About

I am viba (she/they). I was born on October 4 2004; I am therefore 22 years old. I have autism and ADHD. I reside in Alberta, Canada.

"viba" is merely a screenname; I may or may not have an actual name as well. "viba" is pronounced "VEE-buh" /ˈvi.bə/, and should preferably be written in all lowercase (it just looks weird to me when capitalized). The name "viba" is derived from the word for "color" in my own conlang Sanila. Don't ask why.

I am the most unemployed and introverted person that has ever existed.

Programming

I have been programming ever since someone at my middle school taught me how to use Scratch in September 2016. Eventually in 2021 I started learning how to use LÖVE, a game framework which uses the Lua programming language, and I have been using it to create audiovisual programs ever since.

Despite LÖVE being primarily for 2D games, I have also made 3D games with it. I had wished to create 3D games for a while, but being thoroughly disinterested in following the typical beaten path of learning to put up with Blender and Godot or whatever, I instead began messing with g3d having virtually zero knowledge of how 3D rendering worked or any of the math that goes into it. After months of trial and experimentation, this eventually resulted in a very hacky and unoptimized "engine" of sorts where maps are created by manually typing numbers into a Lua file in order to construct geometric primitives. Although, I do intend to someday create a slightly more robust iteration of this engine with an actual map editor, which might even be useful for other people wanting to make little 3D games just like mine. An editor like this has been a dream of mine for years, but who knows when I'll actually get around to it.

Conlangs

Conlanging is the act of creating constructed languages, or conlangs. I started conlanging in 2014 at the age of 10; my first conlang was an astoundingly incoherent mess, but they've gotten marginally better since then. My main conlang is Sanila, a personal language I've been making since 2018.

I also sometimes learn other people's conlangs. This includes Esperanto and Toki Pona, although I am not super into either of them. And if you think those are completely useless languages that no one speaks and that I'm crazy for learning them, you're not gonna believe the fact that I've also learned Vötgil.

Media

One thing that many find bewildering about me is that I am rather deficient in media consumption. Ask me what my favorite books or movies or TV shows are, and I will have no answer. There might be many reasons for this that I haven't fully determined, but it certainly doesn't help that I live in a world of copyright law and such, and that streaming services are a sad and cruel joke. Of course there is a cheap solution to this problem, but I'm not cool enough for it.

I suppose I do have slightly more to say about music and video games though. I don't listen to music so often, but I do enjoy the music of pilotredsun, bill wurtz, 憂鬱, and Two Piece Squirrel. I have played the Portal and Half-Life games.

Facts about me

My stuffed elephant friend. Her name is Lily.

Contact

If you are a nice person who wants to contact me for any reason, send me an email to:

viba@mondecitronne.com

I also exist on apionet.