I’ve just realized I’m essentially working on a book report right now and, like most things, it turns out doing a book report is really fun when you’re not being forced to do it for a grade

I’ve never been so annoyed that sgdq is here. I have things to do! I’m already behind schedule! Don’t put a week of cool speedruns in my life now!

On the one hand, feels appropriate that all the fourth of july celebrations are being rained out by thunderstorms here. On the other, I needed to do computer things tonight and now I can’t :(

Btw if anyone’s wondering how the quest to get published again is going: #writing

I am enjoying taking notes while playing a game again, it feels like it’s been a while.

Oh lord forgive me but I must sin again

I have heard the song ‘proud to be an american’ three times today and I am not happy about this. Bad timing on the founders’ parts. Shoulda founded the country a few years earlier. What were they thinking

Why do other youtubers make videos titled stuff like ‘the DARKEST game you NEVER PLAYED’ as if no one but them has ever played whatever game they’re talking about? My tastes in games aren’t exactly obscure but I usually have at least heard of whatever they’re talking about. Clickbait is dumb.

S’ one of those nights where the mind is willing but the flesh is weak By which I mean I need to occupy myself mentally but can’t work up the motivation to actually, y’know… do anything.

Personally I don’t think politicians should be paid. I think elected officials should have their needs fulfilled at the taxpayer’s expense but they should not personally make money, and their bank accounts should be frequently and carefully scrutinized. No one should be getting wealthy off politics.

So I have this quirk where the more stressful a game is the more engaging I find it, right Lately I’ve been addicted to Pokemon Emerald Rogue I have never played pokemon at anything above a casual level It is *kicking my ass*

Jam results are in! Out of 278 entries, ***17th for fun!***

Y’know, you spend a significant amount of time working on something, and when you finish it it feels amazing, and then you get to bask in that afterglow for a little while… and then it goes away, and now there’s just a hole and nothing to fill it, and you wonder how you’re even supposed to function.

Sorry, I know I’ve been very game-focused recently, but I feel I need to go into author mode for a minute: I see this attitude in a lot of writing/reading/queer circles these days that any older book with any element that is problematic is automatically trash, and I find this very offputting.

Elliot demo is fun so far but Idk if it’s $60 fun and I can’t help but keep comparing it unfavourably to Chrono Trigger, particularly in the writing department. Somehow I haven’t run out of demo yet though so there could be something crazy up its sleeve.

Currently getting ragebaited by the Elliot demo because it has the worst Navi since Navi *Treasure chest on screen* “Is that a treasure chest?” *The same push block onto switch puzzle again* “A switch! What should we put on it?” It’s the Sonic Boom bounce pad thing all over again I am not kidding

What kind of monster rates a game jam game but doesn’t leave a comment I am in agony over here and you have given me nothing but dread

Ladies and gentlemen, with an hour and twenty minutes left in the jam, she... has... SUBMITTED! #gamedev #godot Anyway here you go: rb-underwood.itch.io/dead-mans-hand

I have just learned a very valuable lesson about playtesting which is that you should always do it because sometimes the playtester complains about a lack of variety and you discover that a line of debug code you left in is making 12/13ths of the game's content inaccessible :) #gamedev

Tag yourself, because this, too, is #gamedev

I genuinely do not understand how composers can be given a directive like "make a theme for a creepy dugeon" and then just *do it*. Whenever I make music I end up with something completely random!

One day and a bit left in the jam, and all I have to do is draw the rest of the fucking game :D

Two days-ish left in the jam and I’m almost done! Pretty much all that’s left is adding in [all the content in the game] :)

Guys GUYS I'm HAVING FUN playing a GAME I MADE Alert the press, this has never happened before

Got one more lil sprint to go today but the game jam game went from being a collection of unrelated concepts to a playable game loop today and it's kinda wild, I'm starting to get excited!

Y'know what else is gamedev? This, apparently.

I somehow managed to colour a background completely the wrong colour but actually it looks better this way so I'm keeping it. Four days and eighteen hours left in the jam, and yet this, too, is game dev.

Next time you think about making game assets with AI, remember: The punishment for that in hell is having to make pixel art with a trackpad for all eternity. Still feel worth it? Didn't think so.

Every video game is either a D&D, a Pong, or a Pacman. Final Fantasy? Direct evolutionary line from D&D. Mario Bros? Pacman through and through. Street Fighter? Oh baby, that’s a Pong.

Sometimes after a long day of blasting your brain with high intensity tunes to keep the blood pumping you just gotta put on Heretic Pride, go outside, see the sunset, and get a lil choked up at San Bernardino, y’know?

Slowly realizing this may be the most systematically complex game, *possibly* thing, I've ever coded. I have six more days to finish it! Aaa!

4pm on day 2/9 of the game jam and my brain is already mush, but I’ve got…4/6ths pf a battle system done? And a lot of that is infrastructure that’ll make the next sixth smoother. So that’s nice. Will resume after dinner.

Is it socially accepted to post devlogs during a game jam? I genuinely have no idea. I know people do 'em after sometimes. Maybe I'll just record footage after each day and then post it after. Anyway, I had to work today, so I'm turning in early. Made good progress tho!

Well I had been falling back into my old Slay the Spire addiction, but luckily I’ve been saved by something else that’ll take up all my time, stress me out, and keep me up half the night. That’s right: we game jammin.

I don’t believe in dream analysis but I do find it interesting that like 90% of my non-nightmare dreams involve trying to navigate through a gigantic american shopping mall.

Behold the $42 ebook

New Xenoblade isn’t gooner bait! “That’s good!” But you’re a student at a fantasy academy. “That’s bad.” But you play as a girl! “That’s good!” But it takes place in the SMT3 sphere world. “That’s… hang on, what?”

Oh no guys there’s TRANS CLOUDS in Halo now

Hot take: if Persona 6 does star an older cast that’s rad, but if you think they need to do that specifically to cater to people who played the older games who are grown up now… okay boomer, stop making this about you?

Someone should make a programming-themed roguelike deckbuilder and call it YARD (Yet Another Roguelike Deckbuilder).

…So what do you suppose the ‘Vox Populi’ button does?

Y’know I always thought I didn’t like Indian food, but it turns out I am a bitch for lamb tikka masala. Who knew!

Got misgendered by Harvest Moon snes today, of all things You can only play as a boy, but I was like well w/e and put my name in as Reb First line of dialogue: “…Mr Reb!”

Yes… HAHAHA, YES

The Anbernic RG Rotate may be the first console I’ve owned that’s a better fidget toy than it is a console, and it’s a pretty good console apart from a couple annoying faults. Also I now own an Anbernic Rg Rotate.

OH MY GOD THERE'S A COPY OF THE SCRIPT I LOST ON MY GOOGLE DRIVE I'M SAVED

Are you... what does this MEAN, google

Mina the Hollower might be the game that finally gets me to play Elden Ring, this thing gives me the *good* soulsborne tingles

Hypothesizing that there is an opposite but equally painful form of burnout where you’re so desperate to create that you’re manically productive but you have no focus and nothing you do feels fulfilling and it’s me I’m there.

So fun fact, toward the end of sunday while working on that game the flash drive I'd been running linux off of for my laptop failed and I lost everything on it And most of that was backed up But I've just realized that doesn't include the script I was 2/3rds through recording.