I've been programming games most of my life, games you either never heard off or cared about.
In my spare time I like playing with retro computers and games.
My current professional role is Head of Platform: planing and prioritising the improvements affecting all games at the company.
Living in Germany, born in Chile.
I want to try learning analog electronics for the nth time in my life. I know the basics, but I want to get into more complex topics.
Can anyone recommend good sources in the internet?
Yesterday I had a fight with my game design partner about the use of AI in video game production.
I don't want that shit anywhere near my games, he is worried about surviving as a small inde studio.
Leaving all its issues behind, he was trying to make a case for mechamical repetitive tasks... but I don't see it, there are already good tools to cover many repetitive tasks already. I do believe there is creativity and learnings involved in repetitive work.
Am I being too extreme?
Throwing a massive sale on Steam and itch! Get picoCAD as well as all my games for really cheap!
Steam https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38093/Apskeppet_Mega_Bundle/
Itch https://itch.io/s/155911/summer-sale-2025
On a directors meeting I had to be the reasonable voice about AI adoption in development and everyone was looking at me like an heretic. One said "maybe is because your are not trying hard enough", another said "maybe we should get someone who gets it".
Hate corporate people who never learned the ropes and act as they are expert when everyone knows they are just spitting their latest whims. No reasoning, no care for details, no understanding of the problem and much less of a solution.
Yesterday was the worst real life The Office day I ever had.
I had to explain to the corporate director why making complex war simulation multiplayer live mobile games is hard and why you need a tech team to take care of the inhouse shared framework and infrastructure.
He wanted to have teams that behave like "speed boats", whatever it means and the ideal team size is 3.
On top, he wants to dramatically change the workflows 2 months before the new game realeases.
Corporate gamedev is broken.
Trying to organize my parts bin. Found a SHM-IC-1 8348 but can't find its datasheet anywhere.
Do you have an idea where else to search for?
Should I build a TTL computer? I am tempted to do a small one following Ben Eater's wonderful videos, but with some simplifications to reduce the IC count.
I want to show my kids how simple a small computer can be so they can build the right mental model of how one works.
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