Thursday, May 21, 2020

Love and Art

To love is to give, and the more you give the more you love. The give to the world therefore is an act of love. Such is art; it is essentially selfless because it must be freely given to function as an emotional act.

Moving back into an art-state from the despised programming state. I dislike programming because it is so very exacting, one slight error and everything is destroyed. A computer is the most harsh of bosses; willing to destroy everything you've made with one mistake. Yet, of course, everything is caused by oneself too; the computer is no being or judge at all. Still, it is an unforgiving tightrope which the programmer treads, and it is always very bad for the nerves of a perfectionist.

After some distress, Animalia is back on track for a release in June. I've also updated my basic game-engine Skeleton to allow more than 127 letters, this was harder than you might imagine, as byte numbers switch to negative at 128, so just about every one of the 20 or so text handling routines needed to be reprogrammed and carefully checked. Perhaps there are errors in there, but I hope not. This change will allow more foreign letters for future game translations for future games or game upgrades.