Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I think F-Chat is actually hitting its breaking point with its architecture. It has very bad scalability decisions and has to handle 8000-9000 or more users on top of that, and it's seemingly crashed several times over the past few days, with the user count dropping several thousand instantly.

Tried adding more colors to the player sprite for Nova the Squirrel for practice, with darker line art this time for contrast. I don't need to keep this exact shape for a potential "All Stars" version but the hitbox (and thus the 16x24) is important to keep, otherwise there would need to be lots of level changes and that would defeat the purpose of a SNES remake.

https://novasquirrel.itch.io/nova-the-squirrel/devlog/57111/unusedunderused-content-and-development I wrote about unused content/ideas in Nova the Squirrel and reflected on it a bit as a finished game. #nesdev #gamedev

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Cat kept walking around my Sega Genesis and she keeps looking at it.

I just saw the "supernets" IRC spam use an ASCII-art QR code as part of the spam (that apparently actually works). I guess this is the future.

I get to see my sister for the first time in ages due to Thanksgiving and she's talking about how awful my mom's husband is for being transphobic and homophobic. I'm glad I have some actually good family members that treat that as a problem.

Slowly starting out on a draft about unused/underused Nova the Squirrel features/mechanics and things that turned out differently than I originally planned, and there's a lot so it's going to take awhile to organize.

I wonder if the .blackfriday TLD exists mostly to make http://rebecca.blackfriday work

Maybe I should write about the unused content in Nova the Squirrel, since that sounds more fun than actually taking anything out. A retrospective on my original vision for things that ended up going different.

I'm putting together a list of fictional characters categorized by who I would kiss, who I would kiss a lot, and who I would just hug.

Someone just followed me on Twitter with no tweets and a very bizarre, very small following list that's just homebrew related people and then Trump and Ann Coulter for some reason.

It's getting cold enough here that it's pretty hard to get out of bed because it's just so warm.

Fixed the direction of the shading to make a bit more sense based on feedback.

Don't 100% know what I'm doing with shading but I'm going to attempt it and I guess I'll just have to be unafraid to make mistakes and improve.

Probably should try to draw more than just myself too. Back when I was practicing NES graphics I doodled a bunch of friends and it was fun trying to reduce other friends' characters down to something that works in 3 colors.

Playing with more colors and bigger sprites, and taking baby-steps towards SNES-style stuff. NES is a lot easier with its harsher limitations.

I want to learn how to draw SNES-level pixel art well. Guess I should practice using more colors and drawing bigger.

For some reason I like leaving redstone videos on in the background and I think I just like listening to funny terminology you don't hear anywhere else being said over and over.

I looked at how Bust-A-Move for SNES draws its playfield, and from what I can tell, the playfield is a software-rendered rectangle of 256-color tiles. That sounds like it would eat up a lot of space, especially in two-player mode, so that probably explains why it uses the smaller 4-color tiles for the background (to make everything fit).