I have a bunch of things I have cooking, kinda on and off.
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Working with @Burger@burggit.moe on Burggit, obviously.
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Have a minecraft modding project I work on occasionally. Not something I think I’ll ever share publicly (might share some screenshots at some point though.).
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There’s a super secret super cool project I’ve been working on for Shota Services, which I hope people will enjoy when it comes out.
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As well as a bunch of smaller things like tweaking various sites and some other things which are too early for me to reveal.
What have you been doing to express your creativity recently?
I’ve been swapping between a couple different things, but not all of them are necessarily what I would consider “creative”.
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I’ve been trying to learn how to draw, using the book Figure It Out! Human Proportions: Draw the Head and Figure Right Every Time as my teacher, you could say. It’s slow going, and I’m still fairly early in my studies, but I’ve already noticed a little improvement! Every once in a while, if I can stomach the monotony, I try and do Draw a box, too.
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Some fanfiction projects. In true stereotypical cringelord fashion, right now I’ve been writing… Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction. Incredible. I don’t know if that’s better or worse than my stint writing Hollow Knight porn.
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It isn’t really creative, but I’ve been trying to get better about taking notes as I read. I use an app called OpenReads I grabbed off F-Droid to write down my thoughts, feelings, and even passages I really like from the books I’ve been reading. I’m the sort of person who will just mindlessly consume and forget everything about something if I don’t force myself to stop and really engage with a work.
I write and maintain a Twitch bot for a friend. Today I got to push a one-liner fix (hopefully), which always feels good. It’s an API call that was working fine before, so I guess I was using it in a legacy way without realizing, woops!
- Backend APIs for some VR apps.
- Reverse engineering save files to write a save modder in Rust. There’s 0 documentation on the binary save files and learning Rust’s borrow checker feels like driving a backwards car.
- Optimizing SourceEngine maps. When I get more time I want to mess around with S2 maps in S&box more.
- This(NSFW Loli)
Lately I’ve had the idea to make a bot for auto cunny posting from my Gelbooru or Pixiv favorites. I’ve already reversed engineered their APIs years ago.
I work on coding a genshin impact private server. It take the somehow acquired from the client resources and tries to emulate the behavior of the server. Super buggy, but I’m slowly ironing out bugs and making the quests possible without using too many manual override commands.
Is it Grasscutter by any chance? I was looking for some decent offline single player experience but the last time I checked it’s still a bit underwhelming.
Ya, Grasscutter. Last two months I’ve helped bring the questing from nearly unplayable to there only needing to be a few commands to finish the prologue.
Oh boy. How healthy is the project at the moment? I think when I found it last year the community was super active. I stopped paying attention to it but always had a fear that the community may have imploded due to retarded drama or burned itself out.
Either way I’ll give it another try when I go on vacation next month. Looking forward to it.
That’s super cool! I love reverse engineering type projects like that. How do you manage to get the client to connect to the modded server? I imagine it’d be through either a modified client or an isolated network of sorts.
Theoretically, you can basically do this for any game (or similar software) that primarily runs on your computer, but connects up to a server for various purposes. If you know what information your game sends up, and what the server sends down, it’s entirely possible to create an alternative server that sends down the right information, along with some method of redirecting the game to your new server.
The biggest examples would be things like wiimmfi or pokemon event distribution servers
What have you been doing to express your creativity recently?
This is such a motivational question. Because what have I been doing that’s creative lately? Not a lot! I’ve basically been consuming things. After I got a job again (very good thing) I was super busy. I thought I’d get back into my projects once the job stabilized, but that hasn’t happened. And it’s not going to happen unless I actively start making some changes.
So here are some plans:
- Been wanting to do more with AI, both art and text. Bought a new GPU so that’s a start. It’s something that has fascinated me ever since I ran ELIZA as a kid. Also, I’m hoping this will help me express myself more clearly.
- I was having a lot of fun writing simple calculator apps and games. It was a creative challenge to produce something on such a limited platform. My goal is to dedicate some time on Sundays for this.
I’m happy that I could motivate you a little bit. This is something I often fall into the trap of, where I’ll just end up not doing anything creative and just veg around, which is absolutely not good. So, I try to push myself to do projects which help me express myself creatively.
I don’t do much with AI, except occasionally make my shota-sona in different poses for icons and what not, simply cause it’s not the sort of thing I think is worth commissioning a person for. I’m terrible at doing anything else, lol.
I love fiddling around with programming, I used to do some game development stuff in my freetime, but I think I lost all the projects, which has discouraged me from that, not to mention my AMD card being a huge hindrance in that department, at least with the Game Engine I was using. I’ve been mainly working on websites as of late.