I'm running the Bath Half Marathon this weekend to raise some money for Marie Curie in memory of my mum
I'm certainly feeling some things about the run happening to be on Mother's Day
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Hell yeah
Spinny Wizard Game very much an exercise in whether I can make a game almost deliberately making the wrong decision at every turn (don't get me wrong, I am very much having fun with it again)
Love to use pixel art, the art form made out of squares, to make a game super heavily reliant on orbits, curves, circles, that sort of thing
Learning a lot by trying to get Spinny Wizard Game in a releasable state
In addition to the age old wisdom of "software takes at least twice as long as you think, even if you account for that in your estimate" I think I'm going to have to factor in "ennui time" to future projects
Speaking entirely selfishly, I really hope the new Fable makes it out of the door before all the XBox games studios either collapse or all get repurpose to churning out slop
In possibly the most being late to the party statement I have ever or will ever make: reading books is phenomenal stuff
Slay the Spire 2 really making me think I should get around to playing Slay the Spire 1 instead of just installing it on my Steamdeck and doing nothing with it
Yes, of course I celebrate Valentine's Day in the normal way, running 15k with my partner to get a cake at a café then making our own pizzas for dinner
Real uphill struggle on Game Dev today, took me until mid afternoon to get to the point where I remembered I actually like doing it!
More PC upgrades! I've been running for a week on this now and seems stable enough (touch wood!) having swapped from my old NVidia GeForce 1060
I feel a piece of my soul would be healed if I owned this mug.
Bashing together a few bits on Spinny Wizard Game ahead of the Playtest Party table at Impact in #Bristol
Every time I see people playing it, this not happening comes up and I'm always like "ahh I need to sort that!"
Took a break from opening up my PC and tinkering with its innards yesterday to open up my coffee grinder and tinker with its innards! Looks like a much more consistent grind - hopefully it'll stop jamming so much as well!
Lamenting Steam's lack of a "sort wishlist by system requirements" so I can put my upgrades through their paces
PC upgrade part 2, phase 3- everything was turning on at least! Couldn't find the BIOS upgrade I'd got for my motherboard. Hadn't realised I needed to unzip the download (rookie move!) Raspberry Pi came to the rescue - finally got booted into Windows 11! Almost done, graphics card on the way!
PC upgrade part 2, phase 2 - got the new bits into the case and plugged in. Disaster struck - didn't get any video signal on my monitor! Took a step back, slept on it, nicked the system speaker off my old motherboard the morning after to troubleshoot and found I'd just seated the RAM badly (phew!)
Phase 2 of my PC upgrade complete (somewhat pending seeing how it goes under normal use)
New motherboard, CPU and SSD are in, now on Windows 11 as well (less sure about it but don't have a huge amount of choice on that!) Was very nervous about the MoBo / CPU / cooler setup!
Followed through on some of my post jam plans for Deep Space Delivery Office!
v1.1.0 is live here:
jhax.itch.io/deep-space-d...
With:
-Better controls for transferring cargo
-A more relaxed mode
-More info on high scores
-A couple of bug fixes for Tankers & Shuttles
-Downloadable Windows version
My slow picking back up of the guitar is going great, slowly destroying my fingers relearning a solo that ends with a bunch of double stops
Found a relic in my parents' loft, from the first gig I ever went to
The big "oh wow my PC's too old for Windows 11, maybe this is the push I need to upgrade" process has begun in earnest today! Was going to upgrade to an SSD but I didn't check exactly how adaptable the M.2 to PCI adapter I got was
Astonishingly, this isn't the game I made when the theme was Delivery, especially as I've been wanting to make a "run a post office" game for a while - here's my #LD57 entry, Deep Space Delivery Office
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#LD57 complete - here is my final To Do list (I'll post the game tomorrow when I'm less knackered!)
The kind of self confidence we all deserve #LD57
Aaaand we're off to the races
#LD57
Off to a strong start with #LD57
Big "I'm setting LOAD_COMPLETE to true...why does SETUP keep getting called" hours
Finally started actually getting things rolling on upgrading my PC before Windows 10 support drops! First new bits have arrived and I've just gotten back into Mini Metro, so that'll be a nice way to put the graphics card through its paces when I get to that stage
Finished my first half marathon at the Bath Half yesterday! Prepared to feel worn out all week XD
