I've been worried about how Tilemap Town has been failing to grow, because it feels like people just log in and check it out for a week maybe and then leave, and that makes me feel like I can't just be patient and let the community grow over time because it's more of a revolving door? I'm not sure...
This past while I've been working on some changes to Tilemap Town to try and get things in place to make it handle unreliable connections a bit better, as well as make it work better as an instant messaging thing, should it need to play a role like that in the future.
The game world is conceptua...
Sometimes it's weird to think about how I develop for consoles that are really expensive and are probably going to keep getting more expensive, and I worry about what effect that'll have long-term, but I had the realization that the accessibility of getting an original console actually doesn't matte...
In order to play music on most older consoles, the developer needs to supply a program (an "sound driver" or "sound engine" or similar) that will gradually step through a song, encoded as a sequence of notes and effects, and turn notes on and off as needed. Typically sound effects work similarly. Th...
I think mascot characters are probably my biggest special interest of all, though I'm clearly interested in specific kinds so maybe there's a better descriptor?
I'm generally interested in the cute animal-y ones with simple but effective designs (especially with theming!! Especially when that th...
I put off trying Neopets again for a long time because the way people talked about it made it seem not worth trying, but I think either I got the wrong impression or the change of ownership actually had a big effect for the better.
People made it sound like the Neopets site was all broken (due to...
Back when I was working on Nova the Squirrel for NES, I thought it would be cool to add some multiplayer stuff, because back then I was hoping to make a cartridge of the game, and I wanted the cart to provide a lot of fun even if it was the only one someone had. So I put in a quick Dr.Mario clone,...
There's a really pretty park near where I live named Promenade Park that is built around showcasing Fort Wayne's rivers, and there's a space there for events as well as a restaurant, and the restaurant that has been there has shifted a few times but it's currently "TEDS Snack + Bar" which opened las...
I've been doing a bunch of work on Tilemap Town and I figured I'd make a big changelog both to show it off and also to show to myself that I've done a lot of work on it. This is all within the past month or so. This excludes stuff I've already shown off here I think?
3DS and web client:
I thought it would be helpful to be able to mark that there's an event currently going on in a Tilemap Town map, like how IRC channels have topics and how Discord voice channels let you set a topic for what you're currently talking about. So obviously I named it the same as what IRC calls it.
So n...