I'll keep it short and (hopefully) realistic..

- Learn quickly how to be a decent Dad (my partner and I are expecting start of August!)
- Continue living a balanced life (work, home, fitness, hobbies), which will become exponentially harder with parenthood no doubt, but I'll do my best
- Make progress on a calculator project or two, whether it's Banchor II or one of many other projects I've been toying with

learn ice and c#.

Thats all.

Hell yea! You should look at unity for a C# based game engine with a very good community.

- struggle through my junior year of high school with A-s or higher (don’t get burned out)
- register a domain name for my website and get a ssl certificate for it
- continue to work out at home and maybe go to a gym
- make varsity in tennis (tryouts are starting in 2 days )
- finish at least one project
- be more socially outgoing

Well I can safely say I accomplished just about none of these. I workout occasionally, socialize rather infrequently, which is alright I guess but I can’t really say I made any big changes or accomplishments.

Although, I will say that I’ve gained a few hundred YouTube subscribers and nearly 60k total views just in the last 2 months, so that’s nice

Write more mods for TowerFall, make more games and projects for calculators. That's enough, right?

This is about 2023 goals, not 2024 goals.

Here's how I did, per bullet point!
* Always find the lowest-resistance ways to continue pursuing my hobbies
**** I forgot about this strategy and re-learned it, and it worked! I found better ways to pursue my hobbies and had a blast.
* Minimize distractions in free-time (social media, games, etc) — keep it deliberate, not habitual
**** Games are gone! But social media is a bit of an addiction. It feels managable because I'm starting to have an inherent "i'm wasting my time" feeling that makes me turn it off.
* Take ignorance as an opportunity to learn
**** I've been doing better at this, but there are some cases that it's a waste of time, and others that I should do it but really really do not want to. Still continuing working on this I didn't fail it!
* Improve at prototyping games in higher level game engines
**** I've given this up! My games tend to be outside of the bounds of game engines, and if a prototype is where interesting things are meant to happen, then it's important to note that I can't make interesting things in engines. I could always get better at this later, and I'll be better off to improve at low level stuff right now.
* Improve at writing games with few abstraction layers
**** Definite improvement! I'm making a very cool game right now, and it is using no engine, and it is using GL and Win32 api calls.
* Finish at least one game
**** Nope. ⁻I considered doing a personal game jam month in December, but I wasn't that dedicated to it and decided time would be better spent on my current project. I've been working on my current project for 10 months! And that's a success to me - I had never the endurance to work on one project this long, and this will give me freedom to make better games.

I do want to make more games to iterate on my process, but I dare not give up a committed project to do so. It will be another day.

I made decent progress on the physical Train Sim controller when I had time (and finally posted a topic about it, so I'm willing to call that a success.

I failed to do so.
I did some positive things for this, but certain items I did not keep up with. That'll be a 2024 goal.
I did this to the best of my ability, and the company continues to chug along.

A small progress is better than no progress at all. Good luck next year!

I completed all my resolutions:

- Get 90% or higher on exams
- Create a startup at school (I also got help from my friends)
- Learn a new instrument (I play flute and piano, and I started the bagpipes and kazoo-if that qualifies as an instrument-this year)
- Make 20% or more return on stocks

Goals for 2024

- Learn and/or master 2 or more programming languages.
- Make more money from my startup.
- Beat this year's stock return of 35% (That's gonna be insanely hard)
- Pick up a new hobby
- All exams 95% or higher
Edit: - Read 7,000 books since I just broke 70,000 this year

I might add more resolutions because even though 2023 flew by, it was kind of boring.


Favorite programs that I found out about this year:
- Fire and Flames by VitalAsh
- Cesium by Mateoconlechuga
- CEleste by commandblockguy
- ICE Compiler by PT_
- CEaShell (even though it was very buggy, it was an amazing shell. Can't wait for CEaShell 2) by TIny_Hacker and RoccoLox Programs
- TI-Boy CE by Calc84maniac
- S. A. M. M. Status: Online; Location: Unknown by Captain Calc
- ADVENTUR by Hactar

- AND MANY, MANY, MORE!


Even though this year wasn't too exciting, it was pretty fun nonetheless. Or maybe it's just that another year passed since COVID-19 was at its peak!

Your friend,
ryanconmartians

Looks like 2023 is about over for me so here's how I did!

1. I don't know how many projects (at least programming ones) I finished, but I certainly made some new ones and worked on some as well. I also created and submitted this LEGO Ideas project based on Celeste, one of my favorite video games, which isn't a programming project but was still a lot of fun.
2. This one was kind of vague but I guess I did okay? I went through a whole lot of stress over the summer but things got better towards the end of the year so I'll count that I guess
3. This one is basically the same as number 2.
4. I could've done better at this one.

Celeste Lego set? I thought about doing something like yours, but never found the time.

I failed my 2023 goal of finding the AI art-related stuff I wanted to, except that in the end I still got to fiddle around with similar, still AI-related stuff including useful upscaling stuff. I failed my goal of socializing more, though, although I did go out more often due to slightly more stable financial situation.