Akshay Shankar

Akshay Shankar

1st year PhD student
Quantum Group, Ghent University

Blog posts

2024

Summon Squad: A weekend of spaghetti

30 minute read

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Around two weeks ago, something caught my eye while I was mindlessly scrolling my Twitter feed; someone had just mentioned that the Ludum Dare 55 game jam was happening that weekend. Knowing that it was one of the largest bi-annual game jams ever, I had a sudden burst of motivation to clear out my schedule and make an honest attempt at participating. This would only be my second jam (the first was the GMTK 2023) and I had not touched Godot, my game engine of choice, in quite a few months at that point. The perfect opportunity for an interesting weekend!

A new beginning

less than 1 minute read

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“This marks the first post of my website!”, is what I had written on the actual first post made here, back in March 2022. However, there was never a second post, as I seem to have been swept up by my Master’s thesis and other commitments soon after. Times are different now though! I started my Doctoral degree a couple months ago and have a healthy work-life balance. Every day, I encounter problems in my research and learn a lot of small things; new ideas, clever tricks, interesting tools and improved workflows. In an attempt to disseminate such insights, I plan to set aside some time to regularly document them for the wider audience, in the coming months.