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Everything seems broken in the software development world right now. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but it has been escalating very rapidly, especially in the last few weeks, so I’m mostly dumping a chain of thoughts for my own personal diary. Is it just me feeling this? Every piece of software turned their attentions to only deploying AI functionalities, among tons of other unfinished things that need to be done, nobody is paying attention to the details, they resort to the first AI prompt for their questions as the “true source of knowledge”; devs talking about having their games and software cloned via decompilation, and there’s a whole subset group of people who seem happy they can now clone/steal other people’s work. ...

Hello! 👋 For several months now, I’ve been working on a brand new surprise update. Quest of Dungeons is coming to Nintendo Switch 2! And it’s not just a straight port, I wanted to take advantage of it’s new capabilities and also some new content. Abyss - a new mansion mode Joining the three existing chapters, we get the Abyss. You unlock it after completing the other ones. ...

02h23m She woke up … Sweating… the ceiling fan was dead and the neon from the noodle shop across the alley kept the room in a constant state of artificial twilight, it was exhausting. Rane was pretty sure the only reason why the streets now looked like those futuristic movies was because everyone thought it would be a good idea to actually make them in real life. She sat on the edge of her bed, the frame making noises under her weight as she sat closer to the edge. Part routine part itch, she ran a finger down the back of her neck, that tiny ridge where the skin met the cold seam of the spine mod. It didn’t hurt, not anymore, but there was always that feeling of an itch in the morning. ...

John looked up, the sun was high and bright, scorching really, if not for the contrast of the snow and ice covering the ground in every visible direction as he looked down again. Up on the top of the trees some of the ice would always melt a bit, but never too much, as it was still quite cold. He often wondered how cold it was but with nothing to check he’d settled on Too-F-Cold ºC. ...

2025! This has been, for the lack of a better expression, a stressful year. I still remember around end of 2024 many people saying “things will change next year”. And change they did. For me personally, professionally and overall worldwide events turned this year into a constant state of alert that made almost every week in sync with my weekly “Cloud it’s Wednesday” post. Intraconnected-world 🕸️ Even if someone’s work doesn’t depend on using the internet, we can’t escape it these days. The problem for me really is that “The Internet” as I’ve grown to know it, is for the most part gone. ...

An interruption Ok, how did you get here? Was it a notification, scrolling a feed, did you saw my post and pressed the link, an RSS feed perhaps? What was the interruption that broke your flow, and do you remember the last thing before? Or even before, before you were on socials or scrolling whatever got you here? Sorry, maybe an exaggeration here, it hasn’t been that long, but how often does that happen? That rabbit-hole where you set your time to do a certain thing and by the end you don’t even remember what it was? ...

Why? After several years working with Unity, both for personal and contract projects, I decided to finally properly test and use Godot. I had been keeping an eye on it for a few years, but Unity’s controversial policy changes in late 2023 were the final push I needed to start experimenting seriously with an alternative engine, even if I could use my custom engine. I guess the sort of exploding new wave of devs switching to Godot made me even more tempted, adoption is rapidly expanding. ...

Why? My 8-9 year old Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard died 🪦 (actually it’s been showing signs for a while), so I decided to search the market. At first I just wanted “the same one”, but they are discontinued, even used ones are expensive, and many didn’t had the dongle anymore (btw don’t buy this KB without the bundled dongle, comes locked from factory, you can’t use a different one, shame on you MS). I found that some brands will eventually have similar models later this year (but no release date yet) but I needed to start changing now. ...

There’s a rise in the popularity of cozy games, the ones that are not about just hard challenges, combat or adrenaline, but about comfort and attempt of well-being. Those are great, and it’s incredible to see the indie scene doing many interesting things in that department. But I always have this on the back on my mind as one of my favourite things, one thing I’m usually very interested in, cozy feelings/atmosphere that can be found in unexpected places. ...

🕛 2024 I initially intended to do a “end of year” post BEFORE the EOY talking about some stuff, but that never happened because work and other things kept getting in the way. 2024 was a weird year, from work, to personal, to world, to finances, to game dev, to everything really. I just feel tired honestly, that’s the best way I can describe 2024! Ok that started in a weird way, but allow me some latitude here… The world is in a weird state, economy, layoffs everywhere, the game dev industry in a very fragile state; and suddenly every company is betting all their chips on “AAAAeee IIIIII”, politics seem wacko, climate change, social networks going bananas, overall everyone trying to find their feet. ...