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Mr. Lucha

@luchalutra.bsky.social

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Indie Dev, looking to share my craft, and connect with other devs and folks who love the medium of video games! The guy your lemon drink warned you about. Profile art commission done by @teoft.bsky.social Banner art commission done by @zeroand09.com

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · Apr 3

VERY IMPORTANT LIFE UPDATE. Good news I promise! I have attached the full explanation as attachments (alt text friendly). But here's the gist:

-I put in my two weeks
-I will now have more time to work on my project(s)
-I am ready for work in the industry
-If you know of any work, paid/unpaid, lmk!

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Update:

I figured this would be an easier way to say everything at once, instead of making a massive bluesky comment chain. I have some big news to share.
As many know, I have been doing my indie dev work when I could after my full-time job work shifts (so basically the late hours of the weekdays). and it was taking up a lot of my mental bandwidth to do. Part of the problem is that the job I had was completely divorced from anything dev related. So, to compensate, I had to take it upon myself to teach myself literally everything when I could. It was tough, but I was making do.

However, as time went on, it became apparent that if I kept going at the route I had been on, it was never going to be an easy jumping off point to start considering work in game dev, be it directly related or an offshoot of it. To put this in perspective, I graduated April 1st of last year with my bachelors, and it’s April 1st now, again. A whole year, and I had told myself I would have been actively seeking work a few months after graduation.

Quite a wake-up call to realize that. All this to say, as of last night I made a very important decision: It was time to rip the band aid off and throw in my two weeks. That’s right: In two weeks, I will be officially on the hunt for work myself.

It’s admittedly a bit scary. I don’t feel like I am ready, but in reality, I don’t feel like I ever “would” be ready. So, with that news, I want to give everyone an update on what this means:

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As far as indie dev goes: I will be able to pour a LOT more time into learning what I need to make my first game. This is not going to change. It was ultimately the most important part for me when I was making this consideration. I am in my late 30’s, and this learning stuff is getting more tough as the years go on. I just need more time, and this is one of the best ways to get that. Work on my game(s) is not going to slow or stop: It’s going to increase.

As far as work goes: It’s going to be incredibly important for me to find work in something game dev related. There are a couple of reasons for this. One being, building up valuable and much needed experience so I can start capitalizing on my time spent, and start building up a much stronger foundation to make things a lot easier on me. This is probably going to be more on the coding/programming side of things, or something of that nature. Or a job related to it.

As far as bluesky goes: Nothing changes, you’re stuck with me lol. If anything, I would be more active, but I am not going anywhere.

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How you can help: I will be jobless, but I will be fine for a while, but of course the sooner I find work, the better! If you happen to know of any work, be it paid, or unpaid, please just keep me in mind and toss it my way! I am not picky. I don’t have a specialty, but I do tend to do better with coding/programming stuff where I have the most experience in. I am also an Unreal Engine dev, and I do not use Godot or Unity. The sooner I dive into the industry, the better. Otherwise? I am going to be working on my own stuff in the meantime!

That should just about cover everything. But, I really want to make sure everyone is on the loop, and I know long papers like these usually mean bad things. It’s not: Just traditionally long winded me spouting off some updates and happenings.

That’s all, I will see ya’ll on bluesky. Very excited for the future!

-Lucha

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 14m

I really, really like how you dithered the sky and the structure to the right. I haven't really delved too far in learning that yet. Just been doing basic highlight and shadow tones basically.

But that looks great! Congrats!

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 18m

One of the times I was watching one of those videos, it was recommended to me to watch a horse hoof cleaning video, and they were cleaning the hoof, and basically getting it ready to have a new horse shoe put on. They knew their audience. lol.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 27m

Here's some of the other things from the lesson that share the same work space lol, so you can see the scraps and doo dads.

A series of isometric drills and stuff I was doing to make the final room shape. You can see various tile shapes, thicknesses, angles, and even a couple of self-made assets of what look like futuristic doors. I have some line angles drawn in, a little heart, and a study on shape profiles that wasn't filled in.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 31m

Small update, but it's still coming along. Kind of cool to see things take shape and how everything works together #pixelart #gamedev.

For this part of the class I am not too focused on doing my own thing just yet, trying to get close to what the teacher has so I can learn the fundamentals.

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 37m

Does this have to do with the manifesting? :D

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 40m

The box that held one of those files just not popped. It didn't pop for me until the next playthrough over. Just my guess. I hope it ends up spawning in for you though. I am definitely curious which one is being the problem child.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 42m

Something else that might be happening (just to consider, I scrubbed to see if you were going through your files in the most recent archive), is there was a bug pretty early on where the files simply didn't spawn in. That mainly happened with me for the fate of the apostate trophy. Basically-

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 3h

That one was tricky because iirc it's physician #5 that only appears in NG+ onwards, and it's in the library/archive area early on in otherworld.

But you aren't missing much. You definitely have enough to know the true story behind all of that. But that's my guess as to which one you are missing.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 3h

This is so much fun to look at, especially the thumbnail!

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 3h

I swear I have seen this character before. Is she from Lain?

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 3h

Ok good, just wanted to make sure. They are very subtle and easy to miss on that run. I had to double back on a fifth playthrough to grab one I glossed over.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 3h

Did anyone bring up to you how some of the files are difficulty specific and progression specific? I haven't been following too closely, but with you gearing up to attack NG++, you still have a few little specific files to grab if you want the full story on a few characters.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 4h

Also! Thanks for reminding me about ZamN! Learning pixel art right now, and the perspective they have going on is worth study. Especially with how they dither.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 4h

This boss, has a variant that is like two or three of them in a later stage, and they move so fast. Everytime they are on screen is a jump scare. Haaaaate it.

Far scarier than the tremor worms.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 9h

I didn't know you made one for publishers too, that's awesome!

and thanks btw! This stuff helps out a great deal. I know I have used these to find follows that I otherwise would have scraped for.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 9h

I've really been digging the casual dress series so far!

(I mean, it's less so a series, but I hope you get what I mean).

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 9h

I am so bad at discord. I really would do well with that, but I just can't manage too many at once. Bluesky helps me with the short form much easier, and easier to keep track of convos.

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 9h

Yesn't:

A meme where one of the people is saying "he's probably thinking about his game project" and the other is saying "Tom Hardy really should star in a movie called "Foolhardy" where he plays a court jester that is testing the limits of his role as a court jester". It's the meme of the couple laying in the bed.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 9h

Hound nose helm's let's fuckin gooooo

(pssst, you should totally do a Sallet next, the best of all helms)

I am not biased and you have no proof.