Late Night Post

So it's three twenty one am and I'm feeling a bit distressed. Or maybe just stressed. I'm not sure. I thought it might help to put some of my thoughts down in my journal.

I'm thinking about making a Space Game again. Though this time the angle is making a Casual Space Game. The good space games all take a lot of work to get into, and I still want to see something like Sid Meier's Space Pirates, even if I have to make it. But I can never decide what I want to do with that concept.

Anyways that's just my latest issue. I'm a bit upset with myself because I've spent the last five or more days doing nothing but RPing, mostly on F-List. I haven't been working, I've hardly been playing games, just wake up, eat something, start fapping, go to bed. It's not much of a life and it's driving me stir crazy. There's a certain satisfaction to the RP even though I haven't popped my cork once during this period. I just don't know what to do with it all. I don't want to stop but I don't want it dominating my life and I can't figure out how to do moderation. :/

I've also been depressed as fuck lately. I don't know why. Because my Mom is Dead? Because it's almost my 36th Birthday? Or because the guys with the job I've been hoping for haven't gotten back to me yet? Maybe it's all of the things.

Anyways I keep chugging along despite it.

I was craving fish tonight and my roomie convinced me to go grocery shopping at an all night grocery store. I bought a fuck ton of food, including some seafood. But, I didn't eat fish. I had a lot of crab pieces and a few shrimp, and some cocktail sauce. Anyways the grocery store idea was to save money by buying some food that we could cook and last us a few days instead of getting an expensive delivery or takeout thing. I spent way too much money on groceries. I don't know how long they'll last us for but probably not as long as they should given how much I paid for them. I even got some discounted items. Oh well.

I suppose I'm still craving fish, but I'm too tired and not hungry enough to make one of the fish meals that I bought. I'll probably be going to bed soon.

My dreams lately have felt super important while they're happening, and a couple times I had dreams about video games and I was all "You should remember this when you wake up, it's a good game design." and when I wake up I'm like, that isn't such a good game design. Oh well.

Hey I'm not sure who's reading this, but if you guys could give some suggestions for what you want to see in a casual space game, mechanics, characters, themes, whatever, I'd like to hear about it. Personally I'd like to make something like Relee Squirrel's Space Pirates! but I can't even decide if I want it to be a 2D or 3D game. XD

Thank you.

Work Post

6:10pm - Wow, I've been having pretty bad luck today. I managed to convince myself to go out and work on my projects, but when I got to the McDonalds their internet was out, and when I asked the McConcierge he said they wouldn't be able to fix it without contacting Bell, which would probably take a day at least. So that's just smashing. I had already ordered a meal there, so now it's costing me more to pay for a coffee at the cafe I use as my backup location. At least the internet here is working...

Well my luck's not all bad. I missed the rain and now there's a rainbow shining over the Talize. I hope Rob brings home a Pot o' Gold.

Anywhizzle I just checked my previous work post and it says that I should wrap some repeated code up in a function. The problem is I'm not sure if I should make two functions, one for either case, or a single function that takes an extra parameter that determines which side of the if statement it goes down.

I'm really not sure which is the best way to go. So I asked on the GameDev League Discord, and someone suggested the second one. So I'll try that.

6:54pm - That's much cleaner! Looks great.

Now I need to add similar code to the wander state so that it can determine if you're looking for it players or not.

7:26pm - I've got the code in so it should switch to the Chase state if an it player sees a non-it, non-lastIt player. I should probably test to make sure that code works.

7:29pm - Yep it works! Go me. High five. Nice.

7:44pm - I've run low on enthusiasm. The next step for my game is doing the movement code. That's a big jump. I haven't worked with the navmesh movement stuff in Unity in months. I'm also distracted by other ideas.

7:51pm - I think I'm going to put the game work on hold for now, listen to the last of my friend Alex's new mixtape, then go home.

7:58pm - Good mixtape.