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Back to Work

TLDR: I'm closing Patreon and going back to work as a software developer.

When I quit my job two years ago I wasn't really planning on turning YouTube into my new job. I submitted my resignation months before my Pixel Art Animation video went viral and my plan was to use my savings (which would last me for about a year) to focus on Astortion and just see where things would go.

Regardless, through some miraculous coincidence, the channel exploded right after, allow...

Pausing Billing for June

Hi everyone!

I'm sorry for the lack of videos and livestreams this month. Due to some private matters, I had to take a month off, so I didn't really make any progress on any of my projects.

As such, I paused billing for the next month, so you shouldn't be charged for this period.

I'll give you a more extensive update in a few weeks.
Thanks for the support and until then!

Reimagining Astortion | Devlog 0

Hi everyone,

The new devlog is out!
It's meant to serve as a re-introduction to Astortion. I present my current vision for the game and describe how it changed compared to the Unity days.

I have a more technical video planned for later this month where I'll go over my Blender-to-Bevy pipeline so stay tuned for that!

Thanks for the support!

Astortion Playtest

Hi everyone!

The first Astortion playtest is finally ready, and I can't wait for you to play it! As with Solomon's Link, I'll start with the Compute tier and then expand the playtest to other tiers in the following days. I have some issues with cross-compilation so currently, the game is only available on Windows.
You can head over to our Discord server for more information.

Also, apologies for the lack of videos this month. I decided to focus all my efforts on the playtest to ...

Astortion Update

Hi everyone!

I wanted to give you a quick update on Astortion.
I've been working on it for a little over a month now and things are going well. I'm a bit behind the schedule but we should start playtesting in a few weeks.

I spent most of February learning the ropes of both Bevy and Rust, setting up the project, configuring hot reloading, making it work with Blender, etc. I still have lots to learn but I feel relatively confident now.

2024-03-23 22:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Could This Asset Be Code?

Hi everyone!

The new video is now out.
It's a culmination of months of work on Motion Canvas featuring brand-new shaders and a revamped code animation system that will be released in the next version.
I'm in the process of cleaning up the video's source code and will make it public sometime next week.

Thank you for the support!

Sneak Peek: Assets And Code

Hi everyone!

Here are a few shots from the next video "Could This Asset Be Code?". Finishing the script turned out to be more difficult than I expected. I ended up rewriting the whole thing. But I'm now halfway through the animation so the video will be out next week.

In case you're interested, here's the storyboard for the video:

I've been making those ever since I starte...

One Year of Motion Canvas

Hi everyone!

Here's the Motion Canvas anniversary video scheduled for February 4th.
Hope you enjoy it!

Status update for the next video:
I originally planned to make a video about Bevy's schedule system but decided to move that to a later date so I could better understand it.
Instead, I'm working on a video titled "Could this Asset be Code?" which dives into the differences between data and behavior in the context of game dev, where we draw the l...

2024 - New Year New Me

Hi everyone, hope your new year is turning out great!

I want to continue the tradition of making new year posts.
Last time, I shared my plans for 2023, namely:

• Release of Motion Canvas
• The Foundations project
• Release of Typewriter

I managed to complete all of those, but it didn't come without a hit to my upload schedule, with only four videos released that year. So...

A Little Reset - Channel Update

Hi everyone!

Here's a quick channel update I mentioned in the previous video. It publicly announces the complete rewrite of Astortion in Bevy which you may remember from My future with Unity.

It also goes into some of the mistakes I made when developing Astortion and how I'd like to fix them this time around.

Thanks for reading!

Solomon's Link

Hi everyone!

The release video for Solomon's Link is up on YouTube!
It won't be public for a few more days, but I figured I share it with you sooner than usual.

In the video, I mention some personal issues that impacted the development. I didn't want to go into the details publicly but I think I owe you some transparency. But please note that both Max and John were volunteers working on the game for free in their free time and I'm extremely grateful for the amount of work they ...

The bitter-sweet fate of Foundations

Hi everyone!

It's been a while, so I figured I'd give you a quick update on Foundations:
It's not good.

Those of you who are helping with playtesting might have noticed how little content there is in the game. There's only a tiny tutorial scene, one proper Loading Docs scene with a simple environmental puzzle to solve, and that's about it.

This is not because I wanted to hide the rest of the game from you so as to not spoil the fun. No n...

Safekeeper Early Access [ENDED]

EDIT: Safekeeper is now publicly available on GitHub.

Hi everyone!

Safekeeper is a package I talked about in one of my older videos. It's a simple save system initially designed for Astortion, but it's also being used in Foundations...

Foundations Credits

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that the "Patron shout-out" perk applies to Foundations as well. Like with my videos, members of the Fragment and Compute tier will be included in the credits of the game.

The same rules apply:

• The shout-out is opt-out - please message me if you don't want to be included.
• Your Patreon name is used by default - you can message me if you want to change it to something else.
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2023-10-05 12:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post

My future with Unity

Unity has been doing rounds again after announcing its new pricing plans. I figured it's as good of a time as ever to talk about my future with Unity. Please keep in mind that regardless of the timing, my thoughts were not really influenced by the recent questionable business decisions. This post has been a long time coming. I've been thinking about it for the past year or so.

TLDR: I decided to abandon Unity and rewrite Astortion in 2023-09-14 06:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Typewriter Early Access [ENDED]

EDIT: Typewriter is now publicly available on GitHub.

Hi everyone!

Typewriter is finally available to my Compute tier supporters!

Just like with Motion Canvas, access to the project and all future updates is managed via a GitHub organization. To join it, send me your GitHub username or e...