Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

For giggles I added a mode that lets you swap tiles in your Dr.Mario playfield like you're playing Puzzle League.
It'd probably make sense to have as a powerup that allows you to do one swap to fix one bad placement, though having it freely available in its own mode is nice for a more relaxing game too.

#gamedev #nesdev

I feel really alone even though there's a lot of people who are willing to interact, I guess since I can't figure out anything substantial to do.

Sometimes I wish I could be like my friends that are always drowning in people poking them or getting invited to stuff. Sometimes I try to copy what they're doing and it doesn't help.

Garbage is in and should be working. I guess this means versus mode is done?

I applied to ALDI! Hopefully that works out. It was very non-stressful and fast.

After getting my bed sheets changed I seem to have put an end to the problem where sheets would get pushed over and leave mattress exposed, which drove me nuts. Good riddance.

Also unlike Tetris I think it's completely legally safe as long as you avoid trademark infringement, because Nintendo actually patented Dr. Mario (instead of trying to insist game rules are copyrightable) and their patent expired.

It's amusing to me that the most modern Dr. Mario implementation for NES (it's got hard drops and ghost pieces now) will just be a minigame thrown into a platformer over a few days. Though unlike Tetris it doesn't really get the same treatment of a bunch of clones on the same platform anyway so there's no competition.

I have a little job fair thing I'm going to tomorrow and I'm nervous about it. I sorta wish I had a job already so I could have this over with.

My house is full of people playing Melee so I can hear tons of joystick clicking downstairs.

Orange Julius, the drink where I consume half a cup of sugar but it tastes so good

I should think up some sort of optional twist for my Dr. Mario clone that makes it more interesting than just cloning it exactly. Something that puts my personality into it somehow.

Even though I can just cook my own homemade pizza whenever I want, I still find myself wanting to taste (surprisingly) Little Caesars again.

My Dr. Mario clone has playfield generation implemented now so the core of the game's done. #gamedev #nesdev

After about a day's worth of programming I've got a simple Dr. Mario clone written for NES that mostly just needs viruses and a versus mode. This is going to go into Nova the Squirrel as a minigame, I suppose.

#nesdev #gamedev

https://soundcloud.com/novasquirrel/groovy I composed this awhile ago as a test because I heard a piano sample I really liked, maybe I should try to extend it into more of a song or just try and compose more in general again.

I actually did eventually check to see what private messages I supposedly had that Kik was emailing me about (since it's still installed on my backup phone) and it was a message from one of their own bots. Uh huh.

Vanilla extract acquired, now I can Orange Julius it up!

In 2019 I want to practice pixel art a lot more and get confident with shading. I want to find a job I enjoy, and I want to finally get cartridges of Nova the Squirrel made.