I assume 23 was consumed by whatever replaced WOW.

Good to hear X-G is still alive and kicking.

Maybe you should consider writing a book Didn't know the song, thanks for broadening my knowledge.

Nice a few years back I didn't even know that such country even exists. And part of the trip was even covered by the won bets, adorable I don't suppose those people were real friends, were they?

Hm, X-G, last time I remember he was posting some screenshots of some Invaders clone with very Cthulhu looking sprites, good to hear he's doing fine.

Let's see. I finished my PhD in bioinformatics, moved to the UK, then abandoned the whole bioinformatics thing and moved back to the Netherlands. Now working as a regular software developer.

To scratch that academic itch, I overload my games with science. And I do still make games, now more than ever.

@gnolam

You introduced me to the word callipygian. Burned into my mind.

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Kitty Cat is on IRC from time to time. Check #allegro on freenode. I'm Modulo5k, there are others you would remember too.

All europeans know each other. there's only like 7 of them.

We have an 18-month-old daughter

As far as programming goes, it's a long time since I worked on a game. Somehow we had trouble making a profit with games (funny, that). We got into deep learning though and it's quite a thing - so very different from classical programming. It can be demoralising when nothing you try works, but at the same time, it's an amazing set of skills to be acquiring.

I will say in response to

that I find Python rather good. Isn't it also easy to feel disillusioned in any area of life in its current state, but when you look back, it's the good things that people remember? It's certainly true with classical music.

Unity is an odd beast. It's got good bits and bad bits in it. Unfortunately, many of the core designs that you cannot avoid using are bad. Some of the problems are very old and just hard to fix without breaking everything, but Mecanim is more recent and is impossible. Perhaps there are lesser known competitors to Unity that get more things right, or perhaps there's still a place for Allegro?

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An example of a bad but unfixable design in Unity: method execution order, especially for identically named methods across different behaviours on different objects, and especially in that it tends to be consistent (but arbitrary) in the editor and then it changes when you build, leading to build-only problems. And by the way, building can take half an hour if you're unlucky, but certainly a minute or two.

Mecanim is impossible: it forces you to make lots of separate assets that you have to choose paths for, and it's difficult to understand what they all are; and then it constrains you into a state machine with blocking transitions, preventing you from ever being able to make a responsive, reliable app since things you do during a transition will get ignored or delayed and will have a chance to fight each other in race conditions. It's just the usual "imposing a framework" thing that happens so often. I stick to Unity's legacy animations.

There's Unreal engine.

During the last 10 years I switched my job from university to database programming at first an after a few further years I changed again to my current job: software engineering for space flights!

But I never stopped working with Allegro in my free time.

Wow, congrats! I hadn't heard from you in a while and was already wondering what's up. Do you still live in England?

So I guess, no time for TINS then?

Supercallipygianisticexpialidocious?

Life with two children is somewhat more full than before.

I'd love to take parts in compos, but I'm afraid I'll have to wait until the little one is a few more months old so the evening routines are common to her and her brother (less time spent doing 2 times the same thing, same sleeping hours)

I would say "we've evolved a bit since then", but it would probably come across as racist so I won't.

backs away from laptop