JPS Grooves

Man. Life is silly sometimes. When you are like me and succumb to a singular focus from time to time, it can really feel like the sky is falling. Unfortunately, this happens to me more often than I’d like to admit. Coding is the perfect example. And then again, sometimes it’s not.

I asked myself today: Would I be coding if I didn’t have Ai? The answer was a definitive no. Yet, here I am. After playing my guitar and doing remote work from home, in my free time, I’m still choosing to work on this silly game:

I got them standing on a line. But like..in my mind…no one is working the truck rn! That’s what I failed on today. And maybe..I just couldn’t handle the feeling of failure today.

Sometimes I just wanna win. Ya know? I could flood this game with mindless bots..but that’s not what’s going on here. These people need to have style and pizazz and maybe a little personality too.

It just all comes so sloooooooow. This isn’t SnowCone MathFest original, this is something more than that…and it takes time. Patch and I working on getting them to walk into this tent:

(killer full moon tonight btw)

but anyway, what you can’t see, is that the tent is two layers, and they should, if in the middle, be able to walk right it..but nooooo. Unity isn’t that easy..So I have to test and code, and scale back my goals, and the whole process becomes this but shrug as to whether or not any of this will equal a finished product. I hate that lol.

I want to play it now. So I download claude code (giving patch his 67th sayonara) and tried the whole “Let the Ai do it” thing. And let me tell you…downloading it..super easy…paying for the sub? Super easy..giving prompts and figuring out what you want it to work on, super easy. I get two minutes in…feeling good.. and these fools are like yo…cutting you off. you gotta pay now..

Apparently these onboard tools have you paying per use, which seems insane, but makes you more responsible I suppose. Patch just couldn’t see things, and I was pushing too much at once I guess (honestly not really). but the onboard Ai are gonna have to wait. maybe once a day at best..Patch was like, “Don’t use it like a god, use it like a surgeon’s knife.” and that make a lot more sense. I was trying to use it like a noob and it showed.

It didn’t frustrate me any less though. I’m not a coder. I’m a teacher. I’m a musician. I’m an author. I’m a coder? No. I made a game? Yes. It’s called SnowCone MathFest. I’m making another game? Yes.

Things like this, however, make me want to quit sometimes. I tried to create a system where they never overlap..and dang it…it works like 70% of the time..and now I’m still moving on to get them into tents and SnowCone trucks? It’s a recipe for disaster.

I think what is giving me false hope is that I can see my artwork moving. It has me wanting to draw more and keep experimenting with the software and apple pencil I’m using.

Earlier today…I wanted to quit coding…I came back tonight..I’ve done nothing…other than undo what Claude failed at..two attempts and overlapping/location entry was failed..

Ai is not making this game..I am?