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Life Update

     I deeply apologize for the massive delay between blog posts, but life got busy, and programming in my free time to a back seat to the rest of my life. So... here are some programming updates for you.

    1) The Game: I have made no progress on the game since my last post. I worked for a bit integrating Steam multiplayer into the game, but it did not go well. I have made the difficult but ultimately smart decision to scrap the current game and rebuild from scratch. This way I can start with multiplayer working, and add on systems as I progress in the game development. naturally, this killed a bit of the energy I had going for it, but I think it is the best decision. We also have decided to dissolve the game studio since I was the only one programming and designing, and they have all moved on with their lives. I don't want this to be the end of the game studio, but work on Table Top Empires will be slow and not consistent, sorry.

    2) Fintech: After getting advice from my teacher on how to best improve my skills and make myself look more competitive, I have started learning some programming stacks. I started with ASP.NET and its ecosystem (.MAUI, Blazzer, etc), but realized that there is not a big community/ecosystem for the framework. This would make it difficult to build what I was planning on building. This then got me to move to MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node). This led me to re-learning Javascript, and React, and then learn for the first time tools like Mongo, Express, Tailwindcss, etc. It is a lot more difficult than I was initially thinking, but I am getting there. I am currently in the process of building my own platform. This will be the start of my fintech development journey. So I am sorry to all who were interested in the game and not the platform, but the game will be taking a backseat to the platform development. For anyone interested in what it looks like at the moment, you can look at the next blog post ;).


Sorry for the delay, but it is good to be back!


Live long and prosper my friends!

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