9/26/23

Time Worked: 1 hour, 39 minutes

Did alright today.

It was a little hard to get started. I'm coming up on October which is kinda the deadline for this game at least in terms of making a decision. And I feel like I'm kinda confident that I've come to a decent place, where I know what I want to make. 

I've figured out the game loop or at least I have a proposed game loop which I feel will work well. It has aspects of several different games I enjoy and I think it is truly unique at least to my knowledge. Yeah yeah, of course there's nothing new under the sun, but at least I can't think off the top of my head of another game that's like this and that's good enough for me. I'm not concerned with being original, but I am interested in being at least somewhat unusual.

So yeah I just have to work on the building prototype now, which is gonna take a little playing with (fine). It was a slow start but I did start and that matters; tomorrow I will continue; and the day after that; and one day it'll be done. 

I'm just glad I played aggressively with things and I think that took me a good ways towards where I need to be. I wish I hadn't wasted time on the cover system for enemies, but whatever. Maybe it will come in handy later. I spent SO much time working on that; lol. It was neat, and I did learn a lot while doing it. But that's just the nature of things I guess. I think I should have had a little more foresight and realized it was a big time sink before digging into something like that.

Alright; well that's it for today. I know nobody reads this. Maybe some random dude. But hey; if you're reading this... just know that I'm trying and that's all we can do. We just gotta try our best, and who the fuck knows what will happen. Just fuck around and find out. A guaranteed way to fail is never to try in the first place. And there is no guaranteed way to succeed. So; fuck it man just do stuff.

Here's a pic of the game loop and some other notes I wrote while on a hunting trip.