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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 · 5h

I found this out super recently, and it's irritating, because it's just another way of saying someone is a tryhard, or trying to "flex".

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 5h

I don't see any way for it to not drag ya'll in unfortunately. Whole shit is a mess.

By the by, have the massive upticks in robo calls made their way up to Canada yet? I was always curious but never get a chance to ask. Here, I get about 6-7, daily, from spoofed NY numbers.

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 5h

Ah deer mouse. Vintage. Peak ripeness during this time of the year.

a cat wearing glasses and a bow tie is using a laptop

ALT: a cat wearing glasses and a bow tie is using a laptop

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 5h

So am I understanding this correctly: It's a subreddit filled with incels, who when they are reminded why they are incels, go off and eat the most depraved shit they can find to satisfy their self loathing?

Did I get that right?

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 6h

I really "should" play it again. I loved it a lot. I was waiting for the dev to make the other characters playable. You might have seen August, that's who I was holding out for. He's the guy with the mustache. Supposedly the glasses guy, August, and that other guy were supposed to be playable.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 6h

Oh that's fun! Day 2 night phase is a pretty wild one as far as events and such go.

and pah, she don't need that arm, don't sweat it! Marcoh's got both, and he can bob and weave you to victory. I had Marcoh, Abella, and I "think" O'saa or Daan. It's been a while.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

A peaceful mind makes for an optimized healing environment. Do what you gotta do, and seek out the love, awesome, and inspiring to nurture your mind.

There will always be horrible shit, the faucet won't be closed for a while, but it's important that we all take a break from it, from time to time.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

I came into NT super late, so I never encountered the teams in random. The issue was anyone I did match make with took about 3- 5minutes of searching on average to find them, which at that point, it was unfortunately not worth it for matchmaking.

Single player is still fun though!

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

LET'S GOOOOO! It's so nice to see Fear and Hunger 2 pop up on here. Marcoh and the engineering character were the only two I managed to beat the game with. You can kit Marcoh out to be a god damn monster in that game.

How are you liking it so far? You far in?

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

Reminds me of how people didn't really like GG Strive coming off Xrd for the changes they made to Strive from Xrd. It's so sad, but I do get it. I think 3 v 3 made the most sense for Dissidia, but I didn't have the largest history with the games outside of NT and one of the PSP games.

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a suit is holding a toy car in front of a sign that says ' sega ' on it

Alt: Kazama "you know I had to do it 'em" Kiryu about to unleash some fresh hell on some bastards in the minigame Pocket Racer, a notable classic found in the Yakuza games. Physical description: A man with short brown hair and in a suit turns dramatically towards a camera, and shows off his pocket racer car. This looks like a little hot wheels car with a border around it, which hugs the rails of the track as it zooms about.

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

They really need to generate some buzz for NT so players can flock back to it (so I can get the multiplayer trophies) I mean, so more players can play it and see it for the fun that it is!

.....

.....andformetogetmymultiplayertrophies

Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

Day 7 update on our battle-wounded drake, Bruce. Heading into day 8:

He's still healing, feathers are finally growing back in, he's still skittish, sad, and lonely. Trying to stay strong, but it's getting to me seeing him so sad.

With any luck, one more week, and he can go back to his flock.

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

Printing them out would be rad!

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Mr. Lucha @luchalutra.bsky.social · 7h

Anytime! Glad I could help!