Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

@eevee Mega Man 1 and 2 are similar with the pause menu, except it's aligned with the much larger 32x32 level chunks and even then it's somehow not that noticeable.

For some reason I'm still playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. My camp is, of course, full of squirrels.

@claude That's fine for my use case, since I just have a single thread on a single process handling the entire thing. But, that's something to keep in mind if/when I bring in a second process to run user-provided scripts.

Tilemap Town now finally has an actual config file, and you can specify the port, admins, MOTD, and other stuff. Guess my next task is to design the database schema, and then I can tackle all the features I want that require a database as a prerequisite.

Actually tried running MongoDB on my server, and either I need to upgrade past a $15/year VPS or I need to find something smaller. Maybe SQLite? It's got Python bindings already in the standard library.

I think the biggest improvement I'd want to make over LSL would be much better support for data structures. Even just actually having sets would go a long way to being a lot more usable.

Back to thinking more about how I want the scripting for Tilemap Town to work. Doing something custom is probably unfortunately required since "per-user resource limits" isn't a design goal for most languages, but if I do make my own thing I want it to be less messy than LSL.

@gc@cybre.space Yeah, at my house I'm That Person who keeps bringing watermelons home when they go on sale, taking up room in the fridge until I cut it.

@gc@cybre.space Yeah watermelon is one of my favorite building materials because it's just so silly. Sometimes I'll just make an entire house out of melon blocks and use pink carpet on the floor to represent the inside of the giant watermelon house.

I'm trying to go for maximum green with this house. Or lime, I suppose.

This is some concept art I doodled for Nova the Squirrel box art, since the burger surfing stuff is pretty iconic. Not sure if I'd want to do a background or not (SMB3 didn't do one), but if I do then I'd go for the glassy theme of world 2.

Finding an artist to commission and getting some better box art drawn (either this or a better idea) is one of the must-do tasks before the cartridge release.

I went on a little bike ride and got to hang out with a few local furs. Was a nice way to get out of the house.

https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/User:NovaSquirrel/Level_Compression I added Micro Mages' symmetric level idea to my list of level compression techniques. #nesdev

Here it is after cooking.

"sandwich size" pepperoni can go on pizza just fine right?

I pledged to Micro Mages on Kickstarter. I guess that technically makes it the first NES homebrew game I've actually bought, since it's actually offered ROM-only.

@Austin_Dern Supposedly it's unnecessary because you can use the stove instead and it's too messy, but that sounds so error-prone especially for me, not to mention manually draining fat has been annoying every time I've done it.

@maxinered Personally I just made games with bad art for like 8 years and making all my own assets slowly got me enough practice to know what I'm doing a little bit.

There's also no shame in using resources like OpenGameArt. I used it for some projects.

There's been a longstanding feeling at my house where my feelings and what I want don't matter at all. Like I would have people harassing me until I got a haircut when I wanted it long to be more comfortable with myself, and my brother just threw out the George Foreman I liked to cook on and told him to keep only because he doesn't like it.

@Austin_Dern I think I attempted to do similar jokes when I turned people down for roleplay because my Linear Algebra homework wasn't done.