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here's a play-through of High Chambers Yendor, Floor 1 West (sped up 4x) Kept screwing up on the miniboss, lol. This dungeon is nothing like those in RuneScape, it's more like Legend of Zelda... Especially Floors 2 & 3 (2 is monster gauntlet with a gimmick, 3 is going to be giant light/mirror puzzle ala Earth Temple from Wind Waker).

Didn't think about Google results, I'll update the Love2D thread with the latest screenshots. I'll update the relevant threads with a better description of the game. Skybox is a TODO, lighting has already been taken care of: edit: How is this description? "You're a random adventurer that starts on an awesome quest to discover the secret of a powerful necromancer god by utilizing combat and non-combat skills. You can make equipment from supplies raided from dungeons and forests and oceans; go toe-to-toe with powerful monsters and Eldritch creations; and help friendly heroes save the world. Should you fail, the four Old Ones may succeed to tear the very fabric of reality apart."

I'm working on marketing it's just slow. Another person who hasn't played my game. :)

So I have a nagging thought... Despite everyone whose played my game liking it, I've had a very hard time to get people to play my game. I mean more specifically in real life: my friends and family say they'll play it but most of them haven't. (Two months later.) If I can't get friends and family to play my game, how am I supposed to get people in general to do so?

I added 3 sets of prayers: There's 3 that boost your defense bonus / level by 10%-50% based on your Faith level; 3 that boost your offensive stats by 10%; and 3 that boost your minimum damage by 10% of your Faith level. The drain rate is pretty harsh on the offensive ones but even with just a Sailor's Hat (+4 divinity) and a Copper Badge (+1 divinity) you can get ~1 minute of the min-hit prayers at ~30 Faith. Combine that with faltering holy incense (1% of prayer points returned per second) and you can use it well at the bosses I suppose.

I came across a band called Son Lux and they're amazing.

Hedgehog is right. "Maus" is German for mouse, it's pronounced the same. "Kinder" means "children." Technically it should "Kindermause Media, LLC" or "Kindmaus Media, LLC." Probably will go with the former. ... Also I gave my two weeks at Staples so today was my second-to-last day (I only work Sundays). Got more hours at IM and am aiming for a substantial raise.

How does the name "Kindermaus, LLC" or "Kindermaus Media, LLC" sound? Need to create an LLC to shield my freelance work, and eventually my game, from my personal assets.

I went to Jacks Tap tonight and met a cute guy, he was really flirty, and we danced and made out and stuff, lol. Was fun would do it again. I attribute it to my beard. LOL.

A friend of mine said he played my game again last night and loved it. Made me happy. :) Someone else asked for the latest release, too. It's nice.

I added the Cthulhuian parasite miniboss. It has two mechanics: a chant that activates the Soul Siphon, causing 50% damage; and they can resurrect their fallen comrades. It's easy enough if you know the mechanics. The parasites are kinda cute:

I buy CDs so I can rip FLAC copies. I don't listen to MP3s if I can avoid it. /wanna-be-audiophile

yesterday I couldn't fall asleep until about 4:00 am when I found out covering my head suppresses my cough the night before I'd wake up when my coughing got bad enough when I was younger I lived in a house where I was allergic to something in it (mold or something), and frequently would be unable to sleep because of coughing. Coughing like that is terrible and terrifying.

Why would covering my head when going to sleep stop an annoying night time cough caused by my cold/flu?

tequila does pre-date capitalism though capitalism: 1800s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism#Origins_of_capitalism tequila: 1500s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila#History idk man I've never had problems with tequila but I don't get drunk twice a day ... also looking back at my scholarship app I made a slip up (put spring 2019 instead of spring 2018) so I'm not gonna get it LOL also never heard back from Epic so I'm going to chalk that up to 'overqualified' instead of being a negative nancy

So somehow I'm still sick, even if I'm feeling a little bit better. I started growing a beard though, it looks pretty good. Haven't gotten anything but compliments so far. And it's not even been a week, lol. I got on the President's List again this semester @ FTCC and one of my instructors wants to nominate me for a scholarship opportunity so that's cool!

I'm sick. I haven't been sick in over a year. I'm miserable... This year has been off to a great start. Really depressed on New Years Eve/New Years, psychotic episode, and now sick a couple days later.

Only 934 but I started my job in September and have only been working on my game since March. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I did a proper LOC count and my game is sitting at 50k lines of Lua and 7k lines of C++. Fun fun fun. This does not include comments or empty lines.

Finished the year at 500 commits. A little less than 2x a day (1.77x to be more accuracy) since I started. Not bad with having two jobs and school, I think. Though I only have ~10 hours a week of freetime a week and I spend it hanging out with friends. Sacrifices. ... On second thoughts, that may explain a lot, lol.

The reception on Reddit was pretty good all things considered. 16 likes to 5 dislikes on the video, lol.

this is why god has abandoned us

I released alpha #3 of my game. Only took 20 days! You can get it on the releases page: https://github.com/aaronbolyard/itsyscape/releases/tag/alpha-20181227 * All weapons are fleshed out between classes * Fishing, cooking, and sailing skills * Port Isabelle and Mn'thrw * More mobs & drops * Improvements to combat XP reward computation * Projectiles! * Selling to shops * Lots of bug fixes * UI improvements ... I just spent the last hour creating Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Discord pages/channels/whatever for the game lol. It's not going to be fun to keep them updated...

Oh [bleep] off. It was just me & my brother on Christmas. I gave everyone their gifts the week leading up to Christmas.

no what bothered me was no one cared about me enough to message me / give me a card / whatever despite my caring enough to make 20+ people shit essentially it's the realization that you cared more about them than they do for you

Had a rather poor Christmas. Of my friends, didn't get anything from all but two which was a bit of a letdown considering I made everyone lots of food (brownies, fudge, cookies, etc). Won't be making that mistake again. Even my brother didn't get me anything... Doesn't help I'm under a bit of a depressive spell and feeling incredibly lonely. I don't particularly like Christmas anyway. ... I did work on my game and added fishing & cooking skills + fishing shop + rewards for slaying Mn'thrw. It scales based on how much health the ship has by the end of the encounter. There's a neat cosmetic item with a 1% drop rate (although keep in mind you get 10-50 rolls from the chest). Pre-alpha #3 is maybe 1 week away. My TODO list for it is pretty small now.