1 JAN 2022
Happy New Year!
Lots of progress this week thanks to my self-imposed new schedule: I wake up every morning at 0530 and from 0600 to 0700 I put in a solid hour of Scrapship. And what's more? I often put in an extra hour after that. By working on my game when I'm well-rested I am able to get more done and stay motivated for longer.
So here's what happened this week:
- I reconfigured my Desktop for more productivity by only keeping the files for projects that I'm actively working on.
- A constant fear is having a hard drive crash and losing all of my work. I now have two 1 TB SSD drives plugged in and I use the Windows Backup using File History feature to automatically save projects both locally and externally every hour. Triple redundancy!
- As for the game itself, I got a LOT of programming done! I think at the start of the week I had about 7000 lines of code and now I'm over 8000 -- the most I've ever written.
- There are now three configurations of bombers: A single bomber from the left, a single one from the right, and bombers attacking from left and right simultaneously.
- The bomb hit-detection is much more accurate now. I think last time a single bomb blast would just blow off an entire wing instead of just a segment. See gif above.
LOOKING BACK AT 2021:
Lol, 2021 was *supposed* to be the year I finished Scrapship, but then I hit an impasse on my first version and decided to start all over. Looking back I still think this was the right decision. I know it's hard to tell since there has been nothing playable from the new version, but the new version is so much better in about every way.
Even things peripheral to Scrapship got an upgrade, like my website.
My Instagram and Youtube accounts grew a little from the previous year and even here on Itch my follower count is now up to 45 -- thanks for following!
I also got a job or two doing game localization and editing. (If you need help with these in your own game, feel free to contact me.)
And all those motivational quotes I post? I shared one from Scott Hamilton (Olympic figure skater) and he actually reposted it on his Instagram. Very cool!
MY GOAL THIS YEAR:
Quote of the Week:
"No Zero Days!"
Thanks for reading and have a great 2022!