Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

One nice aspect of having a cat is that random house noises are very easily dismissed. You never worry that there might be something/someone in the house that shouldn't be because you have something safe to attribute them all to.

No physics yet, but I've got the player graphics uploaded every frame and I played with having her move around. #gamedev #snesdev

It amuses me endlessly to see a Gadget Hackwrench avatar in a big company's internal issue tracking site. I also appreciate that I'm allowed to do that; I'd definitely rather have her represent me than a photo of me.

I feel like despite having a full-time job, I can definitely get some real work done on game development as long as I keep getting small amounts of work done most days. They will certainly add up in the long run.

Turns out my scrolling was completely correctly implemented *aside* from the loading seam at the top being one tile too high, which explains why it was so hard to find anything wrong when I was looking for the problem in the wrong places. Now it works!

Someone should do a Genesis/Mega Drive game starring their own fursona and we could be playful rivals hehehe

Starting on a SNES game was really important for my mental health because I have something to look forward to getting back to and working on now, and my creative energy has a nice long-term outlet.

My flashcart should also be home waiting for me!

What kinda art should I try to get in the future? After getting a Maffi pic and an avatar it's sort of up in the air as far as priorities go.

Some ideas I want to do include a pic of Maffi plugging her tail into something, an excessively adorable weapons-grade cute Nova, nonanthro Nova, and some magic themed art maybe involving Nova using a magic wand and lots of sparkles.

Also have some kink stuff I want drawn but that will probably require finding artists who specialize in those. :p

I'm visiting my dad for the weekend for Easter, and my room us in a basement closet there. I'm being reminded that there's few things more frustrating than an unreliable (but not completely nonfunctional) WiFi signal.

When I see squirrels outside I drop everything I'm doing and admire them

Diagonal scrolling is the worst

Been trying to get vertical scrolling working in my game engine for some number of hours and I think it's time to put things away and sleep. With any luck what I need to do to fix it will be clearer when it's not 3 AM.

On the NES, one of the dreaded things to work with is the attribute table, which is a separate 64-byte structure tacked onto the end of a tilemap which indicates what parts of the background are what palette in an awkward zig-zaggy fashion.

And on the SNES it's just, nonexistent. The tilemap is just a series of 16-bit values that contain a palette number, tile number, and flips, and it's just nice and linear. That's one nice thing about the console.

Level loading isn't in, but level *rendering* is, and I'm just poking some blocks into the buffer before drawing the level.

I'm going to have to implement scrolling, and I'm sort of dreading vertical scrolling since I made it more complicated in exchange for some extra video RAM, but it should be fine anyway. #snesdev

Looks like the easiest way to invite people to interact with you as a character you want to try being is actually to temporarily change your Telegram name and picture.

I guess other people like Maffi just as much as I do

The picture I commissioned of Maffi is done!!! It looks amazing and I'm really glad to have better art of her now.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/31216538/

It works now. I was storing the wrong register when I meant to store the accumulator, and it was a copy and paste issue. I have a directory of graphic files in the ROM now, where I can specify one to upload. Now I have to make some mechanism for uploading palettes. Maybe that calls for a separate list.

Going to see if there are enough people on SpinDizzy who are interested in non-sci-fi stuff to establish an environment I can feel like I fit into for at least one day, or if it turns out I've spent nearly 3 years trying to achieve something that had no chance in the first place.

I ordered an animation cel of Dr. Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog awhile ago and it arrived today.

Yes, I did buy this entirely because of YouTube Poop.