https://www.derik.digital/blog daily 0.75 2025-06-07 https://www.derik.digital/blog/pong-materialized monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662dba0c6bed720b048ec83e/65fedaa9-0b73-4620-8c05-1c68c41937d1/cover_art.png Blog - Pong: Materialized - Pong - Available now! A classic Atari title remade using modern tools and modern design. This iteration of the original game uses Google’s equally recognizable and classic Material Design framework as the primary inspiration for its visual style. 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Sheesh, could my hair have been any greasier!? Maybe I’m being too hard on myself, but for so long until late in my teenage years, I was set on always have hair of at least that length. Little did I know that eventually instead of hating getting my haircut, I’d hate not having my hair cut. Also pretty sure I’m standing in a closet in this picture. Posted it on Instagram sometime in 2015, though it appears I deleted the post at some point. Something funny is I actually have multiple old pictures of myself wearing the same, or similar, knock-off Apple earbuds from Dollar General. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662dba0c6bed720b048ec83e/06b2cca4-7ade-4891-8d84-9423a09eba6f/New+icon2.png Blog - New Profile Picture - Make it stand out The image that would become my profile picture on almost every site and social media until now. To this day I still love this illustration, and it pains me to stop using it. I made very minor modifications over the years, like some slight color tweaking, and putting it over different backgrounds, but the drawing as a whole remained unchanged. Nilam did a great job, and I couldn’t be more glad that this is the piece I’d use to represent myself for all of those years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662dba0c6bed720b048ec83e/31048fbf-90d7-41be-88b4-b8bbae1bea17/20241007_063843%7E3.jpg Blog - New Profile Picture - Make it stand out Again, don’t judge me. This along with another picture of me would be what I sent to Nilam to base the new illustration off of. Not my favorite photo, and in fact I don’t use it anywhere, but I try to take pride in my job so this was an attempt at that. My coworkers would instantly recognize where I’m at in this image, seeing as I took it in the office, and on a night where I was dispatching solo, so no one had to watch me try and take a selfie like a forty year-old man. I’m not good with pictures, and have never been, so this was the best I could do. An intrusive thought I had while writing this was how funny it is that you somehow can’t see my ears in this picture, and it looks like my glasses are held up by nothing but the fact they are slightly too small for my head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662dba0c6bed720b048ec83e/3d840208-fd66-4edf-ac91-c8fe31a4e8c2/Derik_icon.png Blog - New Profile Picture - Make it stand out This is it! I feel like there’s a lot to say about it. First off, its perfect to me that Nilam’s style has grown and changed, just like me. I also really appreciate that she still does chibi-style artwork, but yet she’s done something that feels much more painterly here, and it really lends itself to the details. I am also surprised at how well she manages to draw a chibi character with facial hair, as I don’t think I’ve seen one before. To me this feels like a perfect evolution of the old artwork. I’m happy to use this as my new picture for years to come. She very kindly gave me a version with, and without the glasses, but I preferred without. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662dba0c6bed720b048ec83e/acf3886e-3f2a-46c5-abf5-721c04cd5c82/derik_and_kaley.png Blog - New Profile Picture - Make it stand out This is both of our illustrations side by side. As of this blog post, I haven’t shown it to her. Gonna try to keep it under wraps until Christmas probably, and use it as a surprise gift. I also won’t be showing the picture I provided Nilam of my girlfriend, in lieu of her consent to put it on here. That said, for those who know Kaley, this is a great illustration of her. I love it, and I’m sure she will. She gets the nostalgia and importance I place on things like my old picture. I just know she’ll love these, to have her own, and to be apart of this with me. https://www.derik.digital/blog/learning-game-dev monthly 0.5 2025-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662dba0c6bed720b048ec83e/c544254e-22f7-4e00-be31-5e48678538e9/fruit-smash-game.jpg Blog - Learning Game Development - Fruit Clicker I imagine so many people in the GM community that used 8.1 have also made this game following the same tutorial. 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