General Thoughts

I’m reaching a point where I sort of need to sit down and organize a couple of things. I think I’m going to organize in tandem with writing this devlog.

First, I pretty much want to retool my entire workflow. This can be put into a few seperate areas:

• Administrative (Writing Devlogs, outling concepts in Trello)
• Workstation (My OS, my actual desk setup)
• Game Dev (Actually making the game)

Administrative

Something I’ve complained about before is how obnoxious it is to add pictures to my posts. For me, this really is broken into a few major greivances:

• I write my post in Markdown, and always forget the correct syntax for local linking images.
• I find it annoying to have to come up with a sensible file name for the image
• I find it annoying to think out some directory structure so my image folder doesnt grow to an unsightly mass.

I have attempted to solve this by creating a Snippet in Visual Studio Code, and have decided that it’s actually “OK” to have just one big folder dump for all images. My snippet will print out a markdown link automatically formatted to point to a file with the current date, like this: “image-folder/2023_09_04.png”. This way, I can just name the file the current date, it will always be unique, and it will be very easy to increment. I hope this alleviates some picture taking anxiety!

The next item on my administrative list is my Trello board. I’ve actually finished enough milestones where it makes sense for me to sit down and plan out the next direction of the game. The next things I want to do are going to focus on creating the first “MVP” of the game.

I’ve reworked my tiny Trello board, and have outlined what I think I’ll need to reach something akin to a playable demo. I think this should keep me busy for a few more weeks at least.

The last administrative item that I want to think about is video recording. I would love to show my game progress, but I don’t have enough to warrant making a youtube video or something. Converting a video to a webp has proven to be somewhat tedious, so maybe I should just throw them up in youtube shorts or something? Can those play in an embed?

Ok, I’ve got down a method that’s not too cumbersome for this. I record a video with OBS, with the export setting set to MP4. I then load that into Screen2Gif, load it in at 30 FPS, and badda bing badda boom I’m done. I can even use the same naming convention and just change the .PNG to .gif, for maximize laziness.

It’s unfortunately getting rather late, so I’ll make the next two sections in a later post, or perhaps I’ll update this one.