It's Monday, January 26, 2015

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:04 am

I spent much of this weekend at a game jam with the intention of making music and sound for anyone who wanted it. Turned out most people didn't want it, or already had music lined up (which I think isn't in the spirit of the competition but whatever).

So I made a generative looping ambient soundtrack for a card game, and an interactive soundtrack for a Pong variant. Here's an arrangement of the soundtrack bits (which is what they ended up using since they didn't have time to implement the interactivity part, unsurprisingly):

Then I finished a comic just in time for my self-imposed publication schedule.

Then just before I was about to go to bed I came across a programming challenge that I just couldn't pass up and I am doing very, very badly at (or rather, my AIs are doing really well in rare circumstances but are normally doing really poorly).

QOTD: Which hobbies of yours end up taking over your weekend?

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:14 am

Being a gamer will steal away a weekend in the blink of an eye. Certain games like Minecraft and Civilization are time vampires.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:19 am

Nice soundtrack, fluffy. Reminded me a bit of the Portal 2 soundtrack.
Civ... I got lost in that one quite a lot back in college. Civ 4, that was. Dangerous thing.
My weekend had a lot of bouncing around from thing to thing, but last night I did almost finish the GOM song and then play Guild Wars 2 and then didn't get to bed until 3am... oops.
-bill

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:00 pm

fluffy wrote:QOTD: Which hobbies of yours end up taking over your weekend?

Masturbating, football, drinking, watching "Spiral", doing the crossword and occasionally remembering to keep up with my music & comics. Not necessarily in that order. I can multi-task

Post by **Lunkhead** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:00 pm

QOTD: Hmmmmm..... I guess my non-hobby stuff has taken over my time lately.

It was my birthday today, I'm 38 million years old now. Whoo!

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:40 pm

fatherhood.

All my hobbies have to occur when the kids and wife are asleep. (unless I include them, you may notice my kids occasionally making appearances in my music)

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:52 pm

yeah, a lot of my "bouncing from thing to thing" involves fatherhood also.
-bill

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