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You show me your red line and I'll wonder when the systems actually start
Amazingly, following a video tutorial when you have to constantly pause, do everything step by step, and frequently double triple check...
Nick Brunell
Jun 28, 20241 min read
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TOO MANY GAMES
So, you expected me to get anything done when it's Summer Game Fest. Well, I got some motion warping started for the vault over objects...
Nick Brunell
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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What happens when you make a cur say "ouch"?
I assume you get arrested for battery. As Unreal continues to not work when I need it to, I now have a working crouch mechanic. Do normal...
Nick Brunell
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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The Night Time is the Right Time... what was that about Vitamin D?
Hey, I got decent sleep... in the morning. That'll show me to think I can be awake to work. As usual, all the work I put into coding...
Nick Brunell
May 31, 20241 min read
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Running Around
Game design: Putting in a lot of stuff to make something just different enough than what there are already templates of. Apparently using...
Nick Brunell
May 24, 20241 min read
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Why is the time always gone?
So hopefully NOW, with Amazon WorkSpaces and an up to date tutorial, I can finally really get back to work. Currently I've started by...
Nick Brunell
May 17, 20241 min read
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I'm not using the Squidward image again
Another week, another opportunity for technology to feel like a big mistake. I should be perfectly fine with the tutorial videos and...
Nick Brunell
May 3, 20241 min read
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Don't bet against Beckett
Turns out Godot is a lot like LittleBigPlanet servers: they can't be fixed and have to just be quit. On the bright side, maybe removing a...
Nick Brunell
Apr 26, 20241 min read
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Gettin' set up... okay that sounds wrong.
Pretty much all I did this week was get set up with Amazon Workspaces, so hopefully I can get back to Unreal or something that my...
Nick Brunell
Apr 19, 20241 min read
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Can't work when you're out of sync
Due to my current living situation, I'm once again basically nocturnal, so getting anything done in the business hours is a skosh...
Nick Brunell
Apr 12, 20241 min read
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The Ultimate Con: Nothing's open during non-work hours
My personal life would work really well if anything were open in the evening or on weekends, but NO, I have to balance Game Gen vs all...
Nick Brunell
Apr 5, 20241 min read
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When everything's classified
I've been up to stuff this week, but almost nothing that's shareable to the public. The main point is I do have a new addition to my...
Nick Brunell
Mar 29, 20241 min read
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Apparently "Croak" was first used as a synonym for "die" in the early 1800s
Wait, who owns the patent for "hopping", frogs or rabbits? Is this like the Ju(i)cy Lucy war in Minnesota? Wait a second... does the...
Nick Brunell
Mar 15, 20241 min read
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If a hitbox is a cube, than what do they call a hitsphere or a hitcylinder?
Another week of learning Godot, and another week of nodes making TOTAL sense... There doesn't seem to be quite the ability to use number...
Nick Brunell
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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Seriously I played Foxyland before the pandemic
When even basic games in Unreal can't get working on my computer, it's time to turn to a Beckett character that was a ghost before ghost...
Nick Brunell
Mar 1, 20241 min read
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All nights and no days makes a week seem nonproductive
Usually my biological clock goes back and forth, but due to new household arrangements, I'm not betting huge money that I can do a...
Nick Brunell
Feb 23, 20241 min read
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OneDrive? More like I wanna Drive you Out of my thinking space
That's why there's no blog image; for some reason I can't save a Google Image (which would be Pam from the office - and I can't even...
Nick Brunell
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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When the instructions ask you to divide by zero
Remember when I was gonna do some actual Game Gen this week and not just more job hunting? Pepperidge Farm doesn't remember either. As...
Nick Brunell
Feb 9, 20241 min read
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I mean, I applied to SOMETHING
Another mostly career centric week, but this time I have some emails and personal notes to document that I looked at and applied to...
Nick Brunell
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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Back to the Flat-ure
Look, I'm not about to get a high end desktop anytime soon, and working on 3D games is meaningless if I can't share the game without...
Nick Brunell
Jan 26, 20241 min read
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