“Kowloon Generic Romance” is a really good anime y’all. Like. Imagine a Silent Hill 2 mutual pining & hurt/comfort fic, written from Maria’s perspective, where James isn’t a bastard and can actually be normal about women

It’s on crunchyroll, go watch it

Let’s go @pwaldkirch.bsky.social ! Time for the Megatowers Polka at the 1780 East Broadway rezoning hearing 🎶 #vancouver

Relatedly, writing is a very difficult discipline to survive in financially and job boards look almost exclusively like this right now;

Making games with your close friends is rad

WaHOO!

Dialogue options are in, with the ability to have both clickable buttons & disabled buttons with a hover tooltip.

I also put in exhausted conversations (but they can only play once-- I like to prevent characters feeling "gamey" from having infinitely repeatable exhausted convos 😊) #gamedev

Me relaxing after programming a dialogue system all day: You're so RIGHT Nikki

Remember with me the David Lynch Woody Woodpecker saga. Absolute goat of a man

Changing nameplate with dialogue: IMPLEMENTED
UI bugs: FIXED

Now to tackle the behemoth: Player choices that jump around the line sequence and bottleneck in at requested points :o
#gamedev

Every day in programming

Wa-HOO I got dialogue printing for my conversation system!

Next is bug fixing for the UI weirdness, then adding more functionality-- starting with changing the character nameplate, and allowing the writer to string together custom actions #gamedev

It's 1pm boys, are you Lerpin' or Slerpin'??

you fools

Shoutout to the Recycled Video Games store in Tillamook Oregon

My partner made our puppy in the character creator, ty Rotwood artists for the underbite option :p ❤️

Legitimately thinking about getting this tattooed on my body

Holy shit, what if after all this time it *was* actually a pipe