Good morning! Saturday is here! I am here! My coffee is here and Willow is supervising.
Last week was kind of all over the place. It really varied from full menty B to vibing productivity and great progress. Had to step in and solve a family drama that I didn't cause and wasn't involved in, but I also went to a very nice yoga class with my friend from the city for the first time since she had her baby, so. Scales gesture.
I've also been still struggling with some of the same stuff. Imposter syndrome's been a real bitch. I made the mistake last weekend of reading YKMET:Strade reviews on Steam to cheer myself up [ I actually hadn't read most of them because I was too scared LMAO ] but while they're almost all good reviews, it made me worry if I can live up to that again instead of giving me the confidence boost I was looking for 😂 Aint that just the way.
I know it was me who made the game, but I don't remember all the details of working on it. I don't emotionally remember the struggles. So in my mind, it becomes a big shadow that I cast once upon a time, and I feel like a little shadow of the shadow. Is that insane? yeah. But in my defence, my brain is made of electric grey mush that evolved from a fish.
This game has also been a new challenge, because it's the first game I've been developing almost entirely alone- without company I mean. I'm reminded of it, because it was this stage in the process [ making placeholders ] that I shut down my old discord server. Around this time of year too. Up until that point, I was developing games surrounded by people digitally every day, for better or for worse.
Though if there is an appropriate game to develop in a more lonely way, it's certainly Lawrence's LMAO
Anyway, let's get into what I did last week.
I did a fair bit of coding and fixing last week on top of placeholder work. I edited the scene change when you die [ made it nicer/smoother ], I fixed a layer error on the moving thorns [ fixing the issue of them starting their motion over on every click inadvertently made them start appearing over top of a side sprite, only noticed now because I made a side sprite placeholder this week ]
And of course, I've been doing a lot of my usual animation coding. Stuff like this:
[ this is an example of how fuckin out of hand my animation code can get LMAO ]
And of course, I drew placeholders.
[ Please don't repost my stuff to social media | Пожалуйста, не публикуйте мои работы в TikTok. ]
I got a lot of good stuff for the Willow zone this week:
Also find attached below: Willow tenderizing you simulator
Next week might be kind of shitshow, I'll have Gorgo [ my parents' cat ] over for a few days. I haven't babysat her while Willow's been living here so that's gonna be a new and probably challenging experience. I'll need to keep them separated, so Willow is going to be cranky from not being able to be near me when I work in my office, and Gorgo will be cranky because she's always cranky when she has to stay with me [ plus now everything will smell like Willow and she is very territorial =_=; ]. On top of that, the condo plumbers are gonna come in and mess around with my pipes 😂 Hopefully we all get through it in one piece.
All that to say, I might not get as much work done. I will try my best though.
Anyways, thank you guys so much for the support! Take care and stay safe. And of course, see you next week!