I said I would write the top 10 games of 2021 list after my first post back, so I started writing a post for just that. But then I decided to write this instead. It is what it is. Anyways, 2021 was fantastic for video games, but holy cow, it was even better for music. When I left Fartsight Studios, I decided to stop watching podcasts while working. It was just way too distracting, and I wanted to take my new job much more seriously. I would be solely listening to music when at work. That’s 4-6 hours more of music a day than I was getting in before. To help aid this, I got rid of my premium Napster account (jeez I sound like an old loser), for a Spotify account. I only did this as a result of having added a smart TV to our house. There was no damn Napster app, so I got Spotify on it. It worked like a breeze, and after several years of Napster, I switched everything over. This was for the better as Spotify really helped turn me onto some of the best and my favorite music as of late.
Some Things Have Changed
Hey person who stumbled onto my website. No way you’re a recurring visitor checking to see if I’ve posted anything recently, as I haven’t in a couple years. But if you are, today’s your lucky day. I’m going to catch you up on what I’ve been up to. I’m sure you’ve been dying to know if you’ve been frantically checking this ghost town of a site. To catch you up, I will post a post on this website. Yes this website that I pay hundreds of dollars for, yet I barely utilize. This website where the visitors coming in have dwindled to such a small trickle, no doubt degenerated from the god awful SEO I have right now. And I have no plans to improve it. I don’t plan on investing lots of time into this site like I used to. I ain’t got time for that crap. Things have changed of course.
My Game is Done!
I know I said I’d be much quicker with my game, but some things popped up as they usually tend to. But I’m very happy to say that I actually finished the damn thing! It took half a year, and the game is only 7 minutes long, but I finished it!
Trying to Finish Up a Personal Project
I really tried to commit to the once a week post thing, and I’ve actually been pretty damn good about it. That mammoth Avengers post I did really clogged my flow up though, but I am trying to get back on schedule. The only thing is that I’m definitely prioritizing this personal project of mine that I’ve been working on with some buds from work. It’s very, very close to being done, so I’m just trying to pour all effort on that for the moment. Once I’m actually done with that, I think I’ll actually switch focus from the Pinball Arcade posts to talk about the project. I’ll probably even have to add a page to my website, and I’m planning on doing a postmortem on it. I’m planning to go all out on showcasing this little project because I’ve spent a decent amount of time on it. So hopefully next week, my post is something about that project.
Pinball Arcade: Bugs and Understanding our Tables
With the lighting being fixed, I could go back to smaller bug fixes. But these smaller bugs would force me to jump into TPA‘s code in a way different than before.
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21 Marvel Films Ranked from Worst to Best
I prepared my ass off for Endgame. If that was a programmer test to get into some AAA company, it would be the equivalent of going on KhanAcademy and watching the whole 3D math series, doing all the C++ programmer tests on the first search page of google, and doing a programmer test for a little indie company that you’re actually not interested in getting a job at. I’m of course referring to watching 19 of the 21 Marvel films that came out before Endgame.
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Red Dead Redemption 2: Reflecting on My Experience
I’m gonna take a couple weeks off of talking about Farsight, so I can talk about some things that have popped up. One thing that popped up for me was Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Pinball Arcade: Fixing the Lighting
One of the biggest things that I would get told about when I was first getting started was that the lighting sucked on PS4 compared to PC. Even though we had the same lighting system for PC and PS4, PS4 looked noticeably worse. This was because the lighting was just incredibly dim on the PS4.
Pinball Arcade: Adding Friends Leaderboards
The fans wanted a lot of stuff to be done on the PS4. They wanted it to closer resemble the PC and mobile release of Pinball Arcade. I got it really close with the previous patch by adding the missing tables, trophies, and challenges. But there was still a ways to go.
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Trying for Monthly Tables
So now that I was done fixing the biggest bugs and catching Pinball Arcade up to where it should’ve been on PS4, I was going to start trying to release tables on a monthly basis like all the other platforms. That’s easier said than done with PS4 though.