Weekly Catchup (Jan 10 2025)

Lemme remember what happened in the past week.

Firstly for the bullet hell game, most of the work has just been changing the enemies. Originally very few enemies did something unique; now most of them do. The only ones that have mostly survived unchanged are the knight (who shoots downwards) and the bow (who shoots really fast bullets). Now I have enemies that move left and right, up and down, can revive after being defeated, move after you shoot them, or can create temporary walls. I did try and give up on a few other ideas (like having bullets that follow you). Right now there are 7 enemies and I think I want 10.

But also I added a hard mode ot the game, which makes all enemies more aggressive. With all of these changes, the game has gotten much harder. After a ton of attempts I still haven't beaten hard mode yet, even after nerfing some enemies and buffing the player (now you have 6 health and 6 bullets).

Recently I've had to help mom out with using computers, because she's not a Mac person. But I also have to help with things like Microsoft Excel, and I don't have much experience there (I use Google Sheets). Today was annoying in that Excel kept crashing when trying to do basic functions, and sometimes files would get lost in OneDrive, which is something I never experienced with google.

I also played Coffin of Andy and Leyley. It's a narrative game about 2 siblings in a dystopian setting. Even though it has a good narrative, I can't say that I think that most people should play it. As I say a lot, I can appreciate a well-written story in a game but if the gameplay is boring then I don't want to play it (somehow I played it anyway, even knowing the gameplay would be bad). And while the dialogue and story are good and quite funny, it does have dark themes (like cannibalism) and a lot of swearing (there's easily over 100 F-bombs).

Final misc thoughts are that I added 2 more songs to my playlist: Quiet Room and The Snow White Princess. Overall I think shifting things to weekly is the move forwards. Skip past all the boring days for actually interesting thoughts. Which is to say, next post will be on Jan 17.