Wow! It's Friday, again! The march of time sure is inexorable!
This week was busy, as usual. I went to the doctor about my neck thing, and he said I'm A-OK as long as I fix my damn posture. I think I fixed my posture and I'm feeling generally better now.
The big change I made last week is paying dividends. It's so easy to make progress now! And it looks neato.
2023-03-18 02:19:13 +0000 UTC
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It's Friday... again...
The chickens have come home to roost, as they say, and I had to take a couple days off this week to recover from my body finally rebelling against my free-wheeling game dev lifestyle of sitting hunched over at my desk for 12 hours a day. I made a bunch of ergonomic changes to my desk setup and am now exclusively using a standing desk to keep myself from slouching and dri...
2023-03-11 01:26:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt has come, the famous month of March. February is a little too short, don't you think?
I got a lot done this past week:
- Added UI icons for settings and dialogue history and phone menu (bottom right corner). Keyboard controls here, but if you start using a gamepad, it shows gamepad buttons ins...
2023-03-03 23:41:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt's already Friday...
I was gonna make a comic about Penny doing nothing but working on her project all year (standin for me just working on Game all the time), and then it having the same punchline Penny comics always have, which is she draws a cute Tiger-chan, except this time updated for the year of the rabbit.
It would have been something like this:
Bunny-chan! Rawr! (or whatever soun...
It's already Friday! Well, Mondaynauts (...sorry), this week was a busy one, both with real life and with game dev life.
Patreon exclusive life updates: Today I went to Costco. And also ate a burger. In-N-Out, natch.
As for the game I'm consumed by, I made very good progress this week. I finally fully implemented phone calls (something I've been procrastinating o...
2023-02-18 03:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostAnother week, another Rambles. Wait what? Is it Friday already?
I'm on time this week! What else is there to say, really? Another week, another pile of game code commits.
I've been thinking I need to read some books or play some games or something, just so I'm not falling into a weird feedback loop where I'm only making things and only looking at the things I made. If this game release does reasonable well and it buys me some time to make another game, then I'll probably prioritiz...
2023-02-11 01:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I hope you had a good week.
I am late with the Friday Rambles this week. I am once again no longer punctual. Sorry.
I did a lot of work this past week and the sore throat I had last week turned into a big ol cough-fest but I think I'm mostly okay now. Maybe. In any case my body felt like it was falling apart so I also took it easy for a couple days.
This week was more story stuff, and various UI things.
I finally added some Penny to the game so people who ...
2023-02-04 20:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt's your regularly scheduled Friday Rambles.
Hope you had a good week. What? There's only 4 more days left in the month? Well, 3 now, I guess...
I was supposed to be done with this game a month ago!!! Oh, are we talking about the game again already?
I finished up Lumber Lass with one last powerup and an Easter egg, and then moved on to writing dialog...
2023-01-28 07:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to another weekend. I hope you had a good week. Can you guess what this rambles is about? Of course you can--it's about the only thing that's been going on in my life for the past two months, which is making video game.
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2023-01-21 07:55:26 +0000 UTC
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Why yes, it's the Friday Rambles. And yes, I'm going to talk about video game.
Steam approved the "Coming Soon" page for the Game I've Been Working On For The Past Couple Months, which finally has a title and trailer and "online presence" now. It's official, baby! Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines! Coming soon!
I finally made the Steam "Coming Soon" page, and submitted it for review. Apparently it'll take two or three days or so, but still, I kept my promise of getting the page done this week! I'll post it for you all to peruse if and when it's approved. Man I'm nervous.
The game will be on sale for $4.97 at launch. $5.99 at full price. I figure it's valuing myself in a nice humble spot somewhere between Free And Bad and Established Indie Dev's Cool Game That Is Really Good. Of course Vampire ...
2023-01-10 07:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the first Friday Ramble of the New Year! Wow! Can you believe it? 2023! Wow! Happy New Year!
Anyway I don't know that time is passing because I'm just trying to finish this game that's taken way too long already. Someone asked if I'm going to have a "coming soon" page on Steam so they can wishlist it. Which is great, but a few things are keeping me from launching the page yet (most critical of which is that I haven't thought of a good title for the game yet. ha! ha! ha! Also I don'...
2023-01-06 22:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the OC cameo part I added to the game for a Secret Santa, which also happens to be the only "mostly finished" part of the game that I can share at the moment. I guess this is the first ever look at the game that's not just a screenshot?? I figured I should share it since I wrote a huge wall of text a...
2022-12-31 03:21:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the last Friday Rambles of 2022. Which is weird, because I feel like 2022 didn't start that long ago. Wow! Time is fast! I thought it was still 2021! And other things people say whenever time passes. (But it's all true!)
As I have been doing for the past 2 months, I've been working on "game dev" which has been a surprisingly (not surprisingly) lengthy and time consuming process. The game that I was "making for fun" to "take a break" from the first game I was making as a "shitpost" ...
2022-12-31 03:11:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt's Saturday, Christmas Eve! I'm only late by a day!
It's only been like 4 days since the last Ramble, but I did get a lot of game dev work done. I've really hit a good stride. But it's definitely not going to be done by New Year's, but the New Year's part is less important in the story now. Lol. In fact, Tiger-chan isn't even the main focus of the story anymore, but rather a branch, so I'm renaming the game to something else.
Game making takes a long time! Even for no-budg...
2022-12-24 18:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time of the year again. It's the 4th yearly art summary I've done, which is a nice round number. I'm posting all 4 here for laffs.
2022-12-21 19:26:20 +0000 UTC
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This is officially the latest i've ever been with a "friday ramble". It's the... wednesday friday ramble??
I'm sorry! I'm too busy making game. and doing secret santa stuff. and maybe a combination of the two.
for all this time i'm putting into it, you'd think this game would be good.
well... i'm pretty proud of how it's coming along, but it's also still really short and the story is, like i said before, basically a big ol' shitpost, but I'm learning a lot still and it's a n...
2022-12-21 07:43:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the Sunday Friday Ramble(?)
I'm working on a different game that's not the one I was working on before, because it's a little too ambitious and it would take months if not years to finish, when I only have like, one month left before my sabbatical is over and I need to apply to jobs again.
So I started a new one built on the scaffolding I already built for the first game, with smalle...
2022-12-11 23:47:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the Saturday Friday rambles. I didn't do a newsletter post this week because I'm too busy and have nothing to share anyway. But I am doing the Patreon Ramble because hey, we have a history.
Can you believe it's December!! of 2022!!!!
I didn't work on my zine at all because I was too busy for that too. What was I so damn busy with? I have family over and on top of that I've been putting 100% of my remaining brain energy into my "upcoming" "game". I've been coding all the syste...
2022-12-04 06:43:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the Friday rambles.
Hope you had a nice week. And maybe some turkey.
The weekly newsletter has most of the ramble: https://hcnone.substack.com/p/the-weekly-quittin-time-2022-11-25 and the paid stuff you've already seen, being the cool Patreon People you are. Oh, except the shop code:
HCSHOPBFRIDAY2022FORCOOLPEOPLE (30% off orders of 2+ items) <...
2022-11-26 00:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostI finally got off my butt and started doing some initial development for an Endless Monday game. Since it's my first serious project ever, I'm going to make it super small in scope (just doing the basic VN thing, with simple story and branching dialog).
I'm using GameMaker Studio for the engine/IDE. I've got a dialog system and character talking/idle animations working so far. It's been n...
2022-11-25 19:44:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to just draw some fun pics of some fun characters, so I drew @Jason2Gim's OC Batra.
Partly driven by my desire to "just draw more" so I can still say I draw instead of just typing lots of words about nothing all the time, I've given myself a goal of drawing more loose and fun sketches every day (or thereabouts). It was immediately derailed by ...
2022-11-22 02:47:31 +0000 UTC View Postit's the friday rambles!!!!!!!
Once again, I wrote a friday newsletter thing, but you can just read it there instead of here. I'll add the paid stuff here though. I know it's ok because we're tight like that. A year of terrible rambles, i'm not about to make it all professional and newsletter-like now.
this week i was sick. i didn't do much but i posted a lot on twitter. i'm going to draw more this next week, now that i'm feeling better. it'll be a lot of OC fanart for other artis...
2022-11-19 01:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the Friday Rambles.
So, I published this on my Email Distro which will serve as a weekly newsletter, and I guess it's just merging with the Friday Ramble now. Which means more content for you! That's good, right?
There's also bonus stuff below which would normally be for paid subscribers, which I've added for my dear Patrons, as promised before.
Anyway, thanks for your support!
2022-11-12 02:10:16 +0000 UTC
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(note: I accidentally deleted this patreon post and some really cool people were able to save me by sending me their email copy. score another for email. Sorry for the duplicate notification though.....)
The third issue of the Endless Monday Monthly has landed!...
2022-11-09 22:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostI accidentally deleted the previous post "Endless Monday Monthly 3 commentary". i'm leaving this post up as a memorial to my shame. Thank you to the extremely cool people who saved me by sending me their email copy.
2022-11-09 22:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the Friday Rambles, on time for once.
We're in the final stretch of 2022. I'm really not sure where the year went. I quit my job 5 months ago, but it doesn't feel like that. They say you get bored after a while after you stop working, but I haven't felt that at all. Then again, I guess I'm just doing a different kind of work now, you know, except without the stable income (or self loathing).
I've been working nonstop on Issue 3 of the 2022-11-05 01:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a fun lil thing I drew for Halloween. It's Skye dressed as a mummy and @33_dott's Krampus dressed as Morrigan Darkstalkers.
Anyway, the second image is a kind of follow up that'll be in the zine. Secret Patreon Preview!!!! I thought it would be fun for Skye to do something that she normally wouldn't, a little bit of fanservice, etc etc. But figured it'd need some kind of lore reason for happening at all. lol 2022-11-05 00:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I mostly just worked on commissions, but I finished all of them within my self-imposed deadline, and now I'm knee deep in making the November issue of the Endless Monday Monthly. I'm also juggling a new super secret project (will let you guys know soon when it's shareable) and a halloween collab I agreed to that I need to finish soon. All this work! I'm just happy to be busy during my sabbatical with stuff I actually like doing.
Making the zine has made me appreciate putting w...
2022-10-28 22:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the Saturday Friday Rambles
As I said I would last week, I opened up requests (commissions) on my twitter, and deleted the post when I got enough to do, around 2-3 hours later. I just accepted all of them because they all seemed fine and easy enough. In hindsight, I should have just left it open for a set period of time and then selected the ones that I actually wanted to do, but at the time I was just excited to get requests at all and wanted to do all of them. Lesson learned for ...
2022-10-22 22:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post