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I design video games for a living. Previously, I was...
→ Going back to game development
- Watching Tenet and thinking it's a rather bad movie.
- Working on Auspex, fixing lots of minor issues before finalizing the core loop.
- Reading and learning a lot about fitness and nutrition on Darebee.
- Attempting to start keys lessons on Melodics in parallel with pads lessons.
- Watching Interstellar and greatly enjoying it. I wonder why Tenet is so bad in comparison.
- Thinking standard piano layouts are awfully designed and pure torture to use.
- Playing The Red Strings Club and loving it. A refreshing, deep cyberpunk game.
- Playing the kalimba. Not sure why I forgot about it one year ago, but I now greatly enjoy it.
→ Chilling
- Beating Cyberpunk 2077 and feeling mildly unsatisfied with the whole thing.
- Doing pretty much nothing all week long. It's Christmas, apparently.
- Resuming work on Auspex, squashing month-old bugs. It feels awesome.
- Playing >observer_, a rather weird cyberpunk horror game.
→ kalama musi ike nanpa wan
- Refining a couple of OP-Z tracks. It's really a joy to work with.
- Having mixed feelings about Cyberpunk 2077, but mostly enjoying it.
- Feeling very happy about how VEMOM #10 turned out, looking forward to the next time.
- Updating my main Bandcamp after 6 years (wow, really?)
- Releasing my mini mix for VEMOM on Bandcamp.
→ Enjoying music and sore muscles
- Still working on Toki Pona lyrics for my OP-Z tracks.
- Still working on my OP-Z tracks.
- Discovering the brutal efficiency of dumbbells workouts.
- Preparing a 10 minutes set for VEMOM #10, hosted by Quentin Leonetti.
→ Composing songs?
→ Meandering
- Getting closer to define a new album aesthetics with the OP-Z. Having fun.
- Reaching a 500 day streak on Melodics. The learning curve is steep, but I'm learning.
- Realizing I now have 3 different track drafts, and a rough outline for a future EP.
- Keeping the OP-Z juice flowing. Turns out I may have 4 or 5 nice drafts, maybe even more.
- Thinking about writing a Toki Pona album with the help of some internet clown friends.
→ Crunching/procrastinating
- Trying to figure out the OP-Z workflow to make a "full" song. It's way, way deeper than it seems.
- Getting busier than usual at work, which leaves me less time and energy for personal projects.
- Feeling kind of stuck at grade 7-8 in Melodics, but realizing I still make constant progress.
- Honoring the universe (by resuming workouts.) Funny how this thought resonates with people.
- Giving a new try to Old World, playing as Egypt. It's a great historical drama generator.
→ Making music again
- Thinking about changes and new features for Auspex.
- Experimenting and working on new tracks with the OP-Z. I'm totally in love with this device.
- Silver-starring grade 9 funk lessons in Melodics and reaching level 15. Funk beats are pure joy.
- Trying to come up with something for the 2020 Microfiction Game Jam.
- Recording a preview of my OP-Z experiments.
- Finishing Inktober 2020! All my sitelen sitelen drawings can be found in this thread.
→ Teenage Artiphon Engineering
- Trying to understand how to send the right MIDI messages between iOS apps.
- Having so much fun with the Orba I decided to get an OP-Z to complement it.
- Diving into the pure bliss of the OP-Z. The most fun I had in years.
- Listening to some Plastikman classics.
- Ending up making soothing ambient chill beats instead of acid, and absolutely loving it.
→ Making beats
- Thinking about making beats for Novembeat with the Orba.
- Enjoying the Inktober sitelen sitelen ritual.
- Trying to resume my meditation practice, and failing. Again.
- Learning more about myself and my inner workings. It's enlightening and terrifying.
- Searching a quick and dirty workflow involving the Zynthian and the Orba.
- Making little progress on my acid techno attempts but loving how it sounds.
- Feeling tempted to invest in a hardware tracker like a Digitakt or an OP-Z.