SundayShowOut
Last week, I talked about returning to the routine of teaching, implying that routine would carry through the entire semester. Of course, I hadn’t considered the week’s weather outlook, particularly the impending ice storm predicted for the week’s end. It’s currently 30°F (–1.1°C
ThursdayTurnOut
I said I would work on a tileset for the Place Just Beneath, and that’s exactly what I did. I don’t have a whole lot to show for it at this point, just this: I’m drawing and coloring this scene to determine which specific tiles I’ll
MondayMapOut
First: I finally, honestly, really completed a looping track for “Silver and Gossamer”: Silver and Gossamer - Chiptune0:00/76.3297921× I promised I would try, and that’s exactly what I did. There’s still a few notes that feel off, but being done is better than being perfect.
Last week, I talked about returning to the routine of teaching, implying that routine would carry through the entire semester. Of course, I hadn’t considered the week’s weather outlook, particularly the impending ice storm predicted for the week’s end. It’s currently 30°F (–1.1°C
This past week was my first “normal” week back, with a regular class and duty schedule. We had our normal beginning-of-year meetings, and I volunteered as a server for our first community dinner of the semester, so it would have been easy for me to write off this week and
My special projects course was a success, although we changed its focus halfway through the first day. We covered a brief history of webcomics and their early themes on Monday morning and spent that afternoon writing a script. The students were far more into creating than studying, so we spent
School starts back tomorrow: before we get into our normal classes (for me, that’s general chemistry), we have a week-long special projects course where we can teach any subject we wish, as long as it has an academic component. I chose the early history of webcomics and how that
In the last devlog, I said it should be possible for me to use FL Studio to create a looping music track within a week. And it was indeed possible, and it did indeed happen. It’s not finished, and it’s not polished, but it’s pretty good. So,
All I wanted to do was code a simple combat system. But then I noticed a weird bug. That bug became a coding hydra whose heads would not let me rest until they were all removed. And once that hydra was slain, its final head sprouted into a new, unconsidered
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This past week was my first “normal” week back, with a regular class and duty schedule. We had our normal beginning-of-year meetings, and I volunteered as a server for our first community dinner of the semester, so it would have been easy for me to write off this week and
This week has been a “I solved a problem and, in doing so, created fifteen more” week. Was I able to get an enemy to teleport with Zel? Yes, and all I had to do was: * add a test enemy to the level; * graph out where the enemy should go
I know I said that creating a simple UI was the most pressing coding concern for this week. However, something even more pressing came to me during my morning “coffee and meditation” time: How do I handle enemies in an infinitely-scrolling level? When I implemented the endless level in Just
My special projects course was a success, although we changed its focus halfway through the first day. We covered a brief history of webcomics and their early themes on Monday morning and spent that afternoon writing a script. The students were far more into creating than studying, so we spent
I have an hour-long commute to and from work every morning. Those two hours are spent listening to podcasts and occasionally thinking my way through coding problems. Such was the case Tuesday morning, when I was trying to figure out why my “infinite scrolling” code wasn’t working. The Place
Yesterday, I reckoned that one of my goals for this week was to determine which coding objectives I should tackle next week. I slept on it, opened up Trello, and did this: My goal is to complete and release a “combat prototype” by Monday, May 4th. The combat needs to
School starts back tomorrow: before we get into our normal classes (for me, that’s general chemistry), we have a week-long special projects course where we can teach any subject we wish, as long as it has an academic component. I chose the early history of webcomics and how that
It’s 2026! I know this because I had to correct the name of both this post, and the Word file I used to draft it, from 2025. That’s the new “previous year in the checkbook” in a tap-to-pay society. My coding goal this week was to add knockback/
It’s the last week of my holiday break and my goal is to make it count. I’ve been getting up at 3:45 AM every morning during break to work on Just Beneath the Holler and that habit may be the only thing that’ll keep me working
In the last devlog, I said it should be possible for me to use FL Studio to create a looping music track within a week. And it was indeed possible, and it did indeed happen. It’s not finished, and it’s not polished, but it’s pretty good. So,
It may surprise you to find this out, but I was a bit of a geek in school. Yes, aside from the whole “new game developer” thing I also played Magic (I tapped out during Alliances because I was a broke college kid) and was in band. The eight years
All I wanted to do was code a simple combat system. But then I noticed a weird bug. That bug became a coding hydra whose heads would not let me rest until they were all removed. And once that hydra was slain, its final head sprouted into a new, unconsidered
