some incredible feedback from the board game devs, and they even wanted to play twice which still has me reeling. Made lots of notes, and I'm putting this in front of two completely different crowds later this month, which could produce completely different results! #rpg #gamedev

Taking the tiny tanks to a board game dev's meetup later. last time I went every one of them was a seasoned pro unlike us losers in the indie gamedev meetup. Still, the feedback was great and encouraging and I didn't get any hint that I was a fool for trying, so hopefully they like the updated game!

I've admired Deus Ex's commitment core world building idea of 'what if every conspiracy theory was actually true', and often wondered what repeating that idea would look like >20 years later. Playing Ready Or Not, it seems the answer is "it would look completely rancid". Fun game though!

Bones! Saving the tracks for later because I still need to plan out the IK for them, and it's gonna be a hell of a lot easier to add this many bones in Blender (each piece of track and link is gonna need one D:) The experimental UE tools for doing this are neat though! #unrealengine #gamedev

and he has arrived in unreal engine! now to make the turret wiggle and the wheels spin and bounce up and down and the tracks move and oh my god my brain is going to explode #unreal #blender

making a tonk. currently feeling weird about adding bones to my tank, would prefer my tanks without bones in them #gamedev #blender

currently thinking about hexagons

currently in the kitchen, making something called "food"

The Helldivers grand Galactic War, centred around players choosing which planets to attack is great in theory, but is completely non-functional when you look at what the crowd is doing - constantly attacking planets they cannot ever actually conquer

Thinking of kicking off streams again from Monday because 1) I am addicted to Helldivers b) I'm looking at my game code from 4 months ago wondering what sort of crack I was on when I wrote this