Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I have a print of Isabelle from Animal Crossing framed and displayed in my cubicle now. Gradually it will become the cutest cubicle ever.

Looks like I'm invited to travel out to another company development center in June so it's new laptop buying time. My current laptop is basically on life support and has a slow hard drive, a few nonfunctional keys, somewhat flakey power jack, flakey headphone jack, and more. Any advice for picking something good?

I feel like I really, really ought to get something with an SSD this time because I think I spend a huge amount of time waiting on the disk on my current laptop.

After figuring out the required logic for making the player go up and down slopes, it wasn't too much more effort to make enemies and other entities do it too. Doesn't seem very computationally expensive either, as long as the level data lookups aren't. #gamedev #snesdev

https://www.gofundme.com/uemchs-top-surgery-fund A close friend of mine is trying to raise money for top surgery

I love how when I reopen Uber after a bit and the car's position has changed by a lot, it will just interpolate and my driver will appear to be driving through buildings extremely quickly to get to me

The artist I reached out to (that I thought was gonna be a yes since they'd drawn similar stuff before) said no, so I might have to put the idea on hold.

I guess now if I do push through with it, maybe I should put less priority on just having a lot of cute art already drawn and more on willingness to draw weird transformation kink stuff. Maybe it doesn't matter if they have preexisting art that's as cute as I want as long as they can try the style upon request.

The concept of the Donkey Kong Expanded Universe amuses me. I could say Squirrel Girl is in the same universe as Donkey Kong because she's seen with Spiderman in the comics, Spiderman is seen with Ryu in Marvel Vs Capcom, and Ryu is seen with Donkey Kong in Smash.

I finally went and got a VPS at Digital Ocean because I was tired of my old one (at ChicagoVPS) just randomly halting the entire server for up to a few minutes. I've got almost everything moved over now, got my DNS and TLS stuff updated, and now the final stuff mostly involves moving over my wiki.

In addition to the higher reliability, the main important thing is I'll have a gigabyte of RAM instead of 128MB so maybe now things will actually compile!

I think the cart for Nova the Squirrel is gonna come with an instruction sheet, rather than a full manual, so I've gotta design that. Maybe have like a picture of the controller and notes about what each button does as the main focus.

I finally got slopes completely working! This actually feels really great because I'd been trying to fix this all week!
While I'm at it I also made it so that you can press the jump button a few frames before you reach the ground and it'll still work. #gamedev #snesdev

Aside from getting to play builds of Nova the Squirrel 2 on the real thing, a very big positive to having a SNES flashcart is I get to play *all* of the SNES puzzle games without having to borrow them from my cousin.

Aside from platformers like Kirby Super Star and Yoshi's Island (which themselves were big influences on me), I mostly know the SNES for really great puzzle games. Primarily Tetris Attack and Wario's Woods.

I'm making a 2 hour cut of my main playlist I use when I need some cheery/positive music and I'll try to stream it later on. Dunno when.

I just got out of Detective Pikachu and I'm glad I actually managed to avoid any and all spoilers

Drew a Maffi sprite in the same style as my earlier Nova sprite, and I made her tail a bit thicker to be closer to her thick tail in the commission.

I think I want Nova the Squirrel 2's story to focus on these two as main characters, and have a pair of rodents running around and saving the world with platforming skills, puzzle solving, and interfacing with computers or other tech.

#pixelart

I really want to get a picture of Maffi with my USB mouse friend who inspired her, probably cuddling and possibly linking up

I never really got into MLP but I still want to design a pony that disguises herself as a MLP: Friendship is Magic one while actually being from MLP: Tales, acting as some sort of secret agent or something and having to remain inconspicuous

This weekend I'm going to put a lot of work into trying to get slopes working in my game, and then I can move onto more interesting things. What those more interesting things might be, I'm not sure.

Fun fact: the decision to color Nova's eartips came specifically from the kangaroos in the Bomberman series

I think one key part of happiness for me is just having nice things to look forward to. It makes the time after a nice thing continue to be nice and I'll be excited for everything that's coming up.

Having a game project I care about and looking forward to coming back to it every day after work is great, as is thinking about the food I'll make or things I intend to enjoy later.

One thing I love about making stuff yourself is that the food's availability is essentially permanent. Companies can discontinue food products or change their recipes in ways I don't like, but as long as ingredients remain available I can make my favorites forever.