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Akseli Lahtinen

Hi, I'm Aks (Akseli Lahtinen) from Finland! I'm KDE dev by day and a hobbyist gamedev/FOSS-dev by night. I like metal, industrial and EBM music, and I love FPS, RPG and spacesim games. I also love tinkering with Linux systems.

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Welcome to my dev blog!

AksDev · 4y

Man this took long time to set up. I first tried to get Jekyll set up on my own server, but I couldn't get it to work. I also tried Hugo and all kinds of other website...

Quick CMake setup for VSCode

AksDev · 4y

When setting up my ScifiFPS C/Raylib project, I was having lots of problems with Makefiles. Apparently this is not uncommon, however I'm pretty new in C and makefiles in the...

Bitksel - I joined One Hour Game Jam

AksDev · 7y

This is how it went, or at least how I remember it. It was so hectic this may be out of order but anyway! One Hour Game Jam is a gamejam where everyone has to make a game, you...

Bitksel - Space Craze: ASTROX

AksDev · 8y

More space games! This time I'm writing about a very simple yet addicting spaceship game called ASTROX: Hostile Space Excavation. I really enjoyed this game and it's getting a...

Bitksel - Space Craze: X3: Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude

AksDev · 8y

Sorry for the month of silence, I didn't have much time/energy to write anything here. But now, I wanna tell you guys about a space sim that I really like! I'm playing the...

Bitksel - STRAFE, run 'n gun gore galore

AksDev · 8y

Happy new year 2018 folks! I decided the first blog post for this year would be about STRAFE, which is an old-school styled FPS. Fast, fun and gorey, just how I like my FPS...

Bitksel - Pillars of Eternity stole my heart

AksDev · 8y

I finally finished Pillars of Eternity and it's White March expansions, and yes, it got it's deserved place on my "favorite games" list! It's very hard for me to even start to...

Bitksel - Game Project Summary: Crypt of Darne

AksDev · 8y

I wanted to write this quick summary of how my Crypt of Darne game project went, now that I've collected data long enough. Without further ado, let's begin! You enter the Crypt...

Bitksel - INFRA: Urban exploration the game

AksDev · 8y

Yesterday I finished INFRA, a game about urban exploration. I'll start this bluntly: INFRA got on my "favorite games of all time" -list. It's just that good. Here are my...

Bitksel - Tyranny, the game of choices and consequences

AksDev · 8y

Yesterday, after 13 hours of play, I finished Tyranny. I bought the game only couple a days ago and I just couldn't stop playing it, so I finished it rather quickly. Here's some...

Bitksel - Story about why “keeping the scope small” is important

AksDev · 8y

This is another post from my old devlog I'm transfering here. I really liked this post so I thought I'll keep it. This happened before I started to make that roguelike, but I...

Bitksel - The 'I don't feel like playing' problem

AksDev · 8y

Sometimes when I read internet forums like Reddit to rot my brain, I stumble upon on threads where people are asking stuff like: "I haven't felt like playing anything for ages,...

Bitksel - Ah, Morrowind

AksDev · 9y

I've been playing lots of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind lately. It's an older role-playing game for PC and classic Xbox, but I play it on PC. I got it back in 2005, but I...

Bitksel - Bricks with speakers + logos

AksDev · 9y

During christmas holidays I visited my parents and took some photos of the old Nokia phones I used to have. Thankfully my parents had kept them safe, I'm sure some of them would...

Bitksel - Santa Claus in Trouble

AksDev · 9y

I am actually one of those weirdos who love christmas. I don't like how busy people are or any of that, but I like the wait and excitement that I still get, even it's not as...

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