Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I'm really looking forward to A Hat in Time's DLC tomorrow and it'll provide a much needed distraction.

Just realized it'd be a really good idea to add a "login with Mastodon" feature to Tilemap Town, so I'll look into figuring out how I should do that. I hope people aren't tired of seeing me tweet about it?

Because I have a friend whose character is both named and designed after dragonfruit and I'd never tried one, I bought one.

They're not unpleasant but there isn't a lot of flavor going on, so that would explain why I usually see it paired with something else flavor-wise.

It took a day but I updated Tilemap Town to use a real database to store users and maps. I still have a lot of loose ends to tie up and some regressions but it'll be really worth it.

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

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.

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.

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.

I finally beat Cave Story legitimately, though only the normal ending. I did save Curly though so if I want to later I can continue on the same file and go for the good ending.

I think I'm getting very close to the end of Cave Story. I saved Curly Brace and got the Spur so I guess once I get back from grocery shopping I'll give it a go.

I've been playing Cave Story with a more cautious playstyle, trying to take out enemies before they're even in range. This means the Bubbline is actually very important since it seems to have really good range at level 3. Fireball's also great for this when enemies are below me.