Major Life Update [part 2]:

I'm now at Supercell!

This company has been amazing in so many surprising ways, even in the first couple weeks. So many cases of "I wish so many larger studios worked like this, it... just seems so obvious". Both in productivity and trust.

Major life update [part 1]:
I've left Sprocket Games.

This comes with a heavy heart. I'm so proud of the team and of what we built in the time there. Each and every person at Sprocket I hope to get to work with again in the future some day. So SO much talent AND kindness. I'll miss you all. 😭

Ohhhhh, it's blue *prints*. Okay, now I'm convinced to play the game.

Updated a random php app I wrote nearly 20 years ago since I got pinged by someone who uses it that it went down (host forced old php version off the box). I haven't even touched the language in at least a decade.

Language changes? Mostly make sense. The app itself...?
WHY YOUNGER REINA WHY?!

As a very gay woman I struggle to understand all the community terms I'm apparently supposed to know.
Anyways, finally learning LaTeX.

I will be in hanging around GDC some of Thu, Fri, and Sat.
Please reach out if you'd like to meetup. :)

Just noticed the production company for Severance moved into the Lumen building near me. That's a commendable amount of commitment to the bit.

Also, from the 1792 book is this page that advocates for equal education regardless of gender.

I don't love the implication that at the time the author of this forward felt the need for this essay, but I love the reminder that there have always been people fighting for education and equality.

I love how math notation changes over the years. Here's a couple images from a 1792 book, "The Schoolmaster's Assistant", and a 1852 book, "The New American Practical Navigator" (with Hifumi helping me keep the pages open)
Like, we could of had
8 ̅)̅1̅+̅3̅( = 2
and the 1+3 just looks SO cozy in there.

A fun little C++ pattern I've used over and over again when I have a lot of boiler plate logic that just a configuration of member variables (e.g. Unreal Slate property updates), is to absolutely abuse macros, templates, and __COUNTER__ to create an initializer list.
Example:
godbolt.org/z/z8o68eEv4

I've been trying to think of useful tools and/or models for game design to help get over the moments of spinning wheels trying to just come up with SOMETHING to fill that content hole in a system.

For that, I've started trying to create a kind of inspiration map out of a list of game names, ...

It's finally feeling like there's a critical mass of fellow game devs enough to be exciting to engage here. :o

I don't like the singular identity I had on older social media, so, time to start posting things for all my subclasses.
Game design, puns, software engineering, math, puns, etc.