#coder: dev

[focusontheheart]

Meet the Team - Dev

You can also find @the-devil-fruit-tree on: AO3 @ silverwolf_fox

Hey there, y’all! You can call me Dev, and I’m one of the proud coders of Focus on the Heart! I’ve been loving Horizon Zero Dawn since the first year it came out and have been a fic writer across multiple fandoms for even longer. I’ve only written two oneshots based on HZD, but I’m really excited for the chance to utilize my coding skills for such an awesome project.

See the Q&A with Dev under the cut!

What is a favorite piece of work you've done (i.e. completed, working on, in concept)?

Of my two HZD fics, “Why Do You Care?” is my favorite, a Nil/Aloy that shows off her stubbornness, his caring, and a whole lot of hurt/comfort fluff.

I do stand by my other fic, “Glitch” and how fun a multi-chapter HZD/100 crossover exploration would be.

What are some of your favorite tropes to write, draw, or read?

Ooh, this is a tough one. I love soulmate aus and, for the fandoms that need it, time-travel fix-its. Plus anything that expands on world-building.

What is an unexpected thing or fun fact about you?

I love crafting, and one of my main mediums is crocheting yarn plushies

What has been your favorite thing about working on this project so far?

For years, Cait (Leader of Team Nil) has been my best friend and beta for my writings, and this has been my first chance to work on a fandom project together with her.

[chride]

the thing about coding that frustrates me to no end is that when you're doing something you've done before it takes you minutes but when you're doing something you haven't done before it can take minutes, hours, days or months just to get it working sort of as intended and then who knows how long to get rid of bugs

like, how is this in any way a reliable process of getting anything done

[linuxtldr]

Can't bots just trust we're human without the robot dance-off? 😄

[nonbinary-coder]

man, I really don't like subscriptions in video games. used to see "any purchase comes with permanent ad removal" everywhere, but now more and more games have ad removal as a separate purchase, and often as a subscription. and so many other perks as subscriptions too

so here is my promise, as an indie game developer:

I am not going to put any subscriptions in my games. If you buy something, it is yours. If I include anything in my game which may be purchased for real money, it is yours to keep. Indefinitely. Anything which is only a temporary bonus will be purchasable with in game currency, not real money.

[d8tl55c]

scene of programmer021 throwing together the code for the first TCOs: "what if i just give them 100% in all stats lmao."

releases one into a sandbox*

sandbox bricked irretrievably within 3 minutes

ho-ly shit.

..... that's hilarious.

they try like ten more times, each with the same outcome. the little worm is good at what it does, scary good, and programmer is grateful that they went the extra mile with the sandbox layer of protection from it.

at a safe distance, the TCOs are brilliant sparring partners.

*(basically a mini computer running inside of (but held separately from) another computer) (used to test new features without risking a whole system)

on the twelfth go, they've learned enough of its tricks to have more of a chance. both of them take a moment after a long scuffle to catch their breaths. the stick figure gasps on the floor - it's amazing! so lifelike! and programmer is celebrating this little victory for the field of recreational AI right up until

it looks at them.

TCO #12 turns its hollow face out through the screen, looking at them.

programmer is unsettled.

can it see them?

their webcam is off.

surely it's impossible?

right?

and yet, it seems to see them regardless, because not only does it react to their reaction (little twitches eerily realistic, how did their program know to do those things), it capitalizes on their shock. it springs to its feet while they're still open-mouthed and reaches the walls of the sandbox window (which programmer had been herding them away from at all costs), crashing against the side, rebounding, and hitting them again and again.

programmer flails to reconnect to their Cursor (you know when you forget where it is and have to wave it around before you can use it again? like that, but with even more panic, confusion, and imminent peril).

there are cracks in a multitude of funny colors forming at the edge of the sandbox instance. pieces of the window dent out of its normal bounding box. The Chosen One adapts instantly, focusing its hits toward the weak points.

WTF! this has gone way too far.

programmer's Cursor swoops around from out of nowhere and catches the TCO by the base of its head. it tries to breathe fire and only manages strangled puffs of smoke. its legs kick the air. where once it was so elegant and poised it twists and writhes-

programmer drops it.

they feel cold.

their Cursor retreats outside the walls of the sandbox PC, clicking into the main system's File Explorer. already open is the folder with this sandbox, its partition of storage, and setup files inside.

they click it. press Delete on their keyboard.

the TCO tries to stand. it pushes through a dizzy spell, one hand holding the spot under its head that must be its neck, and sprints toward the breach it was working on.

a confirmation pane appears, from the process responsible for running the sandbox.

its arms are strong, but the more TCO_12 struggles the more it's clear that this wall would need way more firepower and concerted effort... and time... to break. it's out of time. it realizes this.

are you sure you want to end this process? ALL data will be lost.

programmer sees when it loses hope, because it abandons the wall. it abandons the whole game: the pride and dignity it fought with, the play-pretend that it held any real power here. it turns outward again, toward the screen. small hands slam against the barrier between them, knock-knocking faster, faster, please please please, its legs shake and give out but it keeps knocking, on its knees, please please please please PLEASE

the sandbox is deleted.

the window that displayed it freezes, lighting up too-bright and desaturated.

a snapshot of the TCO is frozen in place, begging for...

begging for what? it was never meant to know anything. to want anything. how did it know there was anything outside its reality to want?

or was it simply afraid to die?

Windows catches up, and sweeps the frozen program away.

programmer021 is left alone with the spot where TCO_12 used to be.

their friends want to play with their latest stick figures. they were supposed to update today.

programmer numbly uploads the most recent release build they have. killer and BEAST were fun to work on. they'll warn everyone not to touch TCO until.... until programmer works out how to... until ever, and if one of them does, it'll be their own fault.

[bi-panic-at-the-disco]

I like how whenever I watch AstralSpiff or Backseat play a new Poppy Chapter it’s pretty clear what game that they devs had been playing before hand lmao,, Chapter 4 being very clearly referencing to the Resident Evil 4 underground factory insect fights with how it was framed

[brooklyn-the-great-nobody]

HELP NEEDED!!

I NEED HELP.

I wanna make a game but I can't code

I need someone who can code

pleaseeeee?????

email at: howdidigofrommonikatomewmew@gmail.com

[snowcodes]

Doing my best to code every day now. Even if my motivation is a lil lacklustre. I have 6 months left to finish this particular traineeship and I've just started to bring some life to my LinkedIn profile in hopes that it will help me gain a remote position.

Long term goals are in action. ✅ Time to manifest my dreams by putting in the work!

*Insert Tangled "I've got a dream" song here 🤣*

[brittniwatkins]

[jujuthewulfpup]

I've been doin' a lot of thinkin' lately. I've been having a lot of fun coding lately. (40hr work + 10hr volunteer, personal has fallen by the wayside ...again.) But once again, I’m warming up to the idea that I probably could and should start coding more productively on personal things again. Where the time will come from I'm not yet sure (probably getting more strict with my web comic reading and YouTube and Disney.)

The one thing I do have going for me is the first personal project I'm thinking of isn't some vague video game. It's a local financial (bank/budgeting/forecasting) app that I already started with my husband.

What I don't know is how much I should prioritize my personal software projects over what I already have going on. Should I consider backing out of my volunteer coding position (and probably my closest online friends) of almost 4 years? How would I be able to maintain or improve my code-life balance? How can I make sure I'm not setting myself up for burnout? Is it worth researching how to being an indie developer would work (small business, Patreon, marketing, ...) ???

I'm not sure these thoughts will lead to anything, because I already know that my thoughts and moods on things may linger, but often do not last. But I kind of want them to this time. These thoughts feel productively introspective, which is new to me.

[crying-in-converse]

i want to cry because on only the second day of my coding class its too hard and im never gonna be able to do it

[funnycoder]

Lmao

[boywholovescode]

My First Game in Unity

Play this Game : https://first-unity-game.netlify.app/

Game Development - Learning from Brackeys

[linuxtldr]

Windows: Hungry beast, Linux: Energy sipper!

[siphisket]

Banesbrook Production Delay

Uh oh, we're experiencing technical difficulties!

Help yourselves to some pop and popcorn at the concession stand, and we'll be right back after this brief intermission~

[dimalink]

Programmer 3K

Pixel art for today based on videogame Hacker for game console NES. So, I know almost nothing about this game. I thank, it can be China game, some fanart, like this.

And this is my picture about the same theme. Joke, funny moment. As I get it, in original game, this picture is taken from movie Matrix. And rebuild in 8 bit. And I have this draining. It is super programmer 3000. Programmer 3K. Videogames, at first part, they need to be programmed. So here it is. So, press start!