Spin to Win. Game is rated on enjoyment, creativity & theme use, visuals, audio, and seriousness. Hmmmmmm. Tomorrow (Saturday) is my main work day, so today will be mostly ideating with maybe some prototyping. Apologies if I don’t post as much. Gotta jam!
]]>Ok fine you made one prototype and it wasn’t that fun and you didn’t want to keep moving forward with it. It happens! Just move on to the next. “Fail fast and follow the fun” is something someone said at some point.
I have that Game Jam starting very soon, but I’ve already come up with a new idea for a game called Date Escape, a game where you go on dates and attempt to succeed (but mostly fail) and then you have to escape the environment of that date that has turned against you and get to your next date on time. Currently it’s very Binding of Isaac but hey, I just started it yesterday, 6/17/2026. One issue I foresee is that the building of this is going to intersect with the timing of the game jam. Guess we’ll see how that goes! Over and out.
]]>Yeah bad news, the thing that always happens happened again and I lost interest in the game so there will be no more Mail Thief thank god the domain name was taken when I tried to look for it. This domain however will stay mine methinks.
A couple things went wrong here, and I’m not even sure using the term “went wrong” is the correct strategy. In essence what I developed was a prototype for a game and it turns out it wasn’t very fun. I don’t think that’s a failure. One thing that I’m definitely going to be aware of going forward is that I do not enjoy playing story-based games so I probably am not going to enjoy making a game where the entire thing behind it is based on me creating dozens of stories (that was a terrible idea).
I am still planning on participating in an upcoming game jam in 2 days (oh god) and currently it looks like I’ll be approaching it solo. This is a very short game jam and I’m working half the days so I will be forced to make my scope TINY
Also, I appreciated learning more about Godot! I like this game engine more than any game engine I’ve used so far and expect to continue using it moving forward. That’s all for today.
]]>I have graduated from college… again… This time with a masters I will hopefully be able to use to succeed in a job which gives me money money money. As such it is now summer, and I don’t have a TON of free time especially with a couple upcoming game jams I would like to try to participate in. My first commit to Mail Thief was on June 9, 2026 or about 6 days ago. As this is my first ever “game” I would like to spend about a month on it giving me time to polish what I need however that might be a bit difficult to my aforementioned need for money. Quick note - if you want to email me about any quick money schemes, you can reach me at nocrowspermitted@gmail.com. The other thing that may upset my progress on Mail Thief other than my own dwindling lack of interest will be the
Currently I am registered to compete in two, count them two, game jams this summer. One is hosted by Juniper Dev and it runs from June 19th to June 26th, and the other is the GMTK Game Jam 2026 which runs from July 22nd to July 26th. I will admit that the last time I attempted to participate in a game jam I crashed out after not understanding how Unity worked after about 1 day into a 7 day jam and gave up. So… we’ll see. If I have Mail Thief complete by then, I should be able to use it as a lure to collect the perfect team, but again, we’ll see. That’s it for now! Apologies if updates from here on out are slow. I’m busy!!! rawr xD
]]>haha nice try cops. See you on the flippity flip.
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