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4:36am - I was pretty messed up yesterday, and a different sort of messed up when I woke up today. Now, I'm nolonger messed up, so I'm going to do three hours. <3
To start with, I got an email from ODSP about a question I asked. It's not exactly life-goals stuff, but it sort-of is, because it's part of getting my sweet-and-sour fiance here to Canada. Gotta figure out if it's even financially viable, first.
7:29am - Well, that's about three hours. I spent more than two of that doing research and stuff for getting Alex and I together.
Now I have a problem. I don't want to stop! I finished the work I was doing with regards to the marriage and immigration plans, though I didn't really post anything here while working on it. I didn't do anything else yet. I think the last half hour I've been somewhat distracted, doing non-work things?
It's not good to work more than four hours straight without a break, and even three hours is pushing it. I am going to do a few other things, and see if I still want to do more work. I might do some gamedev stuff after.
8:48am - I re-organized and cleaned the kitchen, and put the dishes etc. away. Now I'm back!
I'm still not sure if I'll keep working, but for the moment I'll try.
9:09am - I'm having trouble figuring out what to actually do, so I think I'll write about my thoughts here. That usually helps me figure it out.
First off, I was moving around my tabs and opened the game design document template I had been using as reference, but it's gone. Investigating, I found that the person who made it has make a new game design wiki, so the template is there now.
The wiki: https://rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-wiki-6902c5dc9d1242c9a70822f13e6c76b3
The template: https://rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-template-0132383574dd4c2dbff5d14e3a90761c
The things I was working on before were developing communities... Oh! I forgot I was going to talk with my bf about my ideas to help him with his work.
A lot of the things I want to do would also help him if he's doing similar things. He's a writer, and he's definately succeeded at writing a lot of high quality work. He has not succeeded so much at getting people to read it. He has like 20-30 dedicated fans, I think? But none of them have really been funding him, so he's made dick all. He doesn't publish his books through traditional means either.
The shorter version of what I want to do with my game projects and his writing is to make communities for them online, along with patronage systems tied in. Then people can pay us to keep doing what we do, and help us along. But also, it means they'll have a place to be, where they can interact with eachother and with us. That'll keep people interested and attentive and engaged, and help them know when we have new stuff to share.
The thing is, I kinda need to set up all the infrastructure for all of this!
So there's the option of just doing Discord and Patreon, but that doesn't have much coverage and there's issues with both platforms. That's why I'm focused on doing all the heccin' platforms I can bridge. So like, Discord, Matrix and Slack, but also maybe Telegram? I don't know what others.
Then there's also other sorts of social media like twitter and mastodon, facebook is still there even if it's mostly used by other people. If you can be everywhere, why not be everywhere? My games can be on github and the alternatives too, and then there's also sites for his writing to go where they aren't already. He's always focused on furry sites, and I made a site for him a long time ago but it isn't great imo.
9:32am - I'm going to be going out soon to do some errands. Before then, I have a bit more time. I want to examine the various things I need to do to get this stuff accomplished, so I know what options I have for things to work on besides the ambiguous "Community Building".
I need to figure out patronage solutions. So far I know about Patreon and Subscribestar. Are there others? Will either of those work out for us? There's also the option to roll our own, I need to investigate that more. The person I know who did that for themself is https://support.the.choco.one/ and I asked them about it before. I should contact them again to ask if they have any issues with international taxation. Maybe since they're only accepting money, not paying for things, that's not an issue?
I need to figure out what social platforms to use, and how to bridge them. Discord, Matrix, and Slack I have a handy youtube vid for how to bring them together. I mostly hear about Slack being used for professional communication, though. I'll have to learn more about all three. Most furries use Discord or Telegram, so I want to know more about Telegram, too. What other options are out there? I don't know.
I want to set up websites and blogs for each project as well as one for Alex. I don't know if he'll actually use it blog-wise, but we can use it for posting announcements and releases at least. Along with making the websites, I want to try out the indieweb stuff to post everywhere and also get backfeed.
Further, there's a lot of furry websites out there and such. I've advised a lot of folks to try Postybirb before, a tool for posting to a ton of sites all at once, but I've never used it myself. I only advise it because folks say it's too much work to post more than one place, and they're usually on Twitter exclusively and that's no good for me.
I need to figure out setting up an open source project on Github for the survival game project, and also find all the github alternatives and ways to bridge them.
Dommy Monsters I intend to be open source but more in a "You can read and use this source, I'm not looking for collaborators" way. At least to start, I guess? We'll see how it goes.
Alex's stuff isn't gamedev, but I know there are sites out there for writers. Royal Road is one I know, and I think I've seen others like it but can't recall. Even though he's a furry writer, I think there's a lot of places where people would appreciate his stuff. Tons of young non-furries loved the Warrior Cats books, or so I understand.
I really need to learn more about RSS and Atom, if I want to be able to push updates to them. Also I'd kinda like to use them myself? I really hate having only one 'stream' of posts on various social media, I want to seperate them by group or topic or other things.
I think that covers the social things. While I'm in this headspace, though, I also want to consider what needs to be done for the gamedev stuff.
Dommy Monsters, I still need to finish the design doc. That's pretty straight forward.
Survival Game, I'm not ready to write the design doc yet. I need to figure out some things about how it would work, make sure I'm capable of doing it all.
So, I need to figure out making multiplayer games with Godot. I want to have the options of solo, multiplayer with one player hosting the server, and a remote server option that all players connect to. I'm pretty sure Godot can do all of that, and I won't have to make a server code that isn't Godot based.
Speaking of Godot, I need to make sure their license will be compatable with my plans. I want this survival game to be open source and public domain, but I don't think Godot operates on a public domain license. I need to find out what their license is and if it'll work out.
After I'm sure I know I can make a multiplayer game like that, I will start doing a design doc for the Survival Game project. In order to ensure I can do that, though, I am going to have to make something basic to test with. I haven't actually used Godot since 4.0 came out. So, I'll have to see what I can do there.
Finally, there's the web development part. I've had websites up for a long time, and not used them much. I've been thinking of migrating to an opeansea droplet, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not. So, another research job there. Seeing if it'll do everything I need, and what things will cost.
I have a reserved url for myself, but I'd kinda like to have one for each of these projects, and that costs money. I want to figure out how much everything will cost.
10:00am - I think that's everything for now! I'm going to go do those errands and find something to eat. I'm pretty darn hungry now.
To start with, I got an email from ODSP about a question I asked. It's not exactly life-goals stuff, but it sort-of is, because it's part of getting my sweet-and-sour fiance here to Canada. Gotta figure out if it's even financially viable, first.
7:29am - Well, that's about three hours. I spent more than two of that doing research and stuff for getting Alex and I together.
Now I have a problem. I don't want to stop! I finished the work I was doing with regards to the marriage and immigration plans, though I didn't really post anything here while working on it. I didn't do anything else yet. I think the last half hour I've been somewhat distracted, doing non-work things?
It's not good to work more than four hours straight without a break, and even three hours is pushing it. I am going to do a few other things, and see if I still want to do more work. I might do some gamedev stuff after.
8:48am - I re-organized and cleaned the kitchen, and put the dishes etc. away. Now I'm back!
I'm still not sure if I'll keep working, but for the moment I'll try.
9:09am - I'm having trouble figuring out what to actually do, so I think I'll write about my thoughts here. That usually helps me figure it out.
First off, I was moving around my tabs and opened the game design document template I had been using as reference, but it's gone. Investigating, I found that the person who made it has make a new game design wiki, so the template is there now.
The wiki: https://rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-wiki-6902c5dc9d1242c9a70822f13e6c76b3
The template: https://rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-template-0132383574dd4c2dbff5d14e3a90761c
The things I was working on before were developing communities... Oh! I forgot I was going to talk with my bf about my ideas to help him with his work.
A lot of the things I want to do would also help him if he's doing similar things. He's a writer, and he's definately succeeded at writing a lot of high quality work. He has not succeeded so much at getting people to read it. He has like 20-30 dedicated fans, I think? But none of them have really been funding him, so he's made dick all. He doesn't publish his books through traditional means either.
The shorter version of what I want to do with my game projects and his writing is to make communities for them online, along with patronage systems tied in. Then people can pay us to keep doing what we do, and help us along. But also, it means they'll have a place to be, where they can interact with eachother and with us. That'll keep people interested and attentive and engaged, and help them know when we have new stuff to share.
The thing is, I kinda need to set up all the infrastructure for all of this!
So there's the option of just doing Discord and Patreon, but that doesn't have much coverage and there's issues with both platforms. That's why I'm focused on doing all the heccin' platforms I can bridge. So like, Discord, Matrix and Slack, but also maybe Telegram? I don't know what others.
Then there's also other sorts of social media like twitter and mastodon, facebook is still there even if it's mostly used by other people. If you can be everywhere, why not be everywhere? My games can be on github and the alternatives too, and then there's also sites for his writing to go where they aren't already. He's always focused on furry sites, and I made a site for him a long time ago but it isn't great imo.
9:32am - I'm going to be going out soon to do some errands. Before then, I have a bit more time. I want to examine the various things I need to do to get this stuff accomplished, so I know what options I have for things to work on besides the ambiguous "Community Building".
I need to figure out patronage solutions. So far I know about Patreon and Subscribestar. Are there others? Will either of those work out for us? There's also the option to roll our own, I need to investigate that more. The person I know who did that for themself is https://support.the.choco.one/ and I asked them about it before. I should contact them again to ask if they have any issues with international taxation. Maybe since they're only accepting money, not paying for things, that's not an issue?
I need to figure out what social platforms to use, and how to bridge them. Discord, Matrix, and Slack I have a handy youtube vid for how to bring them together. I mostly hear about Slack being used for professional communication, though. I'll have to learn more about all three. Most furries use Discord or Telegram, so I want to know more about Telegram, too. What other options are out there? I don't know.
I want to set up websites and blogs for each project as well as one for Alex. I don't know if he'll actually use it blog-wise, but we can use it for posting announcements and releases at least. Along with making the websites, I want to try out the indieweb stuff to post everywhere and also get backfeed.
Further, there's a lot of furry websites out there and such. I've advised a lot of folks to try Postybirb before, a tool for posting to a ton of sites all at once, but I've never used it myself. I only advise it because folks say it's too much work to post more than one place, and they're usually on Twitter exclusively and that's no good for me.
I need to figure out setting up an open source project on Github for the survival game project, and also find all the github alternatives and ways to bridge them.
Dommy Monsters I intend to be open source but more in a "You can read and use this source, I'm not looking for collaborators" way. At least to start, I guess? We'll see how it goes.
Alex's stuff isn't gamedev, but I know there are sites out there for writers. Royal Road is one I know, and I think I've seen others like it but can't recall. Even though he's a furry writer, I think there's a lot of places where people would appreciate his stuff. Tons of young non-furries loved the Warrior Cats books, or so I understand.
I really need to learn more about RSS and Atom, if I want to be able to push updates to them. Also I'd kinda like to use them myself? I really hate having only one 'stream' of posts on various social media, I want to seperate them by group or topic or other things.
I think that covers the social things. While I'm in this headspace, though, I also want to consider what needs to be done for the gamedev stuff.
Dommy Monsters, I still need to finish the design doc. That's pretty straight forward.
Survival Game, I'm not ready to write the design doc yet. I need to figure out some things about how it would work, make sure I'm capable of doing it all.
So, I need to figure out making multiplayer games with Godot. I want to have the options of solo, multiplayer with one player hosting the server, and a remote server option that all players connect to. I'm pretty sure Godot can do all of that, and I won't have to make a server code that isn't Godot based.
Speaking of Godot, I need to make sure their license will be compatable with my plans. I want this survival game to be open source and public domain, but I don't think Godot operates on a public domain license. I need to find out what their license is and if it'll work out.
After I'm sure I know I can make a multiplayer game like that, I will start doing a design doc for the Survival Game project. In order to ensure I can do that, though, I am going to have to make something basic to test with. I haven't actually used Godot since 4.0 came out. So, I'll have to see what I can do there.
Finally, there's the web development part. I've had websites up for a long time, and not used them much. I've been thinking of migrating to an opeansea droplet, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not. So, another research job there. Seeing if it'll do everything I need, and what things will cost.
I have a reserved url for myself, but I'd kinda like to have one for each of these projects, and that costs money. I want to figure out how much everything will cost.
10:00am - I think that's everything for now! I'm going to go do those errands and find something to eat. I'm pretty darn hungry now.
