Burn It All Down
TWP # 13
A thought dump to clear my mind and an update on my Unreal Engine 5 project.
Lets talk a little bit about being stuck in life. The mundane existence of the ever revolving door of nothingness. The impression of change, the round and round we go provides the mental comfort we need, but in the end its the bleakness of nothingness. Being stuck in the same place year after year, succumbing to the complacency of mediocrity that we were destined to avoid. How do we find ourselves in such positions of hopelessness after once seeing what hope we had in our future. Are you where you thought you would be ten years ago, when you looked ahead at all you will accomplish? You cant really start over. You can probably pivot, adapt, succumb and maybe learn from the decisions, or lack of decisions, that were made. The emptiness of professional life needs to end, something needs to change. Where can goals take us? Aspirations? Endeavors?
Project Pluto - UE5 Update
Despite the craziness of this winter/holiday I was able to make some progress on the actual game. I did end up, yet again, scraping the API I have been building. I just cant find a framework I like. FastAPI is way to much boilerplate code, I spent days getting things in place only to throw my hands up (coming from a flask background I figured this the new hotness). Previously I was working in Go using Gin framework.
I did get the project updated to UE 5.1, which was sorta painless once the engine plugins were updated. I continued rebuilding the observation deck, which is one of the first areas the player enters.
Currently moving at a snails pace, holiday is busy and we got blasted with a winter storm that was quite devastating. Sure being trapped in my house I could have worked more, instead I just shoveled, drank and played Destiny 2.
The End of the 2022
Professionally speaking, what a shit year. Tried some things, made some leaps, but all roads seem to lead back to the beginning. I have some ideas for 2023, some ideas to break out of this prison.