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I hated making the content for this, and I'm starting to realize that making a demo out of obligation doesn't make good art. Multiple reasons: 1) royalty-free/CC/PD music is not to my taste usually. It's too "soundtrack-y" for a demo. 2) I had planned this demo to also serve as a testbench for my master's thesis topic, and now I had done myself dirty by associating the creative work with the boring university work. 3) In a rush to make sure I get this done before Instanssi, I occasionally used my Gemini LLM subscription "for inspiration and faster development". I now realize that it fucking sucks because it takes the joy out of being an artist and ruins the some of the satisfaction that you get from doing good engineering work and coming up with solutions by yourself.

However, I loved making the engine for this, and I will keep using and improving the same Zig and SDL3 codebase, it's a keeper. Just need to take a few months break from making demos so that I can graduate and get a mental reset from this stressful project.