I've taken this week off while Tova goes to a birding festival up the coast. While the kiddos sleep, when I can steal a moment for myself, I've been fiddling with game dev. I've the starts to 2 games at the moment, well, sort of 2.5 maybe? One is the same game in two different implementations.
Game dev. has brought me to Lua.
I'm a wee bit in love. In love with Lua and in love with game dev. writ-large. I've no aspirations to do anything other than build toys (really, for any aspect of my life ¯\_O_/¯), and for that it seems totally and completely perfect.
So far I've mostly confined myself to the command line. I've made forays into SDL and Love2D -- both are approachable; Love2D more so.
Before this my only real exposure to Lua was through PICO-8 where I also totally and completely loved it.
I've also been matching my progress in retroforth. Whenever I implement a new feature to the game in Lua, I try to also do it in retro. Thanks to the endless and generous IRC help of @crc and encouragement @netscape_navigator retro is starting to click. I've not yet had a big #AH HA!# moment, but, to be totally honesty, I rarely do. The only one I really remember having in my entire life was learning to juggle in middle school.
I continue to noodle on "the idea." Swimming in game dev., game studies critical theory, and similar sorts of things. Simmering. It is very fun.
I haven't played heaps of games lately, but I think I'll dive back into that sort of thing soon. Oh, that is a lie -- I played a solid 3 or 4 hours of Bad North over a few days.
On the reading front I finished and started Villette again (I have a problem), I also picked up Wuthering Heights, figuring, when in Rome? I watched the first season of Snowpiercer. It was interesting. Tova digs it a lot. I'm not certain I'll stick with it. A bit more intense than I can stomach.
I've also been reading (slowly) a bunch of computer science and programming books. I don't think I'm getting anything out of it, though -- I always read them for 30 to 45 minutes before bed, after having read some Villette or something of that sort for a bit. I think I need a more concentrated (e.g. upright) reading-mode for such things. Perhaps soaking in CS books isn't as effective as soaking in crit. theory stuff to lock it into the brain-vault-cupboard-filing-cabinet.
Last but not least in this missive! My gemini server has been choking lately -- devouring all my server's memory. Kicking it seems to have fixed the issue for now.