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TeaHands

@ TeaHands @lemmy.world

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I live an increasingly confusing double life as TeaHands the game dev, and TheGiddyStitcher, multicrafter extraordinaire!

Currently working on my first ever commercial indie game, a minimalist city builder.

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  • ...I can't believe you've done this. Holy crap, thank you!

    Honestly don't even know what to say to this. I guess I better get designing a Steam page!

  • What do you want for Christmas?

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  • Just a nice easy Christmas and New Year, at home just me and my partner, no responsibilities, no social obligations, cozy pyjamas, playing games and relaxing together and generally living actual real life for a couple weeks instead of the constant treadmill.

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  • On one hand this makes me sad for you, because snow is excellent. But on the other that does mean you live somewhere nice and warm, and as I sit here rolled up in my electric blanket it doesn't sound so bad.

    I hope you get to not only see snow, but experience the satisfying cronch of frolicking in an unspoiled patch :D

  • How did Lemmy World become the default instance?

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  • Same, I follow a search result there sometimes but essentially just logged out there, signed up here, and that was that. The Reddit Days seem like another lifetime now.

  • What's a low-stakes, achieveable goal on your bucket list?

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  • One for everyone's list there I reckon. Good luck!

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  • Ooh that's a good one

  • What's a low-stakes, achieveable goal on your bucket list?

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  • I'm just a coward. But that's why it's on the list :D

  • A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge?

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  • There probably is an official term, but "bad communicator" also works.

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  • "Make it to 40th birthday" is also on my list so I can relate. We can do this!

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  • Sounds chill!

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  • Yeah I'm sick also, think that's why I've been looking at my list, as a way to live vicariously through Future Healthy Me. Plenty more cold winter evenings to come, anyway, there's no rush.

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  • You can do it, I believe in you!

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  • Everyone says the same thing. I am going to do it, just rereading some of the older ones that I've not had chance to in years and then I think it'll naturally go that way.

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  • Probably one of the mobile apps can do it. But easiest way is just to visit /communities, it should default to the local list.

    startrek.website/communities for example

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  • Oh wow yeah the "I'm going to destroy your server" guy. I wonder what happened to him.

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  • Honestly it's fine. I've moved a few times and the first time it was a bit sad, but once you realise it's like five minutes later and you're continuing the conversation you were having on your old account with all the same people on your new account the actual historical record suddenly seems a lot less important than the inherent coolness of what just happened :D

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  • Little did you know startrek.website was gonna become the coolest instance of all!

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  • I joined .world when there were only about 100 of us (was trying to find a nice small server to settle on, so much for that!), and rolled up my sleeves and went full-time tech support for like 2 weeks to help with the influx. So from that pov:

    • When the Reddit exodus started (slightly earlier than people had anticipated), .world was one of the only instances that didn't require a proper application to join.
    • There was a bug where acceptance emails weren't being delivered to Gmail addresses (probably some others too but for obvious reasons Gmail was noticed first). That meant people waiting for their applications to be accepted on other servers didn't realise they had been. As well as this some people were just impatient waiting in general so gave up on their original instance choice and joined .world instead.
    • Other instances also started to close registrations completely due to not being able to handle the scaling. World wasn't handling it great but Ruud specifically announced he wouldn't be closing signups, which is one of the reasons it became the default recommendation while everything was on fire.
    • There was a thread tracking how quickly we were growing, I remember us celebrating 1000 users and then a couple weeks later 100,000! And that was kind of exciting so I can't blame people for wanting to be part of it.

    The best part is, I was the one who reported the Gmail thing to Ruud after seeing the admins of another instance had figured out a fix. I remember saying it was good we'd noticed it now, before the influx "next week" (ie Reddit's scheduled meltdown). Turned out, he had no idea that was about to happen at all and the timing of setting up .world was just a total coincidence! 😆

    Edit: This was only like six months ago and recounting the tale to all you whippersnappers is making me feel like an old grandma telling tales of the war.

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  • It's really not very exciting, it's just a minimalist little city builder thing. More of a "prove I can make and release a game" type project than anything that's gonna make me famous! Learning Godot engine at the same time which has been half fun, half frustrating as hell :D

    (recently started a devlog channel so if you really are interested, this is me, but there's not much there yet)