Sep 24, 2026, 8:46 AMyou see some game developer who writes at length about server infrastructure, ad integration, CI/build system, deployment, sales, analytics, player telemetry, dashboards. and you wonder what type of games this person is designing. what kind of joy they want to inspire in others? but you cant find anything about the actual games. and you check out their portfolio, and the games are called something like "war eagle 3" and "crystal collector"
Sep 24, 2026, 9:46 AM@jk but last month I did encounter someone who just went ahead and made a game inside the Grafana dashboard. So that's something
Sep 24, 2026, 9:47 AM@mcc the existence of a demoscene for a software platform not even considered to be a software platform is a real 'nature is healing' sign, like observing the right kind of lichen
@jk i doubt their commitment to the pure intrinsic joys of collecting crystals
@jk there was a certain period of my childhood where seeing crystals in VGA color was the coolest thing imaginable
Sep 24, 2026, 3:08 PM@jplebreton @jk imagine… ice cream architecture