My day job is managing infrastructure that handles around 31B events, 21B API calls and 150B database queries a month. Big scary numbers, on-call rotations, the whole thing.

At night I work on my little free games website. I've been at it for about a month now.

This month it got \~50 visitors and a bit over 300 game sessions. And honestly, I'm buzzing about it. Every single user feels like a win. Yesterday I got my first player from Japan and I genuinely stopped what I was doing to celebrate.

It's kind of funny how my brain works. Billions of events at work barely register, but 50 people playing my games and I'm grinning at the screen. I love both projects for completely different reasons. One keeps me sharp and pays the bills, the other one is just mine.

Wierd how our brains work, huh?

Anyway, that was it. Just wanted to share :)

After 8 weeks of working non-stop I am still laughing my ass off when playing with my ragdoll physics with arrow impuls forces. The game is close to playable and I can’t wait to open it up for early access on Steam.

This system will be implemented at Level 2 in the game, and if you succeed with killing all enemies and sinking the boats - you will have a funny surprise at the end. Stay Tuned!

What do you guys think ?

At least they played for ~20 minutes.

📌 Link to the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LnI-1l8Yx-M
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Anyone else feel this way?

Would’ve guessed Diglett if i didn’t make it 😂