Maybe I should make “The Road To Happiness” a series or something, but I’ve been having some knotty little problems with getting the Vulkan SDK working since upgrading from my old Ubuntu 16.04 installation to the nice, shiny new Ubuntu 18.04. One of the helpful things that happened was that my Vulkan SDK I downloaded from… Continue reading vulkan ubuntu 18.04 upgrade problems: the road to happiness
freetype 2: the road to happiness
I’m going to write a post about coding your own games from scratch later: it’s a topic I have quite strong feelings on (both ways), however right now I feel a pressing need to share with the world a fix for issues with CMake and a certain library that is widely used – FreeType 2.… Continue reading freetype 2: the road to happiness
book review: the subtle art of not giving a f*ck
That was a long week, I can tell you. Everyone seems to like self-help books. I see people in cafes reading them, and usually it’s something like The Secret or The Cosmic Ordering Service which appears to be a religion/mystical thing in disguise as advice. These never clicked with me, as a lot of them seem to revolve around… Continue reading book review: the subtle art of not giving a f*ck
keep scrollin’ scrollin’ scrollin’…
Ya know, me and this blog have a weird relationship. We don’t see each other for months, and then suddenly I think “I should write everything down” and I come back and start writing again. And there’s another blog post which is me proclaiming that this time, I’m back and so on… Part of the… Continue reading keep scrollin’ scrollin’ scrollin’…
lwjgl, maven and the path to happiness
The world of gamedev tutorials and Java is a hazardous one. The internet is full of outdated, broken tutorials that use long-abandoned bindings to OpenGL, engines that use out of date libraries, shit “personal toolkits” that work fine for a particular developer but no-one else and all other kinds of nonsense. How do I know… Continue reading lwjgl, maven and the path to happiness
soup that is beautiful
I do take a long time between posts, don’t I? theanswers42.com is kind of a thing I seem to end up taking a hiatus from, and then remember that I’ve actually got opinions about things and wonder where I can put them, and hey presto here I am again! I always come flying back saying that “this… Continue reading soup that is beautiful
strange delights
Last Sunday, I reviewed Doctor Mordrid, an early 1990s B-movie where the scriptwriters lost the rights to Doctor Strange and tried to rewrite the film to get around this, resulting in a somewhat odd but enjoyable movie that was heavily reminiscent of Doctor Strange but without being legally close enough for lawyer-fu to take place. So… Continue reading strange delights
shit film sunday: the strange tale of doctor mordrid
So, uh… it’s been quite a while without a blog post until now despite my promises to post regularly. I guess I’ll have to work on that… I have a passion for bad movies. Give me a choice between one of the newest CGI-laced blockbusters, or an obscure sci-fi flick from the 80s with terrible claymation… Continue reading shit film sunday: the strange tale of doctor mordrid
really new year, really new leaf, really new blog
So almost exactly last year I wrote here about starting over a new leaf, and I said that it was the perfect time to revive an old project: i.e. this blog. How did that work out? Well, I ended up changing jobs, and everything about this went down the pan as I concentrated on the… Continue reading really new year, really new leaf, really new blog
one year later…
Hello blog… I last updated you on the 29th of September last year, and so it’s exactly one year to the day as I write this. The year since then hasn’t been wasted at all, on the contrary it’s been very, very busy, but I feel as if you’ve been neglected, dear blog. This must… Continue reading one year later…
