Look! Something tangible! Finally have some kind of grey-blocking system for laying out regions for the RPG world I want to build.

It's not pretty, but what is currently visible is just the data layer for calculating area/map transitions, sprite elevation, and walls/walkable tiles.

I can just layout areas in Tiled, export them and the spritesheets, and the program takes care of the rest.

Now I just need to find some good sprites to use, and actually map out what I want to show.

#python #rpg

Going through some growing pains of optimization and what works.

So I'm implementing code that will prevent any unnecessary rendering and other logic. Got a basic level absolutely dynamically filled to the brim with sprites and content. Will optimize based on this, but will then do what other games do and basically pre-bake most of it to eliminate 90% of the work anyways.

Any tricks using the #Python Arcade library I should know?

I'm also writing a book that uses my life experience to help people feel better about self-standards, setting boundaries, and saying no. I'm having fun.

It's a Villain Self Help book. It's not comedy, but it makes fun of lots of "unwritten rules" of society that we are expected to follow that have no purpose, and weaken people individually. People who say no are often seen as "Villains".

I actually find feel-good warm-fuzzy self-help not aggressive enough advice.

#writing #selfhelp #book

I spent about 6 years learning python, learning and designing a new system, and ultimately realized that while I could finish my project, it would be obsolete before it even released. The problems I wanted solved were being solved.

It would have also taken another 6 years at the pace I was working.

Being disabled doesn't help either.

So I have changed my project into a more do-able card game. I can test in Tabletop Simulator.

Still learning and working, but way more doable.

#gamedev #ttrpg

I am thinking of changing my project.

Right now it isnt that what I want to make is not possible, it's that it is basically a full team's worth of work being done by a solo part time. It has been 6 years and I am maybe half way done the project. At the very least I would think there must be a better way to do what I want to do.

I'm not going to scrap my stuff but I would rather figure out a way to release anything at all at this point than make one life's work out of a hobby project.

#gamedev