Notices by freya (spdrcstl@timetheft.social), page 2

Sekiro is also looming in the background but I uhhhh am not sure if I'll like that one. Elden Ring so far has been kinda OK but is so directionless that it's not actually that engaging... I like when stuff has a bit more focus....

the one thing that makes me wonder if I'll like Sekiro is that I do find parry / block-and-riposte kinda fun in Souls games, it's just janky and hard to time... a game that I vaguely understand is built around parrying might be fun? idk

inane example scenes aside, i'm happy with how everything feels engine wise now... the scene transitions have some nice juice, i can do timed scenes now (the sleep one autoplays on a timer, blocking user input until done), the character portrait and background commands are super templated and stripped back to make writing quicker.

the last remaining demon to slay is.... save/load... which i think will be OK just a bunch of work

the mall scene script looks like this; making image heavy scenes in the previous engine was a pain in the ass but now it's much more minimal. feels like a return to form

updated old choice UI to be more in line with current game aesthetic. glad to have preserved the non blocking choices as a feature in the new engine... they're good i think

drawing random storylets based on their conditions is working...

not 100% happy with having to write the card conditions in raw js... I wonder if there's an abstraction layer I can do... adding it onto the todo list

augh made an oversight in my calendar code... Monday isn't always the first day of the year... do i care enough to fix it.... i don't think i do...

the five genders

spotted a car covered in anime girl vinyls while out in town. looked it up online after out of curiosity and apparently the guy decked it out that way in honour of a friend who he used to play racing games with online, who passed away from covid. copied his racing game livery into real life. unexpectedly sweet story for "spotted an anime car in town"