11 july 2021
Doing pretty okay today! Had a bout of bad anxiety but after that cleared, doing a lot better. Tackled the notes utility again and made a little bit of headway, though sorted() is fighting us. We'll work it out. The most important part is that we have an idea of how to proceed now.
A game we've been excited about it in playtesting- Lords & Villeins. Got in on the playtest group! Already spotted a few bugs and reported them. Pretty nice as far as base builder/management games go, a little bit of micromanaging at times but not bad. Unfortunately doesn't run native yet. Made the case for porting it to Linux to the devs, here's to hoping they hear us out on that. They had a Linux-compatible demo early on, so it's not ridiculous to think about.
Other than that, didn't do too much today. Managed to crank out last week's song a half hour before the deadline yesterday, so there's that. This week's song is promising so far, think we're going to be very happy with this one. It's been hit or miss making a song a week.
Been emailing back and forth with a few tildefolk- hey guys, it's appreciated! Everyone is very nice and there are plenty of interesting conversations to be had. Nice to finally feel like we're connecting with people here.
I keep meaning to push for other people in the brain to talk more here. It's been mostly me because people are either shy about introductions or feel awkward butting in on a conversation. They want to, but it's one of those areas where social rules are unclear and we haven't learned how to handle it properly. One of these days I'll just say "hey, the feels are yours today, go nuts." That should break the ice. Once or twice they've wanted to add commentary to my feels but that also feels (haha) awkward because it would be like a dialogue as a blog post? Never really seen that outside of plural circles and we're nervous about it. It'll happen eventually.
Maybe we could section up the feels so that we've each got our own chunks when we want to write things? Could work. IDK, it's messy to figure out the social rules of this sort of thing. Normally we hide outside of plural spaces.