Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I've been thinking about the Nova+Isabelle picture I tried to commission in January again, that never got past a sketch. I need to find a different artist who can do it, but at the same time looking around for different artists to find a suitable one is a pretty bad experience. Maybe I'll do it anyway though.

I use several different Gadget Hackwrench avatars on different work-related things. She's wearing her goggles in all the client work stuff and not wearing them in all the internal stuff.

We're seriously naming a conference room after Waluigi at my work hahahaha. The theme that won was "Mario characters."

I've got two small picture frames (one vertical, one horizontal) I bought with the intention of putting in my cubicle but I'm not sure what pictures to display. The answer is probably Maffi, Isabelle or Gadget though.

I've got a queue all set up to hold block updates until I can run them during vblank. Later I'll add some particle effects or something.
#snesdev #gamedev

There are a lot of things that require a lot of time investment on a regular basis to really be worth it or effective, so a lot of things feel kind of out-of-reach next to a full-time job. I guess I can see the perspective of people who want to do indie game development full-time, since then you could do that without it being at the expense of something else.

The best part about buying socks to replace all the ones I've got that have holes is that suddenly I have a bunch of the same brand and style of sock, and finding a matching pair is much easier. Of course it'd help if I matched them while doing laundry.

Did you know you can just, make your own Lunchables/LunchMakers? I guess what you're actually paying for is convenience or the ability to buy a smaller amount of food, but that probably applies to almost all food products.

My player/level collision is a lot more robust now after fixing several small things, especially the way I push the player out of the block they're detected to be in. Now part of the process for that involves completely canceling out whatever horizontal movement they had that frame, so they're guaranteed to be out of it.
#snesdev #gamedev

Well so far no one's showed up to me trying to collect people together for modern setting roleplay stuff like I scheduled for today, and if no one shows up at all I'm going to start rethinking things.

I also had complain to me awhile ago that they don't like less serious, more meta characters. So much for "just be yourself and do things if you want to be involved". Maybe it was just that person's opinion and not a wider opinion of the community.

CRT Nova!

I've got everything set up for player/block interaction later and I've got some very basic player movement code for now. #gamedev #snesdev

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