I hate it when I go through these long periods where I can’t even compile the game because too much is in flux. I am at this point completely overhauling the particle system, expanding it to support multiple different types…
I don’t have anything right now. I feel overstimulated and harried. The world is clipping like noise through speakers, fuzzy and electric and slightly wrong, so I don’t think I’m going to write a whole thing today. I don’t think…
There’s a thought that keeps going through my head. It keeps taking on different phrasings, different applications, different aspects, but its essence is this: What we crave is a part of who we are. Obvious in one sense, but we…
This week ended up mostly being digging up bugs in old code and fixing them. I’m set on working on the detail editor next, but the more I think about it the more I realize that I didn’t really have…
Everything seems so huge when we’re small, and then shrinks to catch up with us. As our awareness gets bigger, everything we are familiar with begins to seem smaller, more self-contained, better understood. It’s not so much, really, that our…
Sometime within the past 15 years or so, game developers collectively came to the realization that death sucks. They reacted to this by making games easier, by reducing the consequence for failure, by allowing the player to quickly get back…
Phew, this has been a busy week – but, at the end of it, a ton of progress has been made! First, the image browser is now perfectly functional. Here’s what it looks like: By typing into the filter box…
I wrote a bunch of words about items and inventory systems but I suspect those words might be shitty so I’m discarding them. I’ll write something good later, sometime. Yeah. Feels like I’m cancelling/preempting a lot of these Wednesday posts.…
Each job carries its own kind of stress. Some jobs are physically taxing, exhausting to bone and muscle, while leaving the mind relatively free. Some jobs are intellectually demanding, forcing a state of deep thought, deep focus, which carries its…
Lots of ups and downs this week. As I got closer and closer to finishing my album (AVAILABLE NOW!) the stress of having such a relatively substantial project mostly complete and yet not quite out there started to really eat…
