sometimes you just gotta wake up and not gotta (Patreon)

ok, finally got that core of the puzzle done. there's like, two bits still left to do, which will be tedious, but i'm out of lag city which means i dont give a fu i dont i dont give a fuck
and god bless because i'd been dreading this part of eventing since i designed it haha oops

all good though, i actually cleared the puzzle within my self-imposed event limit... that is because i cut another small part of it but in my head this is defensible because i didn't cut it -because- of the lag limit, but because of priority issues (i.e things couldnt appear on top of each other correctly)

so yay!!! i'm free and get to move on!sorta.
at the least it's nice to have this behind me

and now for something completely different

when i was talking to someone yesterday i ended up digging for some old topics to check something and then i thought maybe it would be interesting for me to post them here. there isn't really that much to them, especially in terms of content.... but some people might be curious anyway.

here's a link to the E1 release thread. the download doesn't work but you can see how it was first received. i thiiiink? my copy of E1 survived my computer's death last summer so it's possible i could one day repost it.

and here's a link to the thread which sparked me working on the game in the first place. it was basically only two weeks earlier which is... silly. how the fuck did i even-- it wasn't good but still, but. ????
ugh... that was back when i still used XD unironically.... what a dark era............
so anyway we all have patrick to thank for this. remembering this i sent him a message yesterday doing so but lord knows if he sees it, haha

also a fun fact: my second post in that thread links a screenshot-- the link is already did and i no longer have the file, but that screenshot was from the version of Starlight Divide that i was working on when i was 16, and i was super proud of how all the light and shade effects worked out. so that's funny. i had forgotten that.
"before my computer died"
huh. i had forgotten that was why i stopped working on it. awkward.

anyway there's some history for you, i'm gonna go procrastinate finishing this puzzle bye <3