SundayShowOut
This is likely going to be shorter than most weekend devlogs. My Saturday was spent traveling and most of my time went with it. I don’t regret the trip, it was necessary and mostly relaxing, but it was a momentum-breaker. I need my free time today to get back
SundayShowOut
First, some clarification. Just Beneath the Holler (JBtH) is the full top-down, 2D Zelda-like game I’m creating. It’ll be a few years before that sees the light of day. In the meantime, I’m making Beatdown in the Holler (BDitH), which is a combat-only, Link to the Past
SundayShowOut
Do you want to talk about what I was able to accomplish this week? Do you want to that? Do you really want to do that? Fine. Let’s do that. I managed to hydrate and rest, so that’s cool. And I felt pretty good most of the week.
SundayShowOut
I’m fortunate that I got so much accomplished at the beginning of the week, because I absolutely did not do anything from Wednesday on. What I initially thought was a general “blah” feeling (hello, depression!) was actually the onset of a cold. I’ve spent the past three days
SundayShowOut
Being iced into the house for most of the week is certainly a boon to productivity, and I made the most of that time to make solid progress on Just Beneath the Holler’s prototype. My objectives for this week were simple, though not easy: make a new tileset, use
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
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
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
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
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,
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