Listen, all I knew about Legend of Galactic Heroes was that it had Space Ships and Germans in it. I had no idea it would do things like this:

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Venture down into the rotten heart of techno-fascism and find whatever is left of the future.

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A bit more than a week and the status menu is now working in the game itself. Still some functionality left to do, but that's for future me to worry about.
Getting close to the moment where I have to truly connect all these separate elements.

I'm pretty sure this thing will betray me at some point and bug out, but JRPG Game now has a (rudimentary but still) functional status screen and equipment menu.

Funny how the bulk of the work wasn't the menu, but making sure that all that data ends up being pulled and stored in the right places.

Approaching an entire week of just working on this menu screen, but I'm going to take solace in the fact that once it's done I will never have to touch it again.*

*this is a lie.

Work on the status/pause screen for JRPG game still continues. This is the first time where I'm trying to load every string from an external source first, before the displaying it on screen.

I have also realized that games with lots of numbers are fun, until you have to display them to the players.

Just finished most of the graphics stuff for JRPG Game's second Dungeon, so have a gif where Round Robin stuffs a Debate Baum into their Monster Pot.

Me in December: "Oh I'm going to make things easy for me for that second Dungeon for JRPG game and just re-use some of my older tilesets!"

Me, this week: *Proceeds to spend several days building a completely new tileset.*

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You know what I'm really happy about in this year of darkness?
That, after years of struggling I not only released Virtue's Heaven. I made something I'm genuinely happy about.

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I was in such an existential place at the beginning of the year, that I just said "fuck it, I'm just going to put myself and my own wishes for the future in this thing, who knows if I'll get another chance".
You can see some of that in this video:

What is Virtue's Heaven? Is it an "Evil Game"? Is it an attempt at expressing our current day's malaise in an action platformer? Or is it "not a good metroidvania" with a final act that is "just weird"?
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