It is a lot of work, between Sushi cleaning up and annotating/publishing the text podcasts, and me working on the animation scripts. For my own part, I am working on this because I enjoy it, and because it gives me a fun way to improve my python coding skills, which is something I’ve been needing more and more at work. It also gives me an opportunity to work on a ‘gaming’ related coding project, which has always been an interest of mine, which I explored quite a bit in my teen years, but have had to put aside due to work for a long time. Working with the PyGame python library is a good intro to 2D-type game programming, and extracting and manipulating the graphics from the game spritesheets, has given me a change to better appreciate 2D graphics manipulation, and alpha transparency blending. As long as I keep learning interesting stuff, and I’m having fun, I don’t see any reason to stop. The amount of time I can put on this varies quite a bit, from days in a row with no work, to single days with 5+ hours.
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