oh shit, i haven’t posted to tumblr in quite a while... don’t worry, i haven’t been doing anything so there’s nothing you really missed out on. BUT I AM DOING SOMETHING NOW!
for those of you who don’t know, one year ago I did a goofy little twitter thing called: OneYearRPG
it was a year-long, world-wide, collaborative, choose-your-own-adventure game. it was pretty fun.
and now, for 2018, i’m doing something kinda-sorta similar: OneYearEgg
this time round, players have to take care of a virtual pet that gets updated once a day. each day, visit the official strawpoll & choose what this odd little creature should spend its time doing. doing stuff fills up the matching stat, and getting a full stat bar-... well, you’ll have to play to figure out what happens then ;)
cool, cool, cool! so, go check that out if ya like!
i just optimized the images in our .zip file that we upload to itch.io
this has brought the file size down from 1.2 mb compressed, to 395.1 kb compressed [ thanks to TinyPNG & Ezgif ]. i’ll most likely be optimizing the images once a week, so every new week the game should be a bit faster to load than the day before.
the reason i store past day's images in the .zip, instead of just uploading the current one, is for future-proofing. in the future i hope to release an update that allows players to go back in time and see all the past events.
that's all for this update, thank you to those who are playing along, this is shaping up to be a quite fun little experiment :)
