KER-POW. It's Sunday already?!? Time does, in fact, keep on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future, huh?

This week was... STILL all about making tilemaps, so LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT EM.

TILEMAP UPDATE

I got all of the areas for Chapter 7 done!! It's complete!

What might it entail....

That doesn't mean everything before Chapter 7 is complete.... but most of it is! It's slow going, but we're making headway. In fact, I got twelve different areas done this week! That's... not going to be normal, but I'm glad I was able to get so many done.

Perhaps this building is important, in some way....

So, now it's on to working on the areas in Chapter 8. It's mostly a cityscape/outdoors area, which I'm more than happy to work on, but it is one of the largest chapters in the game, so it's gonna take a while....

The "mean" streets of Ergasia

Anyway, let's look at them STATS:

WHOA, that's more than one THIRD of the game's locations COMPLETE! We're making headway, BABY! You know what else I should do... I should make a script that logs a time and date every time I run this program and then can display a graph showing the completion over time.... maybe I could even get it to do some projections around when all the areas will be complete....
Maybe I'll take a look at that today! (Instead of actually making more maps, lmao)

OTHER STUFF THAT ISN'T GAME DESIGN

I started playing Corpse Party last night aaaaand I think it's pretty good. I'm a real sucker for old hobby doujin games. Something about seeing someone's personal pet project come to life just as they want it is very inspiring. Obviously, I'm not playing the original PC98 version, but the remake of the remake called Corpse Party: Blood Covered.... Repeated Fear. There are SOME things about it I find pretty annoying... like not being able to complete the first chapter unless you double back to find extra items in rooms you have already visited that don't actually have any bearing on the chapter's end and no in-game signaling that you would ever need to do it. Pretty frustrating, BUT I'm still having a good time nonetheless. Sometimes that's just the artistic vision and I respect it. Also it was only 1000 yen, so u can't beat that.

Also!!! I started watching the original Slayers anime! Incredible. I see why Lina Inverse is such a well regarded character now... what a goof. 10/10.

I bought some camping gear. Planning a trip next month with my friends where we go live in tents in the woods for a week and uhhh.... maybe play Mahjong? We'll see. I've been hankerin' for some outside time though, so I'm looking forward to it.

STUFF COMIN' UP

Don't forget! PORCHFEST on MAY 30TH!

We're going on.... second, I think???

After that show, we're gonna focus on recording another EP, so keep an eye out for that! (If you haven't heard our music yet, you can hear it HERE.

We'll just have to see.... but I think this week is gonna be a BALL BUSTER at work, so I might have less time than normal to work on Negative Reverie, but I promise to get as much done as possible!

THAT'S IT

I feel like these tilemap-centric updates are a little less exciting but.... such is the way! It's gotta be done and the sooner all the locations are done, the sooner we can get to the GOOD stuff! WAHOO! Alright, y'all take it easy! Thank you so much for your support!!