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How to Watch Videos Faster
If you’re like me you’re watching plenty of videos online. I don’t mean funny cats clips or fail compilations. What I’m talking about are lengthy videos about game development, politics, self improvement or the like. A while ago I was wondering […]
The Corner Cutting Experiment
Nordenfelt’s release date got scheduled to be on December 15th. This means there are only 3 months left. Therefore I boiled down Nordenfelt’s task list as much as possible. Only the most important points on the list survived. Then I applied Parkinson’s law and […]
Do It Badly
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” In the past, whenever I had to do graphics for Nordenfelt, I wanted to make them super fancy. I spent hours and hours just to make a single sprite as impressive as […]
Resolving a Stalling Task Pipeline
The last 3 weeks of developing Nordenfelt were horrible. It all started with a single task on my Kanban board: “Create phase 2 of final boss” This task demanded some code extensions. Usually coding tasks take a few hours in average. […]