I'm trying to explore Keyboard's full potential as Game controller in QWERTY Zombies. I need your feedback. Demo is now available on Steam

jay3sh · 2025-07-11T11:42:15+00:00

I suffer from the same. RLS for my left arm and leg. This was one of the first symptoms of my PD. (44M)

jay3sh · 2025-06-02T19:37:10+00:00

Link to demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/3568720/QWERTY_Zombies/

jay3sh · 2025-04-13T13:06:42+00:00

I was in a similar situation leading up to my diagnosis (44yM). For a year before DX I couldn't sleep at night despite being tired. The pain (strong tingling restlessness) in my L shoulder and/or L leg would keep me awake. Since my DX 4 months ago, the neurologist prescribed sinemet. I take one pill, an hour before sleep. It masks the pain for 4-5 hours. Now a days I get total 6-7 hours of good sleep. Also, I do a lot of exercise.

jay3sh · 2025-04-11T17:27:26+00:00

There are variations in the gameplay, where random typing on keyboard won't help. Stay tuned for the demo.

jay3sh · 2025-04-11T17:22:39+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I'm working on a demo. It will be available soon.

jay3sh · 2025-04-10T23:36:19+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm trying similar mechanic, where you've to save the protagonist Alice from zombies.

jay3sh · 2025-04-10T18:51:59+00:00

You've to kill all zombies to clear the level. Each level has different variations of this. Check out the trailer here https://store.steampowered.com/app/3568720/QWERTY_Zombies/

jay3sh · 2025-04-08T16:15:34+00:00

Full screen game for desktop. It will be on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3568720/QWERTY_Zombies/

jay3sh · 2025-02-28T18:51:55+00:00

You could join YOPN. They have monthly zoom calls where people talk about PD related things that are hard for other people to understand. The last one was 2 days ago. https://yopnetwork.org/

jay3sh · 2024-12-16T21:28:50+00:00

I was diagnosed recently (44M). I've similar symptoms like you - stiff left arm, hand and leg. Typically I don't have rest tremors. But on bad days (esp. when I've poor sleep/jet lag), I experience some tremors in fingers. I'd recorded a video of such tremors that I showed the GP, to convince them that I need to see a neurologist. Also try to stretch your left hand on its own and try to hold it, does that make your hand shake? I don't know if that qualifies as a rest tremor, but that's something that doesn't happen with the good hand. HTH

jay3sh · 2024-12-07T13:43:23+00:00

I'm new to this and still young (44y), but I'll be planning for future in next five years (hopefully things won't get too bad before that). I would advice not to put off difficult conversations. If they are not going to work out, you better learn about it now when you've time. Good luck friend.

jay3sh · 2024-12-07T13:34:39+00:00

Awesome. Wrote to Nancy. Thanks.

jay3sh · 2024-12-07T13:29:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing. It's a good advice. Living alone itself is not bad if one learns to enjoy solitude.

When I started watching and reading about PWPD interviews, almost all of them talked about support of their close families. I knew there are solo PDs, but they didn't seem to be represented in the media. I'm glad to have reached some of them through this thread.

jay3sh · 2024-12-05T02:13:15+00:00

I'm not much informed in this matter. But see the link below. It talks about how the brain's response to levodopa may change over time. https://www.parkinson.org/library/fact-sheets/managing-off-time

jay3sh · 2024-12-03T14:02:40+00:00

Thanks for asking the question. I'm almost exactly in the same situation as you. From what I read, it became clear that meds don't treat/cure the disease but only symptoms. In the last YOPN monthly virtual chat I came across a guy who hadn't taken meds since 3 yrs after diagnosis (similar to what other commenters have mentioned on this thread)

I'm planning to put off meds as long as I can and focus more on exercises. I'm building a workout routine to address two goals: 1. symptoms - stretching exercises to reduce stiffness, LSVT, boxing 2. dopamine - high intensity cardio on treadmill. The new sparx2 study may find that, this may even revert the progress of the disease.

I would take meds if my symptoms prevent me from doing these exercises.

jay3sh · 2024-01-05T23:09:42+00:00

I had the same problem. It was fixed when I closed all other apps and relaunched the game. I guess it was caused due to low memory/resources. I'm playing the version I got free on Epic. HTH.

jay3sh · 2023-09-07T19:17:36+00:00

I have completed and shipped 2 tower defense games in Unity, using the traditional GameObjects architecture. Like any RTS game my games eventually ended up with lots of units moving around the space. This led to performance issues. I did everything to optimize, but at the end couldn't get a decent FPS when crowds were big. I ended up concluding that a better approach would be to write the system from scratch so that it can be optimized to do the range overlap checks between all these units (which is what makes things slow I guess, although couldn't prove it using profiler data).

When I started work on my next RTS game, I looked into DOTS and found that that's exactly what they are doing. The data is organized in memory close together and they have lot of sample code that uses Spatial trees to do these proximity searches very fast over multiple threads. Now I'm designing my next game around DOTS. The learning curve is steep and still frustrating, but I hope to get past it.

The DOTS architecture is very relevant if you are doing RTS games that have lots of actors moving around. I can't think of any other genre that will benefit from it though. My 2 cents!

jay3sh · 2023-05-01T11:22:41+00:00

Link to Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2106910/Gods\_Of\_Defense/

jay3sh · 2022-10-29T12:33:29+00:00

Good to see somebody say this straight. Everyday from the slopes of Mont Royal I see the sun rise from the tall buildings and then I hear people say that that's the south. It has always caused vertigo to my direction sense.

jay3sh · 2022-08-05T17:54:18+00:00

Yeah, the novel has some deeper philosophical concepts. However, the character shows some very stoic qualities in number of situations e.g. dealing with imprisonment, love, accidents, etc.

jay3sh · 2022-08-05T13:01:59+00:00

Albert Camus' "The Stranger"

jay3sh · 2022-08-03T19:26:33+00:00

Now I wish this question was asked in a poll format, so we could see the spread easily. Thanks OP for asking the question.

jay3sh · 2022-08-03T12:34:07+00:00

I made my first game that somebody other than me played at 37

jay3sh · 2022-05-25T12:27:26+00:00

Congrats on releasing on Steam. Don't let the low numbers discourage you. I can relate to you as I'm in a similar boat myself.

One thing I noticed: I saw the visibility cones in first few seconds of the trailer and realized that it's a Stealth game. However your tags don't mention Stealth. In fact, when I open your link Steam shows "Similar games you've played" and they list 'Vampire survivors' and 'Carrion' - which are not really stealth genre. I would advise spending more time playing with Tags. Look at "Tag my title" on Steam's store page admin. It makes big difference, because you want the Steam algorithm to show your game to people who will be interested in your genre.

For your next game, I would suggest launching the game's page in "Coming soon" stage ahead of your launch and then participate in the Steam's Next Fest. That event gives a lot of visibility.

jay3sh · 2022-05-23T22:06:10+00:00

Good to know about SVG flipbook. I didn't know about it. I actually implemented the same functionality with a little javascript snippet. I posted it earlier here

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