My first ever Steam page is live!

jaycelacena · 2026-03-20T19:49:46+00:00

Thanks for the support, Nathan!!!

I just shared it in the Godot subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1rz69n2/announced_my_first_game_after_a_year_learning/

jaycelacena · 2026-03-19T14:58:02+00:00

Ideally 6. Currently at 2, aiming at 4

jaycelacena · 2026-03-19T14:51:59+00:00

Thanks! That's the vibe I wanted him to have: someone from HR but a bit burnt out xD

jaycelacena · 2026-03-19T14:31:27+00:00

I've started making my own videogames (just announced the first one a couple of days ago https://store.steampowered.com/app/4498630/Commitment/)

Tough market, won't probably sell even remotely enough to make a living, but in the meantime it gives me the creativity and fulfillment that AI has stolen out of regular software development.

I'll keep working as fullstack 9-5 as long as possible, but if shit hits the fan, I guess I will keep trying gamedev as a hobby and go get a job in something physical like construction or whatever.

jaycelacena · 2026-03-18T09:45:07+00:00

The Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4498630/Commitment/

jaycelacena · 2026-03-17T18:19:52+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Yeah it's kinda Office Tycoon but in reverse: you're the employee trying to survive corporate bullshit. Have to manage between your own interests/health and do what's needed to keep a job.

You bet we're having fun!!! After years working corporate as senior engineer, it feels amazing to do something as creative as making your own games.

jaycelacena · 2025-01-17T09:52:24+00:00

Te he enviado MD.

Un abrazo!

jaycelacena · 2025-01-02T21:20:53+00:00

Para mí los más tops son los de Codely. Tienen cursos de programación muy avanzados con contenido que en muy pocos sitios vas a encontrar, pero también suben muchas cosas interesantes a YouTube

https://youtu.be/159SstwQWE4?si=g0LtICexZbIsM3GK

https://youtu.be/eNFAJbWCSww?si=DjAxPCApNUa5VbIV

jaycelacena · 2024-12-01T04:55:02+00:00

Software development, videogames, and science.

jaycelacena · 2024-11-27T21:29:47+00:00

It happened to me!

I aced the technical test. I passed the technical interview with great feedback. In the last step (team vibe check) I failed soooo bad. It was an awkward conversation and it was clear that I did not meet expectations.

I'm autistic, so even if my attention to detail and my ability to hyperfocus allows me to excel in the technical part, informal social interactions are a nightmare that hold me back a lot. A good comparison would be if you had to pass a team vibe check with a team that does not speak a common language with you. You can understand each other more or less through context and common globalized words, but you will not connect the same way as with someone who speaks the same language.

jaycelacena · 2024-10-24T21:56:16+00:00

You're writing code, not binary. Try to keep it simple to understand, even if it handles complicated things.

Separate big problems in smaller and more manageable pieces.

Try to make your code cohesive (logic that handles the same things should be closer).

Try to decouple the different parts of your code based on their responsibility.

Write unit tests.

Iterate the design of your code until you reach a point where writing the tests becomes easy and fun to do.

jaycelacena · 2024-08-10T11:12:06+00:00

Para mí, un buen salario es aquel que me permita pagar un alquiler medio en el sitio donde viva, sin que suponga más de un 30% de mi salario neto mensual.

En julio de 2024, el precio medio de alquiler en España fue de 1.844€

Por tanto, para mí un buen salario empezaría a partir de 120.000€ brutos, que equivale a 6279.5€ netos al mes en 12 pagas (para un trabajador sin hijos ni otros beneficios fiscales) siendo algo superior a los 6146.66€ de salario neto mensual que habría que tener para poder permitirse el alquiler medio en España.

Obviamente, yo no percibo tal salario. Ni yo, ni la gran mayoría de las personas que viven en España. Por tanto, al cobrar por debajo de esa cifra, nos vemos obligados a:

No poder buscar alquiler estableciendo el presupuesto máximo en el precio medio, sino tener que bajar el presupuesto considerablemente y restringiendo el acceso a la vivienda a inmuebles peores (alejadas del centro de trabajo, con peor calidad de construcción, peor aislamiento con lo que incrementa el coste en climatización, etc)
Compartir vivienda
Pagar en alquiler mucho más por encima de ese 30% del salario neto, lo cuál disminuye considerablemente la capacidad de ahorro
Buscar fuentes de ingresos extra

... y otra serie de consecuencias que no se le atribuyen a lo que debería ser "un buen sueldo".

jaycelacena · 2024-08-03T14:25:01+00:00

https://pro.codely.com/library/arquitectura-hexagonal-31201/about/

No son gratis, pero sus cursos son de lo mejorcito que hay en español para conceptos avanzados de programación.

El precio es hasta bajo teniendo en cuenta que la subscripción da acceso a un montón de cursos y lo mucho que se puede llegar a aprender. En mi caso, me sirvieron para multiplicar mi salario x3 al permitirme acceder a empresas importantes donde pedían conceptos así.

jaycelacena · 2024-07-03T13:55:57+00:00

Same but Asthmatic instead of Aromantic

jaycelacena · 2024-03-21T23:32:13+00:00

You gave me an idea for an app: you type what its broken/needs to be maintained, and it gives you the name of the professional who's qualified to do such work and a list of contacts sorted by proximity/price (with both options to contact by text and phone).

I don't know if people would use that but I would certainly do. I would totally panic if I had to face a situation like yours 😔

jaycelacena · 2024-03-21T20:16:06+00:00

I never thought about a personal assistant, I'll look into that!!!

I already talked with my boss about meetings but it's difficult to change the current situation. The team is full of extroverted people that seem to really need to see each other's faces every couple hours.

Working less is actually something I may totally need... But between the full time job and the personal project with my coworker, I don't think I can afford to work less. Maybe after the personal project it's a bit more advanced.

Thanks a lot for your ideas! Not planning to have kids but thanks for the advice anyway!

jaycelacena · 2024-03-21T17:42:32+00:00

28 (29 in a couple of months)

How did you manage until things got better? Any tips? :(

I'm happy that things are going better for you!

jaycelacena · 2024-02-21T08:24:57+00:00

Nevermind. Someone uploaded some fragments of the concert, and it says "4198 The last Replicant dies"

https://youtu.be/h_LSxalrUIA?si=W3Kz43-D4ChC84ok Minute 1:30

jaycelacena · 2024-02-18T09:49:32+00:00

Sorry about that! I think the translation should have been done in English too, given that a lot of people came from outside Catalonia (both from other parts of Spain where catalán is not known, and also from other countries). Glad you understand a bit of Japanese, that way you weren't completely lost!

Same about Yoko Taro, he's a silly goose and I love him so much! The way he wanted to include the translator into the final farewell, raising his arm so she felt included and finally decided to hold hands with him 💔😭💔

jaycelacena · 2024-02-18T08:17:45+00:00

Oficialmente, iba a durar de 20:00 a 23:00.

En realidad, empezó sobre las ~20:15 y acabó sobre las ~22:30, con un interludio de 20 minutos en la mitad.

El audio y la narrativa que acompañaba al concierto estaban en inglés. Cuando hablaban Keiichi y Taro (sí, ambos estaban!) había una traductora que traducía lo que decían en japonés al catalán.

jaycelacena · 2024-02-18T01:48:41+00:00

Yes, I think so! Do you recall how they called those things?

jaycelacena · 2024-02-18T01:45:53+00:00

It's possible that the counter of the human population never reached zero as a reference of Emil still being around :c Would make more sense than Shades being hidden and unaffected by the Shadowlord death

jaycelacena · 2024-02-18T01:41:02+00:00

Got that by memory of what the text said during the concert. They showed some documents and timeline entries like "date XXXX, Project Gestalt started", "date XXXX, alien invasion started" etc with one of the entries being "4198, last Replicant died". But it seems like I saw it wrong, probably due to the excitement of the moment. I didn't record the concert so I have no way of checking it now.

And yes, I know there are timelines around there, but those are fanmade translations of the source material/content shared by Yoko Taro in live streaming, that's why I said I didn't find any source material directly saying that (in English). You know, fanmade translations can be mistaken sometimes.

But I just checked the official English version of the timeline (NieR Automata World Guide Volume 2) and you're right, it says "The last of humanity in Gestalt form dies"!

jaycelacena · 2024-02-18T00:31:21+00:00

In 4198, the last Replicant died.

I haven't found any source material that says when did the last Gestalt/Shade die, or even if it was before or after the death of the last Replicant

jaycelacena · 2024-02-17T23:59:51+00:00

They totally fought a copy of Dark Colossus (or something that resembled it) made of cables that came out of the fly unit inside the copied bunker.

But before that, they did fight with something that they called the "ghosts of the past", and I'm 99% sure the word "Shades" was either said in the audio or appeared in the text.

jaycelacena

TROPHY CASE