Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

Realizing I have absolutely no idea how to draw taurs but I'm gonna really try my best

A goldfish I had died recently. It actually managed to live to be 23 and it was always hilarious because it would just keep on going all these years, and we'd have to bring it with us through different house moves. RIP

My birthday's next week and I took the day off. What should I do for it?

I used my personal GitHub account to join a work-related GitHub organization because I am fearless. Also I'm already using Gadget Hackwrench as my avatar everywhere work-related so who cares if they see Nova too.

I started doodling a beaver and I'm now realizing that there is a LOT you have to decide on. Nova and Maffi had colors already set out for me to use and I don't have that here so I'll have to decide that; I'm thinking maybe orange? I definitely feel like I want something bright, maybe unnatural. And then I will have to somehow pick out hair and personality... and then the hardest part, a name!

My strategy, like with Maffi, is to play around with pixel art first and then move on from there.

I drew Maffi in Mario Paint and I forgot that the SNES mouse is actually not great to use. Oh well, she looks cute though!

I think the next major character (but not fursona) I want to make after Maffi is going to be a taur, but I have no idea what species I want. Maybe another rodent? Maybe a beaver? Or something more standard like a fox or a cat? Has to have a good tail for sure.

I also want do design a taur character that's a combination of my partner's fursona and mine, like Diamondstripe is. They'll obviously be a squirrel.

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!