May 2023 Update

Published on 6 June 2023.

This is what I’ve been up to in May 2023:

• I continued working on the Balloon shooter game in my Agile Game Development with Python and Pygame series. I wrote 6 blog posts about it! The blog posts are a bit behind development. I still have some catch up to do. One thing that I will probably cover later is how we recorded sound effects for shooting a balloon. Here are the blog posts I wrote this month:

  • Game over?
  • Hit balloon and score points
  • Turning arrow
  • A case for the infrastructure wrapper
  • Programming a Logitech Gamepad F310
  • Score as text

• I started a new project: animation studio. The purpose is to be able to create animations programmatically for use in my videos. Things like text appearing and animating away. It has a preview mode where I can work on an animation, and when I am happy with the result, I can press a key to export a set of images that I can then import as a video in my video editor. I think the version I have now can actually be usable for some things. I will probably write more about it later. In the meantime, here is the project on GitHub.

• I wrote about how to test a router. This is an example of how writing things down clarified my thinking and provided me with an answer. I’m glad I did it.

• I published no videos on my Youtube channel. Recently I’ve found it more valuable to blog. It is easier for me to write blogs and I think that I also find more value in going back to blogs (which are easily searchable). I think I will keep trying to make videos and find a good balance with blogging, but for now, I focus more on blogging.