Monthly Archives: January 2020

January 30th: Postmorting

Started writing up a retrospective of my game jam project to go on the blog today. It’s turning out pretty long. Also set up a television and streamed some games.

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January 29th: Slowdown

I think I’ve basically finished patching my game jam project, now I just need to write up a postmortem and I can put it to bed for good. Other than that I’ve been very tired and not getting much done. … Continue reading

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January 27th: Recovery

I finished my game jam project, give or take a couple of bug fixes I got to, and have been spending the last couple of days just recovering from that fatigue and burnout. It’s available at https://problemmachine.itch.io/eight-seconds-manipulated-through-time

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January 19th: Sprint

Successfully got blog post written today, so the next week should be solid game dev trying to finish this project up. Going to start with levels, since I think there’s enough in terms of mechanics to get them going, and … Continue reading

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January 18th: Holy

Forgot a few updates but the game project is going very well. Maybe one more day working on core mechanics, and the rest of the time will be dedicated to making levels and content. Tomorrow’s probably a day off from … Continue reading

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January 15th: Restless

Been having a hard time with sleep and with focus. Still, got a bit of work in today. Trying to get a physically robust time reversal working is an unusual challenge — things keep getting slightly desynced so they don’t … Continue reading

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January 13th: Groundwork

Okay the bones of the game are starting to get settled in place. No unique systems yet, but I’ve got the really basic interaction systems hammered out and I don’t think it will take too long to get a basic … Continue reading

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January 12th: War Stars

I saw the new star wars which was pretty not great. Didn’t get much done, but I have some plans for how I’m going to tackle things tomorrow. Plans are helpful things, just in terms of avoiding getting overwhelmed.

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January 11th: Alternating

Having a real hard time settling down to work on this project, but today my priority was on getting something written anyway. Solid progress on that, but it still needs some work to finish. Lots of anxiety.

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January 9th: Forgetful

I keep forgetting to update this and the more I forget the more I tend towards forgetting! Gotta try to do better on that. More commission work, laying down the groundwork for this game jam project, and today just setting … Continue reading

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