Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I've been working on level decompression for my game since that's an aspect that's relatively straightforward, definitely required, and it helps me feel in control again after being very lost from trying to work on Mode 7-related stuff. #gamedev #snesdev

I think staying up very late Saturday is catching up to me. I'll have to actually try to nap after work, except I probably won't since I tend to jump right onto socializing around then :p

I'm playing around with my stylus more and I drew a Maffi, mostly just trying to redraw the pixel art reference I did but in digital art form instead. Maybe later I'll try extending it out into a full body pic.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6200138B1/en Crazy Taxi's patent expired, so The Simpson's: Road Rage no longer infringes any patents

Maybe this weekend I should try drawing a bunch, both doodling characters but also making an effort to try and draw some landscapes. Landscapes are a skill I basically never intentionally developed but sorely need now that I'm doing SNES development haha.

Other than that I'll probably keep working on the code side and I'm still trying to get a cool perspective effect going in mode 7 because I'm eager to play with it. It requires a lot of math I don't usefully have laid out in front of me though

This time I was asked pronouns when registering, so I went ahead and actually picked she/her despite not looking the part. Furry is my space to be entirely who I want to be and I should not hold myself back even when there's an irl component.

I'm now registered for IndyFurCon! I wasn't sure I wanted to since I didn't have a room and wasn't sure I'd have people to hang out with but both are solved. I also did Sponsor-level registration this time and I'll likely get a shirt I can then shamelessly wear to work.

Now that I've got Tilemap Town running on a server with a gigabyte of RAM instead of 128MB, I really want to get user-provided scripting implemented. I still think the best design is having an "official" bot that runs on the same server (and thus has no latency), sits in some admin map, and remotely interacts with any map that's set up to use its services.

If I don't have some specific function for uploading code to a bot like that, it could be funny (but practical) to send a bot in-game mail.

I've been playing with the SNES's mode 7 a bit and I'm gonna try to make a perspective effect later, now that I've read up on what I'll actually need to do to accomplish that. I'm intending on giving Nova the Squirrel 2 its own Sonic-style special stages and I want to really show off graphical effects during those, but primarily mode 7.

http://novasquirrel.com I went and redid my website, mostly changing the background (which I'll replace as soon as I can draw one on my own), moving the longer list of works into their own pages, and putting character profiles on the site rather than using the full overhead of a wiki for it.

Assuming I get the days off, I'm going to IndyFurCon again this year and I'm rooming with the same friend who had a "Trespassers will be eaten" sign on her hotel room last time. You can probably imagine how that went down, and many jokes about the hotel room being a vore party were made which annoyed her.

What made it even funnier is that we ended up streaming "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and the human meat episode happened to come on.

Probably won't hang that sign up again.

I miss IRC

I won the competition with a nasty looking foot rest and got a $25 Amazon gift card. The art gallery now has more stuff!

At my work we're gonna scavenge around and try and find the most cursed thing we can at the building in the abandoned spaces and vote for which is the best one

Welcome to the art museum cubicle, we don't have any walls and in exchange we have paintings

Sometimes I'll get lyrics stuck in my head but I can't quite remember how the syllables match up with the timing, and I guess my brain then tries to sort it out for awhile. And then I finally listen to the song again later and it turns out I didn't completely remember the words either so I wasn't going to have solved it with what I had.

I'm definitely going to order a stylus for my new laptop, and then add a Handsome Squidward figure into the same order because I need that in my life. I want to drawwwww.

I saw a deer outside the building at work today. I think that's the first time I ever saw a deer in real life.

My background converter is working and I've got that forest background inserted into the game now! I think I'll move the background and the level up 16 pixels though.
#gamedev #snesdev

Hopefully it stops raining by the point the delivery driver gets here though. Even if it doesn't they can probably figure out to leave it on the section of the porch right under the roof.