lampguitar's microblog

November 11, 2025 || 8:46 am

Most recently, I've been submitting my paintings to art galleries, hoping to make some cash and also get more involved in the activities that the nearest city has to offer. First place to accept my art was a video game themed show, where I placed 3 types of prints and a No Man's Sky painting up. Got a few sales so that was pretty exciting!

I've been updating my ko-fi page and am trying to start including things like the unsold prints, in case someone wants to support by buying.

On the back of each print, I also made a block print of my Beetle game, and also made a promo post for anyone interested in my game. Surprising to me, it got quite a bit of traction so now I know that at the very least a few dozen peeps have shown interest. (Also, i got my first ko-fi donation via that video post!)

So I've been back on working for the Beetle game, and now that I have some eyes on it, I'm also thinking of making a proper page for it on here, in case someone wants to see what its about, sans video. It should come as no surprise but getting a bit of attention has helped on motivation for injecting motivation on the project; There's not much expectation from me on anyone who showed interest to actually buy my Beetle game, just the idea that someone saw what little I have of the game made so far and went, "Hell yeah", fills me with the kind of joy I've not experienced in a long time.

August 27, 2025 || 11:50AM

to keep it short, i just published a new vr game for the 20 Games Challenge gamejam. Link to that here. Essentially a challenge to make 20 simple-ish games to practice your gamedev skills to be able to make stuff without needing a tutorial.

during a thrifting session with my partner, i found a functioning typewriter with a fresh ribbon and have been writing everything i can on it. super tactile and strange user UI that I'm not used to.

ive been taking a quick break from rug tufting and have been painting a whole lot more after a lot of encouragement from my partner and mother. also a couple of peeps are wanting to see my next one; gotta do it quick before all interest is gone.

i've also been super itching to make an image gallery that houses my paintings/artworks over the times in a museum fashion. for shits and giggles.

feel like ive been getting super into making vr stuff again, from passthrough arcade cabinets, to this most recent gamejam; I think figuring out a good html5 export toolchain for webxr stuff is making me feel like flash web browser gamedevs of yore... but with vr, or so id like to think lmao

i will say tho, my pc has been crashing a lot so im thinking its time to do a factory reset again. been thinking of doing a dual-boot typa thing but we'll see. until next time.

June 25, 2025 || 4:30PM

most recently, at the behest of a pal, found a website, artfight.net and it seems pretty fun! glad to have caught it in time.

as far as i can tell, its like art trades, with a fun competitive backdrop to it. there's attacking and defending, points and teams. can't wait to start drawing some peep's oc's after what feels like 5 years of not really drawing much digital oc-like art.

i'm sure its by design but this is also perfect to make some art that can be used for a commision sheet/portfolio. two birds one stone boi.

May 23, 2025 || 9:13PM

So i've been in the dumps lately with all the being broke thing, so like a responsible human, i got a job at a somewhat nearby walmart. and if you dont know what that is, imagine if the Joja store in stardew valley wins and thats where you work.

for me personally, it did what i wanted and lit a fire under my ass to attempt and finish a game ive been developing on and off. also i kinda made myself a new years resolution to finishing a game this year and im hoping i can with this one.

so far the process is really nice and i have the feeling that its entirely in reach to finish and release the game at the end of August. I have an action plan and if i actually hire people to do the content like graphics and hard to program stuff, it should be done.

March 27, 2025 | 21:47 PM

...so I picked up a hardware project to recharge my batteries. ive been wanting to make a synth/audio type of thing for a a while now.

ive made a basic circuit python thing that has a keyboard matrix using an rp2040 to be a synth and a sample player. but i fear im still too green to make a complete device with components like that myself. also these first attempts were using pcb boards i made that were intended for other purposes.

instead this time, im going to use a raspberry pi zero. i've read some smart people have figured a way to make the pizero behave like a circuitpython (baremetal) device and that sounds cool too.

i hope i can get the wiring done by tonight. (to hype myself up i made a blender model of the case of this and i hope my bro still has that 3d printer!!)

March 23, 2025 | 11:31 AM

Think its about time to update this whole place, fill out more of the pages. Besides the point, I recently made a re imagining/remake of NES Metroid for PCVR/Meta.

It's funny, when making *something like this* for like metroidvania jams (even 3 month long ones), it always ends in failure. But remaking this (which took me about 3 weeks including the video), maybe because I had a script and fully fleshed out to-do list to get back to.

Either way I also made a making of video, my best performing video to date! NES Metroid VR Remake Youtube Video or you can download the game right here

December 7, 2024 | 8:44 AM

my fancy pants wordpress site 'lease' is almost up and now im faced with the decision of renewing it or dropping it. i feel a bit bad that my blog will be picking up and moving again. but at the same time, the only traffic i got from all that was a few russian bots peddling their consumer wares.

so im thinking/toying with the idea of coming back to just posting into the void over here. where its slightly cooler 😎 but having tags and all that organization is really nice too...

i'll just handcode for a while and see if thats truly where i want to be.

Sept. 8, 2024 | 2:20 PM

its that time again for me to update my phone as my old one now cant charge well anymore.

so i bought a motorola stylus and am quite proud of myself for not getting another flagship phone thats like a grand. this one was about $350 and it seems snappy enough AND has a built in stylus.im gud.