I wrote a key/value store in PHP using SQLite. It's becoming the workhorse of my build process.

https://github.com/grumpygamer/kvstore 

 Seriously, my coffee tastes like soup but getting up and making more is too hard so keep drinking it. 

 This coffee I just made tastes like soap.

#gamedev 

 I'm not sure why this abandoned vampire house has a chest full of gold in it, but it just does. Take it up with management. 

 "Bay Area baby belly beholding Battlefield bounty"

What the f**k does this headline even mean? 

 At first, I thought it was just imposter syndrome but I've come to the realization that I'm not good enough to win the Powerball lottery. 

 I have a 300 line Bash script that fully automates my build process. Rewriting it in Python won't make it any faster or make the game come out any sooner, but I'm having a hard time resisting the call of the coding siren. 

 I just checked and it's still OK to eat the rich. 

 Stilling working on my game dev achievement of "Do art that doesn't stink". I already have my "Write c++ code that doesn't leak memory". 

 Fun fact: John Riccitiello died 2 years ago and was replaced with a ChatGPT driven CEO AI. 

 This is fascinating. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky5ZXI0axc 

 Fun fact: Hitting refresh over and over doesn't make people post more great things to Mastodon. 

 When I said "easy", what I really meant was "magic". 

 Question for Mastodon: I have a bunch of CP/M 5.25 floppy disks that I want to "liberate" a bunch of Z80 code I did as a kid (the world needs to see my Space Invaders clone). Any ideas of a simple/easy to get read them? My CP/M machine is long gone. Tracking down old CP/M machines is outside the scope of easy. 

 When I first started making games, I'd be sitting next to someone on a plane and they'd ask me what I did. I'd say "I make video games" and they would stare at me unable to process what I said. Now I say "I make video games" and they talk non-stop about what they are playing. I preferred the old way. 

 I switched from DuckDuckGo to Kagi for search. It's paid and the results aren't as deep but the quality so far is much better. Once I go past the free tier I'll reevaluate it, but so far very happy. All the junk sites no long show up. 

 Dear #godotengine, please use someone besides PayPal for payment, they are a morally bankrupt company that stole money from me and closed my account for no reason. I would love to give you money, but not through PayPal. 

 Dear Unity board members: You need a CEO that understands and loves game engines. I'll take the job for $11 million a year. Look, I just saved you $1 million dollars a year. Dividends are already starting to pay off. 

 I wonder if I can get the rights to play this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0 

 Just added mushrooms that shoot spores at the player. Next step is to write a psychedelic shroom shader. 

 Based on recent revelations, I guess forgot one option on my John Riccitiello poll:

* Get arrested 

 Here is the current (WIP) map for my DZT game. The final map will be 4 or 5 times as wide and tall. I'm going to need to build a  chunking system so it can be spool in as needed.

#NoLoadScreens

https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/058/384/903/410/098/original/287ddc628124c5e9.png 

 If I was going to make a 3D game I would use #godot, no question. But for 2D, my engine works great and I know it well because I built it. 

 Yeah, this is why I don't have friends.