Friday Rambles 2023-01-20 (+game dev progress) (Patreon)

Welcome 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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Surprise! It's an entirely new minigame within the main game. I made this entire thing in the past week, including the phone/settings menu. I'm actually surprised at my own speed at making all the pixel art lol.

Inspired by a friend who said he wouldn't play my game unless there was grinding for big numbers in it. So I obliged, and accidentally made an actually kind of fun minigame where the whole point is grinding to make a number big lol. Regardless of how fun people find it, I'm glad I did it because I learned a huge amount in the process of making this, and it even serves a story function! 

Anyway I could probably add fun gameplay mechanics and other stuff for way longer until it's a full game in itself, but I really need to work on the actual VN. I'm racing against the clock here! Maybe there could be a "The Lumber Lass Update" in the future with all the stuff I wanted to put in it if the game does well.

The phone is going to play a big role in the story as well, for side dialogue with other characters who aren't at the office and stuff like that. As well as serving as a constant source of things for Penny to procrastinate with ;), this minigame being one of them, and the settings menu, and a bunch of other "home base" type stuff.

Well, not much else to say, because this was basically all I worked on this week. I also did a lot of story outlining for the parts I'm rewriting because they're bad.

Oh, I also walked every day now that it's not raining all the time and also went to Costco to buy ground beef and cheese and stuff. We also got these chips called "Cheez-its Snap'd" which I was expecting would actually taste like Cheez-its, but they taste nothing like actual Cheez-its. Scammed???? Still perfectly edible, just don't call 'em Cheez-its if they're not gonna taste like Cheez-its.

I think I'm going to spend tomorrow not doing game dev because after doing nothing but Lumber Lass dev for the past 7 days, my brain is kinda cooked. I'm actually looking forward to finishing this so I can do zines again. Before making another game of course. Ha!

Cool, just under the wire for it to be technically still Friday! Still technically punctual.

Of course, thanks for your support, as always!!