DAWN OF MEGA-MONTH

Week of November 27th

Overview

The nice thing about sprints – really, one of the most defining things – is being able to  change gears quickly. After weeks of programming I essentially spent an entire week where I didn’t open up my IDE once…and it was the best decision I’ve made thus far.

An entire world poured out of my head, complete with a map, lore, context, and a whole bunch more. I can’t share a whole ton of it right now as it’s still being shaped into something coherent, but it’s rad.

Highlights

• Sketched out a map across several mediums + had a bunch of fun
• Came up with names and backgrounds for a lot of areas in-game
• Brainstorming sessions went much better than expected
• Incorporated much into ever-growing Evernote
• MEGA-MONTH MARCHES EVER ON

Lowlights

• Spent some more money I probably didn’t need to 🙁
• Learned I’m still not an artist despite everything – oops
• Ate too much

Show & Tell

 

No One Goal Should Have All That Power

Week of November 13th

Overview

I took a hard left turn this week – new operating system and almost a new language altogether. I then took a soft right turn as I switched back to Love2d but stayed on windows.

Now I’m bearing left slightly, I guess? I don’t know. This analogy is getting away from me, and I’m also incredibly late on posting this up, so I’m going to cut right to the “demo” and move on

Demo

The Lost Week

Week of November 6th

Overview

Well. This wasn’t a great week.

Lots of nonsense happened – from sudden manager departures to a very distracting election and much else beyond that.

I’m calling this a lost week. Not necessarily a bad week, but one in which much of my time was spent not working on my games or my business or really much of anything.

Still, I got quite a bit done. I’m really hopeful that this will be the week I finally get into a flow of sharing my thoughts on here and elsewhere, but it’s been over 5 weeks now of absolute failure so why should this be any different? We’ll see.

Highlights

+ Sold a camera! +$60 in the escape fund

+ May have found an extra $1,000 just “laying around” – fingers crossed it pans out

+ Added the concept of Power Goals – more to come on that in a later post

+ Added simple dog fetching, simple dog snoozing, and some cool stuff regarding zooming

+ Lots of ideas put to paper and then stored safe and sound in TFS

Lowlights

— Distracting election

— Distracting work

— Distracting housework

— Wore a bad pair of socks 🙁

Demo