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Musical success – a pile of notes and headphones

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  I continue to make music. A new year has arrived. My new cosmic cycle follows the phases of the sun. The Earth has revolved around the sun. And a new cycle. Music for me is magic. And it's practice and technique. You have to constantly practice. True, for now I'm still a sorcerer's apprentice. I'm just learning. And making progress. By my standards. This makes me very happy.

Till Wild - Find a Way (feat. Glitterwolf & Ultraboss) – hip '80s rock

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  A promising start to the song. So quiet. And the backing vocals. Why drag it out right away? Cool. So slick with effects. It sounds somehow unusual. The singer tells us and sings his story. A story about the '80s, about the hip '80s. Then comes a cool, driving rock chorus. With echo. Carrying deep into the room.

Straight Road – in the middle of the office day, we went to the sea, a virtual one!

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  Road and sun. What could be better? Probably only the road to the sea. At the end of the workweek. Early on Friday. But already in the afternoon. So there are other cars on the road. But not many yet. And the road to the sea is not wide. Just two lanes. Summer. Sun. And you have a great car. With a convertible. And you're driving to the sea. That was the idea when developing the game.

Alice in the Park – Alice Meets a Green Caterpillar

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  Alice walks along a wide path. And around her is a field. So vast. And it seems endless. Like an ocean or a sea. Yellow grass. And dry twigs. Rising up. These aren't grass anymore, but simply dry yellow or orange twigs. Brown. Reddish. Gray. Brown.

Caveblazers – a cave with chests and treasures

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  Here I found another very small game. I got it on sale on Steam. It's about caves. And it's a roguelike. Only this time it's from a side view. Like on an 8-bit Dendy console. And it also has pixel graphics. But this is on PC. It's on Steam. And the graphics are pixelated, retro. And quite nice and decent. Everything seems to be so bright here. Lots of sprites. Everything moves cool. A lot happens on the screen. A roguelike with dynamics.

Ghost – It's a Sin – putting together a video on Windows 95, that's something new!

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  What do we know about ghosts? That they sing! This time it's a retro clip. In the Windows 95 style. And that really caught my attention. With the song "It's a Sin" by the synthpop band Pet Shop Boys. I really like these kinds of ghosts. The clip is truly retro. Windows 95. The program starts. The desktop. With folders dedicated to the band. And a video editor. And we sort of apply effects and edit the video. This is what a lyrical video looks like.

Straight Road – a virtual weekend by the sea

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  I'm returning to the path of a computer game developer. After a bit of a break. In this episode of the series, as they say. Something 80s and sunny. It's a bunch of drawn sprites. I drew 32 different cars in total. And I tested everything and everything. I improved the menu. I designed a font for displaying numbers. The process is moving forward. And that's the most important thing. Happy driving in a straight line!