Thoughts of realizing a dream-like game experience

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:47:50 +0100

I love dreams. I always write down all the dreams I have. Many people see in dreams something more than just an experience: they interpret them, find connections with things that could happen in the future, or think they reveal what the “subconscious” says, therefore what one truly thinks. I think that a dream is simply an experience. We tend to think that in dreams we see our life as if it were in a parallel universe, but this is not very different from “imagining,” even while awake. As far as I’m concerned, a dream is a show. Our brain “shows us” something without reasoning beforehand, and we just watch. It’s different from seeing “everything that comes to mind,” because when awake we choose what to think or at there are stimuli that lead us to think certain things. In a dream, the brain processes “something” undefined: random electrochemical signals that are forced to function in a narrative context (source: Dream - Wikipedia). Indeed, what we see is never truly random. If we’re fixated on something for a period, it’s very likely we’ll dream about it. If just before sleeping we read a book that captivates us, it’s possible we’ll imagine something related to it in our dream. There’s something of us in dreams, but according to the previous reasoning, it’s still random. The randomness factor here lies not in the choice of the dream’s “topic,” but in its animation and contextualization. That’s why we’re led to want to interpret dreams: because we see something of ourselves and it’s strange for it to be there without meaning. Now I don’t want to dwell on the usefulness of dreams or how they’re conceived by society, but rather on the “chemical” fact that we experience them. Why am I talking about dreams? It’s the common thing among all humans that brings us closer to thinking more about the actual “experience” of life, thanks to the five senses and consciousness.

Homebrew: from usage to development

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:19:48 +0100

This is an account of my thoughts on the experience of entering the world of homebrew developing and my process of developing my first app.

On March 12, 2025, I finally published my first homebrew app, Kekatsu DS, and there’s a lot to say about how I got to this point.

The beginning

Since I was a child, I always noticed the presence of programs with strange names on the video game consoles I had.

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Thoughts of realizing a dream-like game experience

Homebrew: from usage to development

The beginning