It's Friday #362 (Patreon)

Seen by strangers on Friday.

About work...

I worked on the combat system for the game, probably the biggest pain in the ass in the whole game.

I thought about adding some rewards for those who would suffer through playing it, but in the end, the whole thing will be optional.

Maybe I'll add some sketches, draft animations, and other pictures as rewards, like some kind of Easter egg. I also thought about adding some of the commissions to the game as alternative content.

I also finished a comic page commission, and I'm trying to finish two more.

I've reached that point in the project where you just want to be done with it, but there are still a lot of little things here and there that keep wasting your time.

Anyway, proof of work: here's one panel from one of the commissions.

The picture...

Amanda Peterson in Can't Buy Me Love (1987).

It looks like a classic '80s romantic comedy. I'm pretty sure it's so much better than a lot of the stuff I see today.

Yes, you're right. I'm blaming modern movies like an old man. You know you're getting old when you can only recognize beauty in the past.

It's like walking down a path and then realizing that the best part is already behind you, and all you have ahead of you is a wasteland...

Even so, you have to keep moving, head held high, one step at a time, knowing that the path will eventually end, no matter what you do, in eternal darkness...

Aside work...

Everything is more or less okay.

My girlfriend and my mother are still sick with some kind of cough. Poor women, as if they didn't already have enough to deal with, having to share their lives with me!

Jokes aside, everything's fine.

I started training again, and that's going well too.

I finished John Keel's book. Man, what a journey! What a collection of ideas for a horror game. But after going through all those pages, I can see only one thing: Lovecraft's inspiration.

I played some CS:GO because now you can have a pet chicken. A PET CHICKEN, DO YOU HEAR ME?! This is the peak of PC gaming!

But I'm still trying to beat Wavetale. It's nice, but for some reason, I feel like the game could be better. Maybe a 7/10? We'll see when I finish it.

As you may or may not know, I have a folder full of game ideas, and from time to time, I add a little something to it (scenes, reference images I download, some Ren'Py code, things like that).

I'm usually trying to come up with ideas for short games because I think that's a better approach. If we want to make some of them longer, it'll be easier than trying to make a long game shorter, right?

Well, one of those ideas is about a detective in New Arkham. It's the classic story of a detective and his secretary, but set in our beloved city.

Why are you telling us this, Nikraria? Go draw more p**n and shut up!

Okay, okay. But I'll leave you with this song until next week. It's for that game (maybe I'll use it for something else, or maybe I won't use it at all).

Enough reading. Let's hear it!

The song...

Amarent - Back to Seventies

As usual, take care and stay safe, guys.

Thank you for your support!