Found a local Japanese restaurant of the sort that has actual Japanese people dining in it so you know it's legit. I haven't had a (raw) salmon bowl since I was in actual Japan last year; it wasn't as heavenly as *that* one but still damn good.

At a friend's house; I was lying on the couch when this floofy cat climbed on top of me for pettings. Highlight of the night.

Comfort food (and a use for leftover salmon)

The labyrinthine dreamworld towers over a dark ocean. I came up with a new concept for my generative dungeons consisting of themed height layers - not as conventional roguelike "floors", but as a contiguous level of dizzying verticality.

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Played a little Bloodborne (via emulation) to investigate how the procedural "Chalice Dungeon" room layout system works. To that end, I drew a full map of the first area.

I crafted an exciting new weapon for the game (but it's for debug)

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#ACen2025 the Thunderbolt Fantasy puppets were there — the real ones used in the TV show. They're big.

#ACen2025 Honkai: Star Rail is popular this year...

Interesting looking at the analytics of my Honkai: Star Rail graphics analysis video. Too niche to go properly viral, but since the algorithm picked it up a couple days after uploading, I've been getting several positive comments on it every day.

Participating in the fine American tradition of going to an Asian restaurant on Christmas day.

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The early-art-deco look of Star Rail's dreamworld dungeon is awesome

I'm playing Star Rail for "research". It gets more visually impressive with each new locale; here's Disneyland+Vegas. Being entirely new to gacha games (and games from mainland China), even the bad parts like the aggressively dopaminergic mechanics & made-for-censors storylines are still fascinating

Something I imported for v̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ research: a magazine concerning a fantastical fashion subculture. Though it originated in Japan in the 90s, I saw a showcase event at a local anime convention (ACen) some years back, and even visited a shop in SF Japan Town once; it do be worldwide.

I live to diagram...
My game has a cardinal-direction-based movement GUI, which makes wall-walking a complex proposition...

I met someone who watched every episode of Detective Conan, which sounds like a crazy amount of time to spend on something so formulaic. But 1000 episodes of anime takes roughly 400 hours to complete, and I've played so many games on Steam for *at least* that amount. Games are scary.

This was a 3-wk. #indiedev battle: a fully original game character. I made an Unreal Engine Control Rig from scratch, which was a learning experience. Animating it is proving to be really fun, though. (It's really unfortunate that BSky lacks video...)

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Status report: Instead of buying a midlife crisis Corvette, I am no-life yolo #indiedev streaming every day like a madman. It's an odd lifestyle but I've met some cool people. twitch.tv/seannyb/vide...

I'm 3 mo. from a proper playtest build. I'm presenting my game locally on Sat @ Indie City Games.