Sophie’s Screenshot Saturday #9

 Another belated saturday update, sorry about that. Unlike last time where it was my ISP’s fault, this was just because honestly I’m having a hard time keeping on top of stuff lately.

My main focus this week hasn’t been work but my mum’s birthday. We’re in lockdown together and her birthday was a BIG one, she’s much more social than me and was hoping for a large get-together with a lot of friends and family but thanks to the virus she was stuck with me. Anyway I did what I could but things are really disheartening right now.

I did get some work done too, my cubes app is basically ready for release at any time (oh it has store pages now too, on itch and steam) but I want to add a “lessons” feature with some tutorials before release but I am struggling to make any progress with that. The truth is I’m tired and angry and just… super overwhelmed. I think I’m just going to release without that feature, I really want to be all “I am going to be strong, I can do it!” but honestly I think the more difficult thing that requires real strength is to say “fuck it, now isn’t the time to burn out, and this is absolutely not the thing to burn out on”.

As always, I continue to make notes on my RPG project, it seems the longer I stall it, the more coherent the overall idea becomes so I think I might work on another light project in the meantime following my cubes app. I have plans for a kind of gamebook that is made up of linked one-page-dungeons. I’m pretty keen on the idea partly because most of the work will involve being away from screens and just doodling on paper. Things are so rough right now, less screen time is probably something I need…

Anyway, I know that I can’t be the only one feeling all of *gestures at the entire world* this – I wish I could just spontaneously have something new to give you all to help deal with everything but I don’t have it. So instead I’ll just point to my list of all the stuff you can get as a patron, maybe there is something in there that can help.

Whatever though, I want to say that I know you’re all helping me when things are really hard for everyone, which I really appreciate. And so I hope you’re looking after yourselves too. <3

Curse of Greed Ultimate – Talkthrough

Hey! Rather than write for ages about the game, I’ve talked about it for ages 🙂

Links:

• Game link for patrons 
• Non-patron, non-ultimate game link 
• Pico-8 
• Gabriel Crowe’s pico-8 vector animation tool/code 
• Video of my actually beating impossible/ultimate 

Timecodes for stuff in the video:

• 1:16 – Intro
• 7:40 – Game systems overview
• 27:30 – Jumping/Wall jumping
• 32:08 – Outlines
• 38:50 – Fill Patterns
• 42:32 – Vectors
• 47:30 – Playthrough 

Sophie’s Screenshot Saturday #8

Yes I know it’s Sunday, I tried uploading these pictures yesterday but my ISP decided that wasn’t going to happen (something that might effect Wednesday’s private stream, we’ll see).

Anyway I am at the point where I’m getting to REALLY dislike working on this cube project, I think it’s coming along really well but WOW I’d much rather be working on my RPG.

Anyway the status rn is that all the work I’m doing is getting the app ready for release, fixing bugs, etc… that said I hope to add an algorithm viewer feature in the next few days to help teach some cubing – I even emailed Jessica Fridrich to ask about including her method in the app. Turns out it’s public domain so the email probably wasn’t necessary, but on the plus side I got to email Jessica Fridrich!!!!

In other news I am still working on my RPG, jotting ideas down and such, and I really think the foundations of the world and core characters are coming together! I’m excited to flesh it all out!

$5+ patron stream – (Cancelled, sorry!)

UPDATE: Well my ISP isn’t giving me the upload speed I need to stream right now, so unfortunately I can’t do this right now. I’ll make sure you get video instead before the end of the month, and hey if you want to chat feel free to drop by my discord <3

Hey so I mentioned it before but I’m thinking of making my monthly videos live, so that if you want to chat or ask questions we can do that. I’d like it if we could hang out I guess?

Anyway, it’ll be next Wednesday (the 25th), probably in the morning UTC.

I’m hoping to talk in depth about my cubes project, but if you want to talk about anything else just let me know. I could GLADLY get into talking about my RPG project too because I am full of ideas for it and I can’t wait to get back to it!

Oh and the VOD will stay up of course, so if you miss it you can still see it!

Early Build: Sophie’s Cubes

There’s not really much I can say about this unless you have no idea what it is, so here’s what it is:

• Play with cubes (you know, puzzle/magic cubes, kinda-rhymes with “Kubrik’s”)
• Choose cubes of whatever size you like (2x2x2, 3x3x3, all the way up to 30x30x30)
• Customise your cubes however you like. If you know my dice app, you know I include a LOT of customisation options
• Includes some challenging cube presets like the XYZRGB or the crossings cube, as well as various colourblind and other picture cube designs
• Advanced settings for scrambling and timers
• Set up input bindings for pretty much every kind of move you can make on a cube – if you memorise the algorithms you can solve cubes VERY fast

This is only two weeks work but I think you’ll find it’s super polished, I’m hoping to put it on stores alongside my dice app pretty soon (and then I’ll get back to my RPG!)

> Here’s the link to get it for Win/Linux/Mac < (you’ll need to link your patreon and itch accounts I think!)

Anyway, if you have a good time or make some fun cubes, let me know! <3