Welcome to the blog! 
This page is meant to serve as my little introspection section, so whenever I get
to thinking too hard, I will more than likely stop by here to sift through my thoughts. I think it's
fun to sit and stew on stuff, so I hope you don't mind doing the same here with me!
Look at me, only an hour late this time 
April 21, 2025 (just barely)
This'll be a short one, but my game concept is up! The concept art is not stellar, but I wanted to just have an
idea of how I would make the player character feel "anonymous" in a sense. For this concept, I want to be sure to illustrate the feeling
that the player is (at the start at least) just one of many in the crowd of recently-deceased individuals.
Take a look and give your thoughts over at my guestbook
if you'd like! By next Sunday, the 27th, I hope to have a sketch of the setting I'd like this game to be
set in. Not the whole world per se, but the cafe itself. Maybe a couple of the guests you can expect to see as well? We shall see.
Either way, thank you for reading, and I'll see you this Sunday!
Happy late birthday to me! Also oops 
April 15, 2025
Hello all! First of all, I am officially 21 now as of not that long ago. A very exciting feeling, although I've been a little
too busy to really appreciate it. Here's to another year of betterment and not failing my college courses lol.
Unfortunately, I promptly got distracted/occupied with other things after signing up for the game jam, so I was not
able to complete my project :( I still really like my idea, and maybe I will post some concept stuff or maybe even a smaller
finished product, but for now my little project (which was going to be named "When the Rains Do Come") is going to have to sit
backseat to my schoolwork. I apologize to anybody who wanted to see this fleshed out, but for now it is one in my list of
"Things I'd Like to Make Eventually Probably" (a terrible fate).
While I have that set by the wayside, I've recently decided that I want to take a stab at Godot, instead of using Unity
which I'm most familiar with. Unity was what I had planned to use for the game jam I mentioned last post, but again, setting that
to the side for now.
To my understanding, Godot lends itself more to 2D work, so I want to try something different, and make something that I
chose for myself instead of being at the whims of some prompt. This way, I can also set deadlines for myself and have no excuse if I
fail to meet them beyond "I'm a forgetful dumbass." So here's the plan: this week is for cooking up ideas/concept art. I have a rough
concept in my head already, but I don't want to spoil it in case I change my mind over the course of the week.
My self-imposed deadline? April 20th (blaze it lmao). By then, I will be done sitting on my ideas and
have AT LEAST ONE (1) piece of art to reference. From there, I hope to proceed on a weekly basis, providing updates and goalposts
as I go. I guess we could call this my birthday resolution?
Game dev is something that I'm not really confident in pursuing professionally, but it is something I want to pursue. This
project should serve to help me see what I'm made of, so to speak. Wish me luck, and come back Sunday for updates!
Started a game jam!
March 25, 2025
Set up an itch.io account, and I signed up for a game jam! It's 2 weeks long, and the theme is
"Life After Humans" which will be an interesting concept to work with. I'm on spring break right now, so I should be
able to turn something decent in even with work and everything else!
My initial thoughts are to make something like "Wall-E" or Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," to really
lean into some classic apocalypse vibes. But then again, "Breath of the Wild" kind of overhauled my idea of what
a post-apocalyptic world has to look like, so I'm hesitant to make something that feels so desolate as a lot of
post-apocalyptic media tends to.
I personally don't like the idea that pervades so much of the world that humans were some sort of
freak accident, or that we're inherently a detriment to the world around us. Hominids have
been on this planet for ages now, and we've made it this far pretty effectively, all things considered. It's true that, in
recent memory, we've developed a habit of taking more than we can give; however, I also think that we are aware now more than
ever that this is not a sustainable system for the health and safety of the world at large, and massive steps are being
taken all over the world to address these concerns.
On top of that, the whole "humans are inherently desctructive" rhetoric is ultimately destructive because it doesn't
offer any solutions to the obvious problems present in the way the world is run today. Anyone who talks this way instead of
offering up or contributing to the many constructive steps that can be taken want a reason to a) be miserable with no out
and b) sit on their hands about a very real problem. Simply put: humans are just like any other animal in that we are
perfectly capable of coexisting with all other life on this planet. It's just that, unfortunately, there are a lot of people
in high places that are unwilling to do the work.
None of this is what the game jam is asking for though lol, so I will just have to see what theme/concept I settle on.
Wish me luck!
Gamedev