I actually have a video for #ScreenshotSaturday ! It's kinda dumb but I love it - confetti for finishing the maze.

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Network errors are the most mindboggling kind of errors. Like "What if my webserver sends my gameserver a startnewday message right after midnight, but the gameserver receives the message on the day before it was sent?"

(Clock drift on either server could cause that.)
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I want to participate in ScreenshotSaturday, but I'm doing webdev stuff right now and there's nothing sexy about the AWS Load Balancer settings page 😔

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Nothing like spending a week to get a working prototype only to then spend two weeks paying off the code debt that one week accumulated... 😖

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The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Exciting update! After a couple of weeks of endlessly adjusting settings, I now am at a point where I can start actually focusing on making a playable game. It won't be anything special (just some basic mazes) as it's still mostly for practice, but it means I can start using #gamedev again!

Here are over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable on your #gamedev projects sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

Okay! I'm calling project 0 a success! Webserver is live at q5games.com - it doesn't do anything except a boilerplate page and a few broken links, but you can log in with BlueSky OAuth and then log out, which is kinda fun.

Now Project 1: Start up a gameserver and run a simple game.

Last week, my web server wasn't working because my servers weren't set up correctly. Yesterday, my web server wasn't working because my code wouldn't compile. But today, at long last, my web server isn't working because my code is all wrong.

My pro-level coding skills in practice: Trying to figure out a compiler error in typescript, spent a good 15 minutes on it before realizing that my fix wasn't working because I forgot to save the changes.

Starting on project 0: Getting a website that you can log into with your AT protocol ID (your BlueSky login, for now). Going to try it in ASP.NET because I like C#.

First post. New to this kind of social media (so pardon my awkwardness), and relatively new to game development as well. My first goal posting here is to keep myself honest about actually getting stuff released, instead of just working on it until it isn't fun anymore.

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