Why does changing streaming services, or even music player software, have to be an experience so hostile? The first time I moved from one “music service” to another was when I moved from Winamp to iTunes. Heresy, I know, but my music collection was growing fast and I wanted an easy way to manage all the files, and iTunes provided …
I made some chiptune music
Well, I finally released my chiptune/fakebit album, made in Renoise and with sounds synthesized on Plogue Chipsynth C64. If the sounds don’t seem too much videogame-y, it’s because I was driving the filter with resonance while trying to create more “realistic” sounds. I was trying to push the chip emulation to its limits rather than bending the tracker itself to my will. There …
How to criticize a translation
Or: how to critically appraise any kind of creative endeavor without acting like a fool or an asshole This is an old post that’s been sitting for a while in my drafts, and I ruminate about what to write in it for some time after reading the article below. There’s actually nothing I could add that this article already doesn’t …
Well, would you look at that
It is sad that, while being in a country with more than one café on each corner, it’s hard to find good coffee, to the point where Starbucks is an acceptable substitute. Even more because Starbucks over-roast their coffee, so much so that this “blonde roast” is more like a medium roast everywhere else. On the other hand, I’ve never …
I made a small game and a tool in Decker
It’s a cool little thing to make games, tools, and other stuff The first time I used an Apple computer was in 2011, I think, which was already too late for it to have Hypercard. To be honest, I didn’t even know that Hypercard existed until I found Decker, which is a retro-looking software inspired by it. The concept is simple enough: …
The phonology of European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
There is some weird stuff going on with these two variants that I think it’s interesting to explore because they diverge in more than just vocabulary, as the phonology for each one moved in different directions — and in the European Portuguese case, removed itself quite a bit from the usual path Romance languages have been following. I should note …
Meeting friends on a Summer night
A small interactive fiction made with Twine I made a small project to learn how to use Twine. It’s just a short interactive fiction, nothing major or incredible about it. Twine is cool and very easy to use, especially if you use the Chapbook format and just want to write. But embedding the image at the start and making it …
New ambient EP
After a long while, I released two new ambient songs in a new EP. You can listen to it now on bandcamp, link below, and in a week or so it should hit all the streaming services and YouTube. A Day in the Life of by lokeloski
How long does it take to translate a video game?
Some people think translation can be done fast because “the text is already written”, but we must remember that localization is a creative endeavor, so it takes a lot of time and energy to make something worthwhile Usually, in Brazilian Portuguese, we consider that one translator takes closer to 8 hours to translate 3,000 words. Obviously, this isn’t a set limit, …
All Along the Watchtower
Here’s a compilation of my favorite “All Along the Watchtower” covers on YouTube for no good reason and in no particular order. I don’t know what’s up with this song, but I love the expressivity musicians show when playing it. So, this is the original one, from Bob Dylan. This is Jimi Hendrix’s version, which became the most popular …