Kevin Whitaker @eyecreate@mastodon.technology

Wasn't happy with the state of my website, so I've now redone it and gave it lots of more relevant info to show.

Every since it came out last month and I stumbled upon it, I've been consistently listening to this album. I think it must be the energy(and catchy musical phrases) in the music that keeps me coming back for another listen.
http://mikazukibigwave.bandcamp.com/album/romantic-album
#futurefunk #Japanese

Just realized some cool game design in Dragon Quest XI. One character pair are twins and their skill trees are visually roatated 45 degrees. One of them dies in the game and they gift thier skills to the other. After that, the skill tree of the one left now has both sets of skills, which line up perfectly. Really like seeing forethought put into things like this.

I recently bought and have been playing Dragon Quest XI with steamplay and am appreciating how much easier is it to play mainstream windows games on linux now. While I wish support for the platform was more official than it is, I'm glad to have this level of choice in OS platform without being unable to enjoy some good games.

Wanted to share this article discussing various US laws around works and property and their effect on society.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-intellectual-property-is-nonsensical-and-pernicious
#copyright #patents #law #USA #trademarks

With recent discussion about Google's change to force Chrome sign-in with Google sign-in, it reminded me about my frustration that we don't have a popular consumer technology company focused around respecting consumers as human beings and not cash cows. So far, #Purism seems to be one of the few aiming in this direction. I can only hope one of these companies can do well enough to become an example to other's business because it's hard to see any way to convince the current dominant businesses to change.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been frustrated some current software development practices.
http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

#Nintendo keeps on surprising me with what interesting things they come up with for the Labo series. A great way to encourage creative and hands-on games.

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

Had a lot of fun with Yoku's Island Express recently. A combo of pinball and metroidvania game.
http://villa-gorilla.com/

Building myself a #3dprinter.

My copy of Root just came today. Pretty excited to try it out before Gencon.

#boardgames

Found myself wanting my Solus gaming box to log in right to Steam big picture mode, so I packaged it up myself.

https://gist.github.com/eyecreate/75b97f097a9dbe975a418307037e6d2a

#linux #steam #solus

Taking my new #QiAerista #TeaBrewer for a spin.

Found this esoteric language rather fun to read about. It makes not too bad lyrics out of simple programs.
https://github.com/dylanbeattie/rockstar

Found this interesting article trying to explain some ideas behind how different cultures' parenting can change how kids grow up handling tasks and managing attention.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention

I got a chance to play Crash Bandicoot today with the new remasters. Last time I tried the game was over a decade ago. I totally forgot how difficult and linear they were. Not sure I have the stamina to finish all three games.

After fighting with a cheap monitor with bad EDID for years, I finally put money down on a more reputable one. It's a relief to not have to craft my own xorg.conf files anymore for my screen to work.

Finally got to play Aeon's End War Eternal. I'll need to play it more to get more thoughts, but it doesn't beat out Sentinels of the Multiverse or Dominion/Star Realms, despite pulling ideas from both. Was still fun, though.
#boardgames

I'm proud to show a first glimpse of a board game I've been working on. #JoyrideGame #gamedev #boardgames