More PC upgrades! I've been running for a week on this now and seems stable enough (touch wood!) having swapped from my old NVidia GeForce 1060

I feel a piece of my soul would be healed if I owned this mug.

Bashing together a few bits on Spinny Wizard Game ahead of the Playtest Party table at Impact in #Bristol Every time I see people playing it, this not happening comes up and I'm always like "ahh I need to sort that!"

Took a break from opening up my PC and tinkering with its innards yesterday to open up my coffee grinder and tinker with its innards! Looks like a much more consistent grind - hopefully it'll stop jamming so much as well!

Lamenting Steam's lack of a "sort wishlist by system requirements" so I can put my upgrades through their paces

PC upgrade part 2, phase 3- everything was turning on at least! Couldn't find the BIOS upgrade I'd got for my motherboard. Hadn't realised I needed to unzip the download (rookie move!) Raspberry Pi came to the rescue - finally got booted into Windows 11! Almost done, graphics card on the way!

PC upgrade part 2, phase 2 - got the new bits into the case and plugged in. Disaster struck - didn't get any video signal on my monitor! Took a step back, slept on it, nicked the system speaker off my old motherboard the morning after to troubleshoot and found I'd just seated the RAM badly (phew!)

Phase 2 of my PC upgrade complete (somewhat pending seeing how it goes under normal use) New motherboard, CPU and SSD are in, now on Windows 11 as well (less sure about it but don't have a huge amount of choice on that!) Was very nervous about the MoBo / CPU / cooler setup!

Followed through on some of my post jam plans for Deep Space Delivery Office! v1.1.0 is live here: jhax.itch.io/deep-space-d... With: -Better controls for transferring cargo -A more relaxed mode -More info on high scores -A couple of bug fixes for Tankers & Shuttles -Downloadable Windows version

My slow picking back up of the guitar is going great, slowly destroying my fingers relearning a solo that ends with a bunch of double stops

Found a relic in my parents' loft, from the first gig I ever went to

The big "oh wow my PC's too old for Windows 11, maybe this is the push I need to upgrade" process has begun in earnest today! Was going to upgrade to an SSD but I didn't check exactly how adaptable the M.2 to PCI adapter I got was

Astonishingly, this isn't the game I made when the theme was Delivery, especially as I've been wanting to make a "run a post office" game for a while - here's my #LD57 entry, Deep Space Delivery Office jhax.itch.io/deep-space-d...

#LD57 complete - here is my final To Do list (I'll post the game tomorrow when I'm less knackered!)

The kind of self confidence we all deserve #LD57

Aaaand we're off to the races #LD57

Off to a strong start with #LD57 Big "I'm setting LOAD_COMPLETE to true...why does SETUP keep getting called" hours

Finally started actually getting things rolling on upgrading my PC before Windows 10 support drops! First new bits have arrived and I've just gotten back into Mini Metro, so that'll be a nice way to put the graphics card through its paces when I get to that stage

Finished my first half marathon at the Bath Half yesterday! Prepared to feel worn out all week XD

I've added another one of my early attempts at GameDev to itch - jhax.itch.io/blip-shepherd-directors-cut It's an attempt at playing around with a herding mechanic based on Conway's Game of Life, I'm pretty happy with how it's held up! #IndieGame

Spending my GameDev day this week on a bit of preservation work! Not much in the grand scheme of things, but even my clumsier early attempts at games are important to me - so in that light I've just added Rotoshift (my first non text based game) to itch! jhax.itch.io/rotoshift

My "listen to something at work" has jumped from podcasts to Within Temptation, Ancient Bards, Epica Must be winter

Latest iteration on Spinny Wizard Game tutorial stuff - the checkboxes seem like a weirdly "it's becoming a real game now" thing to me XD #IndieGame

Really pushed myself on my run today and it really felt great to be moving! Now I'm resting afterwards it does feel a bit like I was maybe stealing energy from me in the future though 😅

Oh hey I've just realised I can post a video of my favourite Spinny Wizard Game bug! #IndieGame

About to test the limits of how healthy running is by seeing how much extra cheese I'm going to allow myself on my pasta on the basis of "well I've just been for a run"

Ludum Dare results are in! A bit surprised this hasn't done better than some of my other LD games, but being near to the top quarter seems pretty good to me! (Play the game here: jhax.itch.io/plan-bee

Resetting the clock on remembering EGX exists too late to actually go and remarking to myself "I should keep an eye on EGX next year and actually go"

Trying to cast my mind back to being in the throes of #LD56 and settle on what things I listened to that I think of as the sounds of that jam

#LD56 theme was Tiny Creatures - I've made a weird Vampire Survivors-esque game about leading a colony of bees to a new hive jhax.itch.io/plan-bee

Sadly - although perhaps not for my PC - unable to do the infinite camera / mirror thing with the new tutorial / character select in Spinny Wizard Game #GameDev #IndieDev

LEFT SMBWE #GameDev #IndieDev

Willing to accept temporal weirdness / no characters aging despite the world progressing in The Simpsons EXCEPT for one thing: There's no way the Bi-Mon Sci-Fi Con wasn't even peripherily relevant in at least one more episode

Changing character select and tutorialy / crash coursing mechanics for Spinny Wizard Game again We must imagine Sisyphus happy...

Me every time I engage with [type of media / art]: man I should do more making [type of media / art]

Starting to get back into the Spinny Wizard Game dev flow! Have revamped some visuals / the orb follow particles Added purple enemies so I can rejig collision rules so things are a bit more consistent (Not pictured: breaking co-op levels due to some tilemap tinkering)

More experiments in bending the rules in PixelBox... Wanted UI for character info, don't have much screen space- mucked around with textures a bit to avoid obscuring the action! Is it elegant? No! Is the code at least efficient! Also no! #GameDev #IndieDev

Accidentally made a new enemy type in Spinny Wizard Game

Ahh that post game jam "Oh god I'm so tired but also totally locked in but in a very unfocused way"

#LD55 completed! I've made a game about operating the lifts in Hell

Orb.

Every time I've thought about having a glass of water today I've had coffee today so how come I'm so sleepy?

If you put me in Final Fantasy VII I would 100% eat the materia

Took Spinny Wizard Game to a playtesting event coming away thinking very normal thoughts like "Nobody was casting spells" "I need to explain how to cast spells better" "People don't know what spells do"

Trying to get a bit of a "How To Play" guide together for Spinny Wizard Game ahead of a playtest event in Bristol Think I can probably leave it here tbh #GameDev #IndieDev

Playing Golden Sun on the Switch and holy shit, the standard of the pixel art is absolutely astronomical

Born too late to appear on hit BBC TV show Time Commanders 😔

Started playing Rome: Total War again and I keep getting bits of the battle (there's actually some battle going on now) music popping into my head and making me feel like I've got to be alert

When you're in your early 20's and a conjurer of cheap tricks turns up: hell yeah fireworks When you're in your late 20s and a conjurer of cheap tricks turns up: I dunno man, the hour's pretty late - we're already in our PJs

Has been a bit of a struggle to conjure the motivation to work on my #indiegame today (tbf, I'm a little bit ill)! But I've managed to get going by putting in some very basic silly name generation stuff for power ups! #screenshotsaturday