Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

Gonna make sausage pizza for the first time! I'm tired of pepperoni so this should be great.

I'm gonna try and experiment and really flesh out my mouse character more because I wanna get art of her. Probably do some experimental doodles with a focus on hair styles and personality.

Also unsure what she should wear but purple still makes a lot of sense. I have an idea in my mind of like a T-shirt with the Super Famicom logo on it too. Or some other graphic.

New avatar by https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/wicketrin/ !

Foods where I will drink the juices left over when I'm done:
* Watermelon
* Pineapple

Foods where I won't:
* Pickles

https://novasquirrel.itch.io/nova-the-squirrel/devlog/75278/build-1382 I pushed out some changes I'd been sitting on, fixing stuff that'd been bugging me.

I guess I do need to actually commit to a final version eventually for a cartridge release. Maybe aim for the anniversary of the game's full release last June?

I made an old favorite which is effectively a baked cheeseburger. It involves making a ketchup+onion+salt+pepper mixture which is then baked with the meat and it's way better than any burger I have grilled.

Oh snap it's 64 degrees and the weather feels appropriate for April for once

Recoloring some Nova the Squirrel tiles to see how they look. Probably need a more specialized palette with more shades per-color then DB32 has but I think it's nice so far. #gamedev #pixelart

Once upon a time in elementary school there was a day in music class where you could bring in a CD and I just straight-up brought in a demoscene track hahaha. It was fr-018 and I remember people liking it.

Tweaked the walk animation I'm working on a little bit to have more sleeve movement and to reduce the amount of time kept at the idle state. #pixelart

At work I've been needing to fill time a lot, so I've been reimplementing MUF in Java and declaring it Java training. Mine has some differences including arrays being passed by reference instead of by value. I don't know what my end goal is haha.

It was really bugging me that there was no way to tell what's in a level slot in Nova the Squirrel without opening it first, so I added the ability to choose a name when saving to a slot.

I've got a picture in my mind of what a perfect "home community" would look like and I definitely think it would be somewhere that emphasized cuteness; I did that myself when I attempted to make that sort of community on Telegram, though private. Fluffy, adorable, cheery nice things.

I feel like I should go out and search for art communities based around cute wholesome things and lightheartedness, because bonding over making stuff sounds like a good idea

I ordered a SNES flashcart so now I can experience the magical feeling of code I wrote running on the real thing. It's going to take awhile to arrive though because of international shipping.

Going to be cool playing Kirby Super Star too.

I really want to get a picture of Maffi now that I have my first paycheck and I'm going to have to figure out what artist to go with. If anyone has any recommendations for that I'd love to hear them.

One thing I need to figure out is what her hair style should look like. I messed around with a fursona maker to decide colors and such, and I think what I picked out looks alright but it'd be nice to have a second opinion. (Also included my own attempts at copying it)

https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18658 the initial release of the SNES sequel to what I consider to be the best NES emulator (especially for development) was released today! Not a prank, it's been in development for weeks.

"Serving suggestions" are wild and I can tell that usually they're not anything like how you'd reasonably serve the product. Serve pineapple slices stacked on top of each other with no plate and with whole pineapples nearby so your guests know what they're eating, if it was unclear.