Financial Freedom coming closer!
Finances after 1.5 years in Switzerland Having spent the last 1.5 years in Switzerland, I've embraced the stability and independence that comes with it. I recently made a significant investment by purchasing an apartment, which has not only provided a sense of...
Tax comparision: A vs D vs CH
Tax rates between Germany, Austria and Switzerland: I have now lived in all German-speaking countries. So I grew up and lived in Austria for 30 years, then in Germany for 2 years and now in Switzerland. Every time, my financial situation changes a lot. Now after 6...
New life in Switzerland
Life in Switzerland: Goodbye, land of taxes and fees. I lived in Germany for about 2 years and paid enough taxes. So my aim was to relocate to Switzerland in 2022 as it was my aim even earlier but was impossible due to "Not enough working experience". In 2022, I got...
2 years in Germany
Life after 2 years in Germany: I moved to Germany during the main Covid-19 years. Before I grew up in Austria and living there for 30 years. It is now a while since the last post since I am more focused towards work and improve my knowledge about investment. Also, the...
New Life in Germany
Life after 5 months in Germany: It is now quite a while since I moved to Germany back in August 2020. Although it is everything closed, I never imagined that I would like the work at my current employer. In Austria, I had many bad experiences working as an employee....
Relocation! End of Unemployment
Google AdSense Advertisment: Yesterday I checked the integration of Google AdScence to fraktalia.org and it worked. Here are the steps required to get Google AdSense Working: Have a Google Account Launch the Google AdSence page and connect your google account....
How to build Unity WebGL and include it into your WordPress
Unity WebGL and WordPress: Someone asked me if I have a demo build of one of my Unity assets. Since I never made a WebGL demo in Unity, I decided to give it a try. I found out that you can embed it using an IFrame container. If you want to create a WebGL build in...
What is a hamster wheel?
When is a job a hamster wheel? Now during unemployment, I had time to review my last year during the entry-level job. What was good, what was bad and I found some cues about what is a hamster wheel. Usually, when you visit blogs about financial freedom, they generally...
Two Months Unemployment
My experience during 2 months of unemployment: I am now unemployed for about 2 months and it started officially from 27. January 2020. The first main task during unemployment was finishing my 8th product for the Unity Asset Store which is the Voxel Generator. Also,...
Do you want to build your own Voxel Engine?
What is a Voxel Engine? In a nutshell, a Voxel Engine is a piece of software which attempts to simulate atoms. Every atom or "Voxel" occupies a defined space and has specific properties. The most basic property of a Voxel are solid or not solid. These can also contain...
Testing Google AdSense
Google AdSense Advertisment: Yesterday I checked the integration of Google AdScence to fraktalia.org and it worked. Here are the steps required to get Google AdSense Working: Have a Google Account Launch the Google AdSence page and connect your google...
Unemployment: First 2 Weeks
Life during Unemployment: I worked at my junior developer job for one year and I am now unemployed for 2 weeks. Exactly I am unemployed since 27.01.2020 which is also the date when I have to visit the Jobcenter called AMS here in Austria. The law itself requires you...
1 year hamster wheel
1 year hamster wheel: I worked at my junior developer job for one year and in another post, I did the math about employment:and the result clearly showed that working under certain conditions is not worth your time. My life during the last year 2019 was basicly: 6:30...
Money and Classes
Different money for different classes: Have you ever noticed that poor people of different classes use different money? 500 years ago, money only existed as coins, and they were made of copper, silver, and the most noble metal gold. The value of each coin is directly...
Escape the hamster wheel: Level 3
Escape the hamster wheel: Financial Security: If you are in your job and invest the money you earn in Real Estate, Stocks and Education, you are at level 2. Level 2 can be very exhausting since the whole social system works against you. However sooner or later your...
Escape the hamster wheel: Level 2:
Escape the hamster wheel: Investing: If you finished level 1, you probably have money left each month which must be used for level 2 which is all about investing. While level 1 was all about getting rid of liabilities and responsibilities. Level 2 is about what to do...
Escape the hamster wheel: Level 1:
Escape the hamster wheel: How to keep the door open: I have seen many blogs about how to reach X and Y or how to get rich or how to escape the hamster wheel. However those blogs are probably from people which already have archieved exactly that and their guides worked...
6 months hamster wheel
The ugly life as employee(slave) I am working now full time (38.5 hours) ans junior developer since january and psychological issues are already incoming. Though it is not the first time working full-time in a company before attending university. Back then, I worked...
My horrible experience with Steam and video games
My experience with Steam Endless Dream was the first game I have developed which also was published on Steam. Endless Dream was developed as a bachelor project 2 years ago. Back then we had to put in a ton of effort to get through Greenlight. We even got greenlit and...
First job as junior developer.
Happy new [hamster wheel] year 2019 I got my first job as a junior developer! The last half-year of 2018 was completely dedicated towards the master thesis. Now it is finished and the student life comes to an end. The last five years were an amazing time and the...
What happend to LostInPixels?
Shut down of LostInPixels: Our student organisation LostInPixels was founded to work together on games. However the end of the student life comes closer and closer. As life goes on, everyone has to find a job after obtaining the master's degree. Due to the scarcity of...
Wattenizer: My first mobile game
My second game: Wattenizer Wattenizer is the second game I developed as an assignment and is a mobile game where you can play a card game called "Watten". Watten originates from Bayern, Germany and therefore is widely known in Germany and Austria. Watten is played...
Steamworks with Unity as Steam game
Steamworks with Unity As we got greenlit, we are preparing the final steps before releasing. This also includes the implementation of Steam related stuff like archievements and the overlay which appears when you press "Shift + Tab" in a Steam game. We use Unity as...
On Greenlight – yeah!
Hey guys, we did it. Our game "Endless Dream" is published on Steam Greenlight. Now it depends on you. If you like the game make sure you give us a thumbs up and leave a comment. Currently we are working on game improvements and "media stuff" to spread the word. The...
God Scene System
God Scene System: Our coder has ripped out his god scene system from endless dream and published it in the asset store. You can buy it for 10$ in the Unity Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/75033 The aim of this system is to implement a...
Crystal Generator
Crystal Generator: Our coder has developed a fancy new tool for unity which is the Crystal Generator. This tool is capable of simulating crystal growth like those occuring in nature. Crystals in video games are often generic structures created by an artist and often...
Coder goes on Youtube
Development Videos on Youtube. Our programmer has started to maintain a Youtube channel with his nickname "Ragnara". His channel is going to mix Lets Play with Game Development related stuff. It will also show updates about our game projects if it doesn't contain huge...
Hypersoul: The super early prototype
The creation of Hypersoul: Our first game "Endless Dream" is the continuance of a student project called Hypersoul which was developed before our team was founded. This project was mainly used to learn the basics of unity and like many other projects mandatory at our...
The birth: Foundation
Foundation: The foundation of our team began with a game project at our university which was an early prototype of endless dream. The project itself was all about learning Unity and not intended to be released one day. During that time, the development team consisted...