Mr Himmelman explains something about Art

Continuing...

 Continuing the reasoning of last post...

Another effect of this programming journey is that it encouraged me to go back to college.

I’m doing mathematics college on internet – the exams are in person. I believe I am going to be a math teacher. That is the plan, since a few years ago. Some people may say I’m too shy for that, but what do I care for what “some people” think?

Other reason for choosing maths – besides the fact I like it – is that there Is a shortage of teachers, so they hire college students who have at least one fourth of the grade done. At least it has been so for many years.

It’s always surprising how much can get in the way when you are almost there, but I’m mostly fine now.

My Game Site and an interesting adventure in the Marketplace

 

                              

                      ( one of the first sketches for my first game, Battle of the CookBees )

   

I have good news. I spoke with my wife and she agreed that I renew my website hosting account, so my games stay there, at least for one more year. I think much more.

The games didn’t earn me money as I expected – ain’t it a crime – but the adventure is being far from vain.

  

I work in an engineering firm, but I am not an engineer. There are always decisions in projects that I have no knowledge to make. Unlike when I began working for the first time in 1999, and through the beginning of the century, when it paid for being simply a very fast 3D drawing guy and knowing Revit, creating families and all, nowadays everybody who wants to work with projects is expected to be an engineer or architect.

Well, ok. I believe I can learn more than people think, if there is goodwill, but I learned that you can't expect too much goodwill from people.

Ok, again.

So, my way to stay alive in this market for at least a little more was to learn how to make custom plugins for Revit, since I know Cad, BIM and code, and I am good with geometry. 

It took me months to master Revit plugin, and I was making some good ones, then they sent me to make plugins for ArchiCad. A different software, a different programming language, so I had to almost start from zero, and it is a barely explored territory, but something is coming out of it.

It is valuable knowledge - ask on the internet-  and, well, it is what I have to offer.

There is always more going on anywhere than a simple linear story, but in pure professional terms, this is it.

I don't know how much it represents of the reasons why I have a decent degree of tranquility tonight, I am sure it's much less than half, but is still very important to me.

  

And this was possible because I wanted to make games.

Earlier, I had some very rudimentary notion of programming because I had worked with 3dMax’s maxscript in the past, but in 2020 was the first time I sat to really learn programming in the internet, and later through a “create your game in Java” book. I learned so much in these five years, all because of that initial dream.

All because, in 2019, playing with my son that was 3 years old, and having problems with money, I started thinking I could have ideas for games and put them on the Internet. I like games, after all, and it seemed like a good idea.

I remember clearly when we took him to the hospital – nothing serious at all – and I was in the reception room waiting for them, and I took a coffee and started thinking about what kind of game I could create.

I looked at the starry night and dreamed. Boards with squares, colors, a little bit of humor, all from an inspiration I had from a child.

And it was maybe naïve – but I still believe is fruitful.

Simple Math Riddle - The Partners

 As I told you, I've been studying mathematics. And sometimes I try to create little riddles, like this simple one about probability:

The Partners

A guy was saying that he had a very great partner in all his business.

(Hey, don't worry, this is not a riddle about money quantities, it's just conceptual)

"My partner is great", he said. "Everytime we have to choose between two options, he asks my opinion first. I counted, and found out he follows my suggestion exactly half of the times, which means he values my opinion as much as his".

Question: find out why this guy is a little mistaken.

Good side of days

 I reopened my Mathematics Graduation Course

(hope shall not die)

To celebrate, I was going to share a little game but it is not ready yet.

So, instead, I'm sharing this, because for some silly reason I was just pestering myself to share this with you...

and this is my favorite, my little capybara

the day she wanted to go home with me

                                        

yes, this is all near my job

this was a nice surprise, one day...

                                        

these are the other two favorites, the babies that live at home

                                            

what does it have to do with anything? Well, let's say...

Lets just say that beauty has had a very very strong influence in my recent decisions...

Back to Games, a bit

 I'm always doing a lot of things nowadays, but I started working on my little games again.

I know I said I was talking about a game with chatgpt, but that was just a kind of extremely ambicious "project" just to relax, dreaming a bit.

The new one will be one of my old simple logic games, the ones I'm reallly good at.

I'll soon put on my site the finnished version of "Cause the Numbers" and I'm working on a new one too, I think it will be good.

Programming them and making the art is something that makes me happy, makes me feel a little bit like a Duke Ellington kind of guy.

Stay fine, stay safe.

New cool stuff I'm doing

 I'm doing this new cool stuff here:

Fernando Spagnuolo Comics - Patreon

it's art and I hope to be supported a little