I'll keep it short and (hopefully) realistic..
- Learn quickly how to be a decent Dad (my partner and I are expecting start of August!)
- Continue living a balanced life (work, home, fitness, hobbies), which will become exponentially harder with parenthood no doubt, but I'll do my best
- Make progress on a calculator project or two, whether it's
Banchor II or one of many other projects I've been toying with
learn ice and c#.
Thats all.
ValkTheBoxman wrote:
learn ice and c#.
Thats all.
Hell yea! You should look at unity for a C# based game engine with a very good community.
- struggle through my junior year of high school with A-s or higher (don’t get burned out)
- register a domain name for my website and get a ssl certificate for it
- continue to work out at home and maybe go to a gym
- make varsity in tennis (tryouts are starting in 2 days )
- finish at least one project
- be more socially outgoing
Michael2_3B wrote:
- Make more money / find another job I like
- Get healthier, more active, have more energy, get more steps in every day
- Work on my social life to some degree, by going out and about more
- Reduce stress
- Maybe visit Alaska
And of course, I hope to finish some of my programming projects
Well I can safely say I accomplished just about none of these. I workout occasionally, socialize rather infrequently, which is alright I guess but I can’t really say I made any big changes or accomplishments.
Although, I will say that I’ve gained a few hundred YouTube subscribers and nearly 60k total views just in the last 2 months, so that’s nice
Write more mods for TowerFall, make more games and projects for calculators. That's enough, right?
CoolModder wrote:
Write more mods for TowerFall, make more games and projects for calculators. That's enough, right?
This is about 2023 goals, not 2024 goals.
VitalAsh wrote:
Here's how I did, per bullet point!
* Always find the lowest-resistance ways to continue pursuing my hobbies
**** I forgot about this strategy and re-learned it, and it worked! I found better ways to pursue my hobbies and had a blast.
* Minimize distractions in free-time (social media, games, etc) — keep it deliberate, not habitual
**** Games are gone! But social media is a bit of an addiction. It feels managable because I'm starting to have an inherent "i'm wasting my time" feeling that makes me turn it off.
* Take ignorance as an opportunity to learn
**** I've been doing better at this, but there are some cases that it's a waste of time, and others that I should do it but really really do not want to. Still continuing working on this I didn't fail it!
* Improve at prototyping games in higher level game engines
**** I've given this up! My games tend to be outside of the bounds of game engines, and if a prototype is where interesting things are meant to happen, then it's important to note that I can't make interesting things in engines. I could always get better at this later, and I'll be better off to improve at low level stuff right now.
* Improve at writing games with few abstraction layers
**** Definite improvement! I'm making a very cool game right now, and it is using no engine, and it is using GL and Win32 api calls.
* Finish at least one game
**** Nope. ⁻I considered doing a personal game jam month in December, but I wasn't that dedicated to it and decided time would be better spent on my current project. I've been working on my current project for 10 months! And that's a success to me - I had never the endurance to work on one project this long, and this will give me freedom to make better games.
I do want to make more games to iterate on my process, but I dare not give up a committed project to do so. It will be another day.
KermMartian wrote:
Great topic, Mateo! Most of my goals are project- or hobby-related:
- Spend more time on my projects/hobbies. In particular, I'd like to finish off Surget and make more progress on (finish v1.0 of?) a physical Train Sim controller I've been working on.
I made decent progress on the physical Train Sim controller when I had time (and finally posted a topic about it, so I'm willing to call that a success.
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- Make the time to practice guitar more regularly.
I failed to do so.
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- Physical well-being for me as well.
I did some positive things for this, but certain items I did not keep up with. That'll be a 2024 goal.
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- Continue to grow/progress my startup
I did this to the best of my ability, and the company continues to chug along.
KermMartian wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
Great topic, Mateo! Most of my goals are project- or hobby-related:
- Spend more time on my projects/hobbies. In particular, I'd like to finish off Surget and make more progress on (finish v1.0 of?) a physical Train Sim controller I've been working on.
I made decent progress on the physical Train Sim controller when I had time (and finally posted a topic about it, so I'm willing to call that a success.
Quote:
- Make the time to practice guitar more regularly.
I failed to do so.
Quote:
- Physical well-being for me as well.
I did some positive things for this, but certain items I did not keep up with. That'll be a 2024 goal.
Quote:
- Continue to grow/progress my startup
I did this to the best of my ability, and the company continues to chug along.
A small progress is better than no progress at all. Good luck next year!
I completed all my resolutions:
- Get 90% or higher on exams
- Create a startup at school (I also got help from my friends)
- Learn a new instrument (I play flute and piano, and I started the bagpipes and kazoo-if that qualifies as an instrument-this year)
- Make 20% or more return on stocks
Goals for 2024
- Learn and/or master 2 or more programming languages.
- Make more money from my startup.
- Beat this year's stock return of 35% (That's gonna be insanely hard)
- Pick up a new hobby
- All exams 95% or higher
Edit: - Read 7,000 books since I just broke 70,000 this year
I might add more resolutions because even though 2023 flew by, it was kind of boring.
Favorite programs that I found out about this year:
- Fire and Flames by VitalAsh
- Cesium by Mateoconlechuga
- CEleste by commandblockguy
- ICE Compiler by PT_
- CEaShell (even though it was very buggy, it was an amazing shell. Can't wait for CEaShell 2) by TIny_Hacker and RoccoLox Programs
- TI-Boy CE by Calc84maniac
- S. A. M. M. Status: Online; Location: Unknown by Captain Calc
- ADVENTUR by Hactar
- AND MANY, MANY, MORE!
Even though this year wasn't too exciting, it was pretty fun nonetheless. Or maybe it's just that another year passed since COVID-19 was at its peak!
Your friend,
ryanconmartians
TIny_Hacker wrote:
Well, since we're doing a goal thing, I've got a few I guess:
- Finish and make more new projects
- Take things less seriously and try to be happier
- Take things more seriously that should be taken more seriously
- Focus some more on my physical well-being as well
Yes I know this is 2023 now for me in EST but who cares xD
Looks like 2023 is about over for me so here's how I did!
1. I don't know how many projects (at least programming ones) I finished, but I certainly made some new ones and worked on some as well. I also created and submitted this LEGO Ideas project based on Celeste, one of my favorite video games, which isn't a programming project but was still a lot of fun.
2. This one was kind of vague but I guess I did okay? I went through a whole lot of stress over the summer but things got better towards the end of the year so I'll count that I guess
3. This one is basically the same as number 2.
4. I could've done better at this one.
TIny_Hacker wrote:
TIny_Hacker wrote:
Well, since we're doing a goal thing, I've got a few I guess:
- Finish and make more new projects
- Take things less seriously and try to be happier
- Take things more seriously that should be taken more seriously
- Focus some more on my physical well-being as well
Yes I know this is 2023 now for me in EST but who cares xD
Looks like 2023 is about over for me so here's how I did!
1. I don't know how many projects (at least programming ones) I finished, but I certainly made some new ones and worked on some as well. I also created and submitted this LEGO Ideas project based on Celeste, one of my favorite video games, which isn't a programming project but was still a lot of fun.
2. This one was kind of vague but I guess I did okay? I went through a whole lot of stress over the summer but things got better towards the end of the year so I'll count that I guess
3. This one is basically the same as number 2.
4. I could've done better at this one.
Celeste Lego set? I thought about doing something like yours, but never found the time.
I failed my 2023 goal of finding the AI art-related stuff I wanted to, except that in the end I still got to fiddle around with similar, still AI-related stuff including useful upscaling stuff. I failed my goal of socializing more, though, although I did go out more often due to slightly more stable financial situation.
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