Caricue Website Launched!

After months of infrastructure setup, the Caricue website is now online! That's not to say building a similar website usually takes that long, because the design only took a few days. However, I wanted to ensure the computers running the website are secure and easy to maintain over the long term, so I opted to use extra programming tools.

Many of these tools would have huge learning curves because large corporations use them; thus, the months spent on infrastructure. Although overkill for a website that rarely gets traffic, it's important to ensure security and scalability because I will work with object storage, databases, and game servers.

I am incredibly lucky that these tools are available for free with lots of information online, and that renting computers (buying a VPS) can be cheaper than a Netflix subscription, making this accessible to me. The fact that I’m able to program is also very lucky, because I wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t for others letting me contribute to their passion projects for free, teaching me new topics, and growing my interest. I will try my best to make use of these opportunities to create something memorable.

Future Plans

Following this post, I will continue to focus on security. Once security is in a good spot, I’ll start making an API people can use to download music from an object storage. Because the first project will be a rhythm-based game, the music will be very important in ensuring it doesn’t get repetitive to play. Full details will be shown when it’s close to a testing release on Steam, likely in a few months, but for now I will only share development progress because I may change certain aspects.