Repo Status Updates of The Year

SaorsaDev Blog

complete This blog was made just this year, believe it or not! I made it to try and draw me away from LinkedIn. But LinkedIn feels so much more casual, I’ve always opted in that direction when able. This year, I’d like to get better at feeling like my LinkedIn posts could just be blogs I link to. But that means way more content on this blog, which isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a bit of a transition. Nonetheless, despite a lot of complications with configuring the Ananke theme on this blog, it seems to have worked out for the best.

More Game-Dev | Vacation | Focus

Game Dev

Since beginning to work on my game, I haven’t made many posts on the blog. I have been engrossed in the project from head to toe. I haven’t ever found any project quite so fun to build and the challenges have been enlightening.

Part of what convinced me to make a game, was watching a video by Jonathan Blow, discussing that, when you get good at one kind of programming, it creates a plateau. You tend to overcome the same similar problem over and over again. Even if there are a hundred problems you might be solving, there are a hundred thousand problems that exist, but you’ll never run into the other 99.9% of problems if you only ever program in one narrow industry.

GoGameDevDiscord

This week I made a Discord Server for Game Developers using Golang:

https://discord.gg/fhDnKr2Q

GoGameDevProgress

My own game written in Go is coming along. I plan to make a full post about my experiences so far. I have had a ton of trouble with it, however, I am really proud of what it is and has accomplished so far. I still have many hurdles to overcome, so just one hurdle at a time…