ThursdayTurnOut
It’s amazing what a week off of work will allow one to accomplish. I used last week’s terrain sketch and mood scene to create an initial tileset for the Place Just Beneath. By “initial,” I don’t mean “first tileset I made for Just Beneath the Holler,” I
MondayMapOut
It’s Sunday at 5:30 AM and we’re officially iced in. The roads, wet with the slushy mixture of ice, sleet, and rain which intermittently fell all day yesterday, are now coated in the treacherous slickness brought forth by intensifying sleet and plunging temperatures. We’re in this
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.
SundayShowOut
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
ThursdayTurnOut
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
MondayMapOut
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
SundayShowOut
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
ThursdayTurnOut
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
MondayMapOut
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
SundayShowOut
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
