Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I think I feel disillusioned with roleplay lately, which is weird when it used to be very important to me. It's not very satisfying a lot of the time I try it, and it's a big struggle just to find other people who want the same things.

I guess I'm 24 now! You know one of these years it will probably make sense to start referring to myself as a queen instead of a princess.

I'm really glad that I've managed to find a few ace-friendly places to hang out. I guess the secret turned out to be just finding things run by other ace people, what a surprise.

Until then it felt like all I really had were groups specifically about it, which is hard to bond over. Toss in SFW+art or SFW+computers and now you've got something.

My birthday is on Wednesday and I don't have anything planned other than making my partner play Kirby Super Star with me

I've gotta figure out something satisfying to do with my characters, since I really like them. I initially thought roleplay but that's never really worked out how I wanted. I guess I can keep drawing them a bunch, and try to fit them into my SNES game.

I named her Rebecca and she's a builder on a much larger scale than just dams. She's got a pretty big inventory space and she uses it to store a large assortment of building materials.

Rebecca likes exploring to gather nice looking materials to create things out of.

I like Mastodon's linear timeline for being able to find exactly what you were looking at again if you exit the tab accidentally and come back, but I'm not a huge fan of missing things forever because they got buried and you weren't around to see it

Here's a beaver taur I'm working on that currently does not have a name yet, but I love how she's turning out.

Still struggling with the anatomy since I've never really drawn a taur before in any fashion! #pixelart

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