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
ThursdayTurnOut
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/
MondayMapOut
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
Just Beneath the Holler
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,
Music
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
Just Beneath the Holler
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
Just Beneath the Holler
I've been working sporadically on Just Beneath the Holler since the summer and I've made some progress. At the current rate, however, I'd finish the game at approximately the same time as the heat death of the Universe. So, this website will serve as