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Hello!

During this beginning of personal project week, there is some news that I want to share. As I became pretty sick I'm not really sure on my progress but I think it is still worth updating this log book.
So let's dive in and see how things are going.

Doing everything solo makes for a slow start

As usual, you always think you're too efficient for the time you take to do things. When I first ascertained the time it would take me to do everything pre production on every side of work. Well I HIGHLY UNDERESTIMATED how much time it would take for everything outside of programmation to be actually ready.
A lot of thing changed, for the better but so far:

• 2D became 3D (which I now have to learn)
• Project was supposed to be a lot more focused on prod that documentation but I learned documentation is a necessity
• The design changed a lot to be more adapted to what would suit best the project
• Time was "lost" figuring things out while developing under the engine

But it's fine because Pre-production is a phase to figure things out, and so me figuring things out is actually a good thing. I'm working a lot and learning way more than I could ever have imagined super fast. And for that, I become a better versatile dev.
And everything is not bad

I took a lot of reference pictures

And I'm happy to say... they are pretty revealing. I always thought Paris had something special and just taking a picture of the street while I live here makes me realize how much Paris has little small things that is everywhere that other cities don't. Like really pour tag art and very beautiful tag art. Pigeons. Ground textures, symmetry, curved roads, tree cages...

There's a lot of small details. It was RAINING THAT DAY so I had to take pictures quickly and couldn't take more. BUT STILL, it's pretty good and pretty revealing.

Someone joined the fight

So since this is a passion project with no gain at the end except experience. Even though I made the project ready for a team of person to work on. I actually didn't think anyone would join. But I pitched a project to someone from my school and they agreed to help me out a bit! They're interested and joined the hack'n'plan as well as the git. They're pretty good at coding so I can't wait to see their impact on the project. They just heard the pitch yesterday so we won't see anything from that side in the coming days but eventually.
There's also no string attached. So they're involvement is their own to choose. And I'm very ok with that.
This means this week, I will have to focus on making documentation to convey ideas in an easier fashion for other party members. As now, the solo project is less solo after all.

Also school. Did some stuff I like.

I'm working on very low level programming. Assembly language!
I coded an absolute function with masking bits and doing shifts. Here's a gif on how that works.

I hope to share some more of that as well as doing a little check up on my progress at the end of this week. But I'm afraid not a lot of coding or visual is going to happen. But everything progress all the time. And that's a good direction to go.