Just got a call that my laptop is ready to be picked up! They told me that all my data is able to be recovered. Picking it up later today!

Reminder to everyone to back up your data!!!! Been scared straight by this shit

Sort of a follow up to my last post but also affects everything… my laptop stopped working out of nowhere. I sent to have it fixed (second time i’ve had to this year…) but there’s the possibility it’ll have to be wiped. And like a big dum dum I haven’t backed up drinkslinger in a long time, so there’s the possibility that the update I was planning is just fucked. Very glad that the game is up now at least, but would’ve liked to keep working on it a little bit more.

So that, and also will be a bit before more music comes out, because ain’t got nothing to record on 🤷‍♂️

Fingers crossed it all gets fixed and I keep my data and all of this is made irrelevant, but wanted to give some sort of update, because I felt like I was starting to drop content sorta regularly there for a sec.

Maybe take this as an opportunity to go full computer nerd and drop the 8 y/o macbook for a thinkpad. just thoughts

Just wanna put on the record I’m eventually gonna put an update out for Drinkslinger, the main goal is to make it easier to pick up for the first time and understand. I’ve been pretty busy with life stuff ever since the release and I already know I’m gonna be busy all this weekend, so just know it will come!

My goal isn’t to dwell on Drinkslinger for too long, I SHOULD be starting on another project, but I feel like in its current state it’s pretty inaccessible and I wanna leave it as a piece of my portfolio that I’m proud of, instead of one that I wish I had done differently. So yeah! That’ll come out when it does.

Uploaded Drinkslinger this morning! It’s my first game in Godot, and I’ve been working on it for about a month now. Hope you enjoy <3

New song! This is an original song I wrote, played with the soundfont from Animal Crossing: Wild World. It was one I've had the main melody for for a while, I used to play it with my guitar on a looper. Figured it was about time to finish it, maybe I'll eventually write some lyrics. Hope you enjoy!

EDIT:

thats FUCKING right

Hey! My first game, Drinkslinger, is (pretty much) done now, and going to release Saturday. Gonna take the week to just sit on it, test with friends, make tiny tweaks. I’ve been working on it for about a month and a half now, and I’ve learned a lot about Godot and game dev in general since I started, so i’m excited to finally show it off!

Next up, i’m gonna focus on music for a while, maybe put together a project there, and work on my Godot fundamentals before starting another game dev project

I think im getting really close to finishing this game? Lowkey I've been putting this off for a couple days bc it's felt a little overwhelming, but I just sat down and knocked out a couple things, and it turns out I really don't have too much left to do.

Today I made the intro screen nice(r), by making the "click to start" text responsive to your mouse, instead of just being flat. And then originally I had the game over screen be it's own scene to swap to in godot, but I changed it so instead it functions like the pause menu. Also instead of a stupid stock sound effect when you lose, I have it so that the original music plays with a lowpass filter over it. Fixed a couple bugs on top of that, and I need to call it a night. It's about 10:44pm here, and i'm already cutting into sleep hours before work tomorrow. Not to mention laundry I need to put away, and Lyv's already sleeping so I'll need to wake her up... (I don't feel bad though since she has tomorrow off for President's Day, and I don't >:( )

Anyway, things are coming along. Once it's at a good state I'll have some friends playtest it, then put it up here!

Things are coming along! Gave this one a stupid clickbait thumbnail and title bc i thought it was funny.

First thing, we’ve got an official title and logo now! Added a couple more customers that come up randomly, with their own sounds. Labels appear under selected items now. I put tweens on position changes for items so now they move smoothly. Also you can pause the game (not in video) and it has links to my newgrounds and bluesky. Getting close to having it in a releasable state!