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:

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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...

I added a feature to Tilemap Town's web client where the game can switch what graphic a tile uses based on what tiles are next to it, to make it look connected to them. I designed it in a way where if your client doesn't support the feature (like how the 3DS one is somewhat behind as far as featur...