My first steps

Before I started composing, I had music classes at my school and I like to participate in activities that I find fun. My first participation was in a Christmas song with my classmates, and it was something that made me very happy and I also met many cool people.

I don’t think it’s necessary to tell everything, so let’s go to the next point.

Learning to create noise

After spending time with my music classmates and playing several video games, I thought about whether it was a good idea to create my own music, and so… It was horrible. The first DAW I used was the free trial of FL Studio because I found many tutorials on YouTube and it seemed convenient, but let’s say I wasn’t good at composing notes and my PC is a toaster.

Later I started developing the video game BioXARZ-2 together with my friends, which is a project that I have a lot affection for and I hope you love it when its demo comes out, and it was also one of the reasons why I have improved my artistic skills.

My first musical theme

You nay not have known this, but my first non-noise theme was Small File, a retro-style theme for BioXARZ-2 that was quickly scrapped, it also had poor mixing and very low volume. Small File was my first theme that I composed with LMMS and with the help of my friend Ghosty, who is a composer for BioXARZ-2 and also makes cool music.

Although the theme was scrapped for obvious reasons it concept was not scrapped and will be given a new purpose in the song Coded File, a kind of opening for BioXARZ-2 which will also be composed by Ghosty.

Conclusion

I currently have a lot of BioXARZ-2 themes that I hope to release when it are finished, and I am also part of the team for a mascot horror video game called JimnyFood, which is a project of one of my friends.

Personally, Forgotten Dream is a theme that gave me trouble beacause of its complexity, and remember that the JimnyFood soundtrack doesn’t aim to sound good, it just tries to immerse in the environment.

What is SEO?

In a nutshell, SEO or Search Engine Optimization, these are guidelines used to position yourself in search engines and provide quality content to the user, which seems like a good idea to me. As I understand it, SEO techniques are used by companies to reach more people, or by content creators to achieve views.

My SEO mistakes

My website uses a modified Jekyll theme, which is a bit neglected and that’s why I had to modify it in the first place, but I left out the color of certain places in the theme, the colors do not have good contrast and it was difficult to see, and had overlooked it.

And that wasn’t the whole problem, also the site’s robots.txt was practically useless, and for that reason I had to create it myself since it did not contain instructions for search robots, and now it looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: http://alxira5.vercel.app/sitemap.xml

Practically being totally static, I’m giving the order to the search robots to crawl my entire site, and I hope it is not for bad.

Conclusion

Maybe I didn’t mention it before, but I literally had to rebuild the entire website because of the amount of mistakes I made, even non-SEO errors, although I am glad I learned from this beginner’s mistake so I don’t make it again.

And to finish, don’t trust plugin default files, they are usually problematic.

What was my website?

My old website was powered by Docusaurus and I thought it was a great tool, but not everything is pink, since at the same time it was a bit heavy engine, which makes sense, but it caused a lot of costs on the server.

Maybe you think I’m exaggerating, usage is a little more than expected, and the compilation times are usually very long due to the many templates that I do not usually use.

Other points to take into account

This reason is really very simple, but it is also very annoying for me to have to constantly update the dependencies and at the same time it generated a huge node_modules folder. Jekyll, the new engine of my website,it doesn’t require doing so much drama, but it is a little more basic in matters of modernity.

I really like Jekyll, and it was one of the first generators I tried when I was just a programming apprentice, and now it will be the engine of my website.

How is it different from Docusaurus?

Jekyll generates multi-page sites and is not built with Javascript, maybe it was too simple and that’s why I made this list:

• It is programmed in Ruby and does not have many dependencies.
• It is light and fast.
• It is easy to use.

These would be the Jekyll differences, but it is still usually very similar to Docusaurus and other static site generators.

A little in the past, but what about the present

SuperTux Classic is a free and open source video game developed by Alzter in Godot Engine, which aims to be a remake of SuperTux’s Milestone 1, along with some modern innovations. I started playing it a few days ago and it gave me many memories of my childhood, I still remember when I played it when I was eight years old on Debian 8, they were nice memories.

How about its gameplay?

Like his predecessor, it is very difficult to play at the beginning, but within a few minutes one begins to understand the rhythm,for example, you can’t do a cartwheel and you can’t swim either.

SuperTux Classic also brings us many remasters and much more modern graphics, which is a little star for the count.

SuperTux Classic is a good game?

It’s a resounding yes, but only if you want to relive that moment from your childhood or you simply like Tux games, but maybe not the option if you love doing parkour.

Something that still makes me sad, it’s just a very short game and I wish it were a little longer, but I must remember that it is a remake and not a sequel.

Zoonami, a very particular mod

Zoonami is a mod for Minetest developed by isaiah658, which allows us to train and fight against different monsters. Its gameplay is very similar to that of a Pokémon from the 90s, since its gameplay is very simple and a little entertaining.

To catch, I say tame

Like other video games based on Pokémon, the term catching monsters is not used for various reasons (I think because it sounds very cruel) and the term domestication is used. In Zoonami we can tame monsters using various jellies, which vary depending on the type of monster or its effectiveness.

In Zoonami we can also find villages and fight against trainers, we can even fight against our friends, which is very similar to a video game of its genre (Monster Catching).

In conclusion, Zoonami is a very entertaining mod if you like the idea of training monsters, or also if you want to relive your childhood. Like Minetest, it is a free mod and can be found in ContentDB.

Today I will talk to you about Godot Engine and it may sound familiar to you, since it is an open source engine that will allow you to create both 3D and 2D video games without any type of problem or complications, but it is a good alternative to Unity or other engines?

What is Godot Engine?

First of all, and in case you haven’t heard of the topic, Godot Engine is an open source engine created by Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur in order to create an engine that facilitates the development of video games, and in my experience, it is the easiest engine to use thanks to its node operation.

How is it different from other engines?

This is a great discussion point and makes a lot of sense if you want to start your project, and in reality there is not much difference with engines like Unity, since both have a repository of resources and templates, in addition to having an extensive community and a very good collection of tutorials.

The only difference would be its development model, since Godot is open source and Unity is closed source.

What can I create with Godot Engine?

Godot Engine allows you to create both 2D and 3D video games with the GDScript, C++ and C# programming language, in addition to having the possibility of using other programming languages unofficially. It also allows us to export our projects to different platforms, even the web.

If you are new to this field, I recommend that you use this engine in your first project and also if you are an expert, believe me, you will not regret it.

What is Minetest?

Minetest is a voxel game engine created with Irrlicht Engine by Perttu Ahola. Minetest allows the creation of games and mods with the Lua language, which is very easy to learn and very functional if you are a beginner.

Minetest as a video game

Minetest is not a video game and there is no need to repeat it, but it brings a game of the same name in which we can build a city and even explore dungeon, in addition to having a large catalog of mods.

Minetest as an engine

Minetest is an engine and can help us in the development of our project, although there is no apparent way to run the games outside of the engine, so it is not highly recommended for advanced projects. Most games created with this engine are usually mini-games and survival games, but according to my opinion, Glitch is a project worth trying and maybe it will serve as inspiration for our next projects.

In conclusion, Minetest is an engine that can help you with your basic or learning project, but it can also make you smile and even craft your fun.

What is Docusaurus?

Docusaurus is an open source static site generator created by Meta Platforms and as his name says, it is focused on documentation but can also be used to create a blog or a company website. In my case, I use it for my blog and some pages about me.

Why did I create it?

As I said at the beginning of this post, I had created my website but I took it out of production due to some errors, but the reason why I decided to create my website is to have my own blog and thus not be so active on my social networks, although it may be much more in the future.

What has changed now?

Now that this is my new website and it has changed a little from the previous one, Its main change is that it now uses Docusaurus v3 and the contact form is more functional, the rest remains the same.

And just like my previous website, it is open source and you can find its source code on GitHub.