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Andrew Laskey
@andrewlaskey.bsky.social
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I like making things
https://www.andrewlaskey.com

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Current game in development: https://andrewlaskey.github.io/generation-ship-2/
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#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-07-01
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#indiedev #gamedev #threejs
July 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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“They cannot conquer for ever.” #lotr
“The brief glow fell upon a huge siting figure, still and solemn as the great stone kings of Argonath. The years had gnawed it, and violent hands had maimed it. Its head was gone, and in its place was set in mockery a round rough-hewn stone, rudely painted by savage hands in the likeness of a grinning face with one large red eye in the midst of its forehead. Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used. Suddenly, caught by the level beams, Frodo saw the old kings head: it was lying rolled away by the roadside. 'Look, Sam!' he cried, startled into speech. 'Look! The king has got a crown again!' The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. 'They cannot conquer for ever!' said Frodo. And then suddenly the brief glimpse was gone. The Sun dipped and vanished, and as if at the shuttering of a lamp, black night fell.” The Lord of the Rings
June 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I added some "meditation waypoints" to the 3d view. No gameplay purpose besides giving the player an opportunity to chill and take in the view. #cozygame #screenshotsaturday
June 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-06-20
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#gamedev #indiegame
Screenshot from my web game Generation Ship 2. I've added new meditation points to the 3d view. When you locate these points the camera will slowly fly around the environment, giving you some new perspectives on the world.
June 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Just adding features to give myself encouragement. #solodev #buildinpublic

job-seekers.club
June 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Sunsets on the porch

#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-06-17
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#indiedev #gamedev
June 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I revived and reprinted this old design from college. Understanding Power might have done more to reshape my political views than any other book.

#art
Red tshirt with a black stencil design of Noam Chomsky in the style of the classic Che Guevara design.
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I added some more charts to better see trends on which job boards result in interviews. So far @techjobsforgood.bsky.social is in the lead for me. #solodev #buildinpublic

www.job-seekers.club
June 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-06-10
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State of my generation ship before placing the final tile. I had a good farming game where I managed to maximize farm tile placement it seems. Lots of farm tiles in max level and healthy state. Success! After centuries traveling through space the ship has reached a suitable planet for permanent colonization. Base Ecology ratio bonus Remaining deck penalty Waste tiles penalty Habitat survival bonus Old growth tree bonus 22400 318 0 0 4040 400 Total 27158
June 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I added "Interest" and "Alignment" columns to my Application table. Fields I found I needed to sort potential jobs to apply to. These values could also be used for charts on which applications lead to interviews. #buildinpublic
June 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Made a bunch of QOL improvements today. #buildinpublic #solodev

If you're looking for work and want to be an early adopter, feel free to give it a try. www.job-seekers.club
June 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-05-29
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#turnbasedthursday
Screenshot from my game Generation Ship 2. Final turn before placing the final tile of today’s daily challenge.
May 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Flame of Udûn!

#sketchparty #illustration #lotr
Sketch of the balrog and Gandalf on the bridge of kazadum More doodles from the night: a nazgul, a cat-wizard, and a woman in a big rain coat
May 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I needed to see this visualized after finishing #andor last night
Star Wars- BBY 0 - 2025 Andor - BBY 5 - 2020 Solo - BBY 11 - 2014 Revenge of the Sith - BBY 19 - 2006 Attack of the clones - BBY 22 - 2003 Phantom Menace - BBY 32 - 1993
May 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Just had my best score yet according to the comparison chart. #screenshotsaturday

#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-05-17
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End screen from my game showing the final game board and score. My final score for today’s game was 28,919. I think I got a good boost (3,130 points) from the “Habitat survival bonus” which is from keeping habitat tiles alive for most of the game. Further down on the end screen are two graphs. One is the ecological and population scores over time. Both had steady growth with a little dip in population about 3/4th of the way through the game. Below that is a histogram comparing previous scores saved in local storage and a line for today’s score.
May 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-05-10
🌲 34
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#screenshotsaturday

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3d mode in my game that allows you to walk around the generation ship you’ve cultivated. There are trees, stucco habitats, and farms. An artificial sun is starting to set. Screenshot of the game board before placing the last tile in today’s daily challenge. Today’s seed had a lot of farm tiles.
May 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Job hunting is a depressing struggle. Last weekend I started working on a side project to turn my google sheet into an app using #nextjs and #supabase. Its coming together and I'm already able to use it for my own stuff. #buildinpublic
The dashboard for a job hunting application tracker. It shows a sankey diagram of applications I've submitted and interviews. Below upcoming interviews and listings I've found but not yet applied to are displayed.
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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#GenerationShip2 - Daily Challenge 2025-05-04
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Not a lot new this week but I added a little animation to the final score.
#screenshotsaturday
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Generation Ship 2 - Daily Challenge 2025-05-02
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End screen from the game I’m making Generation Ship 2. Shows the point totals after playing today’s daily challenge.
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The inhabitants now move from the habitat to nearby farms. It used to be random.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev
April 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I added zoom and inspect buttons to the meditation mode infinite grid.

#indiedev
April 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Been wanting to do this for a while. I added infinite scroll and tile painting to the "Meditation Mode". Basically just a sandbox for playing around.

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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April 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#react update is complete. This should allow for some animations and features I’ve had on the to do list for a while.

#indiedev #gamedev
Full page screenshot of the win screen for my game. It says, “Success! After centuries of traveling through space the ship has reached a suitable planet for permanent colonization.” Below is a table for the total score. Below that are graphs showing the ecological and population scores over each round of the game and a histogram comparing today’s score to all my previous scores.
April 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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I drew a space crew for #sketchparty

#art #scifi #aliens
A crew of aliens. There’s a cuttlefish guy. A hippo-mantis. A slime mold controlling a robot suit. A six limbed spider monkey mix. A photo of sketchparty at whistlestop bar San Diego. Paper is put out on tables and everyone makes some art.
April 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Nothing new visually for #screenshotsaturday. I’ve been busy refactoring the UI to #react instead of the vanilla ts dom manipulation I had been doing.
#indiedev
Screenshot from GitHub showing the commit log for my feat/react branch
April 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM