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quiet update: this is still happening

ada null@worldenddisk.com

quiet announcement: i'm rebuilding the servers of Meatspace Ephemera for its fifth anniversary, so the game can stay up long term. Meatspace Ephemera is an online game about exploring a dying server. i was 18 years old. i will never make anything else quite like it.

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

18 Aug

new server is working with dummy client. step 2 and step 3 is to hook the game up to the new server, and then to create an automated code+image generation solution. then we're in business baybey

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

18 Aug

it is so very very strange to be working in godot 3 again. i thought about porting this up to godot 4 but just. nah

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

18 Aug

still can't watch the ending without crying. probably more to do with my connection to the work than the ending itself. but christ

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

18 Aug

godot 3 is rough and the code i wrote at 18 was rougher

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

luv godot, hate godot's signal-based api, simple as

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ada null

@worldenddisk.com

25 Aug

okay the client is pretty much hooked up. wow i hate dynamic typing!

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

26 Aug

server is online, working build is online, now code generation

ada null

@worldenddisk.com

28 Aug

code generation + invoice image generation + image storage working we're so close

PDFops

@pdfops.dev

30 Aug

if these ever flow into an accounting system on the other end, worth keeping real text alongside the raster, once it's flattened to an image nothing downstream can pull line items without OCR.