AksDev
AksDev
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.
Latest Posts
Lizard Vector Made this lil wallpaper thing by tracing over the wireframe of a 3D model my friend Rotlich made for me!
Bit of sad news: I had to cancel my ARPG project "Loputon." Loputon was going to be retro aesthetic 3D first person dungeon crawling game, with 6 player races, random generated dungeons, leveling and inventory system. But, in the end, I...
I wanted to give another Linux distro a try, so I installed Kubuntu instead. And I'm glad I did! I feel like Kubuntu suits my needs way better than Linux Mint: I wanted a simple, light desktop with customization but it stays out of my...
Hi! I made a new theme (or layout) for the blog! I used Minima as the base, then just edited the default layout and css files. Seems to work fine! If you spot any problems with it, feel free to comment about it. Here's the commit and...
Hi, just a quick update! I imported some of my favorite posts from my old Wordpress blog Bitksel, since I wanted to archive them here. The images wont show up correctly, however you can highlight the image link and open it in new tab to...
I upgraded my PC with Ryzen 5 3600, which also meant I needed a new motherboard. I bought myself a small update package with CPU, RAM and the mobo, plus an M.2 drive. So far I've been enjoying my beefier PC! My old CPU was i7-4770k,...
I just wanted to quickly recap how I got collisions working in Raylib with firstperson camera and the level itself. It took me some time to realise how to get it work but with the help of Raylib discord, I managed to do it! Just a note:...
I’ve tried many, many creative outlets and other hobbies. I’ve tried writing, drawing, painting, playing guitar, playing piano and some more. I’ve tried many hobbies among gaming, such as football (not handegg) and airsoft (which I...
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 first place, and setting it all up with VSCode was also a bit...
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 platforms. Setting up servers really ain't for me, but oh well....
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 guessed it, in one hour. The theme for the jam I joined was...
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 sequel soon! ASTROX is a space simulation game where you can...
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 Albion Prelude expansion in these screenshots, but TC and AP are...
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 games. First of all, STRAFE had a bit rough start. People were...
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 explain how much I like it, but I'll try. I also keep this a...