📓 Notes

Yet more time spent code reviewing my old toolkit. It's been fun but I really need to make something new(ish). So I'm going to try and build out SystemX.

The original plan for my toolkit years ago was to release a framework for XNA that would allow me to build games with a lot of the boilerplate done in the framework. Stuff like Game state, Sprite Manager, GUI, Font manager there is a long list of "not game" things that people leave to the last minute as an afterthought.

Anyway I thought I'd build SystemX out along with returning to the game I was making last called Maze Fodder.

The thing that killed my momentum last time was trying to get the lighting system working. That and I generally hadn't put enough effort into building the project out sensibly. Trying to do too much too soon. I just burned out.

The new plan is to build Maze Fodder but make small updates on what I've done and how I'm doing. If you have an interest in game development, feel free to tell me what I'm doing wrong, or make suggestions about what I should be doing.

📚 Reading

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Finished! That brings this years total up to 3 I'm so happy :-)

Next up I'm carrying on with the boy wizard series by she who must not be named.

My usual rules apply, no linking to the books. If you want it, get it second hand so you support a charity and not the hatemonger who wrote it.

🎞️ Films

• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
  I finally finished The Hunger Games Series, it was ok, I did feel like they put in far too many "look, see that's where that came from", did they not learn anything from the farce that was SOLO.
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• Bridget Jones's Diary: The Edge of reason (2004)
• Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
  Well the new one was coming out on Sky cinema so I thought I'd re-watch the others first, to keep the wife happy you understand.
• YES DAY (2021)
  Stupid but not in the good way.

📺 TV

• The 100 (2014) Series 4
  Still working my through.
• Great British Bake off (2010) Series 16
  It is what it is.
• Taskmaster (2015) Series 20
  R.O.F.L.M.A.O. 🤣
• The Rookie (2018) Season 08
  Well the season is finally all available here in the UK so I'm going to watch it ALL
• Person of Interest (2011) Season 01
  I finally found somewhere I can watch it, so I'm starting from the beginning.
• The New Legends of Monkey(2018) Season 01
  Needed something to watch so I finished the first season. It was good, but only because I can watch it on 2x speed.
• High Potential (2024) Season 1 E02/03
  I couldn't stay away, I needed my fix.
• Travelers (2016) Season 01
  It's not too bad, but I'm still not sure I like it yet.

Making games is more fun than playing them, Stay Lucky.🤔