RJ Ramblings
Added 2022-07-18 13:28:51 +0000 UTCHey everybody!
Sorry I skipped last weeks ramblings! I was moving back into my house, which has been nice, but also very stressful and a lot of work. Plus its been constantly above 100 degrees in Texas for the last week or two, which is absolutely miserable. We have all the wiring fixed from the fire now, but I still have the hole in my living room ceiling that we are waiting on contractors to come fix. Currently, I have it covered with garbage bags, trying to keep the cool air inside. And since it's summer, we're using a ton of electricity - since they made the wiring safer to where it won't catch fire again, I've been tripping breakers frequently as I try to find how much power I can run for each part of the house. It's been very frustrating and sweaty, but I think I've found a good balance right now finally. Hopefully we'll have the hole in the ceiling fixed this week and can just move on from this whole mess.
Other than that, I've been watching TV a little (nothing I really enjoyed enough to talk about). Still learning Blender some (focusing on sculpting right now). And I've been playing Returnal on my PS5, which I'm liking quite a bit.
This weekend, I spent the ENTIRE weekend re-coding the game. I'll talk about it more on Friday, but that has been my focus for the last couple days and the next couple as well probably. I'm cleaning up a lot of the code, simplifying the way the game flows, and attempting to make it clearer for new players how the game works. I think it's going to make a huge difference when I'm finished. It feels like the biggest polish I've done overall since starting the game.
That's pretty much it for me! Hope you all are doing great and have an amazing week. Love ya!
Comments
Best of luck with the re-coding! Though I'm curious as to what people thought was confusing? To me this game is one of the most straightforward and helpful Ren'py-based games I've ever played. At no point have I ever been confused about what I could or couldn't do, and there's the help function for both the story and the individual people. And those stars on the location windows. If I were to critique anything (and I'm not) it'd be that it's too easy at times, but I'm not looking for a challenging game here. (On the flipside, there was another recent game* I was playing that was so complicated and fidgety, it's nigh impossible to get through without consulting its own complex wiki site, which... seems a bit much to me.) [* - Rhymes with "Glove & Chex: Reckoned Face."]
Troy B.
2022-07-18 19:47:44 +0000 UTC
