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Quick question! :D What are you making your wizard game in?

LÖVE, a pretty simple framework for making games with Lua. I picked it mainly because Telltale had some Lua openings that I was looking at when I started, but it’s been a pretty mess-free way of doing things.

Lua is kind of an insane language, in that everything is just a table that can be indexed with any value- and in which numerical indices start at 1, for some insane reason. It’s got weird magic variable name binding that lets you just instantiate local variables (which you have to do explicitly- default scope is global for some reason and requires no keyword, so a line can be “newVariable = value” and that’s just in global scope forever, whoops) and then use them in a function defined in the same scope, even if that function’s passed to be called later when that variable would ordinarily disappear. There are no increment/decrement/self-assignment operators, supposedly because “simplicity” but actually because Lua has a weird single-pass compiler that may or may not actually be able to do it. Semicolons are optional, brackets are verboten (it uses “end” as a keyword for defining blocks), and there is no integer data type (all Numbers are floats).

That said, I’ve gotten pretty comfortable working with it, and I’ll be honest- I think working with this totally raw anarchy do-what-you-want scripting language has helped me appreciate what saner languages bring to the table. My school taught its intro programming courses in Java, which got me real confused about what programming was- all kinds of things I assumed were rules were just made up to encourage you to not do completely crazy things, and instead do completely different completely crazy things because WOOOOO, OOP IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT TOOL FOR EVERY JOB.

also this game is small enough i don’t need to like, worry about low-level performance at all, so why NOT do everything in a scripting language

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Out of curiosity, what sort of update schedule are you planning for Junk Planet? :D I'm glad to see it started, looks great so far!

I’m gonna try weekly, but if anything happens, it’s cuz I might have smashed my hand between shopping carts one too many times.

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Oh hey, do you mind if I steal that accountability post kinda deal? :o I wonder if it might help me be more productive.

Go for it! The concept of a public to-do list isn’t really mine to steal, but I’ve found it super useful. It can potentially be counterproductive if you’ve got anxiety and “my friends will quietly judge me for my failures” is a nightmare scenario instead of a good motivator, but if you think that works for you, I encourage it.

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Are there any sort of character designs you really don't like drawing? And, besides characters, do you like drawing landscapes and things?

I do draw a lot of landscapes, as it helps me create a suitable setting for my chars, but I’d rather post them when I got coloring down.

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My friends and I played Tee KO on my birthday. The winning shirt was a very good fanart of the flame character with a :> smile. The slogan, of course, was FUCK!!!!! I just thought you should know.

see, this is why i put in all that work besides to make money and be alive- to give the ability to produce t-shirt masterpieces like that to the people! you’re welcome.

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How do you make your characters so lovable? :D Even the Pokemon that use relatively standard designs are still bursting with personality.

That’s the biggest thing I strive to achieve; I want to be able to make sure a character’s personality can be seen clearly through their body language and facial expressions. So I take a fair amount of pride that aside from altering body types a bit, my pokes stand out even with close-to-stock design.

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