aight time for an Actual Pinned Post i think
since i've got time on my hands and really need to move out of this house, i've been teaching myself programming languages and frameworks. with these newfound skills, i've now published two books of sudoku puzzles so far and put up more puzzles on my kofi, and it's something i can actually manage to keep doing regularly without burning out. (tag: #sudoku shenanigans. also since my bday is in may and it is may i figured out how kofi discount codes work. so you can get both kofi puzzle groups at half price if you wanna if you use "BDAY2K26". but only during may.)
so, while those keep coming, i'm also putting my focus into other, more interactive endeavors. currently, ranked more-or-less by how in-depth developing them is turning out to be, i'm working on:
a pirate-themed battleship-like game intended to have local crossplay between every device i can get my hands on. hopefully even with long-distance games via the internet. might make it be p2p if at all possible just so there's no looming specter of server shutdown. (once i get something resembling a prototype made, the tag'll be "#shooting the ships" or some variant of it. right now i've only got a basic render test though and i haven't figured out how to post it quite yet)
one of those "do puzzles and earn cash"-type apps except with less scammy advertising + required in-app purchases and more transparency. and also the option to let users submit their own "ads." there won't be any wild life-changing jackpots unless pigs fly, but there'll be a steady little trickle for the folks like me who can't seem to get any income whatsoever in any of the normal ways. alternately turn off the ads entirely and it'll be a functional casual game in its own right. (here's the OG post. working tag: #descam the mobile ads. we'll see if that tag sticks)
an rpg set in a fantasy world and starring at least one amnesiac who's cursed to sleepwalk whenever he sleeps and is very annoyed about it and is going to make it the curse-caster's problem (tag: #eepers rpg)
these will not be able to properly go live unless the sudokus do well enough to make me a few bucks. due to the lack of money to my name and the fact that the big marketplaces (steam and google play) require varying amounts of money up front before you can set up a page for whatever you're publishing.
other stuff i'd like to make at some point when i'm not desperately trying to hoard $20 USD to last through the entire year, in no particular order:
easier sudoku book(s) for kids with a little bit of story (so far the only stuff i've posted abt it is in this reblog of my sudoku shenanigans, i think, but i'm already attached to susie doku and nana gram so.)
an endless jumper (like an endless runner, but wall-jumping) with nifty the goblin (tag: #endless runnern't)
a pixel-art rpg based several years into the zombie apocalypse. i described this to an irl as "yuri saves the day" once (tag: #zombie rpg)
a video game following a mute (and probably also deaf) woman's self-imposed mission to save the world as the whole planet seems to start destabilizing and losing its color around her (tags: #faedposting, #faed)
a book with the same sort of tone as a rom-com, but focused squarely on two aromantic characters whose friends try to matchmake them. no aromantics will be "FiXeD" in the making of this story, and they will in fact uno reverse card and wild draw four their friends' meddling (tag: #cupid's aros)
a few vocal synth songs (idk if it'd be enough to be its own album) telling the story of two gym jocks (one a himbo, one a herbo) who get roped into space alien shenanigans in an extremely transgender way (tag: #bertie and bee)
probably other stuff that's not coming to mind right this second because i have so many story ideas guys there are so many stories in here that cannot be contained
and ☝️ i eschew generative "AI" on principle. the math/science/theory behind it may be catnip designed specifically to appeal to me in a lab, but the ethics and use cases in practice are dogshit and hurt people. this is all 100% human-made tomfoolery. the only living being who was harmed in the making of these things is me (because my sleep schedule is utterly borked all the time).
also i do have other Opinions which can be found under the cut here but i think this should cover it for the important stuff i wanted to put in here lol
